day-to-day differences of up to four pounds are normal because of different speeds of digestion/hydration, etc. Best is to do week-by-week comparisons and/or tracking with trend lines.
I always preferred to record every day on a physical calendar and look vertically for trends.
That said, cutting is really sapping my workout energy, so what used to take 45 mins is now taking over an hour. Ah well. Come the end of September I plan to switch back to a mass gain routine, but keep the nutrition more on point.
"Cutting" is just what fitness people (who lift regularly or have decent muscle mass) call "dieting". The idea is the same, but the focus is usually on losing body fat without sacrificing strength due to lack of calories. It makes it feel more like a deliberate thing I am doing when I say I am cutting.
I believe the term comes from weight-class competitions (wrestling, boxing, bodybuilding, etc) where people try to "cut weight" for a weigh-in or else they end up the smallest person in their bracket.
Breakfast was small, lunch was large, dinner was large and unfulfilling and followed by grapes.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I mean, i ate a brownie at work. And did not exercise.
Weird.
Congrats! If it's a confusing drop, it could come back tomorrow though. I like to blame scale malfunction or hydration when this happens. :)
ReplyDeleteday-to-day differences of up to four pounds are normal because of different speeds of digestion/hydration, etc. Best is to do week-by-week comparisons and/or tracking with trend lines.
ReplyDeleteAaron Griffin Yep! That's absolutely right.
ReplyDeleteHarald Wagener Yep. This isn't my first rodeo. I do daily tracking for the psychological effect.
ReplyDeleteI always preferred to record every day on a physical calendar and look vertically for trends.
ReplyDeleteThat said, cutting is really sapping my workout energy, so what used to take 45 mins is now taking over an hour. Ah well. Come the end of September I plan to switch back to a mass gain routine, but keep the nutrition more on point.
Aaron Griffin cutting?
ReplyDelete"Cutting" is just what fitness people (who lift regularly or have decent muscle mass) call "dieting". The idea is the same, but the focus is usually on losing body fat without sacrificing strength due to lack of calories. It makes it feel more like a deliberate thing I am doing when I say I am cutting.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I've only ever heard cutting to refer to self-harm.
ReplyDeleteI'm just trying not to die.
I believe the term comes from weight-class competitions (wrestling, boxing, bodybuilding, etc) where people try to "cut weight" for a weigh-in or else they end up the smallest person in their bracket.
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