TT Eric diet log 2014

[TT Eric]

Yes mirror says it's on schedule! I don't mind weighting myself everyday or every week. Once again since the scale show-up a gain when it should have not, I decided it was a good idea to weight me everyday THIS week to have a better understanding of how my weight moves, since, like I said earlier, my weight is usually pretty stable and don't bonce up and down.

About stress/anxiety, maybe it's what, you guys, you perceive from me through my posts, but I can assure you, I'm not at all, I have such low levels of stress in my life it's amazing, everything is in order, nothing to worry. I went through stressful things in my past and I had high levels of stress in some occasions, but those days are gone, the 3-4 last years have been so good to me.

Eric

[Praetorian]

The mirror is ok...pictures are better and best interpreted by someone other than yourself. However unless you are dropping on the scale (agreeing that it is a good scale) then you need to adjust things...staying the same weight is not progress. I've trained hundreds of clients and all of them need to drop in order to get lean. An average client running a 16 week body recomp program by 8 weeks is usually doing 45-50min cardio once per day seven days per week if not more...plus they may be alternating pro-veg days with pro-fat days as well. The leaner you are and the cleaner you eat off season the less you need to lose but you will need to work harder to lose that fat.

P

[TT Eric]

Ok thanks for the clarifications, wow at week #8 already doing fat free days ?? I must have misunderstood some of your posts, in my mind the pro-veg days not always needed and was use in last resorts toward the ends of the diet, plus I didn't knew the cardio was systematically increased each week, I thought the cardio was increased only if the -2lbs was not achieved.

In the past, at week #12, I was at 2 hrs cardio per day and 3 days without fat per week to keep the fat loss going. And I thought from reading you, that was way too aggressive.

Honestly I have no problems being aggressive, I can do even more then 2 hours of cardio per day and have absolutely no problems with fat-free days.

So far my diet is not going as I would, I should have started right away with keto and not try to keep some carbs.

I have no more time to loose, so if the -2lbs is not reached every week I will begin to be more aggressive then just adding 10min cardio per day.

Thanks again Ted.

Eric

[Praetorian]

You have to keep in mind it is all based on your progress. The idea is to do as little as possible with regards to cardio and diet that is as long as you are making proper weight drops per week. If you are not then you adjust accordingly...ie increase cardio to every day, increase duration, until you start to drop...then you keep adjusting each week. The body adapts fairly fast so you cant leave things week to week and expect a 2lb loss you need to stay ahead of the adaptation. Some don't need as much cardio some need a lot...some don't need pro-veg some need it much quicker. I usually don't need it myself until the last few weeks...some years I never needed it and some years i started 6 weeks. There are no hard and fast rules it is all based on progress. To me if my weight hasn't changed for a week that is a wasted week. A 1lb loss means crank it up...a 3lbs loss means you are probably good at leaving things alone.

[TT Eric]

Yes thanks, that's what I understand now. I so hate having a wasted week, I hope those were the last.

Eric

[TT Eric]

Ok 7th week will be today, since we are going to Montréal this weekend and I will not be able to go on the same scale tomorrow morning! I'm at at 202.4lbs, so a loss of 2.0lbs, much better.

Did 20min of cardio in fasted state everyday!

To be noticed, organic beef supply was pretty low this week, so I ate venison, bison and horse most of the week, which are all leaner.

I will increase cardio to 30min every morning and there is a slight change I can do to the diet before going fat-free days, it's to replace the 1T of EVOO by 50g of avocado into my shakes, this would drop to half the fat in the liquid meals (and make it taste better when blended).

Is this sound good ??

Eric

[TT Eric]

Oh and here is my day to day results from the scale:

May 11th: 204.4lbs (had a re-feed meal later)
May 12th: 203.6lbs
May 13th: 203.2lbs
May 14th: 202.8lbs
May 15th: 202.4lbs
May 16th: 202.2lbs
May 17th: 202.4lbs

Too bad I cannot weight myself tomorrow.

Eric

[Praetorian]

Ok 7th week will be today, since we are going to Montréal this weekend and I will not be able to go on the same scale tomorrow morning! I'm at at 202.4lbs, so a loss of 2.0lbs, much better.

Did 20min of cardio in fasted state everyday!

To be noticed, organic beef supply was pretty low this week, so I ate venison, bison and horse most of the week, which are all leaner.



I will increase cardio to 30min every morning and there is a slight change I can do to the diet before going fat-free days, it's to replace the 1T of EVOO by 50g of avocado into my shakes, this would drop to half the fat in the liquid meals (and make it taste better when blended).

Is this sound good ??

Eric

You dropped 2 lbs with the cardio...no need to change the diet..leave it alone.

Add the cardio and see what happens with that first.

P

[TT Eric]

I'm back from Montreal, sooner then expected, I have been very sick... I mean I dunno what it is, but it's the 6th time it happens to me, approx each 3 months, something extremely violent, making a flu look like a walk in the park compare to it, intestinal pain so intense, that irradiate every where in my body, it comes along what with I though was fever and I mean fever shaking like a earthquake fever, a pain so intense I want literally to die. It started again when we were on the road and not long after we were there, the pain raised so high, it's unexplainable, for a proud guy, it's really tough to be seen by relatives twisted on the ground yelling, screaming, crying, sobbing and wishing to die even though I tried to hide in a room into the basement. Fortunately one of them is a nurse and what surprised me, when he took my temperature is that I had no real fever, hand, feet, nose were frozen like if I went to -30C outside for a while, but the head and core were burning like fire, I had a pressure drop, pressure was 86/53, maybe extremities were not getting blood and all the head was kept for head and core (?).

The 5 others time I got this same thing, it lasted 3-4 days, extreme pain with some period of less pain. Cannot eat during this time and I sh!t water through all those days. But this time the pain was so high, I didn't thought it was possible to suffer that much, truly it was inhumane, I'm not fan of medication, but now I accepted to be injected with 3mg of dilaudid, it took about an hour to remove all the pain, from the extremities to the intestine at last and was able to rest, I did not need another injection, even though pressure was still low and I was extremely weak, most of the pain was gone. I'm really glad it lasted 1 day instead of 3-4 days.

When it happened in the past, it was 3-4 days of hell, then I get better pretty fast after that, and when I got back at the gym, I'm very weak for about 2 weeks at least, all my lifts drops, I'm not the same guy, then after some time, I can resume normally.

I have no idea what it is, I've plenty of theories from I eat too much proteins to a virus, but nothing conclusive.

Eric

[TT Eric]

You have to understand I'm not a whining baby, I have high threshold for the pain, I've been told so by doctors. I went through so much painful episodes in my life, I mean for example I have allergies to nuts, not pulmonary, but intestinal allergies, if I eat a peanut or a nut (or something that touched it) I get a kind of gastro, but from hell, in the past it took me very long to discover what was causing those violent gastro, ONE year alone, I made 14 of those violent 'gastro', each one lasted between a week and 2 (so about 4 months out 12 sh!ting water, often every 20 min day and night), it was so violent that I was loosing sometime between 25 and 30lbs, a 195lbs guy dropping to 165lbs, being hospitalized for dehydration. By violent I mean imagine the spams it take into the intestine to make you barf your sh!t, I do not mean food, I mean literally barfing my sh!t, the spasm it take to make all this come back up is inhumane, the only time I passed out in my life from pain.

Other examples would be when I had a bike accident and I've skidded on the asphalt with no t-shirt, all the rocks and glass ripping the skin of my chest and belly, also saw my own jaw bone because the chin was wide open, and my foot was partially out of the ankle and had to put it back myself. When I was a child I burned both the inside of my hands (flesh lifted instantly). Or when I sliced open a calf, it opened like a hot dog sausage when it's overcooked, or when I had a piece of metal in my hand that infected and needed to be cauterized or when I've been hit by a saw in the knee, years of back pain because of hernia/compressed disks, almost died of chicken pox at 19, doctor said he could put my picture in medicinal encyclopedia to show people what is the extreme limit of this illness, tore a hamstring etc...

I'm telling this/ decided to share, not wanting to complain, just wanting to show that I know what pain is, so you can understand what I mean by saying that the pain I went through the 6 last time was beyond any measure. A kind of pain that make you cry to God asking to heal you or kill you right away. And still I have no idea what caused it the 6 times.

Eric