Sigh, another day, another diet ...

[SteelWeaver]

Time to diet again Bleugh. I'm up to 88kgs (194lbs) and rather too much bf. Clothes getting tight and I can't afford new ones - ha ha - good reason to diet, huh? Anyway, will be getting the usual 6 meals a day, starchy carbs in the first 2-3, fibrous for the rest, protein at about 180g a day, fat low (about 40g) no cardio right now, but will start with swimming sprints in a couple of weeks, maybe some rowing, OL 2-3 times a week, typical bb style the other day or two. And a serious attempt to kick my mom into shape, because otherwise she sabotages me badly by buying all sorts of crap and leaving it lying aroudn the kitchen - aaarrrggghhh!!!! Very annoying. And she swears blind she eats well - yeah, right!

Anyway, will update now & then.

 

[makedah]

good luck!

 

[Scarlett33]

my mom is the same way, at least I don't live with her! She is unable to pass up a sale of any kind so if say, candy is on sale she will buy pounds of it! Good luck with the diet : )

 

[Sassy69]

ROCK ON! (The neverending diet....)

I feel you on the mom factor - I'll be visiting my family in a month -- they eat pretty clean, however not Sassy-clean - either my mom or I am a nervouse wreck when it comes to meal times - its like "Mom- I got it, dont' worry, I won't starve". And my dad gets into it too "Are you going to eat that? You should eat that, its good for you." ("No dad, I think I can feed myself thanks.") And then he keeps asking if I'm going to eat something - like one "No" isn't convincing enough.

Oh the stress.

 

[JJFigure]

If I had to live with my Mom, I'd weight 200 lbs.

I'm starting a new bulking diet soon - both my Pler and I are going to try Mr. X's cyclical bulking diet. Check it out - for women, he actually recommends less than bwx20; his GF used bwx15 for her training days and that worked well for me. I think that may bee a little low for me, so I'll probably start at bwx15 for training days and bwx10 for non-training days - just to get my body gradually used to the increase in kcals since I've been cutting for so long, then I'll gradually increase, depending on how much bodyfat I'm gaining.

My PLer is going to start w/ bwx25 and bwx15; he already eats bwx20 for maintenance and doesn't gain weight, so we're going with higher numbers for him.

I'll update my diet details once I get them meshed out.

 

[valerie]

Hey JJ I think you will make good gains on a higher calorie diet. Hopefully you will be able to add in some more good carbs. They really do make a big difference.

Steele-I bet just cleaning up your diet will make a nice change in how your clothes fit. I hate it when mine don't and I'm too darn cheap to buy new ones.

 

[JJFigure]

Sugar and I don't get along too well, so I'm definitely focusing on good carbs. More oatmeal, some yogurt and cottage cheese, a little fruit, and rice - basically all the carbs my belly likes.

That's on top of all the veggies I'm eating, of course.

 

[valerie]

NO doubt you will be getting the lbm and strength gains you want.

 

[SteelWeaver]

I seem to gain fairly well at bw x 15 for a few weeks, then stall - upping the calories a few days a week, and going out to dinner now & then seems to start things up again.

Valerie - I wish I could just clean up my diet and lose, but I pretty much eat squeaky clean most of the time anyway, and my body is very stubborn. Too many years of abuse, I suppose, lol.

Yeah, JJ, the last 8 weeks or so I was on a gaining plan - just increased the oatmeal, added in some yoghurt, some apple or banana in the mornings, and some bread now and then. And some sushi Worked quite nicely.

 

[SteelWeaver]

Well, down 1.5 kgs in 4 days, probably all water, since I see zero change in the mirror, but nonetheless, early days.

AND, unbelievably, actually managed to get my mom out in the garden with a broomstick yesterday for her first ever weight training session

We did 2 sets of bodyweight squats, above parallel - that's as far as she can go - a set of deadlifts, then she couldn't do any more of those, some floor presses, bb rows, seated military presses, close grip floor presses (we don't have a bench), bb curls and crunches. She did well, and really enjoyed it. Now she's talking about joining the gym again Even though her legs hurt today, ha ha.

 

[JJFigure]

Wish I could have seen that! I just can't picture my Mom doing any thing that resembled weight training.

 

[SouthernBell]

WOW JJ you seemed to have already put on a great deal of LBM since the last pics that you posted. You look Amazing Great Job



SB

 

[SteelWeaver]

Quick update. Things seem to be going OK. Down 3 kgs in 1.5 weeks - still a lot of it probably water, since I had my period this week, but the mirror look is starting to tighten up a bit - starting to see a bit of definition in my legs again - nice, because I know I must be PRETTY fat when leg definition goes - I carry all my fat in my tummy area - and that's not moving much, as per normal. Oh well. My boobs feel a bit better - they were out of the way enough last night for me to slam 55 kg into my chin on the jerk portion of a beautiful clean & jerk. Bit my tongue, ow.

Carbed up last night - was going to wait til Sunday, but I was feeling down about my lifts - they've slowed and even regressed lately, and was really beaten up after a hard OL session, was tired and depleted and hungry - all the WRONG reasons for an impromptu carb-up, but what the hell - I know the reasons, know my goals, know how long I'm willing to wait for my goals and how hard I need to work to get to them, so it's not a big issue. I was very careful on the carb up, so that's good - not a free for all at all, and zero guilt about it, so that's good.

So everything's going just fine

(if I come back in 3 days and confess to another impromptu carb-up, then you know I'm kidding myself here, but that'S pretty unlikely, tra la lah )

 

[JJFigure]

"they were out of the way enough last night for me to slam 55 kg into my chin on the jerk portion of a beautiful clean & jerk."

LOL! We keep switching back and forth - yesterday I nailed my breasts a couple times will doing hang cleans. And oh, are the traps and delts and upper back sore this morning! I'm sure the DLs contributed, but these hang cleans are definitely gonna improve my upper body!

Good to hear the diet is helping; sounds like you're feeling a little overtrained though. What kind of lifting schedule are you on? Or was it just one of those days?