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Re: 84 Days...T Contest Log
You gonna do just fine. Just stick to your program(s) and speak your mind when you need to. Everybody on here is pulling for you.
And keep in mind the member ship here is really big. But only a handful of peeps took on the challenge. Gee I wonder why
Answer; Its fuckin tuff and everybody knows this! Thats why chika. And you are one of the few that did!
That says something right there!
Now go workout!
Baby youre not alone we all have these.I'm a little discouraged this morning. It is the 4 week mark so I did my weigh in and measurements and I thought there'd be more changes. My weight hasn't changed and I'm down about 1.5 inches in the waist and 1 inch on my quads but that's it.
I really am not surprized at the scale. The scale is ok for dieters but not a good indicator at all for a recomp. This is because muscle weighs more then fat. In fact there are times in a recomp that an individual may even see weight go up becasue of that fact. Remember chika recomp is just that. Replacing fat with muscle, so dont let that scale get you down baby. Better to pay attention to how your clothes fit you believe it or not. And even there you may find that your clothes get tight in new places but loose in your problem areas. Really the very best means of getting a good indication is to get a BF measurement done. The AccuMeasure is pretty cheap. Here in the US under $20.00. Its easy to use and pretty dam accurate too.
I feel like things are slowly changing and I've had a couple comments so maybe my body is recomping more then just losing weight. And thats the important thing here right?
I have wondered if the higher fat content in the diet is really working for me or against me. I've only done one similar diet, which was more of a straight keto. I had the initial water weight drop but didn't see the success that others see with it. I will be emailing my coaches, Zed and Rick, and see what they think.
RickO for sure on this one my gurl. I do know that a lot of the diet gurus do put peeps on hight fat to loose fat, only cuz I have read and studied the logs.
The calorie count was set at 2250 and I've been averaging 2000. It is supposed to drop next week for 2 weeks but keeping the macros the same. Is it possible that you were too low? Ask RickO on this plz.
I'm, by far, the oldest in the contest and from what I can tell, the only one, thus far, who is not juicing.
Age does make a difference, thats for sure. But I still believe that you can and will make a significant diff in how you look and feel in this recomp.
I bought a few things from Gentleman's Club but outside of T3, I haven't started anything. I'm not against aas as I've done a couple small cycles in the past. I suppose I'm having a hard time getting my head around building more muscle when I'm so heavy to start with.
But see chika, its ok to build the muscle cuz that very same muscle is gonna help to burn off that unwanted fat. The more muscle that your body supports the more cals you gonna burn off supporting that added muscle. Thats why N2 gave you the specific cycle that he did. The primo will promote lean slow keepable mass gains. Its not gonna be much but it is gonna help considerably to increase your cal burn.
The exact same thing with the NPP, plus its gonna be some good therapy for your joints and your program.
In the past, when I've tried cutting and bulking simultaneously, the bulk always wins and it becomes where I sit now.
I understand your concern. But chika youre not bulking here. Bulking is so much more diet then what RickO has set up for you.
Plz dont confuse adding "some" muscle mass with bulking, its not the same thing by any stretch.
I believe that what N2 has set you up for as I said above is to add "some" lean mass. This in turn is gonna help in reving up your cal burn cuz muscle burns more cals then fat does. Then add in what RickO has set up for you. The beauty of the diet is the most simple part. You are now eating 5-6 times per day. This alone is gonna rev up your metabolism. The reason is that now youre eating all of these small meals instead of 1,2 or 3 times per day but heavier and more cal dense meals.
So what you are doing is actually feeding your metabolism instead of you appetite if that makes sense to you.
It probably just comes down to being patient!
Yeah and that aint easy either chika!
Which is not always one of my virtues. I need to come back to why I wanted to do this in the first place, which was a "fun" way to drop some fat and get back on the wagon, so to speak, in terms of consistency, in diet and training.
And thats a gr8 way to look at it too.
Win or lose, I wanted to better myself and gain that confidence and motivation that I had lost last year. I just feel really discouraged this morning and needed to vent!
Vent on my gurl vent on! LOL
It's a cross roads for me. If I quit now, which believe me, I felt like saying "f#$# it" this morning....I know I'll be miserable! So...I already know that is not an option.
Good that you now know this fosho. I already did...knowing you!
I have to do the mental regroup, shed a frustration tear in the shower this morning and move on.
Thanks for reading my rant of the morning!! In the bigger picture, if this is the worst of my problems, it's really not that bad. It's just that few moments of WTF when things don't "measure up" the way I'd hoped.
You gonna do just fine. Just stick to your program(s) and speak your mind when you need to. Everybody on here is pulling for you.
And keep in mind the member ship here is really big. But only a handful of peeps took on the challenge. Gee I wonder why
Answer; Its fuckin tuff and everybody knows this! Thats why chika. And you are one of the few that did!
That says something right there!
Now go workout!
