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I have been doing great on my diet lately. Only thing I had this weekend as a treat was some dark chocolate.
I also let myself have home fries with my omelets both Saturday and Sunday mornings since I do not eat much on weekends. I find having the potatoes help with my energy since its my main meal during the day, then I do heavy weight training and some HIIT that same day. After workouts I eat dinner. I think I should snack more during the day on weekends since my hardest workouts are on the weekends.
But I am already seeing changes from my tough workouts. I love being on the weight machine side of the gym. I cant stand being on the treadmill for hours. I feel I get a lot of out of my workouts doing weights and I am seeing changes in strength and tone of my body. I see myself sometimes doing the same weight on the leg machines as some guys and I am half their size! So cool :)
Diet Calendar Entry for 08 December 2014:
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1247 kcal
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Fat: 62.52g | Prot: 90.14g | Carb: 88.00g.
Breakfast: Cream (Half & Half), Truvia Sweetener (Packet), Coffee, Bananas, Applegate Farms Uncured Good Morning Bacon, Egg. Lunch: Mozzarella Cheese, Nature's Promise Organic Ketchup, Udi's Gluten Free Hot Dog Buns, Applegate Farms Natural Beef Hot Dogs, Cooked Spaghetti Squash, Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce, Chicken Breast. Snacks/Other: Atkins Advantage Mudslide Bar. more...
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You seem really excited about strength gains...have you considered getting into powerlifting?
08 Dec 14 by member: chadlius88
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Sorry I havnt responded!!! I am not sure I want to powerlift..its funny because I love lifting.. at the end of an hour of training, I get this surge of energy that I want to keep lifting and training but I know I cannot because my muscles are now jello LOL! I love training but I have specific goals on how I want my body to look. So I have to be careful to an extent of how much I lift. After working with a trainer, I learned I have the body type to make fast gains and that can lead to more bulk -because of the amount of a certain type of muscle fiber I have, with this in mind I am trying not to get too carried away...=)
16 Dec 14 by member: Panigale1199
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Understood- but despite what your trainer has said, powerlifting doesn't have to modify how you wish to look. I will tell you that no matter how genetically gifted you may be, a woman's body is not meant to gain a lot of muscle. That being said, unless you are on some sort of chemical enhancement, you will not grow much at all. Your strength gains will be from an increase in the density of your type IIa and type IIb muscle fibers, giving you more of what is known industrially as "muscle tone", rather than size. Some size increases will come, but how much size you gain would be completely under your control. On top of all this, you have to be on a calorie surplus to gain any significant size in the first place, which you are not.
16 Dec 14 by member: chadlius88
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You are doing great and keep up with the strength training and throw some cardio in and by all means dont stay on the treadmill for hours you never get anywhere. lol
16 Dec 14 by member: Rockiesfan
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Haha I know I hate the treadmills as it is..if I do cardio I mostly do sprints once a week.
As per the powerlifting- I agree with you, I did lots of research in the paleo community that busts these myths of women getting bulky..and I do eat a lot more then a typical girl, if I don't I seem to get dizzy, so I found 5 meals a day is ideal..it seems that is what my body wants now that I am training more. But its funny how deep down a tiny voice is saying to be worried about getting bigger (muscle mass) because I have seen photos of women who lift heavy and I can say I do not want to look like them AT ALL. But like you mentioned, they could be using other drugs or eating twice as much as I do. I will keep lifting and try not to worry to much about size :) thanks for the support
18 Dec 14 by member: Panigale1199
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18 Dec 14 by member: chadlius88
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