what? You didn't actually eat 1/2 pound of chicken feet? It was legs/drumsticks?
Wow, I absolutely assumed that you actually meant feet. I grew up in the deep south where nothing was wasted and I've seen people eat some crazy things. Chicken legs sounds a lot more appetizing!
I forgot my scale at home so the meals at work I had to eye ball some stuff (I DID have a measuring cup).. But I erred on the side of caution, weight-wise (I gave more weight than there probably was for each item).
I should take a camera and see how low I'm going with my working sets.. I have a feeling it's not as low as I could/should be going..
I go low enough on my warm-up and backdown sets..
Maybe I SHOULD try box squats..
BENCH PRESS
BARx5
95x4
145x3
165x3
185x2
205x5x3
165x5
Well, my last 2 reps weren't as ugly as last week, but still nothing to be proud of..
It was suggested even though I'm eating at a deficit I SHOULD try to do resets with my stalled lifts.. So next time I'll take it down 30-40 lbs and work my way back up..
CHIN UPS
10 lbs. x 10, 7, 6
FRONT AND SIDE PLANKS
1 min (alternating leg raises), 30 seconds on sides..
Hmmmmm.... I may be wrong but your scale stalls seem to have more to do with extra calories sneaking in (more days off than on) than to any other possible thing (such as your body adapting to your workout)
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If you want to raise carb numbers you could always add things like beans, lentils, sweet potatoes and hard squashes.
Good idea!
I'll make some butternut squash soup.. Get some more green peas, black beans....
Forgot they were up there, carb-wise..
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Hmmmmm.... I may be wrong but your scale stalls seem to have more to do with extra calories sneaking in (more days off than on) than to any other possible thing (such as your body adapting to your workout)
Could be..
I'm trying to get better at pre-planning the meals..
But hose latest slip ups have been the exception..
There was a good 3 weeks where I was pretty adherent to 2700 cals..
Yeah... It is alarming that you can screw up an entire week of compliance in one day if you are careless enough about things. Also... until you do get this compliance thing down all the details really don't matter. Cals in first and foremost...
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Yeah... It is alarming that you can screw up an entire week of compliance in one day if you are careless enough about things.
Pisses me off, and I swear it'll never happen again, and then I do it AGAIN a couple days after THAT..
What'll happen is I'll get behind on entering things on fitday, and I'll get to dinner thinking I have plenty of room left, and that I'll have enough for a bedtime snack of cottage cheese and peanut butter, even..
But more often than not, I'll overshoot on said dinner, and I'll be starving at 10:30 at night, drinking hot tea and hoping I'll fall asleep before it wears off.. All the time muttering "never again, never again".. LOL
GOT to just sit down whenever I can early in the day and just map the whole day out so there's no guess work..
Not trying to beat the dead horse but I came here because of all your freaking out and switching things up in the nutrition forum. All because the scale isn't moving for you. Just suggesting that this is where the big effort needs to be put in your case. Not on macro management and that other stuff. It's good that you are learning the other stuff as it will all help you and come together but this one has to be first thing you master.
I did find that getting my protein levels up and making sure I get good fiber in helps me to not be as hungry btw... You might try experiementing with eating less or more meals, trying different foods, etc to see if something you do helps you with overshooting overall cals.
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The scale IS moving again for me (finger's crossed!!!).
But I WILL be getting a handle on it from now on..
Like I say, the problem isn't cravings or anything, just the lack of foresight on my part, and eating meals that are too high on calories at one sitting..
Need to space the cals out a bit so I have enough left for a bedtime snack..
Not sure how much oil I ate.. I coated the pan with 1/3 of a cup, but just the stuff in contact with the squash got soaked up.. I left the rest in the pan, of course.. Well, I'll say a tbsp went into my portion (300g out of a total of 1.9kg), and that should be close enough..
Yup, asked a guy to watch my working sets, and I'm above parallel on them..
So I'm going to take it back to 215 (I know I'm getting good depth on these) and work up from there..
I'd rather do good light ones than crappy heavy ones.
Good for you. Thats a lesson I'm in the process of learning as well. I use my saw horses as a depth gauge. But, even with that I find that I still can cheat a bit if I bend more at the waist...so, I'm learning to keep more upright in the torso so that I'm at a good depth.
Oh, I wish I'd have had the forethought to take photos. Hell, I ran from cameras! I don't have any pictures of me when I was within 20;bs of my max weight.
Yes! If you're having trouble seeing it its because you're not able to be very objective about your own body and your own progress. But, from an outside objective observation there are big differences.
Don't go to t-nation and bodybuilding.com and posting your photos just yet! But, yes there is very obvious improvement!
I concur with Chad. I see significant improvements. Have you taken a tape measure to your waist and chest yet (there's no way you're still 41")? If not, do it and post the results. Also, I'll bet if you PM your pics to Leigh, she'd give you an estimate of BF%.
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