When being asked whether I was happy with the results so far.. I said: I'm quite satisfied, but frankly it's still more the process that interests me more plus the health. I don't care a damn whether I weigh X or Y kg. I want to have a certain bf% plus remain strong as hell or even get stronger than that! Right now I'm dropping water weight like crazy, got to stop that.. perhaps up carbs/protein a bit? Cut back on lifting volume?
Not sure.. it's the first time I'm aware of weighing about as much as when I was 21 (22 yrs ago). without being critically ill or cycling a gazillion K on end without food. So, it's all new to me.
There's a couple of weird things going on. The weirdest part is a raised metabolism while eating less, instead of seeing it drop down at the same rate. This must be entirely the result of switching back & forth between cutting down so much one day and then overfeeding by a bit and quite frequently overfeeding by a LOT the other day. Lyle just posted an abstract on what might be the reason, viz. increased catecholamine output.
But there are other weird things happening too, like bonking for the first time in I don't know how long.. I really nearly began shaking a couple of days ago when I waited a bit too long to get my postworkout protein meal in and then 'had' to wait for 2 more hours as I got a visitor and I normally don't eat in front of strangers. Kept it to protein as I knew that as soon as I'd give in to carbs I'd have eaten too much. It's either.. out of sight out of mind (so 0-500 kcal wouldn't be a big problem either if it's just 1 meal) or eat to heart's content (3000+ cal). Cutting down in meal frequency was the best thing I ever did!
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