6 Week Experiment
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Second strength session done program a bit more balanced now so everything is tough at the last few reps. Only issue is a weird pain in my forearm during pull ups. A bit of googling says that its normal when you start activating these muscles. The other issue is the baby trying to climb on my back when I am doing planks. He thinks he's helping but seriously they are hard enough as it is.<br />
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Eating is about to become an issue, the graphs say I am under eating at 1200 calories per day. Yet I am stuffing my face with meat and veggies at every meal. Not actually hungry at all. So when I hit the goal weight I am going to need to add Cheese, more fruits and nuts to get it up to parity. Either that or pad it out with protein shakes, not sure about doing this though any recommendations of high calorie low carb foods I have not through of would be appreciated.<br />
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Mooshld -
The stats after 1 Week<br />
Height 1.78<br />
Weight 78.7kg<br />
Body Fat 17.7%<br />
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Strength stuff going well will probably make a few more tweaks to the program adding weight to some of the leg exercises this week.<br />
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Running due to restart tomorrow, foot looking better, but will start slow as I don't need another week off from it. <br />
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Eating going well added cheese over the weekend to try and decrease the rate of weight loss. If this does not do the trick will top up with protein powder.<br />
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[quote name='mooshld' timestamp='1369383448' post='367603']<br />
Second strength session done program a bit more balanced now so everything is tough at the last few reps. Only issue is a weird pain in my forearm during pull ups. A bit of googling says that its normal when you start activating these muscles. [b]The other issue is the baby trying to climb on my back when I am doing planks. He thinks he's helping but seriously they are hard enough as it is.[/b]<br />
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Eating is about to become an issue, the graphs say I am under eating at 1200 calories per day. Yet I am stuffing my face with meat and veggies at every meal. Not actually hungry at all. So when I hit the goal weight I am going to need to add Cheese, more fruits and nuts to get it up to parity. Either that or pad it out with protein shakes, not sure about doing this though any recommendations of high calorie low carb foods I have not through of would be appreciated.<br />
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Mooshld<br />
[/quote]Harden up, I sometimes have to do push ups with a 3 and almost five year old on my back !! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/knuppel2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':knuppel:' /> -
[quote name='VV' timestamp='1369732513' post='368509']<br />
Mooshld,<br />
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Can you post what a 1500 calorie diet might look like (types and quantities of food) over a day, I'd be pretty interested but have no idea where to start,<br />
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Sure have not been bang on 1500 though so here is what I ate yesterday I was not hungry after any of this but that could just be because I am getting used to it.<br />
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Breakfast<br />
2 mini egg bacon and mushroom frittatas 140 Cals<br />
1 Banana 100 Cals<br />
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Lunch<br />
Big salad of lettuce, tomato, picked onion, gherkins 150 Cals<br />
Smoked Sausage 200 Cals<br />
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Dinner<br />
Massive bowl Curried Mince and Veggies. 600 Cals<br />
1 Peach 40<br />
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So 1230 yesterday, no surprises I am losing weight quickly. Some days its more some its less. As you can see I eat 3 good meals so adding calories but not carbs is no simple task. -
Eating getting better weight still dropping but I think its slowing now. Exercise going well.<br />
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The stats after 2nd Week<br />
Height 1.78<br />
Weight 78.1kg<br />
Body Fat 14.5%<br />
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*Body fat has dropped massively, not sure if the measuring was less accurate then I thought it would be. The future weeks will determine that. From the visual test the wife says chest and stomach are the big losers abs getting more prominent especially lower ones, the love handles are being determined, we will see how much longer they can hang on for.<br />
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Mooshld -
Eating still on track. Not really missing the carbs, and quite enjoying the scrambled eggs for breakfast every morning.<br />
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Exercise on track as well foot healed and getting back into the 4 runs per week has been great. The strength stuff is plodding along nicely.<br />
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The good news is weight has started to stabilise.<br />
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Mooshld -
The stats after 3rd Week<br />
Height 1.78<br />
Weight 78kg<br />
Body Fat 12.9%<br />
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Progress slowing weight is stabilising, eating a lot more cheese,nuts and fruit to make up the calorie deficit. Exercise is improving almost able to complete all the pull up sets!<br />
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[quote name='JK' timestamp='1371384140' post='372814']<br />
Thats a big drop in fat loss % without any real change in weight mate!<br />
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Yeah I suspect the accuracy of the Callipers is not great. But short of paying 100 euros a throw for a tank test I could not find anything more accurate. -
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The stats after 5th Week<br />
Height 1.78<br />
Weight 77.6kg<br />
Body Fat 11.0%<br />
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Good progress in all areas except the stomach measurement its the most stubborn. I wonder if its the last to budge for some reason. Anyway one week to go, has not been too difficult. The weight is sliding again so need to hammer more food. Getting a bit tired of cooking all the time.<br />
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[quote name='JK' timestamp='1372063826' post='374657']<br />
I'm impressed with the fat loss mate. Would love to drop it that quickly!<br />
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Cheers but you got to have it to lose it I guess. Also I think the start was quite dramatic as its the first real strength work I have done in 15 years.<br />
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[quote name='NTA' timestamp='1372074765' post='374688']<br />
Will have to get myself some fat % scale thingees. This could be interesting<br />
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I hate autocorrect ...<br />
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3 euro pincers off ebay ,and a website to calculate it. Was what I used, by all accounts its just as accurate as the electronic doo dads.<br />
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Mooshld
