Djeclipse's 3 x 8 journal....

[djeclipse]

that little voice is going to be piping up soon reminding you that you were stronger with the extra bodyfat, don't listen to it

It's more of the little voice that says, eat that bag of doritos and buy that package of powdery donuts, they be mmmm good.

And then that voice talks to the strength voice that says "you were stronger when you were a fat ass" lol

sticking at 12%ish should make it possible to get enough calories and protien to grow and it’s a good place to be if you want to do another cut anytime soon.

I think 12% would be nice, I don't think I'm anywhere near 12% though. I am still fat...

 

[carlsuen]

so i posted my diet and pics over at my thread but no response so far..

 

[anotherbutters]

I wish I knew body fat before and after but I never had it checked and don't have calipers.

I do have pics along the way though, maybe one day I will post them. I need to get them off my GF's computer and on the net.

My gut (around the belly button) was 40" when I started, now it's 35.5". I am finally looking a little vascular with the vein in the bies, you can see my abs etc. I still have a ways to go around the gut though as I don't want to start adding weight till the gut is completely gone.

It is funny, I have lost strength and probably some muscle, and a little size in areas like my bies etc. as far as real dimensions go.

But now that I am more cut, everyone at the gym (well the ones I bother to talk to) says I am bigger and don't believe me when I say I've lost strength and some size. Size vs strength is just an illusion. lol

I'm not worried about the strength/muscle loss as I am very confident that I will be able to gain it back (with the 5x5) much faster then it has taken me to lose this fat.

If you really want to loose some fat geta diet planed out and stick to it. The first week is the hardest, once our stomach/ body gets used to the way you're feeding it, it’s not bad at all.

Just catching up on your progress. Brilliant work DJ! The above thoughts are exactly what I was going to ask you about. It seems tweakle is doing the rounds, trying to get us fatties to cut and it's my turn next . How much weight did you think you'd have to lose before you got down to your target bodyfat? I'm 186lb and I'm guessing I could lose 15-20lb.

 

[djeclipse]

Well this journal is a wash, lol We've bene looking at houses and the onlytime we ahve is after work (wheni usually go to the gym). I've missed a few days now, i hope to be back at it friday. The good news is my back is feeling much better so the time off did some good.

Just catching up on your progress. Brilliant work DJ! The above thoughts are exactly what I was going to ask you about. It seems tweakle is doing the rounds, trying to get us fatties to cut and it's my turn next . How much weight did you think you'd have to lose before you got down to your target bodyfat? I'm 186lb and I'm guessing I could lose 15-20lb.

Sadily enough to get to a decent body fat where I no longer havea gut and soe lower abs... it looks like I'll have to get down to 165lbs or so. I don't want to be this light but I am still cairying a lot of fat at my current BW of 173 ish)

If I get down there it will be a total of 30+lbs lost. I ahve bene cheating on my diet the last week or so also. Not too bad, I haven't gained any weight, but I haven't lost any either.

 

[anotherbutters]

165? That'd be like starting all over again

 

[djeclipse]

165? That'd be like starting all over again

Not for me, I started at 185. I am much stronger and have mrre muscle now at 173 then I did when I started at 185, that's for sure.

 

[Cynical Simian]

So what's the plan for the rest of the cut? You could pretend you planned this as a strategic deconditioning week and then do 6 weeks of HST to get close to your target weight.

Good luck finding a house, although with the way prices have been you might want to wait for the market to crash (or at least fall back a bit). Then again, I don't know much about the Canadian housing market or your finances, so you might want to ignore me.

 

[djeclipse]

So what's the plan for the rest of the cut? You could pretend you planned this as a strategic deconditioning week and then do 6 weeks of HST to get close to your target weight.

I think I will reset the 3 x 8 and continue on with it for a while. then in a few weeks when the summer is over I should be near where I want to be as far as BF goes, and it’s back to the 5x5 intermediate. I want to start deadlifting again by then also.

Good luck finding a house, although with the way prices have been you might want to wait for the market to crash (or at least fall back a bit). Then again, I don't know much about the Canadian housing market or your finances, so you might want to ignore me.

The market here is turning, there are a lot of houses sitting as people are asking way too much, trying to take advantage of a so called "sellers market". interest rates are still decent, but we're in no rush we have criteria we're looking for and a certain price range, if everything doesn't match we keep looking.

We did find one house we really liked, but the guy was asking 30,000 more then any house sold in the neighbourhood recently. And the house needed some work. Some people are just insane. The house has been sitting for month's already.

 

[silver_shadow]

The house has been sitting for month's already.

i wonder why

 

[djeclipse]

i wonder why

Ya, the guy is an ass. It's a private sale and he literally has an open house all day every day any time. It's right by where I work and his open house sign is up all day and night. I guess he could care less about his families privacy as he parades potential buyers through the house at 9:00pm on a week day. lol

After we ut in our offer which was 30g's less then his asking price but a very fair offer for the house his wife quickly got a pen and paper to get my number, he on the other hand was stubborn as a mule and said he didn’t need it. He took it anyway. If they call I instantly drop the price 10g's fro being such ass holes in the first place.