BuckSpin - A Year Of Change

This bites….

I’m reminded of the Coldplay song "Viva La Vida", you know,"…when I ruled the world.."?

I used to rule breakfast. I was the breakfast King. HUGE breakfast.

Now….7 eggs (1 whole, 6 whites) and a big cup of black coffee.

*sigh*

What once took, with a lot of practice & prep the night before, over 30 minutes to make now took, what?…10ish…if that?

Surprisingly I’m not as rundown afterwards as I had envisioned myself. It could be that my metabolism has definitely slowed down. My weight has flatlined at 190.6, which is still 10lbs in just over 2 weeks without doing any cardio of note (by design). It will be interesting to see how this last jolt of lower cals & *sigh* lower carbs affects that.

As far as its physical effect, I have noticed my calves are more angular, sharper, a lil’ more cut. And my back has more definition, which surprises me. I woke up and it felt…tight. Not muscles should be warmed up & stretched tight, but….tight. Snugger? Hard to describe, but its an odd sensation. It does look better when lit well & I do a rear double bicep.

The vascularity in my delts has stayed. Those lil’ pooches in the very upper inner thigh have steadily withdrawn, which is nice (you will NOT be seeing that update pic).

So let’s talk moobs….

I still have traces of my Before "rack". It was really something to see as they started to disappear. They just roooooolllled sssllloowwwwlllyyy down my pecs like lazy window blinds. All that is left are these small crescents under each pec.

And, just like women’s, one is BIGGER than the other! LOL! My dominant side (right) is definitely smaller than the moob on the left. How ironic that I’m now like every non-bolt on woman.

But they have taken a nice hit over the past few weeks. That right one is almost gone and the left one has reduced much faster. Does this mean I have "moob" (singular?) Not sure how I feel about that.

Getting back form taking Frick & Frack to school, I quickly make one of my shakes. What was once used to help me get thru the last 1/2 of a training session I now use to get READY for one.

*ssssiiiippppppp* ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….

Alas, while I did set a new PR with my Single DB Straight Pullover to start my last week of cut training (Chest & Tris) the cut finally catches me. I absolutely TANK on my Incline DB Presses. Just over 50% of my last session’s reps. I am POd…..

The rest of the session goes OK. I do hit a few PRs, hold my ground elsewhere. Perhaps all that effort crushing on the Pullover just pre-exhausted the pecs and there was no energy left. Dunno…

The rest of the day goes alright. I’m not really draggin’ but no bundle of energy either. A whopping 35-40g of carbs for the remainder of the day.

Tuesday is more of the same. My Back session goes pretty well, and no real blow-ups as far as like what happened with the DB Incline Presses. I hold my own, and even make some small gains as far as a rep here or there.

What I have noticed is that it seems my body is running about a day behind. In other words what goes in yesterday effects me today. Once again I am surprised at how I not just whupped after EggFest but rather doing OK. I’m sure by the time you take out my expenditures I’ll be in the low 1000s as far as net cals.

A highlight is that during my volunteer gig at my boy’s Montesorri school these 6-8 year olds just STUN me with their "homework" - anything 3D, ie sculpture. I am literally amazed at what they have done. One kid, with the help of his dad, built a 6ft tall monument out of granite SLABS that was obviously so big it couldn’t be brought to school so he burned a series of JPEGs of the process onto a CD. Pretty cool!

Tomorrow morning I get to have my oats back , plus some fruit and some decent sized meals for lunch & dinner. Then back to EggFest for 2 more days. Come Saturday AM it will be downhill in that I’ll have 2 non-training days of budget, then next Monday & Tuesday I start to recarb/recal back up to where I was. Next Tuesday will be the last day and will start with the same breakfast I started with 22 days prior….

…which right now would at least make think I rule the world.

I’m still not quite sure what I’m gonna do 2 Wednesdays from now. I’m actually a lil’ concerned at what might happen. We’ll see….

16 days down, 7 to go. Just one week left.

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