Journey, Not A Destination

photocrazed said:
Steve,

Have fun in AC. I went back in December with a few friends and went to my first club ever. We hit the Casbah in the Taj Mahal. It was AWESOME! It was great for my first clubbing experience.
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Thanks!

It was a great trip. Lost lots of money, but other than that, I had a blast! Details? None really. Lots of cheating on my diet, lots of drinking, and lots of good memories.

I am still trying to catch up on sleep.
 
maleficent said:
Welcome back - hope you and the boys had lots of fun... broke even at the very least and a good time was had by all :D
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Didn't break even but it was worth it!

Thanks Mal :D
 
Steve said:
I am still trying to catch up on sleep.
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I know what you mean. From Thursday morning at 8am to Sunday Night at 11pm, I had a total of 9 hrs sleep. I mostly went to bed around 8am and slept to 11am or 12pm and that was only 2 nights. I didn't go to bed at all the night before we drove back home. It was rough, because I was driving. :eek:
 
So sorry, don't know how I missed this.
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No worries!! thanks again!

I would plug your numbers into fit day, but quite frankly, I don't have the time at the moment. Have you done so? If so, what is the caloric and macronutrient breakdown?
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Yes, I log my calories daily and generally shoot for 40/30/30 (P/C/F) but sometimes it is higher w/ carbs...

You say you are eating 1400 calories per day. That is roughly 10 cals per pound of bodyweight. Truthfully, I don't have an issue with that. I am surprised that you are not experiencing weight loss. But, it really depends on how long you have been at it. If it has been some time, then it is understandable how the survival mechanisms have kicked in.
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Yes, it has been some time...as i really started focusing on losing weight Dec 2005, eating 1200 cals/day and then June 2006 is when my body decided enough was enough :(

I would like to see you cycle back up toward your maintenance caloric intake. Somthing like:

Week 1: 1550
Week 2: 1700
Week 3: 1900
Week 4: 2100cals

If you are experiencing a lot of weight gain, then knock the increments to 2 week intervals instead of one, where it would look something like this:

Week 1: 1550
Week 2: 1550
Week 3: 1700
Week 4: 1700
Week 5: 1900
Week 6: 1900
Week 7: 2100
Week 8: 2100cals
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I tried to do this in the past and i kept gaining weight....i stopped at 1800 cals/day and stayed there for 6 weeks and gained a total of 8-10 lbs (depending on the day). I'm not too keen to try this again as that will put me back to my starting weight of 160 from DEC 2005?! Is this the only way I am going to be able to lose as it didnt work before? :confused:

I'd like to recommend you accomplish this by carb cycling while maintaining your protein and fat intake. Thus, as you cycle your carbs, your calories will too cycle. Make sense?

This does a few things. One, it will keep your body guessing. Leptin is a crazy hormone, in regards to its control on your weight loss as you near setpoint weight and below. This goes back to the science of "why" weight loss becomes more tricky.

There are many ways to cycle your carbs/cals. One way that I like is making carb/cals high on resistance training days. Have medium days on your cardio days. Make the non-training days your low days.
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yes, makes total sense, I will try the carb cycling on my resistance days as you say.

Does this make sense? I am leaving a lot of details out, as I am rushed for time at the moment, but this is a good starting point for discussion purposes.
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Yes, makes sense, however, I'm very weary about inc my cal intake so much as previously done and I just kept gaining :( :confused:

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!
 
Steve I just realized you're down in Philly. I visit South Jersey often since most of my old friends are down there. Next time I head that way, Im gonna have to give you a shout.
 
Page 4???

:taps foot::
Someone's been neglecting their diary...
Unacceptable
Someone doesn't realize they have groupies...
Someone has been busy but a simple hello wouldn't kil someone ya know.. :D

::it scares the crap out of me when I channel my mother::

Happy Valentines Day -- Do all sorts of good things for your heart today :D
 
skyler said:
Yes, I log my calories daily and generally shoot for 40/30/30 (P/C/F) but sometimes it is higher w/ carbs...
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I much rather prefer tracking macros with grams opposed to percentages. I wrote another post about this, let me dig it up and copy it here so you better understand.

Before I get into specifics with someone, I like to make sure they have their calories figured out first. That is the driving factor behind all of your goals. For general purposes, maintenance caloric intake is 15 calories per pound of body weight. From this, I like to start with a deficit of roughly 15%.

My diet is majority carbs. I think any diet for the average person, leaving out goal dependencies, should worry about calories first and foremost, then protein requirements, then EFAs. Once they are accounted for, it is fair game to toy around with the remaining macronutrients required to fulfill your energy requirements.

For instance, if I need 3500 calories to maintain, that is the number I will shoot for.

I like to have 1 - 1.5 gm of protein for each pound that I weigh. Right now that would be 195. There are 4 calories in each gram of protein, which equals out to be 975 calories (using 1.25 grams/lb). If you are not weight training, these requirements would be lower. If you are dieting with a caloric deficit, protein requirements actually increase.

Then I worry about my fats. I like to have somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-100 grams as a minimum. Of this, I keep it to the healthy side of things with monounsaturateds (olive oil), certain polyunsaturateds (omega-6/9s, stuff like flax oil, borage oil, etc), and a source of omega-3s (fish oil caps, or a serving of omega-3 rich fish like salmon). Let's say from this, I take in 100 grams of fat. There are 9 calories per gram of fat, leaving us with 900 calories here.

That gives us a total of 1875 calories, while I am shooting for 3500! I need 1625 more. This is where I add my carbs and I toy around with the other macronutrients too. As an average, I would say 200 grams of carbs is a good number for an active individual. I have gone much higher myself. At any rate, once you calculate your proteins and fats, you fill the deficit needed to reach your caloric goal with a mixture of the 3. I tend to keep protein pretty stable at 1 - 1.5g per lb.

It tends to be very personal and goal dependent from this point forward. If you were going to be doing a lot of frequent cycling, I would load up on carbs, especially close to your workouts/cycles. Active people can benefit from carbs, although there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate, there are only essential amino acids and essential fats.



skyler said:
Yes, it has been some time...as i really started focusing on losing weight Dec 2005, eating 1200 cals/day and then June 2006 is when my body decided enough was enough :(
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Happens to anyone who chronically under-eats. Even when someone institutes a "healthy" deficit calorically speaking, give it enough time and the body will adapt and weight loss will slow to a point where you don't even notice change. Institute something beyond your normal 10-20% deficit, the faster this will happen. Name of the game.



skyler said:
I tried to do this in the past and i kept gaining weight....i stopped at 1800 cals/day and stayed there for 6 weeks and gained a total of 8-10 lbs (depending on the day). I'm not too keen to try this again as that will put me back to my starting weight of 160 from DEC 2005?! Is this the only way I am going to be able to lose as it didnt work before? :confused:
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How controlled were you? What incremental steps ups in consumption did you use? What increments in time between each ramp up? Were you doing the same type of exercise during this time? There is a way to go about it where weight gain will be minimal if any.

You ask, "Is this the only way I am going to be able to lose as it didn't work before." Eating more doesn't cause weight loss. Getting your cals up to a more natural level "resets" your body, primes it hormonally, so that weight loss can again occur in a more efficient fashion. So you reset it, where some weight gain may occur. Once it is completely reset, you start dieting again with a more sensible plan of attack for your individual goals.
 
maleficent said:
Page 4???

:taps foot::
Someone's been neglecting their diary...
Unacceptable
Someone doesn't realize they have groupies...
Someone has been busy but a simple hello wouldn't kil someone ya know.. :D

::it scares the crap out of me when I channel my mother::

Happy Valentines Day -- Do all sorts of good things for your heart today :D
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I've been around, just not much in this journal.

And I HATE V-day. Pointless holiday.
 
I would agree - why do people have to be reminded to be nice ot the person that they are supposed to love - that is unles sof course people want to shower me with lots and lots of daisies.. .(ya'll can have the roses - giveme daisies)

it's a good day to do something nice for your heart though.. it's an important organ -does nots of good things for you :D
 
maleficent said:
I would agree - why do people have to be reminded to be nice ot the person that they are supposed to love - that is unles sof course people want to shower me with lots and lots of daisies.. .(ya'll can have the roses - giveme daisies)

it's a good day to do something nice for your heart though.. it's an important organ -does nots of good things for you :D
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I eat 6 grams of fish oil every single day. I think that is plenty good for my heart. :D
 
Steve said:
What do you want from me? :p
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wow who knew you were gonna ask - lemme think on this and get back to you with my list - this might just make some fantasies come true :)

i think beefcake pictures larger than avatar size in M2M and my diaries would be a good start but there's more :D
 
maleficent said:
wow who knew you were gonna ask - lemme think on this and get back to you with my list - this might just make some fantasies come true :)

i think beefcake pictures larger than avatar size in M2M and my diaries would be a good start but there's more :D
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Hahaha.

Well I will have to do some searching for beefcakes on the web, seeing as how I am not one.

There are some larger size pics of my located on page 1. ;)

And your wish is my command. :D
 
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