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12 January 2014
My first full week of careful logging ended yesterday (I retroactively logged Saturday the 4th as best I could, but the real first full week was Sunday, 1/5-Saturday, 1/11).
Sunday: -604
Monday: -1,064
Tuesday: -21
Wednesday: -1,090
Thursday: -652
Friday: -301
Saturday: +633
Total: -3,099
A few things I noticed:
1) Big deficits on training days (which feel easy—my hunger usually hits the next day) are followed by waking up ravenous. The end of this week was a black hole of hunger, and the bounceback on Saturday is evident, despite making a solid effort to up intake on Friday.
2) I'm not trying to log activity minutely (i.e. on work-from-home non-training days, I'm mostly not adding anything to "resting" and "sleeping," even though I am a bit more active than just those things—cooking, walking the three and a half flights to my apartment, etc., and there exists the "desk work" option). Not sure if in the long term I want to try to be more specific, or if I just want to leave this as a kind of extra margin.
3) Speaking of extra margin, obviously there's no way to account for post-lifting EPOC (the metabolic demands of restoring homeostasis) & rebuilding the minute tears in muscle that catalyze new growth. People say when "recomping," you eat slightly above maintenance caloric needs to fuel that process, but in a caloric deficit you're obviously not building significant muscle tissue, so is that need obliterated? Anecdotal experience suggests that the day after lifting, my metabolism (as evidenced by hunger) is still running really high, but there's no specific way to quantify that, as far as I know.
4) I don't like the thing on FatSecret where it gives you the red light about RDI; I wish I could set it to peg target intake to an ideal deficit (i.e. 500 calories below activity level)—sticking to the regular RDI on a training day is markedly unwise, and I wish the red-light icon didn't disincentivize appropriate increases in intake.
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06 January 2014
Weigh-in:
275.0 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
30.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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gaining 0.8 lb a week
07 October 2013
Weigh-in:
265.0 lb
lost so far:
1.5 lb
still to go:
20.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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gaining 3.2 lb a week
26 September 2013
Weigh-in:
260.0 lb
lost so far:
6.5 lb
still to go:
15.0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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losing 2.4 lb a week
07 September 2013
Weigh-in:
266.5 lb
lost so far:
0 lb
still to go:
21.5 lb
Diet followed N/A
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