My Quest to COMPETE - BEAT THE DISEASE!

[solidspine]

I'm shooting for 2.5 pounds of beef today.

How much protein is that?


None of my business but are you single, living alone,


Reason I ask such an off the wall question, is that I have been married for 3 years almost to the day.

My diet prior to marriage, was great, protein, protein, protein, no snacks, ate clean 24/7, and did not miss anything.


Now with my wife, the house is full of all sorts of things I would never eat before, and at night, late, I break down and eat a bunch of junk.


It is killing me.

 

[blut wump]

I have no idea on how much protein it is. I'd say it's probably enough, though.

My wife's currently off on a business trip so I'm mostly single, I guess. I do all the cooking here, anyway, so I get to choose the menus. I tell her that I like to be sure that she's getting enough good nutrition.

Working at home lets me select my food during the day without any censorship too.

 

[JKurz1]

blunt - your bf is on the high end though right? As you really don't care too much about it.

I need to number one, get rid of thiese horrid stomach pains! Dont get addicted to splenda and sf gum.....I can't stop and know it's the problem......

Also, I NEVER EVER NEVER SHJOULD HAVE TAKEN THOSE PICS.....See, now I am finding myself scaling way back on food so my next pics people dont say, your abs are fading!! See...I wish people would realize that the rest of my body looks like shit....I hated hearing "ur abs look grea, keep it up!"....cause I can't and tis why I am now only up a net of 12-13lbs over 3 freakin months.....Im losing boys, losing the battle....

 

[blut wump]

Try setting yourself a target bodyfat of 12% and take it from there. At 12%, your abs should be gone and then there's no further need to worry about them.

 

[JKurz1]

Try setting yourself a target bodyfat of 12% and take it from there. At 12%, your abs should be gone and then there's no further need to worry about them.

fucking easier said dude....

 

[BiggT]

Jeff.....a pic is a pic, and plus, most people want to be positive. Also, on a "BB board" people will just give the obligatory "nice abs, bro" comment. If they could see in person what 165lbs looks like on a big-framed, 6'2" guy, they'd damn near have a stroke. (10lbs per inch of height would make that a 5'9 guy weighing a buck 15 to put that into perspective).

What happened to the XL t-shirt?? You're entering November in freaking Ohio.....are you really going out and about shirtless anywhere? You just need a new focus to guage success. Lifts are always good.....but in the mirror, you want to look big and swollen.....don't look at your mid-section, look at the SIZE, not detail, of your shoulders, arms, legs......picture walking in someplace in a t-shirt and people automatically knowing you lift weights. Picture going to conferences in a suit and looking like an imposing figure.

 

[Neo22]

blunt - your bf is on the high end though right? As you really don't care too much about it.

I need to number one, get rid of thiese horrid stomach pains! Dont get addicted to splenda and sf gum.....I can't stop and know it's the problem......

Also, I NEVER EVER NEVER SHJOULD HAVE TAKEN THOSE PICS.....See, now I am finding myself scaling way back on food so my next pics people dont say, your abs are fading!! See...I wish people would realize that the rest of my body looks like shit....I hated hearing "ur abs look grea, keep it up!"....cause I can't and tis why I am now only up a net of 12-13lbs over 3 freakin months.....Im losing boys, losing the battle....

well your arms and chest look VERY small.

 

[JKurz1]

what the hell am I gonna do about this shoulder pain......do you know which part im talking about...feels like the rear, the upward motion of a push up but not the front delt......the military press movement hurts, but I am gonna try and muster though it......I'll try uprights, side lats, fronts, see what hurts and if one of the movements doesn't, I might tailor my rouitne around them....like I said Smith machine to start hopefully something will be ok....

Many use the smith for presses, why? My trainer says other than for the tnedons, the muscle has no idea whether it on a pully or free...

 

[al420]

fucking easier said dude....

What isn't Jeff? Getting diet or bulking advice from bros who care less about abs showing is a lot to digest, but I think T and BW have it pretty well pinned.

Don't you think you would get your abs back fairly quickly after you stopped bulking?

And on pics - I would say take a pic of your legs and back and post those b/c you won't get a lot of praise - which sounds like it would be motivating. I know for me (especially when I get into it w/ a EF member and they start ripping my pics, lol) that negative remarks resinate. I will "think" about them more than any "wow, you have big legs" comments. I guess I have gotten better at focusing on how much I can lift as opposed to how lean I am - not that I have ever been lean, but I deff prefer being strong.

 

[SgtSlaughter]

what the hell am I gonna do about this shoulder pain......do you know which part im talking about...feels like the rear, the upward motion of a push up but not the front delt......the military press movement hurts, but I am gonna try and muster though it......I'll try uprights, side lats, fronts, see what hurts and if one of the movements doesn't, I might tailor my rouitne around them....like I said Smith machine to start hopefully something will be ok....

Many use the smith for presses, why? My trainer says other than for the tnedons, the muscle has no idea whether it on a pully or free...

how's your form on pressing?

Tuck your elbows into your lats if you don't already full ROM... no flaring elbows.

Hopefully that's it just an easy form fixer up.