Now that that’s out of my system, I hereby declare I will defend Keed to the death from this point forward. You’d better be really sure that “lol keeeeeed” is warranted. The senor has been humanized in all his figurative and literal, from the waist up, naked glory.
Kind of similar to potatoes - Have you tried eating a lot of apples? I’ve lost a significant amount of weight recently and I attribute it to the wonderfully delightful honey crisp apple. It makes a delicious snack at any hour and is quite filling. In the morning I slice a large apple up, sprinkle chili lime powder on the slices for a little zest, and eat it with a small piece of cheese. This keeps me satiated until dinner sometimes.
Not only have I not tried mixing in apples on this diet, I realize I haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit in two weeks. Sounds like a good, healthy snack though.
191.2 lbs this morning. 1202 calories yesterday, all potatoes.
Edit: avocado’s a fruit. Cucumber also technically a fruit? Dunno
190.4 this morning. 888 calories yesterday, all potatoes. Feel good, going to try to get to the gym this weekend to do a light weight workout. Nothing too serious, can’t get too jacked. This is a weight loss competition after all.
You know building muscle is a great way to lose weight though right? It raises your base metabolic rate.
Not sure it would be a good strategy for a two month bet though?
Can confirm. When I first started lifting my weight loss literally went to zero for 2-3 months. I kept losing inches though. It also became exponentially harder to maintain a calorie deficit, and I’d frequently get super sore to the point of not being able to lift anymore until I had a day where I ate at least maintenance.
Lifting weights = investing in future metabolic rate. It’s an important part of a long term weight loss plan and no doubt makes keeping it off much easier… but it’s awful for short term weight loss.
Sorry I guess I didn’t realize this was for a very short term thing.
I’m going to start doing some weight lifting once a week. Doubt I’ll build much muscle on this low protein diet, I’m getting 30-40 g a day, hard to see how I’ll build any muscle. But who knows.
Grass is like 20% protein.
Also I don’t mind these derails at all, it’s fine.
191.4 lbs this morning. 1,225 calories yesterday. Bought some fermented sauerkraut and kimchi yesterday, ate about 100 calories worth. All potatoes otherwise.
Eat protein and lift a reasonable amount to minimize loss of muscle mass. Lifting weights doesn’t use that much energy. It takes significant time and effort to gain a pound of muscle tissue. A pound of muscle tissue doesn’t burn many calories per day. Focus on the caloric deficit.
Lifted weights this morning. I’m doing a workout from the book Body by Science. OK. It’s five exercises: seated row, bench, lat pull down, overhead press, leg press. You don’t count reps, you do reps as slow as you can, like ten seconds per rep minimum. So the muscles are under continuous load, and the goal is to do these slow reps until failure. One set. You measure progress not by reps but by time to failure. It’s actually really unpleasant, luckily you only do the workout once a week. You do the exercises on machines. If you go over two minutes you go up in weight, under 45 seconds you go down in weight.
Yes yes yes I know, free weights, starting strength, blah blah blah. I should be doing something else but this is what I’m doing.
row 85 lbs, 2:01
bench press, 100 lbs, 0:59
lat pull down, 120 lbs, 1:10
military press, 55 lbs, 0:46
leg press, 145 lbs, 1:24
Probably started too heavy on military press and bench press, but whatever. In and out of gym in 15 minutes, lol. Decided workout day is going to be steak day, got the leanest cut, filet. Booooo. Rather have a ribeye. But the filet was 9 oz, 550 calories. Ate it with a cup or so of fermented cabbage. Then back to potatoes. When I bought the steak this morning I was planning on eating half the steak today and saving the other half for tomorrow or the next day. That, uh, didn’t work out.
189.8 lbs this morning. 1533 calories yesterday, 550 from a 9 oz filet, 50 from sauerkraut and kimchi, and the rest potatoes. Extremely sore from my 15 minute workout yesterday. We will see how effectively an all potato diet will build muscle. Probably not too great. Will be interesting to see if my hunger goes up as I add in these workouts.
It’s been two weeks since my picture so I thought I’d do another one. Warning, shirtless fat (but now just overweight, not borderline obese) man in spoilers. You’ve been warned.
Haha I know what you mean. Same thing happened to me after I watched game of thrones. I had mental pictures of all the characters from the books then poof it’s all gone and I just see danny’s dumb WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS face when I open up the books. Sad!
Been doing some research on protein intake and basic needs for baseline metabolism and building muscle. It’s interesting. Looks like the RDA for protein came from feeding people a protein free diet and measuring the nitrogen they excrete in their urine. Makes sense. So after a while on this diet people ended up metabolizing about .14 g/lbs of protein once they became adapted to a zero protein diet. Which is about 27 g of protein for me, suggesting that my 35 g intake from potatoes might be barely sufficient for maintenance. I think they just like doubled or tripled that for the rda, lol.
Ok. But what about building muscle? Surely you need 100g daily to build muscle, right? Maybe. Maybe not. How much protein is in a pound of muscle? 86 g. The rest is fat, water, and precious electrolytes. Huh. So to build a half pound of muscle a week (a yuge amount, all will agree), it only takes six extra grams of protein a day? Maybe. I don’t know.
I don’t even want to make a suggestion about what diet you need to bulk up on muscle (Johnny can), but I think there’s been soooooo much informal research done by bodybuilders (amateur, pro, other athletes) that regardless of how dumb and superstitious they are, there’s likely a lot of truth to much of the folk-wisdom generated out there.
Maybe. But there don’t seem to be any relevant scientific studies that I can find on the subject. And the more I read about where the RDA of basically all macro and micro nutrients come from it’s basically just all educated guesses based on some questionable assumptions. So part of me thinks that all this gotta get your protein bro is just BIG PROTEIN propaganda. That’s what they want you to think!
Having said that I’m going to start eating probably 12 oz of scallops a week to go with my potatoes and sauerkraut. Maybe 24 oz/week. We’ll see how it goes.
edit: I’m aware that there are studies that look at the amount of protein necessary to maximize muscle gain. I’m interested in another question: the minimum amount of protein necessary to maintain lean mass while losing weight and perhaps gain a bit of lean mass.
Great job SK.