15 hour fast

- donair, medium
- 1 avocado
- 1 tangelo
- 2 cup coffee, 1 cream

Felt very ****ty today. This flu doesn't wanna **** off.

I usually try to stuff some food down in these situations. Not sure if it's broscience from meemaw.

Yaaaaa, my strategy has been to just eat when hungry and not push any diet stuff. With the exception of yesterday I've been consistent with that. Also, I've heard the equally rigorous broscience advice of starving it out lol. Gonna try and eat a little bit more today.

22 hour fast

- 1 avocado
- 1 handful almonds
- 1 chocolate bar (is this how you increase calories?)
- 2 chicken breasts stir-fried with mixed veg
- 3/4 cup chicken salad
- 2 cups coffee, 1 cream

14 hour fast

- 1 3/4 cup chicken salad
- 1 tangelo
- 16 buffalo wings, baked, no breading
- 1 chocolate bar
- 2 cups coffee, 1 cream

Weigh-in: 197.2 (-1.0)

16 hour fast

- 1 avocado
- 1 tangelo
- medium side of roasted cauli
- 1 medium pork chop, pan-seared
- handful almonds
- 1.5 cup tuna, chick pea, kidney bean salad, with olive oil
- 2 cups coffee, 1 cream

7 pounds lost since the beginning of the log is

Great work!

Thanks a bunch! I've very happy to be out of the dreaded 200s.

Oh and after thinking about it a little I'm making an effort to up the protein a bit, as suggested.

16 hour fast

- 1 avocado
- 1 banana
- medium side of roasted cauli
- 3/4 of a 0.5" ribeye, pan-seared
- 1.5 cup tuna, chick pea, kidney bean salad, with olive oil
- ~10 olives
- 3 cups coffee, 2 cream

16 hour fast

- handful almonds
- 2 bananas
- small side of roasted cauli
- half of a 0.75" ribeye, pan-seared
- 1 cup tuna, chick pea, kidney bean salad, with olive oil
- ~10 olives
- cheese, small serving
- 2 cups coffee, 1 cream

I'm going to stop logging my food for now. It's starting to get annoying and it's having the same effect that calorie counting did in the past (albeit much less severe) of making me think about food all the time. I'm going to keep eating the same stuff.

I'm also still having that issue I mentioned a while back of getting super sleepy after my first meal of the day. It doesn't seem to matter what macro composition it is, nor if I have one big meal or several smaller snacks separated by a bit. So I'm going to try to "deload" the fasting down to 12/12 for a week or so and see if that helps.

Finally, I don't think I'm sick anymore, but I'm in a super stressful mode from being really behind in school and having to catch up with multiple assignments due this week and then tests and more assignments next week. Gym is on hold until Wednesday probably so I can spend Monday and Tuesday catching up on the lion's share of this work. Hopefully at that point I will finally be able to make some progress on the lifting with Christmas and illness interruptions behind me. Although at this point I'm only going to get 2.5 weeks of lifting in before my trip. But I guess it's better than nothing.

LBBS: 4x5x55
OHP: 3x5x55
DL: 1x5x89


I went to the doctor today cause I'm still getting lots of fatigue and I was getting worried about how long this has been lasting. She said the whole thing the last month has probably been some random viral infection that I need to wait out. She did say it was ok to do moderate-intensity exercise if I felt up to it. I did what I could today without overdoing it.

Diet is the same, maybe even eating a little less than usual. One cheat meal today of burger and fries, but that's almost all I ate so w/e.

Is it still conventional advice to have a protein shake pwo for recovery/gainz? Also, does it matter when you take creatine? I'm assuming I can just throw it in a pwo shake right?

Weigh-in: 198.6 (+1.4)

Pretty sure this is water weight due to womanly issues. Like I said previously I've been eating the same amount and type of food so I doubt I just gained weight. And apparently water retention is a thing, I've just never paid attention to it before.

Weigh-in: 195.6 (-3.0)

Water retention confirmed. lol womanaments. This virus is still an issue; I haven't been working out, just doing some foam rolling and stretching at home. Diet is the same and fasts are back to 16hr daily since I don't think that was making a difference with how I felt.

2/15 Weight: 195.6
2/24 Weight: 198.8
2/28 Weight: 197.2

LBBS: 3x5x55
OHP: 3x5x55
DL: 1x5x89

10lb med ball slams: 5x10


Snowboard trip is in the books and it was not kind to my weigh-in. I was pretty surprised when I got back because we didn't go crazy on food, I thought I was eating pretty similar to when I'm home. Hopefully most of it is water weight voodoo. But anyways, back on the grind.

Boarding was great, but I didn't get as many runs in as I wanted because I was still feeling ****ty from the virus. I did learn how to link turns so I consider the trip a success. Last year all I could do was falling-leaf down the hill. I just bought a new board to replace my 10yo craigslist board in anticipation for next season. I'm going to go more often and my SO and I are already planning a trip to a mountain instead of the dinky large hills that are local.

Isn't she beautiful.


Starting BJJ tomorrow...

1hr BJJ

Just got back from class and it was awesome. I couldn't stop grinning like an idiot during the drills. God damn it feels good to be back. I wasn't as terrible as I thought I was going to be. Muscle memory still there to a decent degree. I crashed halfway through the class and had to take a little breather. Then at the end I got in 1.5 rolls before I felt like I was gonna die and so I sat out the rest. Next class Monday.

It doesn’t really matter when you eat protein as long as it’s spread out throughout the day. And it doesn’t matter when you take creatine, and yeah you can put it in a shake although it doesn’t dissolve very well in milk (at least mine doesn’t)

Thanks for the info. I guess I won't bother lugging one to the gym with me and just use it to supplement protein as needed.

Second class done. We went over the various side control positions and practiced moving between them to maintain the position. I was paired up with this older blue belt. Dude went hard on everything in typical old guy fashion. He tapped me twice with an Americana when we did positional sparring with him in top side because I left my arm dangling. When we rolled I controlled everything and was able to pass his guard to side control and then mount. Time ran out as I was setting up an arm bar. After that I rolled with a purple belt woman and she was pretty tough. I was mostly on the defensive the whole time. I had a big weight advantage on her and was trying not to use it. She'll be a great training partner for me going forward.

Oh and I noticed a huge jump in my cardio from friday. I was able to do the whole class, which was much higher intensity than friday, without having to take a break. Very happy about that.

Weigh-in: 192.2 (-5.0)

Weigh in: 194.8 (+2.6)

Ate too much this week, plus some bloating. I let myself succumb to school stress again and I've been skipping the gym. Went to bjj tonight finally. 1hr class and I'm dead.

Weigh-in: 194.2 (-0.6)



****ty progress on the scale recently. I've dropped another belt loop so there's some progress going on I guess. I'm through with the super stressful school period, so no excuse to not hit the gym 3x per week minimum now. Not that school is a very good excuse to begin with.

1hr BJJ class Monday and tonight.

Weigh-in: 193.0 (-1.2)

1.5 hours bjj today.

Thursday:

LBBS: 3×5×55
OHP: 3×5×55
DL: 2×5×89

Med ball slams: 5×10×10, HIIT

Monday:

2 hours bjj. Cardio keeps improving . I was able to get in five 5-minute rolls, with breaks in between.

Today:

LBBS: 3×5×60
Bench: 3×5×65
Row: 3×5×67

Med ball slams: 5×10×10, HIIT