Time to get serious.
Just like V, I’ve been keeping a dirty secret. My weight hasn’t dropped. In 2 weeks my scales have been laughing at me. Tuesday confirmed my awful secret, with caliper test and tape measurements saying I hadn’t moved. This pissed me off no end. As I’d been eating at 1550 calories for 2 weeks and done several huge cardio sessions. I’d known I was going nowhere for a while and time getting tighter everyday I’ve decided to do something about it. I’m back up to 1900 calories, cut diet style. I’ve played with the cut diet before and it is effective, but it left me feeling like a zombie. I became obsessed with the low carb speedy weight loss that I never did the carb ups; the carb-ups are just a weird combo too. So for the last 3 days I’ve switched my macros towards cut-diet, with a few non-cut ingredients (wheat and legumes) still in my diet. I’ve already started to see my weight drop a little. I’m imagining this is some water weight, but I was already dieting anyway. Tonight is my 18th meal which means it’s carb-up time. I’m hanging out for it. I don’t care that I’m going to be eating the worlds weirdest combo of foods. Who knows what’s up with my metabolism. 18 months of under-eating and not losing weight has got me here. Here’s hoping the scivation kiddies can get me out.
So today I’m off to the central markets to get my body weight (63.8kg) in green beans, asparagus, chicken, fish and kangaroo. Sunday’s farmers market will see me purchasing eggsessive (sorry) amounts of eggs and broccoli and then I’m all in for the next 13 weeks.
I’d like to thank Kim for his words of inspiration in the latest Aussie Muscle newsletter. I was fooling myself when I thought I could cruise through this process. There aren’t more bodybuilders and figure competitors for a reason. This stuff hard-work.
Two competitors come into Australian Muscle and we ask them both the same question, “how’s the diet going?”
Competitor #1: “Great! I feel fine, looking forward to the show.”
Competitor #2: “I feel like crap. I got no energy, I’m irritable, and I’m starving all the time. I feel like puking every time I look at my food!”Fast forward to competition day. Competitor #1 finished last, Competitor #2 wins.
July 12, 2008 at 4:11 am
My figure coach said that when people told me I started to look "too skinny" was when I was on the right track- my father told me I looked too skinny on Sunday!
M- I found that some seriously unhealthy cheats has done wonders for my psyche and my metabolism~do you give yourself some indulgences? I’m just trying to repay you for your words of encouragement.
FYI, I found a great nutritionist who is a natural BB pro. I’m having him write up my last month of eating for me!
July 13, 2008 at 7:06 pm
LOL. Don’t think I can use this one. My Mum thinks the whole thing is gross and tells me I’m too thin already! Luckily my dad is entirely fascinated by the whole process and is surely my biggest fan.
July 15, 2008 at 12:18 am
The article is a crock of shit - I train figure competitors for a living and get better results training and feeding them like athletes not serial dieters
July 15, 2008 at 6:07 am
Don’t worry Liz, I’m not beating myself up with my diet. I really respect the way you do your nutrition.
My point more-so was that I had dropped my focus and was treating this like figure prep is something anyone can do, rather than as an athlete in training. I appreciate your comment and the reminder that we’re athletes