Advice on a 13 week personal challenge

[phoenix05]

So here's an update. As i said in another thread i had some back issues over the last few weeks which has stalled my progress.

I've just finished up getting it all checked out and x-rayed etc. I know what's wrong now, and it's not serious and easily managed and won't affect my training so that's a big relief. Back pain is not fun.

Anyway, i haven't been to get my BF % done for this month because of the injury and I'm happy to leave it that way. I've bought the UD2.0 and am planning that out right now. I'm going to start next Monday and see how i go.

One thing i did notice is the HUGE amount of carbs during the carb loading phase. I'm wondering how it's possible to actually eat the amount it says. I've been doing up my diet for next week when i start and i can't really find enough carbs to eat so much. I'm using pasta, rice etc to try and get it up, but the numbers are massive.

How have other people done this?

 

[phoenix05]

One thing i did notice is the HUGE amount of carbs during the carb loading phase. I'm wondering how it's possible to actually eat the amount it says. I've been doing up my diet for next week when i start and i can't really find enough carbs to eat so much. I'm using pasta, rice etc to try and get it up, but the numbers are massive.

How have other people done this?

I thought i'd throw another update out there, (I'm not sure it's very interesting to anyone but me though!)

I did two weeks of UD2.0 and just can't commit to the strictness of the diet right now. I had some success and felt like i achieved something out of it, but i just can't give the time to something like that at the moment. So I'm back aiming for around 500-700 calorie deficit in my diet and I'm lifting 3-4 times a week.

I hit 194 pounds yesterday and am very happy with that so far. My goal is around 178 i think. Depending on a few different things, but i've never really been below 185 so if i manage to get to my goals i'd be very very happy.

I'm going for another BF test in 2-3 weeks, so hopefully i get to see how much muscle i've lost at the same time.

I started back after the UD2.0 routine on Monday of this week and was lifting a little bit heavier than when i first started, so I'm happy that i haven't lost any strength. Hopefully that correlates to not losing muscle as well!

Actually that's something I've wondered about. If i increase my strength, or at least maintain it, does that automatically mean i must be adding muscle? Or at the very least maintaining it? Or can you actually lose muscle and gain strength?

So that's where I'm at so far. I'm enjoying being back on a diet that i can mix my food around on, instead of one so strict! Hopefully i can continue losing the fat.