My article about my decision to pull the plug on competing will be live on the 30th. In the meantime, my coaching logs are difficult to do because I don't want to give away too much information before my article comes out so please bear with me through next week.
I have not made it a secret that I am pulling weight off of me as fast as possible. I was down 10 pounds last week and down another 6 this week. Yes, my strength is taking a bit of a hit but I don't really care. My top priority right now is getting lean. Once I do that, if I am low on strength or feel I sacrificed a little muscle to get lean, I will make adjustments at that time to fill back out.
I will lay out my diet next week after the article and I would presume that anyone reading this would know that it is pretty aggressive considering the weight loss. Obviously, some of the weight loss is from my test levels plummeting but at the same time, I can clearly tell I am much leaner and more than a few people have commented on how much weight I have lost in a relatively short amount of time. Plus, I don't feel like a fucking hog because I don't have to shit every hour, fart every few minutes, I am not distended very much and generally just feel better, overall.
I also have no cravings, but I have always dieted quite easily. After years of doing this, my brain is just programmed differently now and actually prefer to feel hungry vs being full or satiated. Yes, we all need to be just a little "off" to do this and I apparently qualify. Now, this is not to say that I don't enjoy and look forward to Sundays where I allow myself to eat what I want but even typing this on a Saturday night, I have no feelings of, "I cannot WAIT for tomorrow", but rather, "Cool, tomorrow is Sunday so I look forward to a big breakfast and maybe a burger".
Training is going to remain 3 days a week as I just like the split this way and I feel I can kill muscle groups and progress without that 4th day. I am using my TEAM SKIP split where I rotate chest/back on one day, legs on another and then delts and arms. Every 2nd or 3rd week I will skip a delt and arm day in favor of another chest/back day. I do this entirely based on how I feel.
I am doing my favorite level of cardio: NONE. It isn't that I don't plan on doing it at some point but with the aggressive diet changes over the last 2 weeks, I have dropped 14 pounds and see no logical reason to introduce cardio that would have me lose even more weight. When progress slows then I will add it in and I can promise you that I will do just enough to get the job done and not a minute more. Some people love cardio but I will never be one of "those" people.
Only 2 weeks until my bloodwork but I won't say anymore about that right now. I will elaborate more on that in a week after the article comes out. 🙂 In the meantime, I need to get off the computer and get in bed and I might think about what I want for breakfast tomorrow and where I am going to get a burger. A ton of excellent burgers in Denver so this decision isn't an easy one.