Progress Pics: Six Month Diet Journey. This is a very detailed progress report. I am going to explain what I tried, what worked and didn’t. I have learned that dieting is not a straight journey where you just keep eating at a deficit and you eventually have a 6- pack. We are extremely complex beings and our body is always trying to find ways to prevent us from losing fat for evolutionary reasons. I’ve learned more in this 6 months about weight loss and body building than ever before, particularly because this was the FIRST TIME I’ve ever been on a diet. Stats: Height: 5’1. 3 Month Bulk 1 Month Cut Diet For CompetitionAge: 2. 9 years. Weight: 1. BF%: ~2. 0% down to ~1. Waist/Hip/Thigh tape measurement is shown in the 4 month section below. Quick word about EXERCISE and my lack of lift numbers. This post is mostly focused on diet and food. Meat is one thing that can be hard to save money on. Unless you don't eat meat or are already at the stage of producing all your own meat, just. Originally printed by The Alternative Research Foundation. It puzzles me why the simple concept "sugar feeds cancer" can be so dramatically overlooked as part of a. I don’t talk much about my exercise regimen but I’d like to say right here that I work out vigorously 3- 6x a week. On any of those days I am doing. The only reason I was able to eat willy- nilly before I started dieting and looked fairly good even to begin with was due to all the exercise that was balancing things out. Also, I don’t have compound lift progress numbers (squat, bench, deadlift) as I don’t have access to a regular gym, but I have progressed tremendously in my bodyweight skill work. So I can’t tell you how much I could lift, but I’m able to do more dislocates on the flying rings now. I could hold crow pose for a minute with ease as opposed to a few seconds. I could hold peacock pose with my legs higher up than ever before. I could hold a straddled back lever on the rings for several seconds as opposed to ZERO. I could hold an advanced tuck front lever now for several seconds as opposed to ZERO. There’s tons more examples I could post?
I don’t go to a gym and lift weights. I need to be creatively challenged. For the first three months, my diet plan consisted of nothing else except simply counting my calories and eating at a deficit. So basically as long as I restricted my calorie intake, I was going to be losing weight! This allowed me to eat ANYTHING! And it wasn’t so important that I stay within the calories every single day. As long as my food intake averaged out for the week in general, I was losing weight! I wrote about this start to my journey about how I started using My. Fitness. Pal (MFP) here: Antranik! When I would do the “shake test” (just jump up and down lightly, whatever jiggles is fat), almost everything in my front body was jiggling. But anyway, in one month my waist became a LOT slimmer and the first thing I really noticed aesthetically was that my deltoids and arms were showing lots more definition. In this one month, I dropped 1. I was simply eating ~1,6. My tightest jeans now felt loose on me. The fat loss didn’t continue infinitely like this obviously, but considering that I got SO much slimmer in just four weeks, that was already proof in the pudding that calories “in versus out” is a simple and effective way to lose some excess baggage. The best part was that it basically allowed me to eat anything, as long as I stayed below 1,6. So yes, I did have things like ice cream but instead of eating straight from the tub, I learned to savor a quarter cup of it with a small spoon and really make it last. Sure I was hungry sometimes, but it didn’t matter. As long as I kept drinking water, I felt great. When you feel like you need to eat some. I just reminded myself that hunger was fat leaving the body, and it really was! I also wrote more in- depth about this time here: Turns out. If I was going out for the day, I wanted to be in control of what I was going to be eating so I would spend just 1. Tupperware containers so I’d know what I was going to be eating for lunch or dinner for the day. The containers are marked with their volumes (1 cup, 2. SUPER easy to know how much food I was taking with me. This saves money and time! Plus, I would simply log everything in MFP all at once right then and there on my phone as I packed my lunch/dinner so I wouldn’t have to do it later in the day. It became super duper easy and quick to log everything with the i. Phone app. In fact, the app on my phone was even faster than the website itself. I ended up writing this article to help share the tips: 9 tips to help calorie counting become second nature! I was also learning how to control my hunger better as it was becoming quite difficult on some days for sure. I ended up sharing some more tips here: How to Stop Eat. This is when I started Intermittent Fasting. I don’t have a good 3- month photo but basically, I was looking even slimmer than before but the scale was not dropping down as rapidly as before. I had only lost 4 pounds in the last two months! So yes, it was a weight- loss plateau, BUT(!) it wasn’t a fat- loss plateau. I also noticed I had increased vascularity. This was a minor adjustment MFP recommended for being a lighter being. By the way, speaking of pounds! Look at What Five Pounds of Fat Looks Like!)Enter Intermittent Fasting: So, unfortunately what worked super fast for the first couple months wasn’t working so well anymore. I was still eating at a straight caloric deficit but my hunger was becoming insatiable immediately after breakfast. Eating 1,5. 50 calories a day was becoming psychologically arduous and I didn’t feel I was ever being satisfied. So I researched and found out about intermittent fasting. I began by implementing the 1. Lean. Gains). This basically means you don’t eat for 1. So I was basically skipping breakfast and eating all the calories I normally would eat sometime between 1. All of a sudden, rather than always feeling unsatisfied with tiny meals spread throughout the day, eating 1,6. Plus, the other benefits of IF were ASTOUNDING in many other ways. I had enhanced lucidity and productivity in the mornings. I wasn’t bothered by breakfast so I wasn’t feeling hungry anymore in the mornings. I could simply go straight to work and my productivity was higher than ever until I broke my fast with some break- fast in the afternoon! I found it most rewarding to have a small to medium sized lunch to jump start the digestion process and keep me happy and then a huge dinner to top things off. By now, I’m 3- 4 weeks into 1. I also just started calorie and macro cycling for the first time. For the first time ever I’m seeing my serratus anterior, I could see definition in my abs more than ever and there’s even a little bit more of that apollo’s belt action. Tape measurement progress. Start. 4 Months. Waist. I was eating something like 1,8. But I know what was really going on. Come night- time, my brain would say, “You should eat more since you won’t be eating until 2pm the next day.” So late at night I would mindlessly eat a few extra hundred calories. It was almost like binge eating. But then again I had been eating at a straight- deficit with NO god damned break for FOUR MONTHS! I guess I had a lot of will power. I realized that on rest- days, I could easily go without feeling ACTUAL hunger until 4- 5pm. So I am cycling the intake of calories. Macro Cycling: A week after getting used to calorie cycling, I decided to implement macro cycling as well. Just keep counting my calories. But this entire year has been an ongoing, tremendous learning experience. I also recommend Andy’s Simplified Macro- Counting Rules if you want to make IF/LG simpler. Side Note: In the middle of this month somewhere, I decided I want to be in the best shape of my life by my 3. October. Here is a sample of what my leangains plan looked like: So my game plan involved a - 3. To help adhere to this I learned to make protein a priority everyday regardless of it being a rest day or workout day. On rest days, I will adhere to a 5. TDEE). That means that ideally I will intake 1. On workout days, I will adhere to a 7. TDEE) . That means that, again, I will eat 1. So in other words, the protein intake stays constant (throw in some eggs, low fat cottage cheese, low fat greek yogurt, meat, fish, chicken, etc) everyday. On rest days I will have a (relatively) low- carb diet (just lotsa green veggies and meat kinda day!). On workout days I can gobble up the carbs. So I’ll be saving the quinoa, beans, lentils, legumes for workout- days (they’re high in protein, low in fat, high in carbs). COMPLICATED? YOU BET YOUR ASS IT IS! I started intermittent fasting and took my time getting used to that. Then I implemented calorie cycling which was very easy to get used to. Then I added macro cycling. So I just kept adding layers of micromanagement. I didn’t jump into this from the get go, so it’s not that complicated if you take your time with it! Five Month Mark: Many epiphanies. Two weeks of a “full diet break.” And two weeks of the “Ultimate diet 2. I had a lot of epiphanies during this 5th month. I was not looking STRONG like I did in the previous pics. I thought I could simply keep eating at a deficit and just lose fat and eventually have a 6 pack, but it turns out, when you lose fat you also often lose muscle. So those “4 month” pics were taken in this perfect state when I had lost a lot of fat but the muscle was still present. I realized that if I kept this up, I was eventually going to just go from looking SKINNY AND STRONG, to just SKINNY. It’s not that the leangains wasn’t working. 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