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Thread: I am fat
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11-02-2009, 09:35 AM #31
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11-02-2009, 11:06 AM #32
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11-02-2009, 01:18 PM #33
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11-02-2009, 01:24 PM #34
I know you don't plan to slavishly follow the macros/calories, but do you even have a rough guess at what your "cutting" level is?
As much as you want to be a lean 150 @ 5'5", I'd like to be a lean 160 at 5'7". I'm a good 8 lbs or so over that, but attempts to cut calories any further seems to completely trash my lifts and recovery (and my diet is squeaky-clean to begin with).
You adding any cardio or conditioning type work to your usual lifting?
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11-02-2009, 01:44 PM #35
Was reading over your diet, the last couple of days you had very little carbs, if your not used to a low carb diet you can experience the symptoms you were having feeling shaky could be low blood sugar.
Try and add more complex carbs if you go very low with carb intake you have to add a good amount of fat.
When I first did the CKD I felt like **** it takes time for your body to get adjusted.
Hope your feeling betterBeing a real lifter is not about a number, or a medal, or somebody else telling you that you are a real lifter. It is about commitment to the iron and strength of purpose.
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11-02-2009, 01:55 PM #36
No idea what my cutting level is, if you mean calorie-wise. I just always cut by cutting out the crap part of my diet and sticking to veggies and fish. This time around I figured I might as well go organic at the same time
Not adding any cardio or conditioning. I weighed 135 3 years ago with very similar lifts to what I have now, and I'm pretty confident that I can maintain my current strength levels by dropping down to 150. I'm too embarrassed to post my beach pics because of my gut
It's tough for me to gauge how much carbs I'm getting. The acorn squash was very large, and I had a TON of salad, including the carrots and onions, along with a ton of cauliflower. I've never really gone the traditional low-carb route, though my traditional cutting diet is basically just fish and veggies.
I'm going to take your advice and switch to my usual cutting breakfast of steel-cut oats along with a bit of protein powder and some milk/yogurt. That should set me up for the rest of the day!
Now I'm craving Mabo Tofu, so I must be feeling somewhat better
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11-02-2009, 02:07 PM #37
Good idea, try and add some to your lunch too but cut them out after lunch.
The cauliflower is very low carb not sure about the squash some have more than others mendosa.com gives amount of carbs in food go under diabetes than food.
What's Mabo Tofu?
I started today only shakes for me need to get the sugar out of my system, it's like a drug!
Glad your feeling betterBeing a real lifter is not about a number, or a medal, or somebody else telling you that you are a real lifter. It is about commitment to the iron and strength of purpose.
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11-02-2009, 02:20 PM #38
Yeah, my old cutting diet was basically:
Breakfast
Steel cut oats with sliced fruit, whole milk yogurt and protein powder
Lunch
Poached fish
Steamed vegetables
Dinner
Same as lunch
I'd split lunch and dinner into 2 portions each so really have 2 lunches and 2 dinners. Always did the trick, but right now that's not my goal. I'm not "cutting" per se, just changing my eating habits to get back down to a more "normal" weight, rather than a heavily-cut weight, so there's definitely no reason to be too extreme.
Sugar is most definitely addictive
Mabo tofu is a spicy Chinese tofu dish with ground pork. It looks like this:
I'm going to be branching out into more Asian-influenced dishes soon. I love Thai and Vietnamese flavors, and of course Chinese and Japanese... Once again, variety is the spice of life (PM for "private" details)
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11-02-2009, 02:35 PM #39
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11-02-2009, 02:38 PM #40
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11-02-2009, 03:06 PM #41
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11-02-2009, 03:47 PM #42
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11-02-2009, 03:53 PM #43
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11-03-2009, 01:52 AM #44
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11-03-2009, 09:02 AM #45
I've got a suggestion for you. Come to Russia for a while. You'll lose weight in no time. Seriously. Both this summer and this semester I've lost weight, and that has been with eating ridiculous amounts of food and at times too much salsa (read: booze). You don't see too many overweight people here. Not that they are healthy, just not fat.
@thighsofsteel_chs
Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Device Sales
Charleston, SC
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11-03-2009, 10:18 AM #46
Indeed they are
It's funny that you should mention this. In Defense of Food, which I read on vacation, goes into detail about "traditional" diets from around the world, and how, for example, the French as a whole are far less obese than Americans, even though their diet is filled with saturated fat and wine. The theory is that the ingredients are "real" food, the portions are smaller, and they enjoy and savor their food, rather than stuff themselves til they're full... I'd assume Russians are the same?
Breakfast
Steel-cut oats
Whole Milk yogurt
protein powder
supps
Lunch
Leftover Japanese curry from dinner, plus a bit of white rice (post-workout carbs )
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11-03-2009, 10:59 AM #47
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11-03-2009, 11:08 AM #48
Yup! Still don't think it was a lack of carbs that triggered it though, since it happened an hour after eating bread.
In retrospect (this is going to sound ridiculous to those who don't know me very well), I think it was actually motion-sickness triggered by watching back-to-back-to-back episodes of a shaky Japanese anime dubbed into Cantonese with English subtitles...
Snack
A couple more chocolates from the beast of the box I received post-Hallowe'en.
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11-03-2009, 04:26 PM #49
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11-03-2009, 08:44 PM #50
Damn.
I figured out that it was, indeed, the video that caused my nausea yesterday. I tried watching more tonight and the nausea came right back.
I should ALWAYS try to figure out a motion-sickness explanation for nausea before assuming it's food.
And I was enjoying the video, too... oh well! That explains why I still felt perfectly strong today at my workout.
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11-04-2009, 02:49 AM #51
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11-04-2009, 02:53 AM #52
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11-04-2009, 06:21 AM #53
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11-04-2009, 06:39 AM #54
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11-04-2009, 07:40 AM #55
Something like that. I have a few theories:
1) They spend most of their money on clothes and cosmetics, not food
2) Natural food, few preservatives
3) Stress & Activity (work, etc) I don't know what it is about living here, but it just makes me tired. Even in a relaxed city like Petersburg. Also, people tend to walk a lot. Not necessarily to to work or to specific places, but just take walks. The verb gulyat' (to take a stroll) is used a lot
4) Russian Breakfast: Cigs & Coffee (just a joke, but usually not very much, this summer is was often sausage or eggs, tomatoes and cucumbers, oatmeal sometimes)
5) Vodka
5)@thighsofsteel_chs
Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Device Sales
Charleston, SC
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11-04-2009, 08:00 AM #56
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11-04-2009, 08:11 AM #57
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11-04-2009, 08:17 AM #58
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11-04-2009, 08:23 AM #59
I've never had any tests done other than routine checkups and routine ear-nose-throat checkups. And nothing since I was a kid.
It never feels like a balance thing. No room spinning or anything. Just get really really really nauseous, triggered by cars, trains, planes, boats, elevators, escalators, home movies, etc. etc. etc.
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11-04-2009, 08:25 AM #60
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