Food/Diet and training hobbies
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@matt-wood Oh you soooo forgot, but isn't a good day of eating what you want great for the old leptin levels? Or that a old wives tale?
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@lee-woodman said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood Iām currently trying to bulk and have noticed an increase already after some decent consistency. I am more inclined to take measurements as opposed to weight - when do you think is the best time to measure certain muscles? Obviously if I come home from an upper body and measure my chest itāll skew the figures, when is the best time to get an accurate reading? I can see a growth in the mirror but for the first time Iād like to use accurate measurements
Morning Lee. Not a dirty bulk I hope
Measuring muscle growth, with a tape measure I assume, is quite tricky.
With regards to your 'pump' from the gym skewing the figures it would be safe to measure after an hour.
A few other things to consider though. Water and food (more importantly blood glucose) will make a difference. Try to pick the same time of day to do your measurements. I would recommend when you get up first thing, as you wont have eaten. The measurements will be slightly smaller as not salt, and food are at play here but it will be a more 'true' picture.
The biggest problem, however, is where to measure. A lot of people say measure the widest point of your thigh for example. But even in the same individual this can change over time and so skew the numbers.
The accepted way around this is to make use of 'Osteometric points' (bony points). These are places easily found on your skeleton which will give you a fixed point of reference (see the link).The third thing to consider would be, flexed or relaxed. Sounds obvious, but take upper arm as an example. Even if you bend your elbow slightly you will engage the biceps and therefore they will be slightly flexed. I used to take two measurements for all muscles, one 100% relaxed and one deliberately flexed as hard as possible. This is also a good way to somewhat account for the amount of fat in that area (being leaner should see a bigger difference between the two).
Lastly its much easier as a two person job!
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@matt-wood Iām currently trying to bulk and have noticed an increase already after some decent consistency. I am more inclined to take measurements as opposed to weight - when do you think is the best time to measure certain muscles? Obviously if I come home from an upper body and measure my chest itāll skew the figures, when is the best time to get an accurate reading? I can see a growth in the mirror but for the first time Iād like to use accurate measurements
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Right end of week 3 and the 7 day average weight is down just under 1lb. this means that my 7 day average weight is slightly over 3lbs less than my starting weight after christmas. 1lb a week is very respectable and sensible weight loss.
Waistline has come in just over 1 inch too, back to a 31" waist now. Biggest thing is in myself I don't feel 'soft' anymore.
Right the original plan was to start a 3 day fast at some point this week after the period of keto. This would probably happen around tuesday or weds.
However, a change of plan is required.
Now when starting/devising this plan after christmas I, absolutely, 100%, most certainly did NOT
forget that my good lady has a birthday at the end of Jan.So a pause in the weight loss plan. This is a great example though of real life affecting diets/exercise. It would be super easy now for me to just say aaaahhh F*** it, I will start again after. In my experience that mindset leads to never starting it up again.
So, a sensible week this week, everything in moderation, perhaps and extra cardio session, before birthday celebrations at the weekend with alcohol and shitty, but oh so nice food.
Following that back onto keto for probably a week, then resume the plan.
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood Yes, I even go all out and get fancy coffee and make it in the Aeropress lol
Oooooohhh look at Mr Barista over here
Can't beat that coffee first thing in the morning though
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@matt-wood Yes, I even go all out and get fancy coffee and make it in the Aeropress lol
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
The time thing worked for me, no coffee after X time and work through that way and also drink something else I enjoyed - I have tried reduced caffeine drinks to replace.
Now I am down to one in the morning and I look forward to it a lot.
This is the same as me. I only have two first thing now and I really look forward to them.
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@dave-hayes Well I would also add the lovely Kate to that can't get enough of list
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@dave-hayes Apart from Blake Lively
I'm a brunette man myself
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@dave-hayes Apart from Blake Lively
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@ryan said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
The time thing worked for me, no coffee after X time and work through that way and also drink something else I enjoyed - I have tried reduced caffeine drinks to replace.
Now I am down to one in the morning and I look forward to it a lot.Everything in Moderation is great.
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@lee-woodman said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
I definitely need to cut down, Iād say I have about 8 cups per day, and thatās on a day when working and donāt have any during the workday. Im quitting smoking first so one bad habit at a timeā¦.!
Well done Lee and though I have never smoked, I admire the sentence I'm quitting; well done on that
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I definitely need to cut down, Iād say I have about 8 cups per day, and thatās on a day when working and donāt have any during the workday. Im quitting smoking first so one bad habit at a timeā¦.!
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone got tips on giving up caffeine?! I swear heroin is easier to kick! I know I use caffeine to help control my ADHD. While caffeine can make people hyper, it has the opposite effect on me. It slows my thought process down, it stops the 101 thoughts racing through my head. In essence, I'm self medicating via caffeine. Any suggestions warmly accepted!
Interesting you should liken it to Heroin. Caffeine has the same/very similar chemical effect on our bodies that cocaine does, probably why its so addictive.
Best advice I can give is to reduce the amount slowly over time. I used to drink loads, now I have two cups first thing and decaff after that. You could reduce it via time, e.g. no caffeine after 3pm, then bring that time earlier and earlier. Or limit the amount of cups per day. A combination of the two would probably be best.
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@keith-anderson said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
Anyone got tips on giving up caffeine?! I swear heroin is easier to kick! I know I use caffeine to help control my ADHD. While caffeine can make people hyper, it has the opposite effect on me. It slows my thought process down, it stops the 101 thoughts racing through my head. In essence, I'm self medicating via caffeine. Any suggestions warmly accepted!
Keith, this might help, but my wife loves coffee, til she had a health check up a few weeks ago and the one thing that was pushing her BP up was Coffee, so we switched to Decaf and its been a lot better since.
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@keith-anderson I used to drink a lot of coffee and something that helped me cut down was keeping track of how much I was drinking. I was averaging about 10 mugs a day and once I realised that I slowly cut down. Have you tried to track how much you drink? You can also try and spot if there's any triggers such as automatically doing it first thing in the morning, could you try and wait a little bit so it's a more conscious decision?
Another tip which might work is get yourself some decent decaf coffee. Sometimes it's the process of making the coffee and having a warm drink rather than the coffee itself. If you have some nicer decaf coffee you might be more willing to reach for that as it's a better experience.
I know these are more for reducing coffee rather than cutting it out completely.
As for 101 thoughts, I have a small notepad and just write stuff down or draw random shapes in which I feel helps reset my thinking. Then again, I had a housemate with ADHD and he refused to write anything down and didn't like the idea of doing something that didn't have an valid outcome.
