Weight Loss Thread

Khane

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Ordered from Amazon, along with one of the digital kitchen scales. Prime will have them here by Monday. Time for V-Tec to kick in boys. I've got a company holiday party in 30 minutes and I'm still starving from yesterday... let's see how I do.
 

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Weight loss has stalled for me right at 200. Between the holidays, taking shortcuts due to finals, and a shift change I have been a bad boy. Oh well. Right now I'm trying to just take it day by day, meal by meal, knowing that I'm not going to have any significant losses due to shit I have planned but that doesn't mean I have to just go crazy.

So I am making red velvet brownies, key lime pie, sugar cookies, and chocolate chip cookies for Christmas. Christmas dinner will be pretty simple, but the desserts are going to be off the fucking hook. Then I'll try and rein it in after that.
 

Denaut

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Weight loss has stalled for me right at 200. Between the holidays, taking shortcuts due to finals, and a shift change I have been a bad boy. Oh well. Right now I'm trying to just take it day by day, meal by meal, knowing that I'm not going to have any significant losses due to shit I have planned but that doesn't mean I have to just go crazy.

So I am making red velvet brownies, key lime pie, sugar cookies, and chocolate chip cookies for Christmas. Christmas dinner will be pretty simple, but the desserts are going to be off the fucking hook. Then I'll try and rein it in after that.
If you only stall over the holidays I'd consider that a weight loss mega-win.
 

Noodleface

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Signing up for the work gym next week. Probably just going to lift hardcore like I used to. I won't even count calories or anything. Fucking rebel
 

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Yeah I probably will. I was trying to be a badass and sound cool
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Gravel

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My bulk is basically complete. Was planning on going until the end of the year, but I went to the gym yesterday and after weeks of pushing myself as hard as I could for the last 2-3 months (to maximize my bulk) my body basically said I'm done. I was still able to hit a max on bench press (235), but everything after that I just felt like shit. My goal was 180 and I'm sitting at 178 right now. I still haven't hit my 3 plate squat goal, so I will try one more heavy leg day. But after that I think I'm going to do a 2 week deload...with one of those maybe just being an off week since my gym hours suck over the holidays.

So anyway, I will legit be in this thread for the next several months as I start my cut. I'm guessing my bodyfat is probably in the 17-20% range. I'll still do progress pictures at the end of the month, since I'll probably just drop calories about 250-300 to see where my maintenance is. Goal is to get down to 10-12% bodyfat. If my fat estimate isn't too far off, my LBM is (hopefully) about 146. And if I don't fuck up my cut and lose too much muscle (which I probably will, since it's my first ever cut), that means somewhere between 160-165 body weight is my goal.

Going for about 1 lb a week, so probably 4 month cut.

January 2013 - December 2013 stats:
Weight: 152 lbs to 178 lbs
Shoulders: 45.5 to 50 (inches)
Chest: 39.5 to 43
Waist: 33 to 34
Arms: 11.5 to 15.5
Forearm: 10.5 to 12
Thighs: 20.5 to 24
Calves: 13.5 to 14.5

Squat: 165x5 to 305x1
Deadlift: 250x5 to 410x1
Bench: 135x5 to 235x1
Mil Press: 95x5 to 155x3
EZ Bar Curl: 60x8 to 105x8

Going back and seeing the changes in the last year makes me fucking depressed (outside of my arm stats, where my starting bicep measurement is smaller than my forearms now). I made some phenomenal gains, but had I just not stopped lifting 3 years ago I would be way ahead of where I am now. That just provides better motivation to not quit again though. I still feel relatively small, but I was talking with my wife last night about it and it's probably just because I compare myself to other lifters as opposed to average guys. She also did make a comment a few weeks ago after I got back from a leg day that my quads were way too big. Feelsgood.

Edit: Also, one last look at my lifts, since I like to compare myself to the Exrx 1rm charts. Especially since I probably won't be able to lift as much as I currently do until mid-late Summer when I start bulking again

Squat: 305 max, intermediate is 270, advanced 370. Need to work on my squats bad.
Deadlift: Intermediate is 315, advanced is 440. Pretty solid at 410.
Bench: Intermediate is 200 (seriously?), advanced is 270. Not bad. I'd like to get to 275 in another year.
Press: Calculated 1RM is 164, Advanced is 165. Apparently I'm a fucking beast on press.
 

Khane

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That's pretty good gains for having to bulk that much. I mean shit, you gained ~26lbs of lean mass. That's a lot.
 

Gravel

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That's definitely not all lean mass. At best I'd say I gained 15 pounds of muscle and am carrying around 5 pounds of water weight. I've got a decent gut right now.
 

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I still feel relatively small, but I was talking with my wife last night about it and it's probably just because I compare myself to other lifters as opposed to average guys.
I tend to do the same thing. I go to a gym that's very popular in the south and needless to say most of the guys and even girls are competition level big or right below it. I just try to look at it from a motivation standpoint. I've put about 45lbs of muscle over the past 4 years, so I try to just remind myself that I am progressing.
 

Khane

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That's definitely not all lean mass. At best I'd say I gained 15 pounds of muscle and am carrying around 5 pounds of water weight. I've got a decent gut right now.
I'd still call that good if you're doing it naturally. Takes a lot of dedication. Have you thought about switching from a 5x5 static weight routine to a 5x3 dynamic weight routine? (I'm assuming your 5x5 days are static weight, can't remember if you mentioned that or not)

When I was really, really serious about strength training and lifting I actually used to do a 12-3-3-3-1 routine. 12 was a low weight warmup set (which I only did on my very first exercise of the day) then a moderate weight set of 3, up 25lbs and do another set of 3, another 25lbs for the third set of 3 and then another 25 of a 1rm. Every exercise after the first was 3-3-3-1 in a similar fashion (the 25lb increments were only on exercises for heavier lifting like bench, squat, deadlift) everything else I adjusted an appropriate increase in weight for the exercise in question and shoulders I never did anything other than 10x3 which was probably a huge mistake.
 

Khane

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Ok. Need a little help figuring this out. I spent some time trying to figure out what the small/medium sized round plastic containers chinese food comes in are. I came to the conclusion they are about a quart which roughly translates to 907 grams. So I put my Chicken and Broccoli with Brown Sauce into MyFitnessPal as that but want to make sure I'm not grossly over or underexaggerating that. I'm trying to be as close to accurate as I can be. That seem like a good estimate?
 

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Ok. Need a little help figuring this out. I spent some time trying to figure out what the small/medium sized round plastic containers chinese food comes in are. I came to the conclusion they are about a quart which roughly translates to 907 grams. So I put my Chicken and Broccoli with Brown Sauce into MyFitnessPal as that but want to make sure I'm not grossly over or underexaggerating that. I'm trying to be as close to accurate as I can be. That seem like a good estimate?
If you are trying to reach that level of accuracy with your measurements I would pick up a food scale ASAP. It'll be much easier and more accurate.
 

Khane

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If you are trying to reach that level of accuracy with your measurements I would pick up a food scale ASAP. It'll be much easier and more accurate.
Already did, it will be here either today or Monday.
 

Khane

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So I've been able to keep it under the 1320 net calories each day since Thursday (according to myfitnesspal). The shitty old analog scale I had weighed me at 201 on Thursday when I started, I weighed in this morning on that scale at 198. Who knows with that scale though but my electronic bath scale and also my food scale should be arriving today so I am going to weigh in again this afternoon when I get home from work on the electronic scale and use that as an official starting point.

I don't know how much longer I can keep this up though. I am starving all day long and eating three 400 calorie meals plus a small snack just isn't satiating hunger sufficiently, not even right after the meals. I also don't know how I should put my gym time in. Since the strength training stuff on myfitnesspal is under cardio I'm assuming they are basing those numbers off of a cardio weight training program like a circuit with small 1 minute breaks every so often to keep heart rate up. I don't lift like that. I do a set and then take a 2 to 3 minute break. So If I'm there for 45 minutes doing that I put in about 20 minutes on myfitnesspal. Who knows though.
 

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Low calories are gonna cause your metabolism to shutdown. No way youre gonna be able to keep up a 1300-1400 calorie diet + exercising. 1 pound per week is good healthy weightless.
 

Khane

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Come on now, my metabolism isn't going to "shut down" at 1300 calories. It's overly aggressive, I agree with that but it's not true starvation, and to be honest I probably will have to eat more just so I can actually lift more than 5 lbs when I go to the gym but we'll see. I'm really doing this to see the discrepancy between expected on MyFitnessPal and actual weight loss in practice.

Also, 1lb a week is a Saturday night of drinking. I hate losing weight in such small increments. I like being aggressive with weight loss and it's always worked for me in the past.
 

Gravel

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Dude, what the fuck? I didn't think someone needed to come out and straight up tell you not to eat 1300 calories, but apparently that's the case. You're doing the classic failure diet. You'll lose a bit of weight, quit because you were starving yourself, and then when you go back to a reasonable or normal diet you'll gain the weight plus a few extra because you fucked your metabolism up.

Seriously, stop right now. Go back to your normal diet for a week, and then try again. This time, figure out your TDEE calories (BMR + activities) and eat no LESS than 500 below that number. That means don't go eating 500 below and then take up running and burning another 500 calories. It means take what you actually do and eat 500 below that.

That will let you lose 1 pound a week. If you're not losing that much after 2 weeks, adjust downward another 200ish calories.

It absolutely is possible to lose 2+ pounds a week. I think Biggest Loser is proof of that. The problem is crashing your body like that will absolutely wreck your metabolism. Do it smart and you'll be able to keep the weight off.

Edit: You posted while I was writing that. I don't know how tall you are, but that's a severe calorie restriction at 200 pounds. But whatever. Good luck with your gym injury goals of 2014 while eating like a 5 foot tall woman.
 

Khane

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Dude, what the fuck? I didn't think someone needed to come out and straight up tell you not to eat 1300 calories, but apparently that's the case. You're doing the classic failure diet. You'll lose a bit of weight, quit because you were starving yourself, and then when you go back to a reasonable or normal diet you'll gain the weight plus a few extra because you fucked your metabolism up.

Seriously, stop right now. Go back to your normal diet for a week, and then try again. This time, figure out your TDEE calories (BMR + activities) and eat no LESS than 500 below that number. That means don't go eating 500 below and then take up running and burning another 500 calories. It means take what you actually do and eat 500 below that.

That will let you lose 1 pound a week. If you're not losing that much after 2 weeks, adjust downward another 200ish calories.

It absolutely is possible to lose 2+ pounds a week. I think Biggest Loser is proof of that. The problem is crashing your body like that will absolutely wreck your metabolism. Do it smart and you'll be able to keep the weight off.

Edit: You posted while I was writing that. I don't know how tall you are, but that's a severe calorie restriction at 200 pounds. But whatever. Good luck with your gym injury goals of 2014 while eating like a 5 foot tall woman.
Come on now, this is an over reaction (although 1300 calories literally is eating like a 5 foot tall woman). I'm not going to hurt myself at the gym. I've been lifting for 10 years and I know how to listen to my body. But like McCheese said, I know that eating 1300 calories is not at all sustainable on my frame but I've got a curiosity about how much weight I will actually lose by restricting myself so much and comparing that to what MyFitnessPal is saying. In other words, I want to see just how retarded that website is.

I honestly don't think this is going to fuck up my metabolism as badly as you guys are claiming though.