So four or five years ago my weight peaked at 245. I had a log here and over the course of about 9 or 10 months I cut down to 170. I bounced back up to 180 pretty quickly, stayed there for a little while, and then have slowly been inching up ever since. I've put on about 10 pounds this year to get up to 210 currently, and so it's time to seriously cut again and get back to 180 or so. Goal is to do 5 pounds a month, so initial goal is 195 by Christmas.

I've also been banged up a bunch this summer, separated my shoulder playing kickball at the beginning of it, then pulled my quad a month or so after that and kept reinjuring it every time I played kickball again, so I've barely been at the gym the last few months. Pretty much all I've done is a bit of short jogs a few times a week, nothing too major, just up to 3 miles or so.

So my plan is to run Greyskull LP to get back into it, liked that better than SS. Going to start out with a W/F/Su schedule for now. And I also plan on logging my calories in here. Not planning on doing anything too drastic, slow and steady worked for me last time. So anyways, here's today.

Breakfast:

Protein Powder, 50g: 200 calories
Banana: 100 calories

Total: 300 calories

Lunch:

Tortilla, 2: 400 calories
Refried beans, ~1/2 can: 200 calories
Cheese, not sure, forgot to weigh it: ~200 calories
Oil, ?: 100 calories
Salsa, ?: 30 calories

Total: 930

Dinner:

Salmon, 272 grams: 566 calories
Broccoli, 1 crown: 50 calories
Oil, ?: 100 calories

Total: 716

Total calories for 9/26: 1946

Good luck

I've heard good things about GSLP, and I think I've read some other logs on here where people did that. I personally am doing SS right now and am about a month in. Logging stuff on here is very helpful, or has been for me at least.

9/27

Shake + banana: 300

Hot dogs x 2: 440
Tortilla: 200
Apple: 100

Shrimp: 360
Brussels sprouts: 70
Oil: 200
Beer: 195

Total: 1865

Weight: 207.4

welcome back

An injury like the quad pull can be a real bitch, I tore a calf muscle and reinjured it at least 3 times before it finally healed.

Good luck!

I'm hoping I'm over it. I never got it diagnosed or anything, but just every time I played kickball my very first at bat I'd reinjure it (which just killed my batting average). Then I'd limp around the rest of the day, it would be sore the next day, I'd try to go for a run maybe the day after that and it had about 50% of the range of motion of my left leg when I tried to stretch beforehand. It would progressively get better to the point where I'd say hey, maybe this week I won't hurt it again, but for about a month/month and a half the cycle would continue. But it's been about a month since it last happened, so hopefully I'm past it now.

But yeah, I'm definitely super untrained at the moment. I used to be able to get an inch or two above the rim at my lightest, could get just about to the rim when I was around 180-190. But I played ball last night for the first time since the spring and was a good 5 or 6 inches below the rim. Fatter and weak is a bad combination.

Today:

Press: 2x5x105, 9x105
Squat: 2x5x185, 9x185
V-Bar Pulldowns: 3x10x90
Run: 1.75 miles

Protein, 50g: 200
Cereal, 47g: 188
Milk: 27

Buffalo Ranch McChicken, 2: 700

Bean Quesadilla, 7/8: 814
Beer, 1.5: 300

Total: 2229

So started with some light ass weights, glad I did, because I didn't exactly crush them. But 9 reps seems like a good starting point, hopefully I'll make quick progress. Had a friend stop by right when I got back from my run at 8:30, so didn't really have time to make a proper dinner with actual vegetables. She had one little slice, I ate the rest, then we split a second beer, hence the fractions in the calorie counts. Might eat an apple in a few minutes just to feel like less of a slob

Oh yeah, weighed in at 207.2 this morning

Today:

Protein: 200
Peanut Butter: 220

Lentils: 230
Apple: 100
Tortilla Chips: 210
Salsa: 50

80/20 Beef, 200g: 500
Bun: 140
Cheese: 70
Tomato: 50
Lite Thousand Islands: 80

Asparagus: 20
Aioli: 100
Oil for this/frying burger: 200

Total: 2170

Was planning on having some free pizza after my kickball game tonight, but everyone else bailed, lame. Made a burger instead since I had a bunch of calories to play with. Just sort of eyeballed the cals for all the dressings/oil again, tried to err on the high side. Probably should cut back a little on those, but they taste so good.

Yesterday:

Bun: 140
Beef: 500
1000 Island: 80
Banana: 100

Nachos: 500

Pot stickers: 600
Banana: 100

Total: 2020

Today:

Pastry: 500?
Apple cider: 200?

Pot stickers: 550

Dinner: tbd

Bench: 5x155, 5x135, 12x135
Deadlift: 9x315

So clearly I've not been about clean eating these past few days. Had a Bumble coffee date at 10:30 this morning, except I don't really drink coffee. It's so weird meeting a stranger when the sun isn't setting, I don't get morning people. Anyways, just estimated what I ordered there. Gonna try and fit some veggies into my dinner tonight, like a real dieter. The cabbage in the pot stickers I made last night and ate more of for lunch aren't cutting it I don't think.

Also, weak as ****. Was planning on hitting 155 on the bench, but did one set and realized that they were too hard to be my week one starting weight. So went down to a single solitary plate on each side, 12 should give me plenty of room to grow from there.

Dinner:

Pasta w/peas, bacon: 600

Late night snack:

PBJ: 465

Total: 2315

I weighed out the pasta, it was 600 calories. I ate somewhere around 2/3 of it, plus whatever calories I'm getting from some peas, bacon, and oil. Probably should have skipped the PBJ just now, but I'm going to be up for a little while and I'm starving, YOLO.

Today:

Protein/banana: 300

Hot dogs: 440
Tortilla: 200
Condiments: 50

Pot stickers: 500
Apple: 100

Vodka: 150?

Total: 1740

Today:

Yogurt: 150
Pineapple: 70

PBJ: 480
Protein: 200
Banana: 100

McChicken x2: 700
Apple: 80

Total: 1780

Weight: 206.4

Gotta get to the gym tomorrow for sure. Played some basketball tonight, poorly.

Today:

Press: 2x5x107.5, 9x107.5
Squat: 2x5x190, 9x190

I made a bread this morning and pretty just ate the entire loaf today along with some butter, tuna, and an apple. Oh yeah, and a beer. **** your protein. Came out to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.2k. Also weighed in at 204.8 this morning.

Yesterday:

Bench: 10x140
Deadlift: 9x320

McChicken x2: 700
Fries: 340

Salmon, .4 pounds: 500
Asparagus: 50
Mayo: 200

Total: 1790

Again, not optimal diet selection, but kept the calories down. Free fries at McDonalds, who could turn it down?Weighed in at 207 this morning though

Saturday:

Made a bread. It was delicious. Ate the whole bread. It was probably about 1500 calories. Made a BLT for lunch, the rest had some butter. Then made a quesadilla for dinner. Probably somewhere around 2500 for the day. Not great Bob.

Yesterday:

Shake/banana: 300

PBJ: 500

Bean Quesadilla: 1000
Avocado: 320
Yogurt: 210

2367

Have to stop just making a quesadilla when I have nothing ready to eat, they're murdering my diet. Also lifted.

Press: 9x110
Squat: 9x195

Ran out of time, so that was it. Weird issue with the squat, pretty much every set the left side of my groin goes almost numb immediately afterwards. So I'll limp over to get a drink of water, sit down for a couple minutes, then it's back to normal and I'm able to walk normally and squat again. The only set where that didn't happen was ironically the last one, despite the extra reps, easily the best set of the day. Probably left a rep or two in the tank as well.

Oh yeah, weighed in at 207 this morning

Today:

Shake/banana: 300

Pasta/bacon/peas, 280g: 500

Short rib, ~8 ounces: 600?
Broccoli: 75
Bread/butter: 310

Total: 1785

Proud of myself, made a bread and only had one slice for dinner. Didn't wake up until noon, so I'll probably be up late, might tack on an apple late night if I get hungry, we'll see

Been slacking with the logging on here. I have yesterdays stuff written down, let's see what else I can remember:

Tuesday:

Shake: 300
Pancakes: 900?

Bacon Grilled cheese: 750?
Apple: 100

Was planning on just having a shake for breakfast, but then a friend of mine called me up and wanted to grab breakfast, so ended up having some pancakes. Just sort of guessing at the calories, three pancakes at 300 cals a piece once you include syrup? Skipped lunch after that, just had a simple bacon grilled cheese for dinner, which I can't remember how much it was, so thinking 100 for the bacon, 140 for the cheese, 400 for the bread, and then round up to 750 when you include the bacon grease it was fried in?

Weds:

Shake: 300

Bread: 410
Tuna: 160
Mayo: 260
Butter: 60

Short rub: 600
Beer: 195

Total: 1985

This is all accurate, still had that written down

Today:

McChicken x2: 720

Bench: 11x142.5
Deadlift: 9x325
Pulldowns: 3x10x100

Woke up late, did a little work, then went to the gym to make sure I got it in today before something came up. Meant to do it yesterday, but got busy last night and didn't. Hit McDonalds beforehand to fuel up before deadlifting since I didn't have anything, they got rid of the Buffalo Ranch McChicken. Outrageous. Also read somewhere that on GSLP you're supposed to actually microload the upper body lifts from the start. So did that, felt way better than last bench session.

Weight: 204.2

Today:

Press: 10x112.5
Squat: 8x200
Curls

Thurs came in at 1830 after having a quesadilla for dinner, an apple, and then some pepperoni I had sitting around for a late night snack. Friday I logged at 1720 with a shake and yogurt for breakfast, tortilla/two hotdogs for lunch, and a chicken leg and some asparagus for dinner. Yesterday had some yogurt with protein mixed in for breakfast, left over short rib for lunch. Call that 1045. Had some chips and guac while watching football and then three slices of homemade pizza, plus a couple beers. Not sure how to log it. Then today, went out to lunch and had a reuben and some fries for lunch, then finished up the guac and some more chips while watching football again, then had a birthday dinner of a sirloin roast, mashed potatoes, a slice of bread/butter, sauteed veggies, and then a slice of cake. Again, not even going to try to log that. Weighed in at 203.6 Friday and I think 204 yesterday, so we'll see how much damage the weekend did tomorrow morning.

Have been eating a bunch this week, not good. Would have been ok each day except I had birthday cake to eat, and then I went out and had dinner/dessert/alcohol last night. I guess the dinner was fine actually, it was a pretty simple BLT with a cucumber salad on the side, but then tacked on a cheescake to the end plus a bunch of cider. Not going to list everything, but we'll say 2800 Monday, 2825 Tuesday, and 3100 today. The good news is the cake was getting stale so I had a giant piece tonight, logged it as 1000, but I'm done.

Worked out today though, so that's good.

Deadlift: 9x330
Bench: 11x145
Pulldowns: 3x10x110

Thurdsay:

Yogurt: 220
Protein: 100

Steak: 500
Apple: 100

Salmon: 500
Asparagus+Tomato+ oil: 200

Yogurt: 220

Total: 1840

Yesterday:

Bacon: 100
Bread: 140
Pesto: 300
Bacon Grease: 200
Tomatoes: 70

Pasta: 700

Beer: 360
Total: 2190

Squat: 9x205
Press: 9x115

Today:

Yogurt: 270
Protein: 100

Bean Quesadilla: 700
Oil: 136
Guac: 200

Weighed in at 203.8 this morning

So I've been lifting, not really tracking my calories. Last two workouts:

Friday:

Bench: 11x150
Deadlift: 8x340

Today:

Press: 9x120
Squat: 8x210

Pretty much been bouncing around 205 weight wise

Today:

Bench: 10x152.5
Deadlift: 8x345

Friday:

Press: 8x122.5
Squat: 9x215

Today:

Bench: 11x155
Deadlift: 8x355

Looks like I added an extra five pounds to the deadlift, whoops. I think the Friday stuff is correct, but I might have added an extra rep to each set, not 100% sure. Should have updated it then. Dieting is completely off the rails at this point, should probably get back on that, but I like food too much

Today:

Press: 8x125
Squat: 9x220

Today:

Bench: 12x157.5
Deadlift: 8x360

Grandmother died Monday, so I've been a little busy all week with family stuff, finally got back in the gym today. Coming along nicely, been adding reps to the bench the last few sessions