Body transformation 4 years

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[the_d00d]

@drewz What’s your nutrition advice?

 

[drewz]

@the_d00d Nutrition for what? Gain weight? Loose weight? Maintain? What are you asking

 

[the_d00d]

@drewz For me I’m looking to lose, then maintain. I’m coming off some bad nutrition and weight lifting advice that left me tired and injured.

“Once you learn how to eat and how all of that works you can eat what you want” can you expand on that?

 

[drewz]

@the_d00d Of course, learning calories in calories out, finding the strategies and tricks that work you for, and applying them through tests you conduct on yourself are how I learned to cut and gain weight.

Stratifies such as
Chewing gum
Snacks throughout the day
Fasting
Coffee
Energy drinks

You have to find what works for you, obviously theirs a million other strategies to cut weight in your case that you could employ these are just some off the top of my head

 

[the_d00d]

@drewz Thanks. I was curious how balanced you make your meals, in terms of macros. I have a friend who says every meal should be balanced throughout the day, I know other people who say it doesn’t matter at all. Curious what you’ve learned.

 

[phiro]

@the_d00d Try to balance your calories and macros on more of a weekly scale than a daily one.

I find it helps a lot to make a diet feel more flexible.

If losing weight is the goal, I also found that a severe caloric deficit was more effective than a small one. It’s more motivating when the progress is faster, and there’s also a wider margin of error (in other words, if your deficit is really severe, then even if you eat a little more one day or your metabolic rate is lower than you calculated, you will still be in a pretty solid deficit.)

I’ve been at 1200-1500 calories per day for 6 months now, which includes 75g of protein from powder as well as about 40%of my calories from protein. I’ve lost 58 pounds (272-214) over 24 weeks as of yesterday, which is a little over 2lbs/week so slightly faster than doctors recommend, but I feel really great so don’t want to change anything.

The other unfortunate reality is that there will be a longish period of mild suffering from hunger, it’s worse for the first two weeks but then settles down a decent amount. Find filling foods to help feel less hungry, but really you can actually eat whatever you want as long as you’re tracking calories. I had to accept that it would be around a year of slight discomfort, and that it would be worth it.

In the end it’s not that bad, hunger is actually a lot more temporary than you think sometimes. I’ll feel a pang, but if I push through it only really lasts 5 minutes or so before I forget for a while. The toughest part is the sound my stomach makes at work, it can get pretty loud sometimes and is kind of embarrassing haha

 

[drewz]

@the_d00d Meals don’t have to be balanced and you do not have to track everything you eat, although to do this you have to understand why. If you don’t know why it’s better to count everything until you know

 

[dawn16]

@drewz Does the protein powder make you gassy?

 

[drewz]

@dawn16 Nope

 

[mqusqire]

@the_d00d Not OP but I highly recommend MacroFactor app and weighing yourself every day (and putting that weight into the app). Go for a very slow cut, like 1% BW per month, so it doesn’t even feel like you’re cutting and then when you get to target BF%/aesthetic, do a “maingain”.

I like the MacroFactor app because it makes you check in every week and adjusts your calories and everything accordingly. If you add weight daily to the app it very quickly learns what your daily caloric expenditure is and so it’s very good at making me lose or gain weight. Much better than the other apps which just estimate it based on height, gender and age

 

[tresmantra]

@drewz Nice job dude, I’m 2 years in and about halfway.

Thanks for sharing

 

[hedeliveredme]

@drewz Height?

 

[blessingposter23]

@drewz One day I too will have a bicep vein

 

[skyescotland]

@blessingposter23 Bicep vein pops out when muscles pushes it out - made much easier if your fat levels are under 12%.

Body builders don’t have them until they go way low on fat, and it depends on the age and body structure.
Realize that biceps are an accessory support muscle and when you do whole body (which is what body weight exercises mainly do) the biceps are not much stressed, even if you do chin ups and similar bicep stressing moves. I do mainly bodyweight and am at A-B levels (eg 20 sec front lever) and in the 4- 5 years since I started (from 0 exercising), the veins only popped once when I overdid bicep curls for a week. Even when I did chin-ups from an l- sit holding a towel (3 sets of 12) and twisting the biceps I didn’t see veins - until I cut my fat to under 12%. As soon as my fat levels went down the veins appeared (I have veins on calves and pecs, but not on biceps or lower abs) which is why I said “much easier” above. I first tho I got cancer or some problem with veins bc I’m pretty old.

 

[blessingposter23]

@skyescotland I’m about 23% rn but I know I’ve seen guys less muscular than I am and way less fit have bicep veins and it hurts me little heart .

I do strictly body weight workouts including weighted pull ups but it just never feels like my biceps are doing that much work.

 

[drewz]

@blessingposter23 Is that your goal

 

[blessingposter23]

@drewz I want bigger arms in general but yes I’d like my bicep vein to be visible.

 

[lowebo]

@drewz Great Transformation! Are you intentionally flexing your abs or is your torso falling forwards (Structural imbalance)?

 

[dcomfort]

@lowebo I know op said he tried to replicate the photo, but his pose is actually quite different in the second image. There's definitely more tension.

Fair enough, they're 4 years apart. Hard to remember the exact way you stood 4 years ago.