MattNeilsen wrote: ↑Sun Apr 01, 2018 6:28 pm
AaronM wrote: ↑Tue Mar 27, 2018 8:11 am
3/27/18
Weight:
192lb
Waist: 37/33" (relaxed/sucked in)
I haven't been this light since spring of last year. I hate to admit it, but I think I feel better overall weighing less. When my weight gets much above 200lb I really feel the increase in gut size, and feel short of breath and have a hard time bending over to tie my shoes. Also, weighing more = tight pants = back pain. #amiright? Hopefully weighing less translates to better physical performance for running, conditioning, and bodyweight exercises.
Looking over last years logbook, all my body measurements are fairly similar; my chest is 0.5-1" bigger, waist 0.5" smaller, hips 0.5" wider, and thighs are substantially larger at
1.5" wider. No wonder running is more difficult now.
Weight loss sure comes easy for me. All I had to do was cut back on the heavy cream in my cereal and stop eating pumpkin seeds on the way to school and work. So, that's about 3k cals less a week. Oh, and I've started running 1x/week.
You and I are pretty similar in dimensions (I just recently added mine in my log). When I did LP for the first time a couple years ago I got up to 230 lbs and didn't feel great - ended up eventually dropping down to ~196-198 lbs at my lowest. Like you, I felt a helluva lot better at the lower weight, but I wasn't totally stoked with feeling small.
I've been slowly ratcheting my weight up over the last ~4 months and have been feeling pretty stellar (214 lbs this morning). Seems like slow but steady progress has been the difference-maker this time around. How fast have you gained your weight in the past?
I was aiming for 1lb/week. I weighed about 174lb January last year, and got up to 213lb by August. Went from 35" to a 40.5" waist in the process
1lb/week may have been good for a month or two, but not 8 months straight.
I've been losing weight intentionally as of late to get my bf% lower, goal being to perform better on the fitness test for SAFD, assuming I do well enough on the written test. I'll probably run a modified version of The Bridge in the near future, and aim for 1-2lb/month of weight gain. Need to be able to walk stairs with a weighted vest, run, and do pullups, pushups, situps, etc without feeling like a fat slob.
Still not sure if body composition is best served by slowly gaining weight over time (1-2lb/month for a year), or by alternating "bulks" and "cuts" every few months. Probably doesn't matter, because I'm not interested in programming my diet. Eat a lot, gain weight, get fat, stop eating so much, lose weight, get less fat, repeat ad nauseam. My thighs are way larger @192lb this year, then they were @192lb last year, so I must have gained some muscle along the way.
