Gallowmere1984 Member

@JoRocka it’s getting there. Had some bloodwork done recently out of curiosity, and got some rather unexpected results. It’ll be about four more weeks before I find out exactly how well I am responding to the dosing protocol, but early indicators are looking very good. Knowing now that I’ve been playing against a stacked…

This. After nine months of keto, I decided to have a drink with my girlfriend one night, just for *kitten* and grins. Granted, I’ve never been a huge drinker, so never had an exceptionally high tolerance. That said, a single shot of Jameson had me full-on stupid drunk within 20 minutes. I was asleep less than an hour…

Looks like ze gain train is finally back online (up 0.63 lbs. in the past week). It’s probably largely increased water retention due to my recent medical intervention, but at least it’s resulted in my no longer being annoyed at the thought of eating. Kcals are still being held constant at 3400/day until things stabilize a…

What were you using as protein sources? While amino acids do induce an insulin response, they’ve actually been shown repeatedly to decrease glucose levels in T2D patients, due to insulin’s nutrient shuttling effects, when paired with a lower carbohydrate intake.

My girlfriend is the same way. She’s 4’10” and has stayed between 85 and 100 lbs. for her entire adult life. Some people just never lose touch with their hunger/satiety signals. Hell, I was amazed when I realized that I had regained mine, given that I was obese from childhood. Unfortunately, this has made gaining phases a…

Not a bad idea. The more data, the better. Hell, I often have fasting glucose levels around 100-110, but my A1c is almost what one would call low-normal (4.9). Turns out my liver dumps a metric shitload of glucose first thing in the morning, in response to two things: caffeine and habitual early AM training. That said, I…

Not bad at all. Your body composition has drastically improved for such a relatively short period of time. I hear so much crap about people “getting old” when they’re in their mid-late 30s, so I always love seeing people higher up the age ladder than that decide to grab life by the satchel and get themselves in better…

Lyle McDonald’s Rapid Fat Loss Protocol. Basically eating nothing but a set amount of protein (formula based on LBM), enough essential fats to cover needs, a multivitamin, sodium, potassium and nothing else. Not something I’d recommend to anyone who doesn’t have extreme self-control, and a lot of masochism.

Ehh, I could see this, in a way, though my family survived on garbage for a long time, but my brother and I didn’t actually ask for any of it. When I was finally old enough to cook (about ten), we went from having cereal for breakfast, to scrambled eggs with hot sauce. I guess nothing says “I love you” quite like hooking…

Oh god, yeah, screw that noise. I was just making sure there was a legit reason, and you hadn’t fallen prey to the absurd “pregnant womens can’t be picking up heavy things” stuff.

This. Not quite a pear, but I’ve had apples of the exact same type that were as low as 48 kcals, and some as high as 113. I may or may not have issues, given that my scale weighs to the tenth of a gram.

Why exactly can’t you deadlift, or is it just that you’ve had to modify form?

You have pretty much everything there needed for building an amazing back. I’m not even sure what more you think could/should be added. I mean, I could come up with some kind of goofy contortionist movement whilst holding a dumbbell and call it “Russian Twisting Somethingorother” and it will go viral because it has Russian…

1.6? Pffffft. I get that much just from the vegetables, potatoes and nut butters that I eat. Don’t even get me started on the chicken, fish and eggs. /flex (or something)

Everyone responds differently, but man, I hope it goes better for you than it did for me. My one keto fulk was awful. All I got was fat, weak and tired. Amusingly, I actually progress in strength better on a PSMF cut than I did on a keto bulk.

Believe me, it’s not as great as one would think. It also actually appears to be getting worse, following my recent medical intervention. STILL shedding weight, in spite of the increase. Going to give it a week or two before increasing again, but this *kitten* is getting out of hand.

Just had to bump mine up to 3400, as I was shedding weight on 3150. Luckily, that’s only an extra sweet potato with some nut butter.

Oh believe me, there’s an upper intake. My very first keto fulk proved it. Between the chicken wings, 73/27 ground beef and beef/pork ribs, I gained 2.2-2.5 lbs./week. It definitely did not end with a good look. Hah.

Bioimpedance is horribly flawed. It’s not even good for consistency. Go pee, you’ll have lost a bunch of “muscle”. Go eat a bunch of sushi. The next day, you’re suddenly ready for the Olympia stage.

5’10”, up to 170 now, and gain has stalled with 3150 per day. Going to be bumping to 3400 next week, after I get some things straight with my doctor.

The only time fasted cardio has ever done anything for me in when getting extremely lean with the assistance of Yohimbine. Y’s usefulness is completely shut down in the presence of even small amounts of insulin above baseline for most, so even typical “fasted” tactics like BCAAs will render the whole thing pointless.

I’d throw in Ashwagandha and Curcumin under recovery. The first is an adaptogen, and the second is primarily an antinflammatory. Both are pretty well backed by research that can be verified via examine.com. However, both need to have piperine to have acceptable bioavailability.

It varies depending on individual needs and preferences. I’m currently 170 at 5’10” and having to eat 3150 kcals/day (about 200g protein) just to keep a slow gain (0.2-0.4 lbs./week) going. When I cut, it tends to be 1250-ish kcals/day of 90+% protein, using Lyle McDonald’s RFL protocol to cut roughly 15 lbs. in two weeks.

vOv I hit them in some fashion every day. On my lifting days, they get hit indirectly on two days via squats and deads, and directly on bench and overhead day. Dead Bugs and moving planks are part of my general warmup. On off days, my tempo cardio work includes 400 McGill situps.

I do too, for about the first four months. The inner fat kid is why I use said whole foods. My body starts getting pretty annoyed with the forced overfeeding after a while, though.

I’m on the opposite end now. It’s taking me 3150 kcals per day already, just to keep my paltry gain going. Since I utilize mostly whole foods even when bulking, I’m almost ready to cut, just from being sick of food.

I fulked once; never again. If I go over the 0.2-0.5 lbs./week range, I just get unacceptably fat. Recent bloodwork has shown exactly why this is, and I’m taking steps to remedy the problems.

Note to self for the future: trim off body hair before freaking out, thinking you’re getting fat on a bulk. 170.8 this morning, from the 163.4 I started at in September.

Yeap, just another day. My food for the day is already planned, prepped and in containers in the fridge.

Since ending my C1 RFL cut in early August at 163, I'm back to 168. Five pounds in three and a half months, so not bad. Right on track for my aim, which is 181 by next fall. I keep increasing my training aspects, so I'm currently stalled on weight gain, but that's expected. I'll see what happens on my JTM 5s realization…