The last couple of days were uneventful — by then the shakes had become somewhat automatic, and I was mainly focused on how I was going to transition to a more normal eating pattern. My skill with calipers is still a work in progress, but I would say that I went from about 18% bodyfat [...]
I’ve been keeping the volume of my workouts down this week and doing anything that strikes me as fun. Today I thought I’d max out on bench press, just to see how much, if any, strength I’ve lost during this diet. I worked up to a pretty easy 195 single, but failed miserably at 201 [...]
Quick update after last night’s long posting – This morning I’m down to 153.5 (11 lbs in exactly 3 weeks). The exciting thing is for the first time, the calipers say I’m below 13% bodyfat (12.7% to be exact). Now, I’m still learning how to use the calipers, so any of my reading might be [...]
First off, my current stats — this morning I weighed 154.5. Calipers say I’m still in the 13,5% bodyfat range. Based on my starting numbers, that means that I’ve lost exactly 10 pounds, and virtually none of it has been muscle (estimating muscle gain is hard from the numbers, because I’d have to estimate exactly [...]
I have to admit, the last few days have been tough. Partly because I’ve been hungrier and partly because my rate of fat loss has decreased a bit (I stayed at 155 yesterday and lost half a pound today — now at 154.5). I suppose it shows how great the results are on the velocity [...]
I was anticipating that the rate of fat and weight loss would decrease the farther I got into the diet, but go figure — I’ve lost 1.5 pounds each of the last 2 days (I’m now down to 155). But the calipers say I’m at 13% bodyfat (still can’t see much more than my top 2 [...]
You can’t drink enough water on this diet. Helps with the hunger, helps with the water loss (which comes from low carbing), helps with the hot rox. And typically, I think that most people don’t get enough water. You can’t sleep enough on this diet. It really feels like the weight just burns off [...]
I take the hot rox first thing in the morning after I wake up. Then I usually go take my morning crap and take my various measurements (weigh myself on the bf scale, take bf readings using my calipers, measure my waist, record that all in a spreadsheet). Then I’ll have my first shake of [...]
I will be halfway through this experiment at the end of today. All in all, things are progressing pretty well. I gained 2 lbs this morning (now at 158; started at 164.5) — but that was to be expected, since I had a solid meal yesterday. What’s nice is the 2 lbs doesn’t seem to [...]
I am taking Hot Rox extreme. I’ve played around with it in the past, but I don’t think I was taking full advantage of it — what it’s really good at is preserving muscle when you’re in a caloric deficit (the whole purpose of this diet is to only strip off the fat — and most of the people [...]
