Sub 10% by April

[DIVINITUS]

Current Diet:

Actual calories are more around 1930. I've built in 100 calories of wiggle room on purpose because I suck at eyeballing chicken at my work meals so I usually overestimate. That and if I want an additional cup of coffee it still fits within my calories.

this is something I found with Fitday and feel free to correct me if I fucked up, but the egg whites I use are more calories than what is listed for yours. My egg whites at home are 30 cals a piece and 6 grams of protein thus making your number of 12 egg whites worth 360 calories. Seems standard for what I buy in the store...Fitday needs to be corrected more than I thought sometimes.

 

[danzik17]

this is something I found with Fitday and feel free to correct me if I fucked up, but the egg whites I use are more calories than what is listed for yours. My egg whites at home are 30 cals a piece and 6 grams of protein thus making your number of 12 egg whites worth 360 calories. Seems standard for what I buy in the store...Fitday needs to be corrected more than I thought sometimes.

That would be interesting if Fitday has been screwing me over diet wise

 

[danzik17]

So test results are in.........

Negative for hypothyroid.

Which is good kinda and sucks kinda. It sucks in that I don't know what else I could have done to lean out more than I did which was still several % short of my goal.

Contemplating a full break for at least 4-6 weeks during which I'll train for strength and whatever size or composition changes that happen to tag along for the ride. The only thing that I can thing of is that I've been trying to get cut for SO long that it's stressing me the fuck out and I just need to take a break for a while (idea sourced from the latest Lyle podcast from RealityBasedFitness.com).

That I'm not hypothyroid also means that my natural metabolism is just absurdly low (I gain fat on calories as low as 2400/day). That's made a lot of my cutting an absolute nightmare since to get any appreciable amount of fat loss entails cutting calories to VERY low levels.

Oh well. Rant over.

 

[nkira]

I am getting myself checked for the same thing, My TSH came in high with high T3......I am looking for a doctor.

So test results are in.........

Negative for hypothyroid.

Which is good kinda and sucks kinda. It sucks in that I don't know what else I could have done to lean out more than I did which was still several % short of my goal.

Contemplating a full break for at least 4-6 weeks during which I'll train for strength and whatever size or composition changes that happen to tag along for the ride. The only thing that I can thing of is that I've been trying to get cut for SO long that it's stressing me the fuck out and I just need to take a break for a while (idea sourced from the latest Lyle podcast from RealityBasedFitness.com).

That I'm not hypothyroid also means that my natural metabolism is just absurdly low (I gain fat on calories as low as 2400/day). That's made a lot of my cutting an absolute nightmare since to get any appreciable amount of fat loss entails cutting calories to VERY low levels.

Oh well. Rant over.

 

[danzik17]

Decision made - I'll be doing what Built described as "powerbuilding" for at a minimum the next 4-6 weeks.

Will be starting a new journal probably tomorrow night when I have time with more information about diet/training.

Tonights training was:

Squat
Dead Press
Leg Press
Standing Shoulder Press

Upcoming Wednesday working will probably be something like:

Deadlifts
T-Bars
GHRs
Rows

I am committed to adding on at least 5lb to my lifts on a weekly basis. For stuff like squats/deads that should be easy stuff, but will likely be harder for dead press/DB bench/rows, etc...

More detailed info to come in the new journal.