I’m 5 workouts from being done with Stage 1. I’ve already decided to skip the AMRAP workouts and go straight into Stage 2. Honestly, if I was brand new to lifting, I wouldn’t skip them, but I know how strong I am so I am just going to skip them.
Through my own bad choices over the past 8 months, I’ve pretty much managed to return to the weight where I started this journey at. My body composition is radically different from the first time around, but I still have roughly 100 lbs to lose. I took a step back this past week and looked at where I was seeing consistent progress with lifting and losing weight – it was where I was eating the same amount of calories day in and day out and lifting 3x a week. Even when I was eating 2500 calories a day doing NROL FL1 after I tanked, I still lost, albeit slower.
From my perspective, the diet started going haywire with caloric cycling. The cycling triggers binging behavior in me. The decision is to go back to isocaloric days. I took the total calories for the week that I am supposed to be eating and divided it by 7 to get an isocaloric value for each day. Right now I’m eating 2100 calories a day. I’ll keep an eye on my energy levels and make adjustments accordingly.
With R.’s Dad passing, I have an added dimension to my workouts that I haven’t had in a long time - R as a workout partner. I’d really like to get to the point where we are doing free weight work together. Right now though we are adding more walking and cardio to the program so I burn off some of the fat that I have put on over the past few months.
