tell me what you think, one and all.
my story isn't so different from the hundreds of testimonials i've read so far in that:
1. always a fat kid (sorta)
2. never had the muscles but always wanted them
and a characteristic perhaps unique to me, perhaps not
3. i used to dread interaction with the whole of humanity, but carried a special contempt for haughty sports-types whose comments are superficially funny but implicity aimed to malign you (you being, uh...me in this case). so, social anxiety. always a party.
a series of magical things have happened over the course of the past six months, and i joined a gym several weeks ago with the aim of putting those much-vaunted muscles within my chubby grasp. i'm exaggerating of course. my grasp isn't so much chubby as the rest of me is. unbeknownst to me until recently was the exact extent to which the rest of me was chubby. turns out it's a confounding 24%. how? i dunno. that's why it's confounding.
the news isn't all bad though. i stand just shy of 6'2'' at around 190 pounds and am a robust 22 years of age. but again, lacking any discernable muscle mass means several of those pounds = cheese. cheeses of every imaginable variety but identical when viewed from the all-important aesthetic standpoint: they look bad when they're subcutaneous.
and that's where diets come from. diets full of whole grains and pasty oats and leans meats, all of which i've befriended for the past two weeks. in fact, hrrrrs what i ate today:
brekkist: cuppa old fashioned oats made with non fat milk. scoop of soy protein (whey scares me. anything sold in the equivalent of a bucket scares me). honey for taste. this was post cardio, if that has any bearing. hence the additional protein.
1100: -turkey sammich. garnished with hot mustard and onion (sounds gross but i love horseradish. whatever. you don't have to smell me.) made with only the finest of whole wheat breads, of course.
-apple.
230: -cup of strawberries. they had nutrasweet on them. yay aspartame.
-pretty big chicken breast (no idea how many oz. no more than 10 i assume).
sidenote: apparently some people feel that fruits are the devil when it comes to fat loss, but to that i say "balderdash!" provided they're low glycemic and counted among your carbohydrate intake, what's the big deal?
500: ~1/2 of granola. skim milk. little more protein powder. snacky.
700: rice. teriyaki chicken (6 oz.?). carrots and peas (probably a cup).
that's pretty much it. i'll probably have some flaxseed oil before bedtime just to be sure. i've been drinking at least 100 oz of water a day and peeing an equal amount it seems (joking). my renal system is like a ford assembly line now.
i have no idea what the caloric value of this diet is. my conservative estimation is that i've created anywhere between a 750-1000 calorie deficit (which includes the cardio i'm doing).
so my ultimate question is this, ladies and gentlemen: too much? i'm only concerned that my conservative estimation is way off. i don't want to get all catabolic or catatonic or cataleptic. the first several days of this were marked by a distinct feeling of being hit by a train, which then tapered off. i feel pretty much normal now.
it's reaped results so far. something to the sound of 7 pounds in two weeks. yes, i know that's bad and that it's probably water weight and muscle mass and that i'll start peeing blood if that continues. in fact, at the start of all this i had a bad run in with myoglobinuria and was peeing a fine rosé for several days. totally gross with a fine bouquet.
anyway, opinions if you feel like it. feedback would be nice. then i have more questions.
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