Wow! That is all I can fucking say. If you have been following my blog you should of noticed one reoccurring thing over the past week (and three weeks prior to restarting the blog) and that was that I was training very hard and eating an extreme calorie deficit.
While I didn't even think about weighing myself for the first three weeks (because body weight can wildly flucuate in the first few weeks of fixing your diet and training- or working out if you are a pussy {ie- a woman, man under 200 lbs, etc.}). I kid I kid. Well not really. Any man under 200 lbs. is a woman. Ouch that hurts but this is a big man's world.
The last thing you want to do is brag about those initial 20 pounds you lost after two weeks. Why? Well I am not a fucking physiology book so if you want to know why try reading something and don't listen to some jackass on the internet. Anyways it is not like anyone notices those first 20 anyhow. Think like this, if 10000 people left Los Angelos would anyone notice? Hell no they wouldn't.
But after three weeks I finally took that plunge and stepped on the scale. The results were what I expected. I have been intune with my body long enough to pretty much know where I am at. I had shed that initial easy weight and was now on to the meat and potatoes of weight loss. The stuff that people actually start to notice.
A funny thing happened though, as I weighed myself each morning my weight didn't go down. Normally I do not suggest weighing yourself more than once a week because all sorts of things can cause minor fluctuations and the last thing you want to do is start changing things every day over some minor bloat.
Here is the thing though, for 4 days with extreme dieting and very difficult training I not only lost no more weight, I actually went back up a pound. Now there is no way this could of been possible. I was in such a calorie deficit that I should of been shedding weight left and right. Worse yet I was tired, achy, drained, lethargic, and dreaded eating. I had no food urges, no desire to even eat another meal, and my normally super extreme libido became just a high libido. I know many many many men would kill for a high libido but I am used to the libido of 20 teenage boys combined (sorry mom). I am sure Missy enjoyed a break from constantly being stabbed in the back all night long but I sorely missed doing the stabbing.
Last Thursday I was driving while working and got light headed and had blurred vision. I am actually used to this but normally it is caused by a rager, but nothing of the sort was going on this time. I had to pull over and rest for almost a half hour to get my composure together. Missy and I had only had one day off from training a week and we had a squat/deadlift training session scheduled for that evening. I am a firm believer in never missing training except when it is BETTER for you to hold back a day. Note I said better and NOT easier. It can take years for you to know your body well enough to know when to do this. In fact 95% of trainees are not capable of even pushing themselves to this level. It took years and years for me to get the conditioning level and work capacity in order to push myself into the over training zone.
Now I am to the point that even with a year plus layoff I can push myself past that point. This is not a bad thing as it does raise your work capacity but you have to know when to pull back. So as I sat there in my work truck I texted Missy and said that we needed to push that nights training to Friday and that we should have a "cheat meal" that night. It had been a month since I had eaten out (--I had to delete this part due to Missy demanding I delete it-- and look at what is left in to get an idea how bad it had to be) so we ended up getting subs from Jimmy Johns. I had an 8 inch Italian sub and a large oatmeal and raisin cookie. I think about a 1000 calories total which was 1/2 to 2/3 of my normal daily caloric intake.
So I wake up the next morning to expect a few extra pounds on the scale but to my surprise I was down a pound. So I decided to eat big that day. Note I said BIG and not POORLY. I ate all quality foods but in much larger than normal quantities. I took in 1000 to 1500 calories more than normal for the next 3 days. The results, I lost 10 pounds. It might not make a lot of sense but I have my theories. I now am eating 4 meals a day usually around 750 calories. Usually about 4 hours in between meals.
I am now hungry all the time, craving foods like crazy, libido back to having no need for a hammer while I am working, and training going just as good. I will continue to monitor and adjust my diet to keep dropping weight. I don't want to drop more than 10 pounds a week but not less than 5. So long as it is inbetween those numbers I am happy.
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