Hi. My first post here. I'm having major trouble with my diet so I thought about consulting the experts.
I'm having a problem with my diet. Since childhood after around ~4 hours of eating lunch/dinner or equivalent I start feeling a sort of acidic pain and burning sensation in my tummy which gets neutralized after drinking water, just for like 5 to 15 minutes. Using this technique frequently will cause the pain to erupt every 2 minutes after which I have to eat to neutralize it. Then again it starts off after 4 to 5 hours. Condition is such that I've never felt 'hungry' cause of this pain... I've never got a chance. The pain is not acute and bearable. It's very periodic, it'll come for a few seconds then go away for 10 to 15 seconds or minutes. Ignoring the pain will increase it.
Almost all my childhood I had been overweight. However at the age of 18 I got determined and lost 14 KGs (31 lb) in one month to reach 72 kg by ignoring the pain. The method I employed was extreme starving, but the problem persisted even after.
The major consequence of this technique was low hemoglobin levels (it was not abnormally low but it was comparatively very low to what it was before).
Soon after I joined the gym and till date, after 3 years (right now I'm 21 and have not left the gym) I've been living under a diet for 80% of the time and if I don't my fat content increases dramatically. When I say a 'diet' my goal is to eat minimum possible and low calorie food. The only time I ate energitic food at sufficient quantity was 1.5 hours before going to the gym.
However over time the starving technique eventually failed to reduce my weight, possibly cause I was gaining muscle mass.. which was ok; so I kept on increasing my 'normal' wight limit and now it's 78 kg (172 lb). Getting below this weight is virtually impossible, but by my estimates I'm ~3 kgs overweight even at this weight (by the way I look).
Another major drawback of this starving technique is lower performance and improvements in the gym. If I leave the diet, the performance gains and improvements are dramatic. Thus for the last month I had left the diet and my weight plummeted from 78 kgs (172 lbs) to 85 kgs (187.4 lbs). I've grown comparatively fatter, but not considered 'fat' by normal people as they used to before I was 18 (when I was still 85 kg)... this is possibly cause of muscle gain which I estimate to be 7 to 8 kgs.
So I've been feeding excessively cause of this 'pain' in my tummy and ultimately even the excessive muscle were not able to consume that much energy as a result I gained on weight.
Some more info -
I'm doing strength training with 8, 6, 4 reps and 3 to 4 sets.
I can give you estimates of my current level with the weight that I use for a few exercises -
Bench press using 60 kgs (132.3 lb) + rod weighing ~15 kgs
Dumbbell press -- 31.75 kg (70 lb)
Rowing machine -- ~50 kgs (110.2 lb)
One arm dumbbell row -- 31.75 kg (70 lb)
Preacher curls -- 7 plates
Hammer -- 24 lb (11 kgs)
Triceps push down -- 35, 40, 40 kgs
Triceps extension -- 30 kgs (66.14 lb)
Lateral Raise -- 20 ,24, 24 lb (~11 kgs)
I don't do legs and goto the gym on average 5 times a week.
I don't have much time for cardio; no supplements or steroids. And yes -- I'm a male, 5'8''
Mostly I don't do any other physical activity the rest of the day, but lot of brain work.
Thanks.
I'm having a problem with my diet. Since childhood after around ~4 hours of eating lunch/dinner or equivalent I start feeling a sort of acidic pain and burning sensation in my tummy which gets neutralized after drinking water, just for like 5 to 15 minutes. Using this technique frequently will cause the pain to erupt every 2 minutes after which I have to eat to neutralize it. Then again it starts off after 4 to 5 hours. Condition is such that I've never felt 'hungry' cause of this pain... I've never got a chance. The pain is not acute and bearable. It's very periodic, it'll come for a few seconds then go away for 10 to 15 seconds or minutes. Ignoring the pain will increase it.
Almost all my childhood I had been overweight. However at the age of 18 I got determined and lost 14 KGs (31 lb) in one month to reach 72 kg by ignoring the pain. The method I employed was extreme starving, but the problem persisted even after.
The major consequence of this technique was low hemoglobin levels (it was not abnormally low but it was comparatively very low to what it was before).
Soon after I joined the gym and till date, after 3 years (right now I'm 21 and have not left the gym) I've been living under a diet for 80% of the time and if I don't my fat content increases dramatically. When I say a 'diet' my goal is to eat minimum possible and low calorie food. The only time I ate energitic food at sufficient quantity was 1.5 hours before going to the gym.
However over time the starving technique eventually failed to reduce my weight, possibly cause I was gaining muscle mass.. which was ok; so I kept on increasing my 'normal' wight limit and now it's 78 kg (172 lb). Getting below this weight is virtually impossible, but by my estimates I'm ~3 kgs overweight even at this weight (by the way I look).
Another major drawback of this starving technique is lower performance and improvements in the gym. If I leave the diet, the performance gains and improvements are dramatic. Thus for the last month I had left the diet and my weight plummeted from 78 kgs (172 lbs) to 85 kgs (187.4 lbs). I've grown comparatively fatter, but not considered 'fat' by normal people as they used to before I was 18 (when I was still 85 kg)... this is possibly cause of muscle gain which I estimate to be 7 to 8 kgs.
So I've been feeding excessively cause of this 'pain' in my tummy and ultimately even the excessive muscle were not able to consume that much energy as a result I gained on weight.
Some more info -
I'm doing strength training with 8, 6, 4 reps and 3 to 4 sets.
I can give you estimates of my current level with the weight that I use for a few exercises -
Bench press using 60 kgs (132.3 lb) + rod weighing ~15 kgs
Dumbbell press -- 31.75 kg (70 lb)
Rowing machine -- ~50 kgs (110.2 lb)
One arm dumbbell row -- 31.75 kg (70 lb)
Preacher curls -- 7 plates
Hammer -- 24 lb (11 kgs)
Triceps push down -- 35, 40, 40 kgs
Triceps extension -- 30 kgs (66.14 lb)
Lateral Raise -- 20 ,24, 24 lb (~11 kgs)
I don't do legs and goto the gym on average 5 times a week.
I don't have much time for cardio; no supplements or steroids. And yes -- I'm a male, 5'8''
Mostly I don't do any other physical activity the rest of the day, but lot of brain work.
Thanks.
