TEAR ME DOWN AND REBUILD ME - I'll make it or break myself trying

mad_canada

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Greetings everyone.

It is my first log here on anabolic Minds. I thought I would start it off right with my very first attempt at Lyle McDonald's rapid fat loss diet, and then the Ultimate Diet 2.0.

THAT THERE ^ WAS AN ORIGINAL PLAN. MORE ON THAT ORIGINAL POST BELOW. THINGS CHANGED

I always wanted to try and do a PSMF (protein sparing modified fast) and did just that.
For a single day

Yesterday to be precise. Those macros are below. It ended up being around 785 calories, and at the end of it all I did feel okay.

Today though things were unmanageable. I am the sole supporter of my household (which involves a wife in the Philippines who is running a business for us) and I cannot feel like I did today.

Things have to change and I want to be able to be a highly functioning salesperson during this diet, so I will do the following:

BATTLE PLAN TO SHRED - ANABOLIC DIET AND BIG BEYOND BELIEF

  1. Start with the anabolic diet - maintenance phase for 14 days
  2. Use "Big Beyond Belief" six day lifting program to hit the gym HARD
  3. After the 14 days, move into a diet phase of the anabolic diet.
  4. Feel GOOD while training, on a low carbohydrate diet
  5. Get huge and ripped.
Starting Stats:

Age - 36
Years Training - 10 total, 6 consistently
Current Bodyfat - 18% (approx)
Goal - Look great and be strong by December 31st, 2017

ORIGINAL POST INTRODUCING THE IDEA OF THE EXTREME DIET IDEA

I guess I could go into details later but I have been dieting and training for the past 7 years.

I could say up to 10 years or even longer, (maybe even seventeen with my first attempt in January of 2000), But I only got serious about things and had progress that stuck in the last seven years.

Before that everything was just a yo-yo zigzag of starting and stopping with having no foundational understanding of how diet and sports nutrition worked.

Why do you need to diet down?

Although I can't mention them here, in the past year I used a couple of different sarms.

The problem is that after coming off of these I kept eating as though I was still on them. Suffice it to say, this caused me to get fatter than I would like.

Being a tech nerd, I purchased an expensive scale from Amazon that I'm going to be using during this diet. I'll be posting images and logs here as I go.

Although we can't really completely trust biometric impedance devices, I don't have anybody that can use calipers for me so I'll be using the values of the scale and will admit that I am actually around 18 to 20% body fat to start.

So what is this diet all about?

If you spend any amount of time around these types of forums, you'll undoubtedly run into the works of Lyle McDonald. He was one of the original old school Guru types in the fitness industry.

He's been online longer than some of you have been alive. Arguing with people about diet and fitness back in the old days of usenet.

His works are what gave me and understanding of calories and macronutrients.

His works or what helped me nail the ketogenic diet originally and lose 50 lbs in less than a year.

That used to sound impressive. Nowadays people go on diets and lose much more and the prevalence of social media brings those people to the Forefront. Yes they deserve every bit of credit that they do get. Just saying.

This diet is a protein sparing modified fast.

This means that for brief periods I'll be eating practically nothing. Only incredibly lean proteins and fibrous vegetables.

It is basically a starvation diet. The idea being that by adding in protein you are sparing as much lean body mass as possible.

I will be dropping carbs entirely to start, then will move into the PSMF diet as I move forward.
Depending on how "bad" I feel, I will move between ketogenic fat based and PSMF based dieting as I go. I hope to stick to PSMF as much as is possible.

Why would anybody want to do this?

Great question. The immediate knee jerk reaction of many in the fitness world is to tell a person like myself "hey, just go on a moderate calorie deficit it's so much healthier."

This is true, however I hate dieting. It's something that I don't do well for long periods of time.

I would prefer to run something like this for a short period. Maybe two weeks at most.

I can then lose the body fat percentage I need and transition to something like ultimate diet 2.0

After I'm finished with the first phase, I will transition to my second phase which will be using Lyles ultimate diet 2.0 to gain muscle, while losing fat at the same time.

I can't talk about them, but I am still using a couple of different compounds. Maybe if I put time into this log I can talk to the moderators about being able to discuss them here.

At the same time, at the risk of sounding like I am doing some shame full self-promotion I am developing a brand new website based on all of the bull that I read about supplements in the fitness industry period

No, I'm not mentioning the name here period I'm simply pointing out that this is something that I'm doing at the same time as this log.

I'm just personally tired of looking for a review of a supplement, finding a so-called review website, and realizing that there are going to talk down everything except for one thing that they're promoting.

So. Here we go, I'll reserve my next post for my stats and today is my first day. Thanks for reading. See you in a day or so.
 
mad_canada

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June 12, 2017 Start

Starting Photo. Bloated.
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Here are my stats. I will post these stats daily.

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mad_canada

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Have you previously tracked calories or macros?
Oh heck yea.

Back on Christmas day of 2010 I convinced myself that I had cancer (I did not) and by March of 2011 I had decided to do something about it.

That led to me getting into the ketogenic diet, and training and counting calories since then.

My starting point was hereView attachment 149945

And eventually i ended up here
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And need to get leaner than that so that I can get back to training for lean gains.
 
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DAY 2 - 176.0 LB

Yesterday was day one, and calories were low. Under 800.

Today stepped on the scale lighter, and energy levels are okay today too.

Food for yesterday:
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The mobile app wouldn't let me edit the last post with an attachment.

Here is the scale.

It'll be interesting to see what this bodyfat scale does as I do this vlcd and have severe water fluctuations.

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Subbed. Interested to see if you can keep your gains this way.
 
mad_canada

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Subbed. Interested to see if you can keep your gains this way.
Yes, I am too. It is scientifically sound and has been demonstrated by many others online to minimize muscle loss.

Granted there is a free meal and free eating block 5 hours long on separate occasions weekly, it should be enough to cut fast and then start a more moderate approach.
 
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Update for today

I am halfway into the second day and I don't know what to think.

The fatigue is absolutely staggering.

It's to the point where I may have to surrender and go back to a regular ketogenic type set up.
 

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