You work at the hospital right? You guys have it the hardest when looking to manage weight.

Free food everywhere, late shifts so you're eating exactly at the time you shouldn't be, nurses ordering Uber Eats every hour, on the hour. Pizza, donuts, patient families bringing free food, all that shit.

Not an easy task.

You should DM VLAD, I know that basement pussy hasn't seen a mouth in a minute now.

You get used to the deficit eventually, the first few weeks are the hardest, but once your body acclimates, it's fine.

The trick is to wait as long as you can to eat, I find most people aren't as ravenous in the morning/early noon so it's easy to make it through that part of the day.

You don't even need to be extreme with it. It seems a lot of guys here are either WFH or some kind of sedentary office job, yet are conditioned to eat three meals or more a day.

Even if you cut out one of those meals at the start, it will make a big difference, go from there.

I'm probably going as Maui this year :lol

What exercises do you find useful to condition for ski season? I've never really figured that part out, my legs are always fried the first few outings, I find it's a hard sport to prep for outside of just doing it.

What are you doing, wall sits, stuff where you're forced to sit in a squat position for an extended time?

Yeah wall sits, leg lifts, leg presses, biking and when I have the fucking balls to eat shit on concrete skateboarding is the absolute best. It sucks cause my ankles are beat from a solid 20 years of skating and another 10 of doing it casually, and I just can’t stay away from kickflips, but skating the park and pumping transitions is great for it. Planks and stuff for core strength as well.

Yeah, hospital. Luckily my job doesn't require me to work overnight shifts so I can regulate my meal times very precisely.

Breakfast usually between 06:00-9:00 (depending on shift)
Lunch at 12:00
Afternoon snack 16:00-17:00
Dinner at 19:00

Some of the nurses are absolutely awful when it comes to ordering food lol. Church's/Jollibee, McD's, pizza, bubble tea, cakes for bdays, chips and popcorn, donuts and coffee loaded up with cream and sugar. I manage to say no to these things a good 90% of the time. Then you have friends of the department and families of patients bringing us things too. If I were less disciplined, I'd become a fat motherfucker working here.

Dem nurses are sure fat motherfuckers. What do the skinny ones do?

Once you find a macro that works for you, you get used to it after some time. It's also key to use lean protein and a good amount of fibre to keep you feeling full. I've always noticed that after doing my macro for a few weeks, my appetite actually decreases. So when I go out to eat I get full rather quickly compared to how I would have normally eaten beforehand.

As for burning calories, perhaps it's because I never do cardio but the days of me eating whatever I want and gaining no weight are LONG gone lol. My metabolism simply isn't what it was so there's no amount of (reasonable) exercise that will keep me in a deficit.

Also, not for nothing but I've been doing a loose macro this time around. In previous rounds, I weighed literally everything and it gave me incredible results but this time I'm playing the long game. I have a rough idea of where I'm at for caloric intake and am really only weighing two things: chicken breast and egg whites.

It's been the easiest in terms of effort so far!

Eat your own food, stay away from all the enablers. Fat people love nothing more than making everyone else around them also fat so they can feel less guilty about their poor choices.

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The person that started all this is nowhere to be found, paging Dark, get off your high horse (bus) and report!

weight lifting is far better for fat loss than cardio

i guess that depends on how you are comparing them.
a 10k run takes an hour and you burn like 800 calories

I hate cardio for two reasons: I've always hated running and it causes a huge spike in your hunger which means overeating. So in the end, I'm exhausted, covered in sweat, eat too much and end up gaining weight instead lol. If it works for you (like it does many people) all the more power to ya. Me, I'll stick to weight training :)

No progress pics lately, busy living my Hondaracer life in Portugal

https://i.imgur.com/ppMRHNU.jpeg

Of course my diet has gone to shit on vacation. Have approx 2 months when I get back home to get back into my diet and routine, before a Mexico trip with my wife's fam where I intend to be "the most jacked Chinese guy they've seen' at the resort (which is what the resort manager at the Mexico resort in PV I went to last year I went to said).

Oh i used to love running but i dont do it anymore. Too much time spent training then one little injury and youre done for a few months. Some people are very resilient but once i started getting injuries they kept happening and i quit. I still like cardio but dont run anymore

Do you hate Canada yet? Have you made it your identity?

don't forget to hate it from your SFH while also refusing to move to any other country

Looking great bro !!!!

I haven't been doing anything crazy, but with a new (better) job I'm not stress-snacking as much and trying to pack lunches that are just a bit smaller than I'd like has me down 10lbs which is nice. The tricky part is suppliers and reps and people keep dropping off donuts and all kinds of random treats at the office but I'm trying to avoid them lol.

as you build muscle, that new muscle will continue to use up more stored energy passively (and while working out) to feed itself, ie eat your fat reserves

diet is still king

learn something new every day

Only committing to a month and waiting for motivation is a great way to never see real results. Schedule going in 4x/week (3x is bare minimum) and show up for 6 months. The real trick is not to go HARD on the first month, I tell my clients it takes 20 classes before you're really in it. Until then feel like you're moving at 80% ability so you can come in tomorrow.

If you need help with advice on CrossFit or CF adjacent gyms let me know.

Rich

So, I ran out of salad greens yesterday and took the opportunity to experiment with roasted veggies as a warm replacement. TBH, I swear my body was starting to reject the cold salad greens lol.

Anyways, I kept it simple:

Potatoes (only item I weighed), carrots, broccoli and red onions (1/4 of an onion per meal). Cut to approximately same sizes.

Seasoned with:
Thyme
Rosemary
Basil
Oregano
Salt & Pepper
Garlic powder
Spray with light coat of oil

Air fryer 400 degrees for 9 mins (without the broccoli first), remove, shake, add broccoli, 9 mins again.

Probably shouldn't have surprised me but this was pretty damn delicious and had my whole apartment smelling great :lol The broccoli comes out a bit charred and crispy and was easily the best tasting veggie in there. The onions were sweet after air frying too!

I may choose to add zucchini to the mix as well :considered:

Meals are now

1. French toast and egg whites
2. Roasted veggies with chicken breast
3. Overnight oats with strawberries/blueberries
4. Roasted veggies with chicken breast

I'll calculate my rough calorie total again later on. If I'm in too much of a deficit I'll have my sorbet/ice cream again. I was genuinely full after dinner last night and didn't feel like eating dessert :ahwow:

why do dis!?

1) you look absolutely great. like less than 10% body fat. 2) you lose any more weight you're gonna disappear.

Honestly its you "fit" guys who are all up into to this weight loss shit. Us fatso's are just stuffing down costco dogs and poutine waiting to die. I mean i met Mikey in person last night.. i was like damn he's in good shape. Went home and ate a fucking ice cream bar... meh.

Nah, last I checked I was hovering around 16.5%? I'm obviously not fat but I want to drop that down, especially the belly fat I've accumulated over multiple trips. It's important to remember your goals and my goals aren't one and the same. Comparing yourself to others is not what this journey should be about!

well my goal is too...