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I'm in an interesting/weird situation and looking for some answers. So far haven't been able to find anyone who could make anything out of my situation unfortunately. I believe it involves some serious understanding of the body and our systems on a medical level.
First some background information:
I'm a cauccasian male, 28years old and 176cm high. I relocated to Australia on April 2012 and with the stress and hardships of adjusting to a new life etc I gained lots of weight and never exercised for a very long time. On September 10th 2012 I decided to go back to a healthy lifestyle. At the time I had hit 83kg and initially started training 3 evenings/week with a personal trainer. By December 23rd I'd dropped down to 67kg with a combination of exercise and a healthy diet. My diet included balanced eating for some time, going extreme on starvation once in a while and occasionally some strict protein only periods. In this time I had extreme fluctuations as well, such as gaining 6kg in 7days and 7kg in 9days (all of which I immediately lost in the same amount of time with extreme starvation & protein only diets) (Comparison photos attached). From January 1st 2013 I've completely lost control due to some personal reasons and kept eating uncontrollably till January 28th and went back up to 78kg. Though during this period, I continued my workout sessions with my personal trainer.
Betwen January 28th and February 3rd, I went onto a protein only diet (only 6scoops of whey protein each day without any solid food other drinks) to initially shock my body and overcome the first resistance period against fat loss. I gave myself a final limitless eating break on February 3rd. Since February 4th I've been on a powder protein(4 main varities), glutamine, bcaa and eaa tabs diet. I've supplemented it with lots of additional things as to provide as much as possible for my body while limiting myself to a very high protein(255gr on max days) and extremely low carb(38gr on max days) & fat(21gr on max days) and almost zero sugar(12gr on max days) intake. I've also switched to an extremely heavy training plan with this diet, adding a variety of other activities to my 3 PT sessions/week. Now I have 11 separate training sessions over 6 days and full rest on 1 day only. (All details in the attached file)
Now my problem is I'm not losing as much weight & fat as I anticipated based on earlier experiences on simpler versions of this kind of a diet. For ex only 10scoops of whey protein and 10gr of glutamine per day without any solid food or other drinks earlier I was able to lose 0.7-1.0kg from one morning to the next on a steady basis for a week. My workout plan was also a lot easier & lighter compared to what I'm doing right now (Only PT sessions 3days/week and moderate HIIT cardio sessions on the mornings of my PT sessions) (Though of the total loss around 60% was from fat and around 40% was from muscles)
I've tracked my weight(also in the attached file) under the exact same conditions since February 4th both in the mornings(first thing as I wake up) and nights(last thing as I to to sleep) and based on the results I've some problematic questions.
- First of all the weight increase during the days is extreme on some days. There's no meaningful trend on this based on my eating & training plan unfortunately so can't get anything out of this. I would expect water retention and added weight from the liquids I'm consuming but a 0.7kg-1.0kg increase from morning till night doesn't sound normal in my opinion (considering my eating plan)?
- I'm thinking that (from past experience) my body is supposed to be losing lots of fat due to the energy deficit I'm creating with such a low intake (1000-1400kcal depending on the day) and high and heavy physical activity. Though nothing seems to be changing? I also considered the possibility of losing fat and building muscle at the same time (I'm aware that scientifically it's said that anabolic and catabolic systems working simultaneously at such rates is impossible) as it's impossible currently for my weight and body composition to stay the same while following such an eating & training plan? Also I'm able to continuously -on every training day- increase the weights on all my exercises (only with an exception to wrist curls) which wouldn't have been possible if my muscles were not experiencing any changes on a daily basis.
- I'm also thinking that my body could actually have gone into a full protection mode which I tried to prevent with the previous week's simpler & stricter protein only diet. I've heard/read that this protective phase could last up to 3 weeks (never had it happen for this long) but nothing certain on this topic. Any ideas on this?
I would really appreciate if someone could finally shed some light to my situation. I've been seriously frustrated at the results I've been getting for the past week. If I could pinpoint the problem I could solve it somehow and as you would have guessed by now I'm a guy who pushes his limits beyond normally expected so I'm fine with going to the extreme ends. I'll look forward to all feedback!!
ps. Please do not comment telling me how stupid/unhealthy/dangerous this diet is as I'm aware of the risks and am doing everything I can at the same time prevent anything from going wrong with additional supplements.(even getting complete blood counts & various tests to check if there are any early warning signs) I'm also perfectly energetic throughout the day, even though I'm putting in an 8.5-9.5/10 effort in all my exercises I'm still good to take even more at the end of my sessions, having a perfect mood, lately been sleeping an average of only 3.5hours a day and still physically & mentally feeling better than I've ever had in my life! I've always been a strong believer of a quote from T.S. Elliot: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." and recently I've learned that I'm able to expand/push my limits 3 times more than I already was doing in the near past.
I'm in an interesting/weird situation and looking for some answers. So far haven't been able to find anyone who could make anything out of my situation unfortunately. I believe it involves some serious understanding of the body and our systems on a medical level.
First some background information:
I'm a cauccasian male, 28years old and 176cm high. I relocated to Australia on April 2012 and with the stress and hardships of adjusting to a new life etc I gained lots of weight and never exercised for a very long time. On September 10th 2012 I decided to go back to a healthy lifestyle. At the time I had hit 83kg and initially started training 3 evenings/week with a personal trainer. By December 23rd I'd dropped down to 67kg with a combination of exercise and a healthy diet. My diet included balanced eating for some time, going extreme on starvation once in a while and occasionally some strict protein only periods. In this time I had extreme fluctuations as well, such as gaining 6kg in 7days and 7kg in 9days (all of which I immediately lost in the same amount of time with extreme starvation & protein only diets) (Comparison photos attached). From January 1st 2013 I've completely lost control due to some personal reasons and kept eating uncontrollably till January 28th and went back up to 78kg. Though during this period, I continued my workout sessions with my personal trainer.
Betwen January 28th and February 3rd, I went onto a protein only diet (only 6scoops of whey protein each day without any solid food other drinks) to initially shock my body and overcome the first resistance period against fat loss. I gave myself a final limitless eating break on February 3rd. Since February 4th I've been on a powder protein(4 main varities), glutamine, bcaa and eaa tabs diet. I've supplemented it with lots of additional things as to provide as much as possible for my body while limiting myself to a very high protein(255gr on max days) and extremely low carb(38gr on max days) & fat(21gr on max days) and almost zero sugar(12gr on max days) intake. I've also switched to an extremely heavy training plan with this diet, adding a variety of other activities to my 3 PT sessions/week. Now I have 11 separate training sessions over 6 days and full rest on 1 day only. (All details in the attached file)
Now my problem is I'm not losing as much weight & fat as I anticipated based on earlier experiences on simpler versions of this kind of a diet. For ex only 10scoops of whey protein and 10gr of glutamine per day without any solid food or other drinks earlier I was able to lose 0.7-1.0kg from one morning to the next on a steady basis for a week. My workout plan was also a lot easier & lighter compared to what I'm doing right now (Only PT sessions 3days/week and moderate HIIT cardio sessions on the mornings of my PT sessions) (Though of the total loss around 60% was from fat and around 40% was from muscles)
I've tracked my weight(also in the attached file) under the exact same conditions since February 4th both in the mornings(first thing as I wake up) and nights(last thing as I to to sleep) and based on the results I've some problematic questions.
- First of all the weight increase during the days is extreme on some days. There's no meaningful trend on this based on my eating & training plan unfortunately so can't get anything out of this. I would expect water retention and added weight from the liquids I'm consuming but a 0.7kg-1.0kg increase from morning till night doesn't sound normal in my opinion (considering my eating plan)?
- I'm thinking that (from past experience) my body is supposed to be losing lots of fat due to the energy deficit I'm creating with such a low intake (1000-1400kcal depending on the day) and high and heavy physical activity. Though nothing seems to be changing? I also considered the possibility of losing fat and building muscle at the same time (I'm aware that scientifically it's said that anabolic and catabolic systems working simultaneously at such rates is impossible) as it's impossible currently for my weight and body composition to stay the same while following such an eating & training plan? Also I'm able to continuously -on every training day- increase the weights on all my exercises (only with an exception to wrist curls) which wouldn't have been possible if my muscles were not experiencing any changes on a daily basis.
- I'm also thinking that my body could actually have gone into a full protection mode which I tried to prevent with the previous week's simpler & stricter protein only diet. I've heard/read that this protective phase could last up to 3 weeks (never had it happen for this long) but nothing certain on this topic. Any ideas on this?
I would really appreciate if someone could finally shed some light to my situation. I've been seriously frustrated at the results I've been getting for the past week. If I could pinpoint the problem I could solve it somehow and as you would have guessed by now I'm a guy who pushes his limits beyond normally expected so I'm fine with going to the extreme ends. I'll look forward to all feedback!!
ps. Please do not comment telling me how stupid/unhealthy/dangerous this diet is as I'm aware of the risks and am doing everything I can at the same time prevent anything from going wrong with additional supplements.(even getting complete blood counts & various tests to check if there are any early warning signs) I'm also perfectly energetic throughout the day, even though I'm putting in an 8.5-9.5/10 effort in all my exercises I'm still good to take even more at the end of my sessions, having a perfect mood, lately been sleeping an average of only 3.5hours a day and still physically & mentally feeling better than I've ever had in my life! I've always been a strong believer of a quote from T.S. Elliot: "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." and recently I've learned that I'm able to expand/push my limits 3 times more than I already was doing in the near past.
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