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- mg333
And... back on track. Started slow-carb on August 22nd and nailing it so far. I’m up around 175 at the start and aiming to get back into the mid 160’s where I prefer to be. It’s crazy that I weighed around 190 until late 2015 when I started getting into shape.
Targeting about 1,550 calories a day
50% / 30% / 20% Protein / Fat / Carbs - 195g / 52g / 78gIt’s amazing how easy it is to hit these targets every day with three full meals and no snacking.
On my first cheat day this past Saturday, I had donuts for breakfast, cheese curds and a huge spicy fried chicken sandwich, and a giant piece of birthday cake from a neighbor, handful of cookies, a bottle of barrel aged beer, dark chocolate almonds, and this obscene lemon cinnamon role a neighbor gave me earlier in the day.
I like the concept of the “cheat day.“ It is a nice goal to work towards, and during my evening workouts or peloton rides, somehow it makes the exercise all the more worth it to know I can take one day to just be carefree about what I eat.
Most major meals have been consisting of black beans or kidney beans, broccoli brussels sprouts and peppers, and chicken, skirt steak, or pork / ham, and eggs. Even this simple of a list of food can be cooked in so many different ways, and I don’t think I would tire soon of any of them.
- I was eying those fried curds you posted the other day! I quit drinking and replaced two meals a day with Soylent a couple weeks ago and lost 7 poundsscarabin
- Nice going!mg33
- The additional benefit of a cheat day is that it actually helps two things: keeps your metabolism fired, and replenishes your muscle glycogen.Continuity
- The muscle glycogen is really crucial to give yourself the fuel for lifting.Continuity
- mg330
I need to get back on track... I went most of this crisis with little exercise and lots of comfort foods and sugar. I like to weigh in the mid 160s but I'm in the mid 170's right now. I was doing Keto for three weeks right before this started and I should have kept it up.
I'm thinking about doing it again because it's the one way I can cut sugar and carbs significantly, feel more mentally alert, and drop fat quickly. Then the ideal transition is to a slow-carb diet with a cheat day on Saturdays. I just need to do it. Keto has been the one thing I've found that I can have the fastest success with in getting lean.
- I'm really, really, really not a fan of the keto diet. It's simply not sustainable, especially if you work out. Complex, low GI carbs really do fuel ...Continuity
- ... your workouts.
Seriously, try a 40/40/20 macro split (p/c/f).Continuity - Also: no amount of fad dieting will change the fact that in order to lose fat, you need to be in a calorie deficit. It's the simplest thing in the world.Continuity
- Drink to thirst. Eat to hunger. Move as much as you can whenever you can.
; )ideaist - you got off easy, met a guy walking the dog today that's put on 3 stone since march :|kingsteven
- 8 pounds for me and worked most of it off in the last 2 weeks with <1000k/cal and walking 6 miles a daykingsteven
- Continuity0
Since gyms re-opened on 8 June after lockdown, I've been on a 750 kcal cut, been doing a 6-day PPLPPL split (at least I have time for this, being unemployed, eh?), and four 15-minute HIIT cardio sessions per week.
Went from a disgusting (on my frame) 82 kg to 76,5 kg as of this morning, and packed on a fair bit of new muscle.
I've got veins popping out everywhere: forearms, biceps, neck, there's a web of them coming up in the deltoids, and two big fat ones are making themselves known in the right light across one pec and the centre of the first and second row of abs.
Yet — for all that — my stupid BIA scale says I'm still at 17% BF, and I can't get rid of my fucking love handles for the life of me.
It's fucking frustrating.
- autoflavour0
so after the first lockdown and an excessive amount of whiskey, pizza and general terrible diet, 3 weeks ago I decided to switch to OMAD.. well, Mon-Fri is OMAD, black coffee and water..
That one mean tends to be on the healthier side, although the occasional pizza or Enchiladas has happened.
Weekends its 2 meals.. Brunch and a dinner.. again, same type of food..
No coke or energy drinks, no chocolate or chips..
lost nearly 6kgs so far..
first couple of days were hard.. but once you get the hang of it, its not that hard at all.. we usually eat around 6pm.. so by 4:30 im definitely feeling like im hungry.
but honestly, its actually been really good. I have been sleeping way better, a bunch of aches and pains I have been having the last few months have gone away and I feel my head is a lot clearer..
On the weekend I smashed out a 2000 word essay in 4 hours..
granted it was a first draft, but it was a solid draft..
that would normally have taken me a week at least.anyway, OMAD for the win.
- that said, I definitely have KG to burn.. so im sure the weight loss will taper down a bit.. but for now, its goodautoflavour
- trying to make those meals with low GI foods.. definitely offsets the hunger betterautoflavour
- This has essentially been my natural state my entire life. Always getting crap from family and friends how unhealthy it wasGnash
- not going to lie, it was pretty brutal the first week.. but that was also sugar detox combined.. but now, its pretty goodautoflavour
- omad ftw, i lost 16kg doing it. was getting really fat for my height even.renderedred
- Bennn0
Breakfast.
Before OR after running ?
- Aftermoldero
- Just skip it, better for youmoldero
- https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
- Yes, skip running.deadsperm
- my app keep running when i walk thats why my times are shitty lolBennn
- just ran 2,75KM in 15minBennn
- ^thats not a bad pacedmay
- But if you only run for 15 minutes, you can skip or eat a piece of fruit so you don't fill your stomach emptydmay
- coolBennn
- If you're only running for 15 min you shouldn't be worrying about fueling or hydration even.deadsperm
- I would only recommend running without breakfast for up to 1 hour. Sometimes you can do "fast" runs as part of a training but I wouldn't recommend it long term.deadsperm
- If you're running around 30 minutes it's just a matter of personal taste. You shouldn't worry about it unless you're training for something specific.deadsperm
- afterdrgs
- cool. i just started running. iam starting with 2,75KM. I'd like to push it to 4KM before Fall.Bennn
- Small breakfast and a coffee.
BM.
Run.ideaist - After. You're done with a coffee for a run of less than an hour.OBBTKN
- If you're taking tips:
Focus on increasing your time running, not the distance. Adapt your pace accordingly.
You'll be running 10K in a couple of months.deadsperm - just fix mr yaris lolsted
- Whatever you feel comfortable with. Personally I can't run too soon after eating. But I also wouldn't do a long run on an empty stomach eitherBaskerviIle
- @deadsperm, good tip, i should probably start by running the whole 2,75KM without stopping and running faster when my body will say its ok :PBennn
- duringpango
- Before. I need the energy to last all four miles.imbecile
- never do the running, but instead enjoying 2 meditarenean breakfasts.neverscared
- I eat before running.SimonFFM
- I eat breakfast after running. Eating before gives me un upset stomach.instrmntl
- why not both?Nairn
- I eat breakfast about 15 to 40 times between runs.nb
- I eat running before breakfastChimp
- Full English, during.calculator
- Nairn, I prefer to eat then burn calories as opposed to eating then becoming sedentary.imbecile
- Lol calculatorscarabin
- Bennn2
I ran for the first time this morning.
2,65 Km (1.64 Miles) in 19m 43sec- What do you mean by "for the first time?"garbage
- i never ran before. As a trainning activity... Am I clear?Bennn
- Ha, sorry. Just seemed like an odd sentence. Pace yourself and google "forefoot striking". It'll save your legs.garbage
- thanks!Bennn
- 8km/h, er? Short legs?
J/k, congrats, take care of your kneesOBBTKN - My walking time is better than that brah.utopian
- You could walk it faster.. But well done etcDoris_McSquirter
- haha :DBennn
- was it an uphill run?uan
- lol noBennn
- NBQ00-2
- drgs1
Do you want to live longer? Leave your house every day
- instrmntl0
Watching this today as I switch to juice.
- juice is pure carbs. don't do itsrhadden
- ^^^ Plus, taking out the fiber is moronic. just eat the vegetables.section_014
- True datnbq
- grafician0
Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset for 30 consecutive days is associated with anticancer proteomic signature and upregulates key regulatory proteins of glucose and lipid metabolism, circadian clock, DNA repair, cytoskeleton remodeling, immune system and cognitive function in healthy subjects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/sc…
"Our study has important clinical implications. Our results showed that intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset for over 14 h daily for 30 consecutive days was associated with an anticancer serum proteomic signature and upregulated key regulatory proteins of glucose and lipid metabolism, insulin signaling, circadian clock, DNA repair, cytoskeleton remodeling, immune system, and cognitive function, and resulted in a serum proteome protective against cancer, obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, Alzheimer's disease, and several neuropsychiatric disorders. Importantly, these findings occurred in the absence of any calorie restriction and significant weight loss. These findings suggest that intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset can be a preventive and adjunct therapy in cancer, metabolic syndrome and Alzheimer's disease and several neuropsychiatric diseases."
- moldero1
"There are many additional treatments like vitamin D, glutathione, iodine and selenium, even hydrogen, but the first thing we should reach for is sodium bicarbonate...."
- grafician0
Hey, just seen this on twitter, it's from a nurse I guess, explaining what to get if you indeed go down with that coronavirus:
https://twitter.com/smasheroteac…
Nothing alarming, just basic stuff, but I guess most of it is for the US - in the EU most of the meds carry different names, but you can still get them overthecounter, no antibiotics it seems?
- drgs1
The keto diet focuses the immune system on the flu virus
If you want to reduce the chance that you will be struck by a flu virus, reduce the amount of carbohydrates in your diet. According to an animal study from the University of Yale, a low-carbohydrate diet activates a particular type of immune cell that helps keep flu viruses out.
- Noodles are carbs. They eat the most noodles in Italy and China. Don't eat noodles if you don't want Corona.robotron3k
- Yes, also we eat lots of bread in the EU, especially old people. Bread and pasta went of the shelves here in Romania this week.grafician
- robotron3k-4
- ya gotta do this to fight off Corona and Biden Bros...robotron3k
- Why the downvotes ? This thread has been primarily about workouts for years. What is the best workout against Corona?deadsperm
- drgs1
Probiotics with Bifidobacterium breve B-3
https://www.ergo-log.com/bifidob…
https://www.ergo-log.com/bifidob…
- deadsperm1
I see your fasting/detoxing and raise you breatharianism.