290 to 260

[Sarumyan]

200 posts!!!

Day 131: (day 2 Liquid diet ) 9.5/10 - 271.4lbs

Drank around 1000 calories today, and did 30 minutes of rolling, 1 hour boxing and 1 hour wrestling, and 2 hours of walking... which is way too much, but whatever.

Everybody telling me that I look skinny - which is strange since they saw me at 264 3 weeks ago.

My determination remains high, I love losing weight so fast with liquid diets. I will write a comprehensive review after I finish it in 7 days.

 

[Sarumyan]

Woke up at 266.1... wow. And I did drink a lot last night, and I did drink tasty things like hot chocolate and coconut water.

Hm interesting, how much of it is temp. weight and how much is fat.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 132: 266.1 6/10
Training; walking 4 hours, light weights 45 min.
Diet: around 2200 liquid calories. Had soft serve yogurt in cina which was much much fatter than I thought. Still, should be around 2500 deficit.
Losing weight steady, but the initial weight is temporary, what will happen now is more telling.

 

[Sarumyan]

It's over 10000 views, wow!

Here are the rewards for checking my diet blog once in a while.

Movie Review: Planet of the Apes - Not bad, however, I found the script was lacking in it's scale. It described a small conflict between survivors in San Fransisco and the Apes, and humans were so outmatched - it wasn't even funny. I definitely liked the interaction between the apes and the animations, motion capture is getting more and more promising. Human actors were all forgettable and shallow. Ceasar is in competition with Mufasa now for the best animal father figure and charismatic leader-type. Not a must watch, but still one of the most enjoyable movies this year.
8/10.

Hercules: Alright... things this movie didn't take seriously: Greek mythology, Legend of Hercules, Politics, Western Feminism (1+), it's own trailer, it's actors.... basically all involved knew this movie is dumb, so they tried to be apologetic by making lots of jokes and poke fun at themselves. The Rock's performance is alright, although his role doesn't make much sense at all, in fact most of the story doesn't make sense, but it does a good job of not letting you care about it. The supporting cast is forgettable, albeit very likeable.
I can almost see the producers telling the Hercules team - "Listen, we don't have any money and the script is awful, so lets at least try to have fun and include as much comedy as possible". As far as cult B-movies go - this wasn't as charismatic as Army of Darkness, nor was it awfully bad as Jason X, which means nobody will remember this flick in several years. A pity - because it seems at times this movie did have potential to become a cult classic.

6/10.

Youtube videos that made me laugh:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Watch the whole channel - its awesome.


Here are some songs that keep me going:


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[Sarumyan]

Day 133 (Liquid diet day 4): 268.5 lbs, 9/10.

Excellent day, didn't train too much, mostly walked and boxed, worked on pads in the gym.

Diet:

Add 300 caloires in misc.

Training: 2.5 hours of walking, 1.5 hour light work in the gym. Commuting/being active at home. Caloric expenduture - around ~5000 calories.

Note: I feel ok, a bit depleted, but fine. Weight stabilized more or less and not dropping too much.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 134 (5 liquid diet): 264.4 lbs - 6.5/10

Went a little too high with liquid calories today - I needed a boost and ate bunch of ice cream. But whatever, that's part of this diet - no restriction on liquids - its easier this way.

Training: Boxing padwork - 1 hour, walking - ~2 hours, commuting - 2 hours. Pretty tired, my joints start to feel a bit achy - going to rest tomorrow (as in go to YMCA and not my MMA gym ).

So far so good, my fat is very hard ( I presume squishy fat shit doesn't work when you drop so much water weight ) - but there is visibly less of it, I fit perfectly into new 38" regular sized shorts, and generally my legs slimmed down. Interesting note: my vascularity decreased, veins aren't popping up as much as 3 weeks ago.

Spent 1 hour today watching thunderstorm.... since I was a kid I always loved the storm.

Life is stale now - just diet, train, study, play Skyrim.

Diet: Heavy on calories - around 1900 today.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 135: Alrighty... a planned cheat day. Yesterday I felt like getting sick a bit - and decided to finally eat ... "just in case".

Had a lot of fun today, and as usual with liquid diets, I had to force myself to eat - really didn't want to. That's one of the benefits I suppose - you "unlearn" to crave food.... lucky me I am a fast relearner.

Jokes aside, back to diet tomorrow - I feel the difference and I noticed girls are looking at me more now - and my pants 38" are starting to fall off.

So yeah... I love the skinny feel too much to go on hiatus again. Back to diet tomorrow.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 136: Back on the horse! First time I came off the cheat day without drastic consequences ... except my stomach hurts after eating that garbage, but whatever.

I went to chinese buffet, and I think was too harsh for me back then.

Today: Excellent day.

Training: 2 hours commuting, 1.5 hour walking, 1 hour light weights/corrective exercises, 1 hour boxing, 20 minutes wrestling - medium intensity.



NOTE: This is quite important, I am still working with specilist on my knees, turns out particular strings of hip abductors are so strained, they are full of knots. Especially on my left leg - which might be compensation for the snapped muscle in my lower back ( injury from squats).
What it does is pulling tibia towards medial line, and causing the ligaments to be inflamed and strained as well. My bones are actually aligned at a different angle on the left leg, than on the recovered right leg.

This is fcked up, however, I am working on corrective exercises :
1.work just on the left side now, as the right is ok.
2. Lots of SPLITS and stretching CALVES (too tight as well ).
3. Strengthen Gluteus Medius ( lift leg to the left ), and hamstring.
4. Stretch the fck again.


But thanks god, at least I know what I need to do, otherwise, this thing will only get worse without rehab.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 137: 270lbs 5/10

Weird day, really tired. Ate at maintenance, but relatively healthy. Cooked a healthy soup.

Training: Walking -2 hours, cleaning - 2 hours.

Calories ~2800-3000.

So light deficit.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 138: Felt even more sick today. Couldn't keep up on MMA because of headache.

Was an active day - so around 4500 calories spent, around 5000 calories eaten.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 139: -, Sick day, however, spent 6 hours cleaning and painting my apartment, tired as hell.

Ate around 4000 calories. Tomorrow back on proper diet.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 143: Sorry, had a cold. I am back in biz.... To be honest, I just can't get past 265 mark, no matter how hard I try. It is getting annoying. It is like a switch flipping off every time I there. Maybe at higher BF it was easier. Anyways, I spent all summer practically around the same weight, which kind of a let down for me.

So I have ti make it right and have a really strong august. Here is my attack plan for August.

1. Eat healthy, but very simple (fish or Omega-3 eggs, spinach/mango blends and cauliflower/sweet potato). I will think about calories, but since I prefer rapid fat loss - I think this will be low for 2 weeks from now on. Next refeed - August 21st.
2. MOVE a lot, in my hiking days I had "cardio" 1- hours per day. I sure as hell cant replicate that, but I will have long long cardio sessions every morning now (walking, badminton or machine)
3. Grappling only for MMA (turned out my Boxing stance is the primary cause of knee pain, as left calf muscle is extremely strong and strained ).

Today: Light corrective weight lifting - 1 hour. 1 hour walking.

Going to have a weight in tomorrow.

I am also taking multi consistently now for the first time in my life.

 

[Sarumyan]

Day 144: 272 lbs, 8/10 Lots of job searching and walking.

Training: 3 hours walking, 1 hour of ski machine.

Note: Going to give my laptop to the coach tomorrow. I played too many games last 30 days, and it is getting in the way of my weight loss. However, blogging will be more difficult.

 

[magick]

Is there any particular reason why you keep going from eating way below 2k calories to randomly eating way above 4k?

And why do you think eating way below 2k calories is a proper diet?

 

[ironwolf]

Is there any particular reason why you keep going from eating way below 2k calories to randomly eating way above 4k?

And why do you think eating way below 2k calories is a proper diet?

And all the ice cream too....wtf....

Ive read through this entire thread and theres nothing in it that would make me expect you to lose much weight or even be able to maintain this roller coaster diet.

No offense....but maybe talk to a nutritionist because you are all over the place and once you land a job, you are going to fall right off...

 

[Sarumyan]

Yeah, I let myself down this summer. I wanted to drop weight fast below 260 pounds and than do a regular IF diet with over 2k calories. But I broke down twice now at around 263-265.

I have unhealthy relationship with food ... mostly when I have a cheat day - i keep telling myself : " well I already cheated, might as well eat whatever I want".

I sure as hell don't think eating at 1600 calories per day is healthy long term. However, I do believe that it is easier mentally to drop weight fast, rather than adhere to a small deficit every day.

I guess you are going to have hiccups when losing weight.

This time I got this, bros, don't worry. And lol, I didn't think someone would read all my rants here, thanks Iron.

 

[magick]

I sure as hell don't think eating at 1600 calories per day is healthy long term. However, I do believe that it is easier mentally to drop weight fast, rather than adhere to a small deficit every day.

But you didn't lose weight.

You've been eating in a similar pattern (incredibly low calories for someone of your height and weight) to calories that would be more suited for months. Given the scale number, you've seen no progress whatsoever.

Just go back to your log from around Mayish and start reading.

 

[Sarumyan]

But you didn't lose weight.

You've been eating in a similar pattern (incredibly low calories for someone of your height and weight) to calories that would be more suited for months. Given the scale number, you've seen no progress whatsoever.

Just go back to your log from around Mayish and start reading.

I did lose weight, the problem is that I let myself go every time for variety of reasons and gained it back to around 270 mark. I maintained 270 pretty much since the end of may. I know you are right about having a sane diet, and I will use it once I get to a normal weight range.

 

[magick]

I did lose weight, the problem is that I let myself go every time for variety of reasons and gained it back to around 270 mark. I maintained 270 pretty much since the end of may. I know you are right about having a sane diet, and I will use it once I get to a normal weight range.

You misunderstood me.

You have been doing the exact same thing since (presumably) the start of this thread. You've certainly been doing the exact same thing since May.

What makes you think anything will change if you keep doing the same thing for another couple of months?

If you regain your weight because you "let yourself go" every couple of days, then you're not really losing weight. That's not how weight-loss works. It's supposed to be sustainable and consistent.

Yours is not.

For example-

on 5-25 you weighed 272.8lb. On 5-26 you wrote that you did a refeed, though the calorie consumption you wrote is under 1k. You also wrote your weight as 275.3lb.

5-27, you wrote that your weight suddenly dropped to 269.3lb.

It is physically impossible for you to lose that much bf. The only reasonable explanation is water weight. And, frankly speaking, losing that much water weight suddenly isn't good in of itself.

And then a couple of no starvation diet days later, you're back up to 274lb. This is fairly consistent with you just dropping and gaining water weight. You've been at this for a while.

And given the amount of carbs you eat, and presumably that carb amount fluctuates wildly when you're on a refeed + probably a massive increase in salt and other mineral consumption during refeed days, it makes a good bit of sense that you will massively retain water afterwards.

Point being- you're probably just moving water weight right now. Which is pointless.

It is far more preferable to be eating a sane diet that has a planned cheat day included.

 

[Sarumyan]

You misunderstood me.

You have been doing the exact same thing since (presumably) the start of this thread. You've certainly been doing the exact same thing since May.

What makes you think anything will change if you keep doing the same thing for another couple of months?

If you regain your weight because you "let yourself go" every couple of days, then you're not really losing weight. That's not how weight-loss works. It's supposed to be sustainable and consistent.

Yours is not.

For example-

on 5-25 you weighed 272.8lb. On 5-26 you wrote that you did a refeed, though the calorie consumption you wrote is under 1k. You also wrote your weight as 275.3lb.

5-27, you wrote that your weight suddenly dropped to 269.3lb.

It is physically impossible for you to lose that much bf. The only reasonable explanation is water weight. And, frankly speaking, losing that much water weight suddenly isn't good in of itself.

And then a couple of no starvation diet days later, you're back up to 274lb. This is fairly consistent with you just dropping and gaining water weight. You've been at this for a while.

And given the amount of carbs you eat, and presumably that carb amount fluctuates wildly when you're on a refeed + probably a massive increase in salt and other mineral consumption during refeed days, it makes a good bit of sense that you will massively retain water afterwards.

Point being- you're probably just moving water weight right now. Which is pointless.

It is far more preferable to be eating a sane diet that has a planned cheat day included.

Point taken mate.