Over the last 3 weeks or so…I raged a classic contest of Working Out vs. Eating. To wit, I worked out steady to recent standards: about 7 hours a week, 50/50 weights and cardio.
But…the eating slipped substantially. Excessive beer, fried food, large meals eating out, large quantities of nuts, even *gasp* desserts made large inroads to my clean eating habits. A C- might be a fair, if not kind, grade.
So what would prevail? Muscle gains? Steady fat or fat gains?
The results are in.
It was a disaster. I gained 2.5 lbs of bodyfat returning me to February levels. And to offset that was a very modest gain of muscle, perhaps just 1 lb.
Granted, I was pushing some pretty lean lows and I think that set me up for something of a rebound. But…this was a really bad result any way you slice it. I do have a good 5 lbs more of muscle than I sported in February, so at least that’s **some** net progress.
This is a valuable lesson for everyone. With the cardio and working out I’ve been doing, I’d think I could at least hold steady, but I didn’t. Even my wonderkin body fell prey to some mildly bad eating habits.
In the battle of working out vs. eating habits, eating habits won handily.
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