I did my "homework" thanks for the cool tool.
I'd been on a diet consisting of replacing most carbs, sans fruits, with a VERY large greens salad for 2 months and went from 319 to 278.
I got stronger and stronger working: I work in Joplin on the debris chain saw crew. When i say I move 50 pound logs for 6 hours a day I mean, we cut them, haul them out by hand 25-30 yards and stack them, all damn day.
I spent the first month coming home and putting ice on every damn joint I had, popping ibuprofen and eating dinner and going to bed at 9 pm. I grabbed mega vitamin pacs, collodial minerals and a glucosmine/joint drink and started feeling 100% better so started my standard "damn am I out of shape workouts":
Deadlift 185pds for 6 sets aiming and eventually getting to sets of 8
pushups because no bench yet and lets face it; I'm fat. I'm up to 18 for first set then 3 more to failure each set.
finish with a 2 mile walk up and down hills, not terribly steep, 50 foot rise over 1/4 mile.
3 times a week; month went GREAT.
Weight stagnated at 278. I couldn't go up and I couldn't go down.
SOoooo, like a moron, last week, I just went to a fruit, vegtable, liquid protein diet.
I started off monday humping logs but by wed I was blown by lunch.
I was so damn tired friday I didn't work out.
I did, on the weekend, literally eat all of my parents leftovers and Monday I was felling great again, same
diet.
I did the homework tuesday and found I'd dropped my food intake below 1000 calories; ouch.
So, did some adjusting and got calories back up to 1475 and felt better.
My question:
The fitday says I should be consuming nearly 7000 calories, one more time, 7000 calories.
I know my job is very hard physical labor but even with 3 work outs a week this seems wayyy to much.
Oh,
46
272 today
very experienced lifter but I've relied on the ole, whats cheap diet for a long time.
current diet
banana, whey protein 23g, coffee
proten drink mix 23g
1 pound of mixed fruit and caffine stimulant
protein drink mix 23g
1 pound of non-starchy mixed veggies
protein drink mix 23g
2cups cantalope
(altered yesterday by adding)
6 ounce very lean steak (beef) and one baked potato
2 cups watermelon
the simple matter is that I want to continue the rapid weight loss but not at the expense of losing muscle and SURE as hell don't want to feel like I did last week.
So, more starchy veggies?, up the protein?, and really 7000 calories seems excessive to me.
Thank you to all of you that participate on this board my head hurts from the reading already.
I'd been on a diet consisting of replacing most carbs, sans fruits, with a VERY large greens salad for 2 months and went from 319 to 278.
I got stronger and stronger working: I work in Joplin on the debris chain saw crew. When i say I move 50 pound logs for 6 hours a day I mean, we cut them, haul them out by hand 25-30 yards and stack them, all damn day.
I spent the first month coming home and putting ice on every damn joint I had, popping ibuprofen and eating dinner and going to bed at 9 pm. I grabbed mega vitamin pacs, collodial minerals and a glucosmine/joint drink and started feeling 100% better so started my standard "damn am I out of shape workouts":
Deadlift 185pds for 6 sets aiming and eventually getting to sets of 8
pushups because no bench yet and lets face it; I'm fat. I'm up to 18 for first set then 3 more to failure each set.
finish with a 2 mile walk up and down hills, not terribly steep, 50 foot rise over 1/4 mile.
3 times a week; month went GREAT.
Weight stagnated at 278. I couldn't go up and I couldn't go down.
SOoooo, like a moron, last week, I just went to a fruit, vegtable, liquid protein diet.
I started off monday humping logs but by wed I was blown by lunch.
I was so damn tired friday I didn't work out.
I did, on the weekend, literally eat all of my parents leftovers and Monday I was felling great again, same
diet.
I did the homework tuesday and found I'd dropped my food intake below 1000 calories; ouch.
So, did some adjusting and got calories back up to 1475 and felt better.
My question:
The fitday says I should be consuming nearly 7000 calories, one more time, 7000 calories.
I know my job is very hard physical labor but even with 3 work outs a week this seems wayyy to much.
Oh,
46
272 today
very experienced lifter but I've relied on the ole, whats cheap diet for a long time.
current diet
banana, whey protein 23g, coffee
proten drink mix 23g
1 pound of mixed fruit and caffine stimulant
protein drink mix 23g
1 pound of non-starchy mixed veggies
protein drink mix 23g
2cups cantalope
(altered yesterday by adding)
6 ounce very lean steak (beef) and one baked potato
2 cups watermelon
the simple matter is that I want to continue the rapid weight loss but not at the expense of losing muscle and SURE as hell don't want to feel like I did last week.
So, more starchy veggies?, up the protein?, and really 7000 calories seems excessive to me.
Thank you to all of you that participate on this board my head hurts from the reading already.
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