Yesterday: 2164/202

Morning Weight: 73.3

Today: 2306/190

FS
80x5x2
90x5

Press
50x5x3

Iso

Things still going pretty k.

Yesterday Weighin: 74.9

Diet: 2077/134

Seems likely that calories is much lower and protein much higher than indicated. I gave up on my attempts to decide what type of cut my pork shoulder most accurately represented and just took the worst looking one I could find. (Took ~250cal/17g protein per 100g, and then just took the cals for everything I dumped into the pot. Gonna end up being a vast overestimation, since I'm not going to consume all the sauce, and there is no universe this cut is as fat as I marked. So goes life tho. Eat delicious stew, lose more weight?)

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/...ne-recipe.html

If you can suffer through a lean cut of meat, basically everything else in the stew has very few calories (wine shockingly doesn't give sauces a bunch of calories when simmering for hours).

My family loves that stew and I made it for my sister and her husband when they were out a few weeks ago -- with the exception of the time it takes to butcher the meat (I try to remove the big veins of fat while cubing, but having the butcher remove the bone at the store saved a fair bit of time), it's trivially easy to make. My kids like it with sour cream because their taste buds are still young enough that the cayenne can make it a tad spicy, but otherwise no issues.

Re: macros, I've clocked that stew, made with 2.5 pounds of raw, fat trimmed pork shoulder, at around 240/8c/7f/24p per serving (8 servings total - I 2x everything else in the recipe as well, obviously). I used the "cooked pork shoulder - fat trimmed off" entry from Wegman's and just figured the cooked weight would be about 80% of the raw weight, and Bob's your uncle.

Weight: 74.3

In loco-hua-hua-ese, this would be my "true" weight to the best of my ability to guess whatever the **** that means. So pretty pleased about that. Realized I overestimated cals yesterday by ~100 or so. Apparently I went full ****** and added a fraction instead of subtracting it. Whatever.

FS
60x5x3

Bench
50x10x2
60x10x2
65x8

ISO

I was actually talking to someone yesterday about how EOD workouts were too much while on a cut. (I fall under the "active" listing as I'm doing 10k+ steps a day, and who knows whatever other jackassery. Much of it spend hauling whatever dumb stuff around, since I walk everywhere I don't take a cab, and I've basically stopped going anywhere that is no longer walking distance. Little 30min walk to the gym is nice warmup IMO. Way easier than the Monte plan of walking on a treadmill for compliance too. Just literally have to want to do anything other than stay at home.

However, I was like 10min away today, so I couldn't NOT go to the gym. As I'm getting old I realize I need to embrace my InnerEV more and not consider every single workout my last stand, but more like building something.

Additionally compliance with eating is kind of annoying, I probably could've stopped yesterday at 500 and just been mildly unhappy for the evening instead of eating another 1500 cals, but sadly I'm not obese so crash dieting is just gonna rek my overall goals. Some days you just don't wanna eat 300g of fibrous veggies, some carbs, and then some meat item. Is life.

Monte,

Nice. I rarely make pork stews so this is kind of a one off for me. (Well barring chili, which is technically a stew.) I'm making it for myself so I just went with a standard recipe with half the oil. I did trim a decent amount of fat while cubing the meat. All the pork shoulder here is deboned (what a nightmare doing that yourself on a 8+ lbs cut), and I actually wanted to make this:

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/...der-feast.html

Should be pretty trivial to make, since its basically letting it sit in the fridge, or the oven or who knows where.

I'll keep the macro notes in mind if I decide to revisit more complex stews while actually counting cals. (Prob could just refrain from getting a 2nd serving and eat reasonably around it and never worry about it. But why not sperg over minor details?)

Also, buying tomato juice means you can have bloody marys, which are a great low calorie beverage.

Re: each workout not being one's last stand, I'm starting to get to that point myself.

Re: the Monte plan, my gym is now a 10 minute walk away, so the scope has increased!

I made bloody marys for my sister and I with the unused tomato juice, funnily enough.

Bookmarked that Thai pork!

Couple Days ago: 3318/149

No weigh in yesterday.

Yesterday: 1685/153

Morning Weighin: 75.3

Had some weird tummy ache yesterday. Assume I have AIDS or something similar. Or I literally just gained 2lbs from binge eating pork and booze one day and then getting a tummy ache and not eat much the following day. (Used Monte macros for meal as well.)

Think I did ~3200 two days ago and then 1800 yesterday with low protein both days. (Oops!)

Weight:75

Workout Yesterday
Press
40x5
45x3
50x3
55x3
60x1

PC
50x3xc2
70x2x2

Decided to take some easy wins when not feeling 100%. Shoulder appears to work gooder than before and should be a couple months before back at full strength. Will attempt some more Oly work that is overhead soon.

Weight: 74

FS
70x5
80x5
90x5
100x1
90x5

Bench
50x8
60x8
65x5
67x8


Life k.

Weight: 75.6

Press
40x5
50x5
54x5
50x7

Snatch
BARx5x4

S Pull
50x4x2

FS
50x8x2

Was a little pressed for time, so focused on doing a bunch of lighter volume stuff. Took the last couple days off from diet to enjoy life. Ate a bunch of curry so super bloated today. Pretty happy with pressing progress. From a peek of my log it appears ~57.5 is about the max I got to for sets of 5 in recent time. And I was able to physically do a snatch, with a bar, without pain. Another substantial improvement over recent times. Weigh is still an enigma, I'm pretty sure due to both qualitative and quantitative measurements that I'm recomping, but I read on the internet forum that it is near impossible to happen, despite being reported in case studies all the time by people who change their diet and training (physique competitors) or come off from injuries or any other major change (stop being an alcoholic among those). But I'm sure that the tons of actual data by trained professionals and my own experience is totally useless compared to a bunch of bros on the internets, so I'm prob just fat(ter) and confused.

Weight: 74.6

Feel pretty terrible. Slept very poorly. Then realized I only got like 9500 steps yesterday. I was in a bit of a rush, so I probably didn't take my usual leisurely wandering steps and took more direct, longer strides. (Sadly I know "exactly" how many steps are for the usual places I go. So kinda easy to tell when I clock in low.)

Cals 2200/160+

Solid day. Had some breads and homemade curry. Had to juice the ol protein intake with some brotein powder. Unsure exactly why I slept poorly. Probably due to attempting Oly lifts and my body going into rebellion over the obvious fact it will injure me at some point in the future because I am old and lol Olytarding.

Oh. Waist measurement has steadily been trending down in addition to mirror flexing looking better, so assuming I don't go too HAM on random BBQ/drinks weekends, I should be pretty happy with this going into July (will take a few days off for BBQ/drinks tho). Unsure if <72 is on the horizon in the near future, which would be another 5 weeks at ~.5kg a week, but apparently I'm a huge dingus and that isn't holding true for me.

Yesterday Food: ~1900/170

Weight: 73.4

SGDL
60x5
80x3x3

FS
60x5
80x5x2


Bench
50x10x3

Meh.

Weight: 73.9

Cals: 1802/135

Couldn't bring myself to shove down another scoop of brotein powder and instead made a caprese salad. Always tomorrow.

2090/163

Weight: 73.8

FS
60x5
80x5
90x1x2
100x1
80x5

Press
40x5
50x3
55x1
60x1
65x1

PU
BWx8

Shoulder made a pop during the 65 attempt. Maybe this is my new reality of creaking bones on all lifts. No pain, so whatever. Seems I'm 2kg off my PR there. Magic prob.

Weight 73.3

Press
40x5x2
50x3
55x1
60x1
68xF

FS
60x5x3

ISO

Got a summertime cold, so went off diet for a few days and tried to channel some InnerEV to keep from crushing self in gym. Couldn't really make it work so atleast tried to limit the damage to a little bit of work. Maybe get another lift in this week before public holiday.

Weight: 74.5

Enjoyed a little time off. Super bloated today. Body is pretty rekt. Engaged in carrying a bunch of wood to a bonfire on the beach. Bad idea. Shoulders/upper back/abs have pretty serious DOMS a couple days later.

FS
60x5
70x5
80x5

Bench
40x10x3

ISO

Figured I should atleast physically go to the gym and do something in lieu of just sitting on my ass and eating more pizza. Hour of walking to/from probably just as useful as this embarrassing attempt at a "workout".

Upside: I don't think I have much travel till late August, so I should be able to buckle down, grind my diet and attempt to get my body is some position to attempt Olytarding at a non-child weight or probably just PR press randomly, since it seems that is gaining like 1-1.5kg a year regardless of what I do. Thanks old man strength. (weakness?)

Well, if you don't gain weight you seem to be on a trajectory to reach BW press sometime in the next 5-10 years, so that is something to look forward to I guess.

Weight: 73.7

Press
40x5
50x3
55x1
60x1
68x1 WR
53x7

Cleans
60x2
70x1x2
75x1x2

SGDL
75x3
85x3

ISO

Realized I was bleeding on the bar so pinned my SGDLs, then decided to try pull throughs which felt bad since I had no idea what I was doing and no desire to learn. So I just stopped that and did some curls and stuff and went home.

It's getting close, we are going to need video proof of this when it happens. To join a list that includes stalwarts like myself and G4S but does not include weaklings like fakeb and montecore, requires proof. No big deal, so many ways to video without showing your face.

I think the important lesson is to never bench. Both of those guys bench a lot, and I barely even do BW for more than a handful of reps a year.

Sadly I exercise for myself, and log to ridicule people on the internet to make myself feel better about my own personal shortcomings. So likely no video. Maybe if SmileyEH visits me again then he can tell you about how awesome it was to see my prodigious display of mediocrity.

Weight 74.9

FS
60x5
80x5
85x5x2

Bench
50x10
60x10
66.5x6

Clean + 3J
50x2

Clean
50x5
70x1

Ripped scab on leg and bled all over bar again. Shut it down.

ISO

Weight: 73.7

Body rekt so did throwaway workout

Press
40x5x2
50x3
55x1
60x1
69xF
60x4
55x4
50x4

PU
BW+15x1,3
BW+17.5x1
BW+20x1
BWx8

Isolation work!

Right calf has been bothering me. Prob walking on a bunch of cobblestones and ****ty sidewalks for 10k+ steps a day in flip flops. Who would've known footwear can affect lower body health?

Weight: 73.8

FS
60x5
80x1x2
90x1
94x1

Bench
50x8
60x8x2

ISO

Calf still bothering me.

Weight: 74.1

Press
40x5
50x3
57x1
62x1
69x1 WR

Snatch
40x5x5

FS
50x5
70x5

Focused on reaching for the bar ("punching up") which has always been a weak point when receiving for me. I just kinda expect that if I get it up there I'll magically hang onto it even when I don't aggressively get into a good receiving position. Maybe I finally figure it out and vaguely approach a WR or continue to be a dingus and struggle at loads 10-15kg below my PB. prob have absurd doms tomorrow tho from lol 40kg snatches smh. Should just kms.