I exhaust myself going up a hill and as opposed to thinking, lets coast down and regain my breath, I think, fantastic! Time to see how fast I can go!
I do this but the opposite - I use the "granny gears" to amble slowly up the hill and then wear myself out pedalling like a lunatic in the highest gear trying to break the sound barrier on the way down the hill.
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Went to the gym yesterday for the first time in forever, I didn't do a lot but it did feel good to be doing work out stuff again
by far the biggest hurdle for me is going to be feeling like I don't belong there, gotta charge up my ipod so I can forget all those other people exist
My takeaway from that is if I up my distance running maybe my feet won't get so cold at night.
I dunno about that - peripheral skin temperature in sleep is mainly an endocrine issue - you're supposed to lower your body temperature prior to sleep, so better sleep quality and onset is associated with cold tummies and warm limbs. Vasodilation in the limbs is supposed to warm them up as they vent out your body heat.
I suppose increased vascularity in the limbs would facilitate this heat dissipation, certainly at the age when peripheral artery disease comes into play. And there have been studies showing that exercise improves the vasodilatory function in the extremities. However, studies that have shown exercise to be beneficial to sleep quality have not demonstrated significant differences in body temperature from controls. There was a study that showed increased slow wave sleep when you turned the thermostat to 27.5C in the middle of the night and brought it back before morning, but
Yeah I don't know. Exercise is good for sleep though
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been doing greyskull for the past 3 weeks.
i really like it so far. haven't deloaded yet, but the 3x5+ works pretty great for me considering I am doing kickboxing 3 days a week too. I don't think I could handle a true bodybuilding volume weightlifting program and still do kickboxing at the same time.
I've started to notice slight differences in body too. While i was doing kickboxing 5 times a week since mid-january and I did admittedly loose 2 inches on my waist doing that (34 -> 32), my body 'shape' was still pretty much the same.
3 weeks into lifitng + kickboxing and I'm starting to see a more lean looking me emerging.
Goal is still to be in the absolutely best shape and lean-ness of my life by October, but I think I can hit that by around July if I keep with this. When I get to where I want, I'll post before/after pics.
Also, as long as I don't end up deloading, next week is when i'm gonna start hitting weight PRs and really start feeling accomplished on that end.
Also, I'm down to 116kg after two and a bit weeks of cutting. I feel like I'm shrinking away to nothing, my lifts are dropping precipitously and my quad tendon isn't getting better. Harrumph.
So as I wait for the ingredients for my meal replacement stuff to get here, I've been experimenting with eating a very limited selection of mostly liquid stuff--basically at this point I'm subsisting on diet root beer/cream soda+heavy whipping cream (omg why did I not know about this), a bit of cottage cheese (gross no matter what I put in it, should have bought cream cheese), and a daily multivitamin. Hardly a sustainable diet, but I just moved and didn't want to buy an assortment of Real Food that will then sit around for an indeterminate amount of time.
I expected to feel like crap and be craving real food nonstop.
To my surprise, I feel better than I have in a long time. A few mouth ulcers I had cleared up very quickly, I'm getting none of my weird stomach problems, I'm sleeping and waking up comfortably, and most importantly: I'm not hungry. I don't have a gnawing incessant anxiety about food eating at me every moment of the day. I have around 10 fast food places within a half mile of me, and I've not visited one since my first day here. I'm logging very diligently, and I take in the amount of calories I choose to (1600-1800).
This isn't sustainable, obviously--god knows how many nutrients I'd end up deficient in after any length of time. But in a few days, I'll have the stuff that is--and I think it's going to go a lot better than I expected.
1600-1800 calories from only heavy whipping cream and a bit of cottage cheese seems... potentially problematic
Well, it's certainly not nutritionally complete. Or, uh, nutritional at all really. But I acknowledged that. I'll have the ingredients for a nutritionally complete diet tomorrow or the next day.
If you mean stomach problems...none at all.
If you mean saturated fat...well, I was taking in just as much when I did keto normally and was getting my calories primarily from fatty red meats and heavy cream in my coffee, and in a single month of doing so my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. all went from dire to healthy (dire test results triggered the diet because I didn't want to go on drugs at 23, at the follow up a month later my tests were completely healthy). And stayed that way for subsequent tests for the 4 months or so I stuck with it 100%. So I guess I buy into the 'saturated fat doesn't really matter (at least on keto?)' school of thought.
It's what I'm eating in a new house with no food in it while I wait for the stuff for my diet to get here tomorrow.
I'm just excited that eating this way, i.e. drinking ketogenic 'meals' with no variation, actually works much better for me mentally than I expected it would.
I'm not really sure why everyone's so eager to tell me it'd a bad diet, when I kinda said that already in the first post?
Like I'm not sure how you could be criticizing it AND not have already read that.
It's a health and fitness thread, people are going to comment when they see someone doing something that is counterproductive to those goals
Fair enough, I guess I was just excited to not have food cravings even though the move triggered depression which usually means binge eating (even when I did keto normally). Only eating 1600-1800 calories when I'm depressed is a huge deal to me, when it would have been much more normal for me to take advantage of the nearby restaurants or whatever I'd normally have in my kitchen (even healthy stuff) to rack up a tally closer to 4 or 5k.
I probably should have gone with 'I've managed to cut down to an appropriate amount of calories without having food cravings! Now I need to work on getting it nutritionally complete, but I already have some ideas for meals that will fill the gaps' and kept the distressing details to myself.
That was my first thought too, along with thinking that if switching from food to a diet completely consisting of soda and saturated fat makes you feel BETTER, I'd be talking to a doctor and a nutritionist because something is definitely not right.
I'm not doctor, but the sores is the mouth that went away when you switched out all grains makes me think you might want to ask a doctor about celiac's disease. Usually gluten is not an issue, but if you actually do have celiac's things would start making a whole lot more sense and in my limited background that's all I've ever heard of that would explain this.
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I mean, I get that it's a temporary thing and that you weren't at all suggesting it was healthy. But I still read through the whole thing with my mouth agape. And hey, it's your body, and you feel like it's worked for your situation, and that's fine. But if you're going to post something that you know is unhealthy you can't be that surprised when a few people question your actions.
It just... it just seems like such a weird direction to go.
I mean, I get that it's a temporary thing and that you weren't at all suggesting it was healthy. But I still read through the whole thing with my mouth agape. And hey, it's your body, and you feel like it's worked for your situation, and that's fine. But if you're going to post something that you know is unhealthy you can't be that surprised when a few people question your actions.
It just... it just seems like such a weird direction to go.
Yeah, I realized a few minutes ago that I was getting way to defensive over something I wouldn't actually recommend doing.
That was my first thought too, along with thinking that if switching from food to a diet completely consisting of soda and saturated fat makes you feel BETTER, I'd be talking to a doctor and a nutritionist because something is definitely not right.
I'm not doctor, but the sores is the mouth that went away when you switched out all grains makes me think you might want to ask a doctor about celiac's disease. Usually gluten is not an issue, but if you actually do have celiac's things would start making a whole lot more sense and in my limited background that's all I've ever heard of that would explain this.
I completely agree with this. If switching to that diet actually makes you feel better, then there's something in your normal diet that your body doesn't tolerate. And by "doesn't tolerate" I don't mean "you're normal diet is unhealthy", I mean "you may have a medical condition".
@Kamar does the meal replacement stuff you're waiting for contain gluten? If it does, watch out for some of those symptoms coming back. If they do, you should seriously try to get to a doctor for a diagnosis if at all physically possible.
That was my first thought too, along with thinking that if switching from food to a diet completely consisting of soda and saturated fat makes you feel BETTER, I'd be talking to a doctor and a nutritionist because something is definitely not right.
I'm not doctor, but the sores is the mouth that went away when you switched out all grains makes me think you might want to ask a doctor about celiac's disease. Usually gluten is not an issue, but if you actually do have celiac's things would start making a whole lot more sense and in my limited background that's all I've ever heard of that would explain this.
I completely agree with this. If switching to that diet actually makes you feel better, then there's something in your normal diet that your body doesn't tolerate. And by "doesn't tolerate" I don't mean "you're normal diet is unhealthy", I mean "you may have a medical condition".
@Kamar does the meal replacement stuff you're waiting for contain gluten? If it does, watch out for some of those symptoms coming back. If they do, you should seriously try to get to a doctor for a diagnosis if at all physically possible.
This is actually something I've considered, I'll probably see a doctor about it soon--my mother has the same GI symptoms I do and is diagnosed with IBS, but she says she's not sure they ever checked for Celiac's or anything else. Either way, the meal replacement is gluten-free too, so it shouldn't be an immediate problem either way.
That was my first thought too, along with thinking that if switching from food to a diet completely consisting of soda and saturated fat makes you feel BETTER, I'd be talking to a doctor and a nutritionist because something is definitely not right.
I'm not doctor, but the sores is the mouth that went away when you switched out all grains makes me think you might want to ask a doctor about celiac's disease. Usually gluten is not an issue, but if you actually do have celiac's things would start making a whole lot more sense and in my limited background that's all I've ever heard of that would explain this.
I completely agree with this. If switching to that diet actually makes you feel better, then there's something in your normal diet that your body doesn't tolerate. And by "doesn't tolerate" I don't mean "you're normal diet is unhealthy", I mean "you may have a medical condition".
@Kamar does the meal replacement stuff you're waiting for contain gluten? If it does, watch out for some of those symptoms coming back. If they do, you should seriously try to get to a doctor for a diagnosis if at all physically possible.
This is actually something I've considered, I'll probably see a doctor about it soon--my mother has the same GI symptoms I do and is diagnosed with IBS, but she says she's not sure they ever checked for Celiac's or anything else. Either way, the meal replacement is gluten-free too, so it shouldn't be an immediate problem either way.
I'd make a list of all the symptoms that you feel have gone away since starting your soda & cream diet. And take note of whether or not they remain under control after your meal replacement stuff gets in. That way you have a concrete set of diagnostically valuable symptoms to take with you to the doctor.
Got a bit of good news today. I actually decided to map the distance of my thrice weekly runs, and discovered that the app I was using has been incorrect, and I've been actually going twice the distance than I thought I was.
So, day one of drinking my stuff. Mixed it up without a blender or anything the first time, that was a terrible idea. I ended up with a thin white liquid with bits of like...salty cookie in it, thanks to the fiber stuff congealing with bits of the rest. Definitely not the best introduction.
Bottles two and three went down a lot better (I went and bought a blender bottle, as recommended by the instructions). Regretting 'cookies and creme' flavor for the protein powder base, though--it doesn't taste bad, but I immediately thought 'shoulda got chocolate'. I'm used to chocolate modified by weird other flavors, not so much cookies and creme. I only bought a small one, enough for a week, so I can change it up soon enough.
I have room for 'real food' if I want it, since the mix is only ~1400 calories/day, but I'm thinking I should hold off on 'cheating' for a bit--I'll just use floats and coffee to get some heavy cream down to bring my number sup, for now.
Perhaps the most important aspect is how it trivializes producing meals--I scoop the powder I mixed up the other day into a blender bottle, I add the heavy cream, I add the water, I shake it, and I put it in the refrigerator. Eating unhealthy is now more effort than eating healthy.
I'm wanting to add deadlifting back into my routine, but I am a weak baby
Any suggestions for someone who needs to at least start warmups with smaller plates? The 25 pounders are significantly closer to the ground than the 50 pound plates. I'm not really at the point where I can go to loading 100 pounds on the bar yet. Should I just lift from the ground, or somehow elevate the weights so they're closer to 'proper' height?
Also my hip flexibility is shit, any good stretches/ exercises to help me not fuck up my back?
I'm wanting to add deadlifting back into my routine, but I am a weak baby
Any suggestions for someone who needs to at least start warmups with smaller plates? The 25 pounders are significantly closer to the ground than the 50 pound plates. I'm not really at the point where I can go to loading 100 pounds on the bar yet. Should I just lift from the ground, or somehow elevate the weights so they're closer to 'proper' height?
Also my hip flexibility is shit, any good stretches/ exercises to help me not fuck up my back?
Elevate the bar to the proper height. This is best achieved with bumper plates if you have them available.
I'm wanting to add deadlifting back into my routine, but I am a weak baby
Any suggestions for someone who needs to at least start warmups with smaller plates? The 25 pounders are significantly closer to the ground than the 50 pound plates. I'm not really at the point where I can go to loading 100 pounds on the bar yet. Should I just lift from the ground, or somehow elevate the weights so they're closer to 'proper' height?
Also my hip flexibility is shit, any good stretches/ exercises to help me not fuck up my back?
Elevate the bar to the proper height. This is best achieved with bumper plates if you have them available.
if bumper plates aren't available stack some 45lb plates horizontally under the bar plates
I'm starting to count calories so I can focus on controlling my weight gains/losses a bit; how accurate is the BMR equation to figure out how many calories are naturally burned each day on basic physiological functions? At this point, I know I'm losing more calories than I'm taking in, but with work often getting in the way of a healthy eating, exercise and sleeping schedule, that likely has to do more with my lack of food intake than my amount of physical activity.
BMR is pretty accurate, just have to account for the calories you expend digesting, total calories intake, total expenditure to get a realistic idea of what to consume
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That was my first thought too, along with thinking that if switching from food to a diet completely consisting of soda and saturated fat makes you feel BETTER, I'd be talking to a doctor and a nutritionist because something is definitely not right.
I'm not doctor, but the sores is the mouth that went away when you switched out all grains makes me think you might want to ask a doctor about celiac's disease. Usually gluten is not an issue, but if you actually do have celiac's things would start making a whole lot more sense and in my limited background that's all I've ever heard of that would explain this.
I completely agree with this. If switching to that diet actually makes you feel better, then there's something in your normal diet that your body doesn't tolerate. And by "doesn't tolerate" I don't mean "you're normal diet is unhealthy", I mean "you may have a medical condition".
@Kamar does the meal replacement stuff you're waiting for contain gluten? If it does, watch out for some of those symptoms coming back. If they do, you should seriously try to get to a doctor for a diagnosis if at all physically possible.
This is actually something I've considered, I'll probably see a doctor about it soon--my mother has the same GI symptoms I do and is diagnosed with IBS, but she says she's not sure they ever checked for Celiac's or anything else. Either way, the meal replacement is gluten-free too, so it shouldn't be an immediate problem either way.
My mom also swears she has IBS but she has almost the exact same symptoms I had that led to my doctor really pushing for me to get tested for celiac. My antibodies test was negative but my symptoms were spot-on enough that she pushed for a biopsy - I also have good insurance so I could afford it - and I have the type of celiac disease that causes skin problems and blisters rather than intestinal damage, at least for right now. I've really struggled with not eating gluten which is why I went back to myfitnesspal (and I'm back in here again even though it can be super triggery for me), it helps me to have something to account myself to and also if I get symptoms I can look at the time period, what I ate in that time period, etc for possible cross-contamination or other food allergies. uhhh anyway back to my point: if your mom has similar symptoms and an IBS dx, it's possible that you could/you could both have celiac
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Between the fluctuations between my muscle mass, water weight and food it isn't all that accurate and all it does is make me paranoid.
I do this but the opposite - I use the "granny gears" to amble slowly up the hill and then wear myself out pedalling like a lunatic in the highest gear trying to break the sound barrier on the way down the hill.
by far the biggest hurdle for me is going to be feeling like I don't belong there, gotta charge up my ipod so I can forget all those other people exist
I dunno about that - peripheral skin temperature in sleep is mainly an endocrine issue - you're supposed to lower your body temperature prior to sleep, so better sleep quality and onset is associated with cold tummies and warm limbs. Vasodilation in the limbs is supposed to warm them up as they vent out your body heat.
I suppose increased vascularity in the limbs would facilitate this heat dissipation, certainly at the age when peripheral artery disease comes into play. And there have been studies showing that exercise improves the vasodilatory function in the extremities. However, studies that have shown exercise to be beneficial to sleep quality have not demonstrated significant differences in body temperature from controls. There was a study that showed increased slow wave sleep when you turned the thermostat to 27.5C in the middle of the night and brought it back before morning, but
Yeah I don't know. Exercise is good for sleep though
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I run and I like it for its simplicity but if you encounter problems with it it may be worth it to try a different avenue.
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i really like it so far. haven't deloaded yet, but the 3x5+ works pretty great for me considering I am doing kickboxing 3 days a week too. I don't think I could handle a true bodybuilding volume weightlifting program and still do kickboxing at the same time.
I've started to notice slight differences in body too. While i was doing kickboxing 5 times a week since mid-january and I did admittedly loose 2 inches on my waist doing that (34 -> 32), my body 'shape' was still pretty much the same.
3 weeks into lifitng + kickboxing and I'm starting to see a more lean looking me emerging.
Goal is still to be in the absolutely best shape and lean-ness of my life by October, but I think I can hit that by around July if I keep with this. When I get to where I want, I'll post before/after pics.
Also, as long as I don't end up deloading, next week is when i'm gonna start hitting weight PRs and really start feeling accomplished on that end.
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Also, I'm down to 116kg after two and a bit weeks of cutting. I feel like I'm shrinking away to nothing, my lifts are dropping precipitously and my quad tendon isn't getting better. Harrumph.
I expected to feel like crap and be craving real food nonstop.
To my surprise, I feel better than I have in a long time. A few mouth ulcers I had cleared up very quickly, I'm getting none of my weird stomach problems, I'm sleeping and waking up comfortably, and most importantly: I'm not hungry. I don't have a gnawing incessant anxiety about food eating at me every moment of the day. I have around 10 fast food places within a half mile of me, and I've not visited one since my first day here. I'm logging very diligently, and I take in the amount of calories I choose to (1600-1800).
This isn't sustainable, obviously--god knows how many nutrients I'd end up deficient in after any length of time. But in a few days, I'll have the stuff that is--and I think it's going to go a lot better than I expected.
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Well, it's certainly not nutritionally complete. Or, uh, nutritional at all really. But I acknowledged that. I'll have the ingredients for a nutritionally complete diet tomorrow or the next day.
If you mean stomach problems...none at all.
If you mean saturated fat...well, I was taking in just as much when I did keto normally and was getting my calories primarily from fatty red meats and heavy cream in my coffee, and in a single month of doing so my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. all went from dire to healthy (dire test results triggered the diet because I didn't want to go on drugs at 23, at the follow up a month later my tests were completely healthy). And stayed that way for subsequent tests for the 4 months or so I stuck with it 100%. So I guess I buy into the 'saturated fat doesn't really matter (at least on keto?)' school of thought.
One of the first rules of a good diet is to stop eating empty calories, not replace your entire diet with nutritionally worthless food.
It's what I'm eating in a new house with no food in it while I wait for the stuff for my diet to get here tomorrow.
I'm just excited that eating this way, i.e. drinking ketogenic 'meals' with no variation, actually works much better for me mentally than I expected it would.
I'm not really sure why everyone's so eager to tell me it'd a bad diet, when I kinda said that already in the first post?
Like I'm not sure how you could be criticizing it AND not have already read that.
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Fair enough, I guess I was just excited to not have food cravings even though the move triggered depression which usually means binge eating (even when I did keto normally). Only eating 1600-1800 calories when I'm depressed is a huge deal to me, when it would have been much more normal for me to take advantage of the nearby restaurants or whatever I'd normally have in my kitchen (even healthy stuff) to rack up a tally closer to 4 or 5k.
I probably should have gone with 'I've managed to cut down to an appropriate amount of calories without having food cravings! Now I need to work on getting it nutritionally complete, but I already have some ideas for meals that will fill the gaps' and kept the distressing details to myself.
I'm not doctor, but the sores is the mouth that went away when you switched out all grains makes me think you might want to ask a doctor about celiac's disease. Usually gluten is not an issue, but if you actually do have celiac's things would start making a whole lot more sense and in my limited background that's all I've ever heard of that would explain this.
It just... it just seems like such a weird direction to go.
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Yeah, I realized a few minutes ago that I was getting way to defensive over something I wouldn't actually recommend doing.
My bad, thread.
I completely agree with this. If switching to that diet actually makes you feel better, then there's something in your normal diet that your body doesn't tolerate. And by "doesn't tolerate" I don't mean "you're normal diet is unhealthy", I mean "you may have a medical condition".
@Kamar does the meal replacement stuff you're waiting for contain gluten? If it does, watch out for some of those symptoms coming back. If they do, you should seriously try to get to a doctor for a diagnosis if at all physically possible.
This is actually something I've considered, I'll probably see a doctor about it soon--my mother has the same GI symptoms I do and is diagnosed with IBS, but she says she's not sure they ever checked for Celiac's or anything else. Either way, the meal replacement is gluten-free too, so it shouldn't be an immediate problem either way.
I'd make a list of all the symptoms that you feel have gone away since starting your soda & cream diet. And take note of whether or not they remain under control after your meal replacement stuff gets in. That way you have a concrete set of diagnostically valuable symptoms to take with you to the doctor.
Bottles two and three went down a lot better (I went and bought a blender bottle, as recommended by the instructions). Regretting 'cookies and creme' flavor for the protein powder base, though--it doesn't taste bad, but I immediately thought 'shoulda got chocolate'. I'm used to chocolate modified by weird other flavors, not so much cookies and creme. I only bought a small one, enough for a week, so I can change it up soon enough.
I have room for 'real food' if I want it, since the mix is only ~1400 calories/day, but I'm thinking I should hold off on 'cheating' for a bit--I'll just use floats and coffee to get some heavy cream down to bring my number sup, for now.
Perhaps the most important aspect is how it trivializes producing meals--I scoop the powder I mixed up the other day into a blender bottle, I add the heavy cream, I add the water, I shake it, and I put it in the refrigerator. Eating unhealthy is now more effort than eating healthy.
Any suggestions for someone who needs to at least start warmups with smaller plates? The 25 pounders are significantly closer to the ground than the 50 pound plates. I'm not really at the point where I can go to loading 100 pounds on the bar yet. Should I just lift from the ground, or somehow elevate the weights so they're closer to 'proper' height?
Also my hip flexibility is shit, any good stretches/ exercises to help me not fuck up my back?
Elevate the bar to the proper height. This is best achieved with bumper plates if you have them available.
if bumper plates aren't available stack some 45lb plates horizontally under the bar plates
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My mom also swears she has IBS but she has almost the exact same symptoms I had that led to my doctor really pushing for me to get tested for celiac. My antibodies test was negative but my symptoms were spot-on enough that she pushed for a biopsy - I also have good insurance so I could afford it - and I have the type of celiac disease that causes skin problems and blisters rather than intestinal damage, at least for right now. I've really struggled with not eating gluten which is why I went back to myfitnesspal (and I'm back in here again even though it can be super triggery for me), it helps me to have something to account myself to and also if I get symptoms I can look at the time period, what I ate in that time period, etc for possible cross-contamination or other food allergies. uhhh anyway back to my point: if your mom has similar symptoms and an IBS dx, it's possible that you could/you could both have celiac
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