70 days / 20 lbs till New Year's Day challenge
lowcarbmale
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Hello everyone,
this is my first thread. I saw the 12 weeks till Christmas challenge and really liked it. Sadly, I joined a little bit to late to participate in it. Therefore I am starting a new challenge and everybody is invited to take this journey with me.
This year I'm going to outsmart the danger of new year's resolutions and have it completed before the new years starts on January 1st
My current weight is 91kg / 200 lbs (male, 185cm) and my goal is to lose 20 lbs until New Year's Day.
My goal is to workout every morning for no more than 60 minutes including the short run to the gym. My diet will be low carb / low lectins. For the first time in my life I want to achieve a real sixpack.
To keep myself accountable I will measure my weight every morning and post it here with a picture of my upper body (without the face
).
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this is my first thread. I saw the 12 weeks till Christmas challenge and really liked it. Sadly, I joined a little bit to late to participate in it. Therefore I am starting a new challenge and everybody is invited to take this journey with me.
This year I'm going to outsmart the danger of new year's resolutions and have it completed before the new years starts on January 1st
My current weight is 91kg / 200 lbs (male, 185cm) and my goal is to lose 20 lbs until New Year's Day.
My goal is to workout every morning for no more than 60 minutes including the short run to the gym. My diet will be low carb / low lectins. For the first time in my life I want to achieve a real sixpack.
To keep myself accountable I will measure my weight every morning and post it here with a picture of my upper body (without the face
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https://www.fitwatch.com/blog/the-2-pounds-per-week-rule-and-how-to-burn-fat-faster
Starting at 200lbs, with only 10 weeks, you'll be working hard to lose 20lbs. Don't be discouraged if it takes longer. Be smart and careful. Good luck.1 -
thank you
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Day One
Here we go. I only had a light soup for dinner last night and no breakfast this morning.
Day 1: 195.5lbs
Target: -20lbs -> 175.5 lbs (77.3kg) .
Up next: morning workout
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Sounds like a good way to lose muscle...4
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I have about 16% bodyfat according to my scale. If was considering sticking with the original plan (175lbs / 79.3kg) but then it wouldn't be a 25lbs challenge. I agree 170.3lbs is pretty ambitious. Let's do it 0
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lowcarbmale wrote: »Day One
Here we go. I only had a light soup for dinner last night and no breakfast this morning.
Day 1: 195.5lbs
Target: -25lbs -> 170.5 lbs (77.3kg) .
Up next: morning workout
It...kinda sounds like you're starving yourself. Think about what your goals really are, as in, what do you want your body to be/do for the rest of your life? You genuinely risk damaging your health by what you're doing.0 -
Myfitnesspal tells me that I can eat 1570 kcal / day. No too bad since I plan getting all my carbs from vegetables and in intermittent fasting style. That's a pretty big meal.0
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TavistockToad wrote: »Sounds like a good way to lose muscle...
I actually hope to gain some lean muscle during that time.5 -
lowcarbmale wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Sounds like a good way to lose muscle...
I actually hope to gain some lean muscle during that time.
really? good luck with that then.2 -
lowcarbmale wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Sounds like a good way to lose muscle...
I actually hope to gain some lean muscle during that time.
Not happening on 1570 per day!2 -
Ok ok guys. I'll add some more numbers tomorrow including body fat and muscle mass in the different body regions.
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lowcarbmale wrote: »Ok ok guys. I'll add some more numbers tomorrow including body fat and muscle mass in the different body regions.
great post - this is exactly why people have been giving you useful advice.
if you don't want to take it then that's fine, but someone saying something you don't want to hear doesn't make it wrong.10 -
lowcarbmale wrote: »Ok ok guys. I'll add some more numbers tomorrow including body fat and muscle mass in the different body regions.
Lifting people up doesn't generally happen by encouraging people to continue with plans to starve themselves and expecting to build muscle in an aggressive deficit.
Building muscle requires an energy surplus which requires you to be eating more calories, not less.
Your TDEE even at sedentary, with your current stats is around 2550 so by eating as little as you are you are in a 1000 calorie deficit. That sort of deficit is only suitable for someone who is obese, you're not.
When you have that steep of a deficit and you're a normal weight, your body can only metabolise a certain amount of fat, and will then start burning other readily available fuels such as muscle..... you see where we are going with this?
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Don't feed the troll guys 2
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Day 1: Stats after first workout.
I don't assume 100% accuracy of these stats. Measurement errors should average out over time but I expect these values to go up and down a little bit from day to day.
Total body fat: 16%
Right arm: 10.7%
Left arm: 11.3%
Trunk: 17.3% <- reducing this is my main goal
Right Leg: 16.8%
Left Leg: 15.5%
Total muscle: 156.6lb
Right Arm: 10.2lb
Left arm: 10.4lb
Trunk: 84.8lb
Right Leg: 25.8lb
Left leg: 26.2lb
Fat:
Muscle:
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Day 1: 195.5 lbs / 156.6 lbs muscle /16%
Day 2: 195.6 lbs / 159.4 lbs muscle /14.3% (the muscle / fat can obviously not be 100% accurate on this scale)
Summary Day 1: No weight loss so far, but I feel like the workout brought some more water into the muscles.
Time for the morning workout
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you were expecting visual difference in ONE day? :huh:2
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Pretty aggressive deficit regiment for someone who is not morbidly obese. I hope you're keeping up your protein levels.
I've generally heard recommended that people in an aggressive deficit may want to limit cardio and emphasize the retention of their strength by strength training at a lower volume but equal intensity/weights to how they were strength training before the deficit.1 -
Pretty aggressive deficit regiment for someone who is not morbidly obese. I hope you're keeping up your protein levels.
I've generally heard recommended that people in an aggressive deficit may want to limit cardio and emphasize the retention of their strength by strength training at a lower volume but equal intensity/weights to how they were strength training before the deficit.
I've had 106 grams of protein and 66 grams of fat yesterday plus a lot of salad and spinach shake. I'm trying to limit the amount of cardio and focus on HIT. I think the 20 minutes of running to the gym and back should be enough cardio. It's also a good warmup and cooldown exercise for me. If during the time I feel like doing some cardio too I would probably add a short run (10K) or a spinning class from time to time.0 -
Day 3
Day 1: 195.5 lbs / 156.6 lbs muscle /16% fat
Day 2: 195.6 lbs / 159.4 lbs muscle /14.3% fat
Day 3: 194.4 lbs / 156.2 lbs muscle / 15.5% fat *
*Measurement errors in fat and muscle mass are expected to be +-2%. The trend will average out over time.
Time for the morning workout
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Day 4
Day 1: 195.5 lbs / 156.6 lbs muscle /16% fat
Day 2: 195.6 lbs / 159.4 lbs muscle /14.3% fat
Day 3: 194.4 lbs / 156.2 lbs muscle / 15.5% fat
Day 4: 195.6 lbs / 160.6 lbs muscle / 13.8% fat *
*Measurement errors in fat and muscle mass are expected to be +-2%. The trend will average out over time.
Yesterday I had a leg day at the gym and also did some core (abs, back) training. I don't expect a lot more water to go into the muscles after today. After 3 days of workouts and very low carb intake (<20 /day) I have achieved ketosis and don't feel hungry anymore, which is nice. I try to stay in the 110-130 g protein and below the 100g of fat range per day. If anyone wants to follow my macros feel free to add me.
Time for a morning workout
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<20 carbs, 130 protein, and 100 grams of fat adds up to a maximum of 1200 calories. For a male, that's still VLCD territory. Minimum recommended is 1500. This isn't safe or smart.1
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Yeah I went right through these targets the last couple of days though. Since I am not very strict about the calories and worked out quite a hard I averaged about 1900 the past three days.0
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autumnblade75 wrote: »<20 carbs, 130 protein, and 100 grams of fat adds up to a maximum of 1200 calories. For a male, that's still VLCD territory. Minimum recommended is 1500. This isn't safe or smart.
This thread has been shut down once for promoting unsafe weight loss, so....1 -
@TavistockToad : The target has already been reduced to 20 lbs to be within the community rules of 2 lbs / week. If you have nothing positive to contribute please leave my thread alone. I'll stick with posting numbers and pictures so that you don't have anything to complain about. Thanks.
@autumnblade75 : I appreciate your feedback. Nothing to worry about though. I eat a lot of greens, healthy oils and nutritious foods. I don't want to go a lot higher with the protein because too much protein is not particularly good for the kidneys. If you want to lose fat on a ketogenic diet at one point (>100g of fat / day) there just isn't a lot of advantage in adding another 50, 100 or 150g of fats in the diet since for the body it just doesn't make a big difference if it uses my body fat or the external fat. The body definitely needs fat, but if you focus on the healthy fats (avocado, native olive oil, organic coconut oil, walnut oil, flaxseed oil etc.) it doesn't need hundreds of grams per day to work perfectly.0 -
Oh, hey. I don't know you well enough to worry about your organs and muscle mass. I'll be sad if you get the thread locked again before we reach the end of this journey and then you can't show us the results.
If you're eating 1900 calories instead of the 1200 you're advocating, all you need to do is adjust your goals up to your actual consumption level, and then everyone can feel just a little uneasy and remind you that it's a marathon and not a sprint - you didn't gain the weight overnight, so why should it come back off so quickly, you know, all that jazz. I'm a little queasy picturing you just drinking straight olive oil to get the calories in, since the protein is bad for your kidneys, and carbs are the devil... But, that's none of my business.4 -
ok0
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Day 5
Day 1: 195.5 lbs / 156.6 lbs muscle /16% fat
Day 2: 195.6 lbs / 159.4 lbs muscle /14.3% fat
Day 3: 194.4 lbs / 156.2 lbs muscle / 15.5% fat
Day 4: 195.6 lbs / 160.6 lbs muscle / 13.8% fat
Day 5: 194.6 lbs / 159.9 lbs muscle / 14 % fat
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Day 6
Day 1: 195.5 lbs / 156.6 lbs muscle /16% fat
Day 2: 195.6 lbs / 159.4 lbs muscle /14.3% fat
Day 3: 194.4 lbs / 156.2 lbs muscle / 15.5% fat
Day 4: 195.6 lbs / 160.6 lbs muscle / 13.8% fat
Day 5: 194.6 lbs / 159.9 lbs muscle / 14 % fat
Day 6: 195.5 lbs / 159.0 lbs muscle / 14.8 % fat
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Day 7
Day 1: 195.5 lbs / 156.6 lbs muscle /16% fat
Day 2: 195.6 lbs / 159.4 lbs muscle /14.3% fat
Day 3: 194.4 lbs / 156.2 lbs muscle / 15.5% fat
Day 4: 195.6 lbs / 160.6 lbs muscle / 13.8% fat
Day 5: 194.6 lbs / 159.9 lbs muscle / 14 % fat
Day 6: 195.5 lbs / 159.0 lbs muscle / 14.8 % fat
Day 7: 193.2 lbs / 155.2 lbs muscle / 15.6 % fat
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