I mean, it doesn't really matter if I'm right. I'm just saying, I hope you can maintain your weight afterwards because of how hard you're working now. I couldn't last past 10 days on a PSMF.
I hope so too!!! I am with you. I'm aware of the theories on dieting like this. I like to push limits and test things, so in the name of science, I'm gonna crash and burn
My plan is to do about 6-8 weeks at a less aggressive deficit/maint. level after this run. My hope is I can get down to about 165-170 in the next 6 weeks (!!!) and then spend 4 weeks getting from there down to 160 at a less aggressive pace, and then spend time at maint. The issue is falling off the diet when it is not planned. The last time, I was on it for 4 months, took a 2 week break and then never got back on it...it just kind of fell apart, so I didn't follow the plan for the phase directly after the PSMF.
I think the issue is that people think there is a magic way that your body can spend fewer calories to accomplish the same tasks when there is a caloric deficit. i.e. - if you're eating enough your body will just burn extra calories, and if you aren't eating enough you will adjust and burn fewer calories. This doesn't make sense at all.
What does make sense for metabolic slow down is that if you weigh 300 pounds, you are going to burn many more calories walking around than you are going to burn at 200 pounds. I think part of the issue is that people start a diet, figure out they are burning 2800 calories/day, lose a ton of weight, and then when they go off the diet they go back to 2800 calories thinking that's "maintenance" and then when they gain weight they say, "rebound" or "starvation mode" and that's really not the case, it's just that at the lower weight, their new calorie expenditure is more like 2400-2500 calories/day.
As far as this being difficult, honestly, this is actually easier on me in some ways than a 500 calorie deficit would be. Mentally, if I have an extra 100 or even 200 calories, I know it won't make a big difference and I just get back to the diet. If I did that in a 500 calorie deficit, I'd blow my diet for the day. It's kind of less strict in a weird way. It leaves more room for error.
And other than last week, this hasn't been sooo bad. Obviously you have the mental issues of wanting to lose it faster, or wondering why it isn't coming off faster, etc. and I've been a little foggy and light headed and extremely tired. What is strange is that last week was really the first week that I felt like, "Wow, this just got hard". I've been sleeping a ton the entire time I've been on this and it's been hard to wake up in the morning. I DO think this is a combination of low cortisol from the Sup3r-11 and the caloric deficit (of course). I've been foggy and disconnected, which is solely the caloric deficit.
Today, I woke up earlier than normal, didn't have to force myself out of bed, and I actually feel pretty good. Maybe last week was just the dark before the dawn? I don't know. I hope so, haha.
As far as the Sup3r-11, this stuff should decrease cortisol. I believe it does and I think that the fact that I've been sleeping so much, so deeply, etc. is a sign of lower cortisol, which is a sign that it is working. I'm also a little less stressed out feeling. I also believe the lower cortisol MAY be the reason my stim tolerance has fallen dramatically, but I'm not sure of this. In other words, everything I thought was because of the T3, I now attribute to the Sup3r-11 because I think the T3 was junk. None of this is negative as far as I'm concerned, in my eyes it actually shows the 11 is doing what it is supposed to, maybe better than expected.
Also, I typically lose about 0.5 pounds per day as an average over time. I'm at about 23 pounds over 42 days now - which means that over 6 weeks I've lost 2 pounds that I wouldn't have lost normally. It may seem small, but it's almost a 10% increase. PLUS, I just had a week with 3 cheat meals and so on. Another way to look at that is that if I was on a 500 cal/day deficit - that would be just 6 pounds over those 6 weeks that I lost, and at that point an additional 2 pounds from the 11 would be extremely significant!
