Skinny and hangry 2019 thread

[Payton1221]

Only carb sources will be veggies low carb wraps.

Tim,

I don't know if I mentioned this to you or not, but I've been using slices of turkey for my wraps I cut them in half and put A-1 sauce on one side and a half slice of cheese on the other like this:

[Plateauplower]

Tim,

I don't know if I mentioned this to you or not, but I've been using slices of turkey for my wraps I cut them in half and put A-1 sauce on one side and a half slice of cheese on the other like this:

Meat wrapped in meat lol. I usually will just eat meat with broccoli or homemade Giardiniera. I’ve used Romaine lettuce as a wrap but never sliced meat

[Payton1221]

Meat wrapped in meat lol. I usually will just eat meat with broccoli or homemade Giardiniera. I’ve used Romaine lettuce as a wrap but never sliced meat

I just had a couple of my wife's awesome salmon patties on what we refer to as "turkey tacos" for breakfast. A slice or two of turkey, a half slice of pepper jack cheese, and half of a salmon pattie all wrapped up as a taco . . . delicious

[Plateauplower]

I just had a couple of my wife's awesome salmon patties on what we refer to as "turkey tacos" for breakfast. A slice or two of turkey, a half slice of pepper jack cheese, and half of a salmon pattie all wrapped up as a taco . . . delicious

Should have had you show me the salmon burger recipe when you came over to train. When I make them from canned salmon they are nearly unpalatable Taste like mud and bones lol.

[Payton1221]

Should have had you show me the salmon burger recipe when you came over to train. When I make them from canned salmon they are nearly unpalatable Taste like mud and bones lol.

They're easy to make, but we do remove as much of the skin and bones as practical. Then we add:

Chopped onions (to taste)
Two eggs
breadcrumbs (I'm guessing ~1.5 oz but maybe a bit more or less)
Cajun seasoning

Make four patties after mixing the above and fry in a pan with some olive oil. I think they're delicious right out of the refrigerator, which is preferable at work as microwaving them will leave a bit (not too strong but still noticeable) fishy smell.

You riding much this year? After riding out-and-backs for a decade (I live in the country), I discovered an 11 mile "loop" that's much more enjoyable to me, and so I'm consequently logging more miles than usual. My bike's odometer is approaching 900 miles already, and ~1,100 is my typical annual mileage.

[Plateauplower]

Getting rid of the skin and bones probably helps a lot with flavor and consistency (no bone chunks). Have not really been riding my bike at all. I’m on vacation until the 12th and might get a family ride in, but that won’t be much of a workout. I’ve put about 800 miles on my motorcycle I bought in June between commuting and stuff, but that doesn’t do much for cardio, although it does give me crazy step counts on Fitbit

[ectoBgone]

Quick update photo taken last week. My goal for summer cut was to get in the 8-10% body fat range and see how it holds up. I was hoping to be done by now but it has been an intentionally slow process. I'm just hovering around the 10% mark now I would say (photo lighting doesn't show it real well)



I was originally planning to start a gain cycle at the end of this mesocycle. I just finished a deload and have to travel for a week and I've decided that I am going to keep pushing the fat loss when I get back and see what I can pull off. Can't let the summer tan go to waste and next time I go on a gain cycle it could be a very prolonged one so I might as well push this further.

I have been following a 4 weeks on, 1 week deload training protocol. The week of my deload I also take a complete diet break and eat at maintenance. Even if it's a slower process, I have found it is incredibly sustainable. I feel like I could do it indefinitely because nothing is too hard to push through for 4 weeks. As I get lower in body fat, I may even change the cycle to three weeks on and one week off. I have no deadlines, so there is no rush. Sustainability is my primary goal. I feel like I'm retaining lean mass very well with this protocol, and most importantly, joints and tendons feel just as good as when on a gaining cycle. In the past when I tried to diet straight through to the end of a cut, I typically stopped short of my goals mostly due to connective tissue pain and fatigue. A combination of lower volume while maintaining intensity and diet breaks has been wonderful for me this time around.

[blue9steel]

Things have finally calmed down after moving to a new house and building a home gym. Lost 3.5lbs while on a 50 cal/day "surplus" (based on numbers from my last cut). New cut starting today, will last seven weeks, rough target is 1lb/week.

[tblodg15]

I was hoping to be done by now but it has been an intentionally slow process.

My cut also lasted longer than I had originally planned but there are advantages to going slow as you mentioned. For me I didn’t feel any loss of strength over a 3 1/2 month cut, or I should say no loss in the 8-12 rep range I was working in. I am sure I did lose some in the lower 1 to 5 rep ranges but that is irrelevant. I was able to progress weight, reps, and volume through the whole cut until just last week when I didn’t meet a couple rep goals. But I really think that was partly due to over reaching with my volume and doing too much to recover from instead of getting weaker due to the deficit (probably a combination of both factors).

Good luck as you finish this thing out. I ended mine yesterday but had been slowly raising calories and carbs over the last 5 weeks so even though I was still in a deficit it didn’t feel like it. This week is a deload for me after 5 weeks of pushing hard to end the cut. After the deload and eating at maintenance this week it is onto a slow gaining phase.

[tblodg15]

I ended my cut last week. My cut went from a high of 177 lbs to 164 so a loss of 13 lbs in almost 4 months. I think I gained a few pounds of LBM after the cut from the end of my initial cut almost a year ago. I took some progress pics and I made a post already but thought I would share one of my current pics in here.

[blue9steel]

Down 4.6lbs scale weight last week, most of that is just water weight though.