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  • empressichel
    empressichel Posts: 730 Member
    I do a lot of gardening and yard work in the summer.
    I either eat more to compensate (tend to be much hungrier anyway because of the increase in activity) or I use part of it to make a natural deficit so I can cut in the summer months.
    It's natural cycles for me to cut in the summer then maintain/bulk in the winter.
    It's so much easier when you can lean into your lifestyle rather than fight against it!
    Ichel
    Team EM2WL
  • tj0861
    tj0861 Posts: 48 Member
    empressichel wrote: »
    I do a lot of gardening and yard work in the summer.
    I either eat more to compensate (tend to be much hungrier anyway because of the increase in activity) or I use part of it to make a natural deficit so I can cut in the summer months.
    It's natural cycles for me to cut in the summer then maintain/bulk in the winter.
    It's so much easier when you can lean into your lifestyle rather than fight against it!
    Ichel
    Team EM2WL

    Now THAT makes perfect sense. I'm really struggling with eating enough lately, even though the weekly scale is still high and it's not time to measure again (1st of the month). Some of the reasons are:
    A: I'm just not hungry.
    B: There are not enough hours in the day to eat all it appears I should.
    C: KNOWING and DOING are two totally different things.
    D: It's soooooooo counterintuitive for me to FORCE myself to eat. Makes me feel all wrong and cranky.
    E: I'm afraid that when I say I'm lifting, y'all are thinking HEAVY WEIGHTS, and it's not, really. You've seen what I've posted, so you know it's not like I'm deadlifting my body weight or anything like that. So do I REALLY burn that much in a 30-minute session? I just don't know.

    Started a new job last week, so I'll be less sedentary, and hopefully my stress hormones will decrease as well, because while it's a more detailed job, the environment is MUCH better. And we have a week of vacation scheduled in June, which I'm dreading, because it means hearing from my family that it looks like I'm gaining weight .... blah, blah, blah ....

    So bottom line is all this is making me hate me right now, and I really can't afford to hate me. I'm aware this all sounds a little garbled, and I'm sorry for that, it's just bubbling out in whatever order it floats into my head and then to my fingertips.

    All that said ..... time to get our gym shoes and head for the weights!!! Thanks for letting me VENT!!!!!!!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Good venting - anytime!
    You hate the situation, not you. Without any comments the situation could be without any issues and totally pleasant. Stand tall and strong and confident as you should be for what you've accomplished - that many times fools people anyway from commenting.

    Heavy lifting is relative to your training and experience and amount of muscle.

    Some just starting could do 3 sets x 15 reps of just their body weight in squats, be dying at the end, and hurt tomorrow.

    Just like someone more experienced could do 2x their body weight for same sets & reps.

    If rests is about the same 2-4 min between sets, then each is burning about 3.5 x their BMR in calories. (per min amount)

    Which really isn't that much in comparison to say cardio. That's a good strong walk calorie burn.

    And if it was easy for the 2nd person - guess who got the better workout and actually burned those calories?

    Now - eventually those body weight squats will get easy.
    If you keep doing those exact sets/reps, now it becomes a waste of time really and burns less calories, no pressure on your body at all.
    If you lose weight and keep it up - now you'll lose strength lifting even less.

    Progressive is the requirement for improvement - must be progressing in reps or weight, or little of both.
  • empressichel
    empressichel Posts: 730 Member
    Hope the new job works out well.
    Heavy is relative. What feels heavy to me would be light to the next person and so on.
    As long as you are progressing. Are you lifting more than you were 6 months ago? Then that is heavy, for you!
    I purposefully don't post what I lift because comparison is the thief of joy!
    Just do you. Track your weights and keep pushing to make progression.
    And periodisation is everything!
    http://eatmore2weighless.com/periodization-key-preventing-plateaus/
    Ichel
    Team EM2WL
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