ozworknprogress’s BodyBlog

For a major part of my adult life I’ve been unfit, unhealthy and at one stage I was regarded as being clinically Obese.

Over the past 5 years I have done what I consider as a great job to get from 106 kg to where I am today.  I decided that over our winter (its autum and just had 8 days over 35c breaking a 80 year record) I would try to bulk up as much as possible.

The problem I’ve encountered is 3 fold;

( 1 )    The amount of food I need to consume.  When I was overweight it wasn’t that I ate alot, I just ate the wrong foods and drank more Coca Cola than anyone should drink.  My sister comented many times while I was cutting up that she was amazed at the amount of food I was now consuming.  Now that I am trying to bulk I’m eating double what I was for cutting and I just can’t do it.

( 2 )    I’ve work so hard to loose the fat that was sitting comfortably around my waist.  I now that with the bulking stage a certain amount of body fat will be put onto the frame.  Unfortunately I am not yet mentally strong enough to deal with this.

( 3 )    I miss the cardio aspect of training, I love getting out for a run and a bike ride and unfortunately I can do the extra eating needed to keep up with the cardion training I wish to do

Thus I will be returning to my enitial goal of getting my body fat below 10%, wish me luck