2017 TTEric Log. Tried a different way this year.

[TT Eric]

Hey guys, long time no posts. Forum is pretty quiet...

I'm not starting a week by week thread, I've already done 16 weeks now and just I decided to share about it since I took a different route this year. Again, I do no diet for a competition, I just want to get leaner without loosing too much muscle, I decided to diet 'instinctively' this year, I do not use a keto diet or a very low fat diet, neither any pre-set plan.

Since I started training in 1983 and pretty much since that time I have been conscientious of what I eat, I know pretty well my own body.

One thing that p!ss me off when I diet, is to loose muscle and strength, at the beginning of the diet it's usually not bad, but as I get leaner, I tend to shed a lot of muscle to loose very few fat and the older I get, the more muscle I loose. So this year I decided to diet more efficiently, instead of aiming to loose 1-2 pounds per week, I aimed for 0.5 to 1 pounds per week. I decide each day and each meal what I'm going to eat, sometime more, sometime less. I can tell when I feel 'empty' and need more carbs or if I feel I need to cut some. Everyday is different, some meals are keto like, some meals are low fat, I go with what I feel my body need.

I usually go with most of carbs around the workout, but sometime I spread them evenly throughout the meals.

This year I usually train 6 days a week, 3 days upper, 3 days lower body. Since I'm natty, I use a high frequency, higher intensity, lower volume, same as the diet, I listen to my body and someday I train more, some day less. Usually I train 45min to 1h15 per day. I try to take one day off per week, sometime I take 2.

I think it's really interesting to experiment like this, I do not feel I'm dieting hard, it's pretty easy, I cheat when I feel I need to cheat.

So far I have done 13 weeks of dieting + 2 weeks that I was in vacation, I went from 206.2 to 193.2 so exactly 13lbs lost in 13 weeks which is the top of my expectation. For all this time I kept my strength and muscle mass pretty much. But now at week #16 I feel that I'm at a point where I'm loosing strength and it seems my wheels are shrinking a little bit, so I decided to eat at maintenance level or light surplus for a while to try to get my body stabilizing and get accustomed to this body weight before I try to push further.

I might be wrong but I think I will be able to lean and loose less muscle then usual.

Eric

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Hey guys, long time no posts. Forum is pretty quiet...

I'm not starting a week by week thread, I've already done 16 weeks now and just I decided to share about it since I took a different route this year. Again, I do no diet for a competition, I just want to get leaner without loosing too much muscle, I decided to diet 'instinctively' this year, I do not use a keto diet or a very low fat diet, neither any pre-set plan.

Since I started training in 1983 and pretty much since that time I have been conscientious of what I eat, I know pretty well my own body.

One thing that p!ss me off when I diet, is to loose muscle and strength, at the beginning of the diet it's usually not bad, but as I get leaner, I tend to shed a lot of muscle to loose very few fat and the older I get, the more muscle I loose. So this year I decided to diet more efficiently, instead of aiming to loose 1-2 pounds per week, I aimed for 0.5 to 1 pounds per week. I decide each day and each meal what I'm going to eat, sometime more, sometime less. I can tell when I feel 'empty' and need more carbs or if I feel I need to cut some. Everyday is different, some meals are keto like, some meals are low fat, I go with what I feel my body need.

I usually go with most of carbs around the workout, but sometime I spread them evenly throughout the meals.

This year I usually train 6 days a week, 3 days upper, 3 days lower body. Since I'm natty, I use a high frequency, higher intensity, lower volume, same as the diet, I listen to my body and someday I train more, some day less. Usually I train 45min to 1h15 per day. I try to take one day off per week, sometime I take 2.

I think it's really interesting to experiment like this, I do not feel I'm dieting hard, it's pretty easy, I cheat when I feel I need to cheat.

So far I have done 13 weeks of dieting + 2 weeks that I was in vacation, I went from 206.2 to 193.2 so exactly 13lbs lost in 13 weeks which is the top of my expectation. For all this time I kept my strength and muscle mass pretty much. But now at week #16 I feel that I'm at a point where I'm loosing strength and it seems my wheels are shrinking a little bit, so I decided to eat at maintenance level or light surplus for a while to try to get my body stabilizing and get accustomed to this body weight before I try to push further.

I might be wrong but I think I will be able to lean and loose less muscle then usual.

Eric

Believe this would be the best step.Keeping in mind how easily you can regain unwanted fat of course.

[TT Eric]

Believe this would be the best step.Keeping in mind how easily you can regain unwanted fat of course.

Yes it's easy, but I'm very disciplined, at week #20 I was at 192.8lbs, then I went to vacation for 3 weeks, I had access to a crappy gym and I've train 5 times there, but as usual in vacation I eat more but I'm pretty active (free diving) and lost some weight. So at week #23 I'm at 187.2lbs.

One thing I've noticed is that in vacation I take less whey protein then when I'm home and I realized that WPI make me bloat, so now that I'm back I've put it aside and I've been have a lot less GI issue and no bloating. I'm only taking hydrolyzed casein (peptopro) and creatine while I train, that's it. Relying on solid meal for the rest.

Thanks for reading

Eric