Official Nov 1st to Feb 1st Fat Loss Thread.

[NitrogenWidget]

I just ordered a zune hd for those long days on the treadmill. Now i can watch what I want not what they have on. Also im stopping the bcaas I think its messing with my body chemistry and making me gain weight really fast. I gained 10 pounds in a week. Im on other meds so i guess its possible. I hate it though because they were working so well for me and made me feel better even on my non training days. Well no supplements starting tomorrow and im going back on my weight loss.

Well, you've been cutting so your flat.
As your muscles fill up with a surplus of cals and carbs you are going to gain water weight.

I'm going to 155 because I know when I start eating at maint. i'll probably jump up 10lbs due to the way I hold water when I consume carbs.

[NitrogenWidget]

162.5 so i'm back down to my pre-turkey day weight.
Only took a fricken week of 1200 cals. LOL!

gonna eat some food today & try to do legs.
Lower cals = longer time to recover from workouts so i'm not sure my shoulders can handle deadlifts tonight.

[Waqs]

Spreadsheet looks good. Very pleased with my progress and of course everyone else.

I'm hitting legs today as well!

[JohnCyr]

Aiming for below 220 for the next weight in.. doubt it will happen. But i hope.

[SilvaMan61]

just checked spread sheet..... i demand a re-count!! lol soo close to green. i be so close....

[NitrogenWidget]

And i'm wearing 31 straight legs to work. Comfortably.

End of month I will own the 30 straight leg!

[SaminPA]

Two months to go. Everyone is doing great. Stay focused and keep your eyes in the goal.

I set a goal of 275 by March 1. That's 18 pounds in 3 months. I'm going to weight (pun intended) until the end of December, but I think I may need to recalculate and lower that number. I lost 15 pounds in November alone. Maybe I should shoot for 265. I'm happy with my progress. Overall I'm down 36 pounds.

[BlackArtemis]

I have not been counting cals, nor exercising this week and I am only up .6 Been letting my body recover a bit, counting cals today and will be doing just cardio this week. I think I can knock myself down to atleast 152.9 by Tuesday. Looking forward to 150 by the 31st. Starting to get back looking like what I did in my old pictures. Once I get sub 150 I know I will have fuzzy abs, low 140's and I will be really happy. Still a bit of a guy and barrel shaped, I want to take in my sides a bit.
Also I graduate in 2 weeks (second degree) Then I can move on and get a new place and get back into the dating scene, which will be fun since I am getting in fricken' good shape.

[NitrogenWidget]

After reading some I think i'm going to start taking creatine & see if it helps with my recovery from lifting so I can more workouts in during the week.
I know my water weight will probably go out some but i'm not worried.
With my deficit + maintained strength I KNOW i'm loosing fat.

But I still worry when I don't see progress daily. LOL!

[webgodess]

myfitnesspal.com is what I & a few others use.

potasium suplements help with water balance & cramping when you are on a restrictive diet.

Thank you for the tip! I'll try that if they happen again, it wasn't until I was training like mad but the cramps would just come out of nowhere and hurt like a b***ch.

Thanks for keeping the spreadsheet up, not sure what the colors mean cuz I'm a noob in this thread lol. Looks good to me! Having a visual is always good.

Does anybody else find that after several months of calorie restriction, it gets really easy? I do 1,500-1,800 calories daily and I'm hardly hungry anymore. My maintenance is like 2,600-2,700 and eating that many calories' worth of healthy foods seems impossible. Sure it's no big deal on cheeseburgers and fries, but my current diet is pretty clean and it'd be tough to imagine eating 2,700 calories' worth of fish, broccoli, eggs, bacon, salad, steak, etc. In any case, it makes fat loss pretty simple!

Yes me too! Actually with anything, it seemed to get easier. I was never a huge sugar lover but cut it out entirely(along with all simple carbs) which made me want it more lol but it got WAY easier over time. Eventually I watched people eat desserts at family functions and really didn't feel like I was missing anything.

I set a goal of 275 by March 1. That's 18 pounds in 3 months. I'm going to weight (pun intended) until the end of December, but I think I may need to recalculate and lower that number. I lost 15 pounds in November alone. Maybe I should shoot for 265. I'm happy with my progress. Overall I'm down 36 pounds.

Excellent! I have a similar goal, getting back to the 240's by March 1 would be great so about 20lbs.

[TelusLob]

Morning. Weight was same as yesterday. It's fine though. This week is a maintenance week of sorts.

[BlackArtemis]

After reading some I think i'm going to start taking creatine & see if it helps with my recovery from lifting so I can more workouts in during the week.
I know my water weight will probably go out some but i'm not worried.
With my deficit + maintained strength I KNOW i'm loosing fat.

But I still worry when I don't see progress daily. LOL!

Not letting myself go on Creatine til April haha
Then its going to be creatine and a few other supps and lots and lots of heavy lifting. I want to be lean and bench 2x my body weight.
My goals for this bag of mush I got now is Trim>Strength>Size

Good luck with it though! Some delicious ATP!
<--- is checking papers all about ADP and ATP right now

[NitrogenWidget]

Not letting myself go on Creatine til April haha
Then its going to be creatine and a few other supps and lots and lots of heavy lifting. I want to be lean and bench 2x my body weight.
My goals for this bag of mush I got now is Trim>Strength>Size

Good luck with it though! Some delicious ATP!
<--- is checking papers all about ADP and ATP right now

If it helps with recovery then I won't have so many off days where I have to do cardio.

[jinda628]

Well, you've been cutting so your flat.
As your muscles fill up with a surplus of cals and carbs you are going to gain water weight.

I'm going to 155 because I know when I start eating at maint. i'll probably jump up 10lbs due to the way I hold water when I consume carbs.

So that's why I gained a bit already in weight. I was just 150 lbs and just started eating 200 cals above my maintenance 2 days ago and my weight ballooned to 156 lbs already yesterday.
I was 154 this morning. I thought I was overdoing the bulk already.

It gets worrying when there's a sudden increase after all the hard work we did to cut

[NitrogenWidget]

So that's why I gained a bit already in weight. I was just 150 lbs and just started eating 200 cals above my maintenance 2 days ago and my weight ballooned to 156 lbs already yesterday.
I was 154 this morning. I thought I was overdoing the bulk already.

It gets worrying when there's a sudden increase after all the hard work we did to cut

I have a hard time dealing with weight gain on the scale VS actual fat sometimes also.
Even though I KNOW i'm not accumulating fat stores it still gets discouraging when the scale goes up.

[TelusLob]

Morning people. Weight was same today as its been the last 3 days. I ate 277g of CHO's yesterday. My legs are sore today. Have a good weekend,

[ajm422]

Morning people. Weight was same today as its been the last 3 days. I ate 277g of CHO's yesterday. My legs are sore today. Have a good weekend,

Wow I cannot remember the last time I ate 277g carbs. I only got up to 220g on Thanksgiving! After almost a year of being mostly paleo if I have so much as a baked potato I feel like I'm about to burst.

I have a hard time dealing with weight gain on the scale VS actual fat sometimes also.
Even though I KNOW i'm not accumulating fat stores it still gets discouraging when the scale goes up.

Yeah, it took a lot of conditioning to obliterate this mentality. Now, if the scale goes up I celebrate, and if it goes down I just sorta chuckle and think "I'll get 'em tomorrow."

[TelusLob]

Wow I cannot remember the last time I ate 277g carbs. I only got up to 220g on Thanksgiving! After almost a year of being mostly paleo if I have so much as a baked potato I feel like I'm about to burst.



Yeah, it took a lot of conditioning to obliterate this mentality. Now, if the scale goes up I celebrate, and if it goes down I just sorta chuckle and think "I'll get 'em tomorrow."

I was eating close to 500g on refeed days once per week. Rest days I eat 200, workout days, I try to eat around 250.

[ajm422]

I was eating close to 500g on refeed days once per week. Rest days I eat 200, workout days, I try to eat around 250.

*Gasp* Haha. I'm doing a 1.5 week bout of PSMF per RFL. I'll be doing one or two 5 hour carb refeeds. My plan is several bagels with jam on top and maybe some homemade pretzels. Wonder if I can get to 300...

[TelusLob]

I used to eat lower carbs too, but honestly, I've found that my muscles like more carbs. I can drop weight fast on low carb diets, but eating more carbs I can build a bit of muscle in the process. At this point, I am more happy with moderate weight loss and more muscle building.

[pobski]

Man I fell off my diet hard. I think I went out of town for like 3 days and then just didn't get back into cutting. This is probably the wrong thread to post this in but these may-aug-nov threads are pretty much all I've posted in on this forum. For the last week I've been telling myself every morning that I'm not going to cheat or that I'm going to hit the cardio but it keeps falling through. I'm still weight lifting 3x per week but my weight went back over 200 today and I think it's been my (17th) wake up call. Could one of you slap me if I disappear again? jk i know i'm the only one responsible for me, haha.

OK no more typing, time to get after that brawny paper towel guy look!

[Sandymak]

Whew dodged a bullet! I've been so good at the gym, working real hard BUT I have been eating badly, not checking in here for motivation, not tracking on my fitness pal. But I lucked out still down to 143 yay! Now ready to get back at it and lose this last 10 lbs. Thanks for still being here. I will be checking in.
Please kick my a$$ I really don't want to slide backwards.

[kwebbers]

Man I fell off my diet hard. I think I went out of town for like 3 days and then just didn't get back into cutting. This is probably the wrong thread to post this in but these may-aug-nov threads are pretty much all I've posted in on this forum. For the last week I've been telling myself every morning that I'm not going to cheat or that I'm going to hit the cardio but it keeps falling through. I'm still weight lifting 3x per week but my weight went back over 200 today and I think it's been my (17th) wake up call. Could one of you slap me if I disappear again? jk i know i'm the only one responsible for me, haha.

OK no more typing, time to get after that brawny paper towel guy look!

have you considered IF?

[NitrogenWidget]

I was eating close to 500g on refeed days once per week. Rest days I eat 200, workout days, I try to eat around 250.

I just don't count on those days or don't be so strict on weekends.

I sit on my ass all day + I got my kids after work & unless i'm lifting on those days and even so, I just don't do much so carbs get cut so I can make protein cals.

Some weeks I don't miss them & some i feel like crap so I do adjust.

[stingray72]

my strength is better not being in a deficit i did a personal record on the bench press today at this low of bodyweight (148) and i will probably lose more weight being off the bcaas for 3 days now

im also hoping to be pressing what i was at 155 pound bodyweight at the current 148 pounds in no more than 2 months from now

[omdz]

Wow, I don't know how I have been losing so fast.. everytime i step on the scale there is improvement (daily) O.o

I think its because my mums car broke down and have to walk home.. got a bike now so I'm gonna be going on longgg ass bike rides

[StrongMeat]

looked in a different mirror at my mothers crib. loose skin and stretchmarks are waaay more outta control than i originally thought. nice little blow to morale. diets on point tho should be a good weigh in on tues

take some zinc and apply vitamin e oil daily

itll never go away completely but you can reduce the redness and the appearance

-StrongMeat-

[NitrogenWidget]

I feel lucky. All my angry red stretch marks have either disapeared or faded to white.
Except the ones on my upper legs.
Those are still very apparent but since I don't wear speedo's in the summer not many people see those.

take some zinc and apply vitamin e oil daily

itll never go away completely but you can reduce the redness and the appearance

-StrongMeat-

[AceDuddyMEGAA]

take some zinc and apply vitamin e oil daily

itll never go away completely but you can reduce the redness and the appearance

-StrongMeat-

i dont think itll help much i do a lot for my skin its just destroyed photos make it look 100x better

[TelusLob]

Macros are in for the day: 2,240 166 81 221 (cals, carbs, fats, pro)