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updates: The Race Weight Project Page
Burgers: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 , day 5, day 6, day 7, day 8, day 9, day 10 (surprisingly easy to stay satisfied and lose weight gradually, workouts felt normal)
Ice cream: all the ice cream posts (weight shed FAST on ice cream, training was mostly ok but was more variable than burgers)
Pizza: all the pizza posts (I was suprised that many of my workouts sucked badly. I thought they would be good since pizza has a good combo of carbs, protein and fat)
Beer: all the beer posts (this was the most terrible idea in the world. I'm not a huge beer fan, and after about 2 I feel full and don't want any more. Which doesn't bode well if you're trying to get most of your calories from beer). Weight was also ALL OVER THE PLACE. Literally, swings of multiple kg in 24 hours. I wait for stable weight readings before moving onto each next phase which is why it took so long to get off the beer.
Cake and donuts: all cake posts. More cake than donuts since I'm not a big donut fan.
UPDATE: As of April 1oth it is done! after 21 days of cake I finally lost the final kg. But I saw some very surprising performance improvements during the 21 days of very slow loss. So I decided to enter IMTX at the last minute as a big training day. That gave me 2 weeks of normal eating where I focus on calorie surplus in order to fuel the workouts adequately. As an aside, I really enjoyed parts of this diet and also did not enjoy other aspects. I'm going to tweak it a bit and make this my off season diet for sure. That way I get to eat all the holiday foods and still lose weight! I also felt that it reset my relationship with food, making me a bit less paranoid about what I eat. For health purposes, I prefer to eat a lot of veggies and lean meats, but doing this has also made me feel a lot more ok with occasional eating of ice cream, burgers and cake, without the usual feelings of guilt and "unprofessionalism"
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Ok, so I'm kind of fed up with the BS that people believe especially as it relates to daily diet and nutrition. Perhaps it's the time of year, but I've recently had quite a few people reach out to me for advice on early season weight loss. The thing they've all had in common is that they have a misguided sense of priority and ignore the most fundamental of principles... they focus on this diet or that diet, low carb, high fat, high protein, paleo, ancestral, whole 30, zone, atkins, nutrisystem blah blah blah blah-dee-blah....
While ignoring the simplest of facts: just eat less!!! Even if you follow a strict macro-nutrient or food type of diet, if you eat too much you won't lose the weight. I have made this mistake countless times, so it's not that I know better or anything like that...
To prove my point, tell me what your favorite "bad" food is, and I will eat it to get to race weight. I'm racing IM Boulder in June, and have some weight to lose before then. I currently weigh 78kg, and should race around 73kg (or a bit less if possible). I'll get there by eating whatever I want, just less of it.
Here are the rules:
- Let's get a list of "bad" foods going. You tell me your favorite bad food, and I'll choose one at a time. The more delicious options will get preference!
- I'll eat the majority of my daily calories from that food type (1500-2000 calories per day).
- In addition to those calories, I can eat whatever I like on top of that.
- I'll update this thread with details of what I'm eating.
- When I lose 1kg / 2 lbs, I'll move on to the next "bad food" on the list.
- I'll still be training hard over this time, including Tour of Sufferlandria coming up. And of course prepping for IM Boulder.
- While we're at it, let's debunk some other BS, like not eating carbs at night.
- Maybe it will backfire completely! In which case I will of course admit that I'm wrong.
- Overall, I will be happy if the end result is that people relax and enjoy what they eat a bit more!
Ok, let's get the ball rolling, what's your best unhealthy food?
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updated with provisional schedule:
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updates: The Race Weight Project Page
Burgers: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4 , day 5, day 6, day 7, day 8, day 9, day 10 (surprisingly easy to stay satisfied and lose weight gradually, workouts felt normal)
Ice cream: all the ice cream posts (weight shed FAST on ice cream, training was mostly ok but was more variable than burgers)
Pizza: all the pizza posts (I was suprised that many of my workouts sucked badly. I thought they would be good since pizza has a good combo of carbs, protein and fat)
Beer: all the beer posts (this was the most terrible idea in the world. I'm not a huge beer fan, and after about 2 I feel full and don't want any more. Which doesn't bode well if you're trying to get most of your calories from beer). Weight was also ALL OVER THE PLACE. Literally, swings of multiple kg in 24 hours. I wait for stable weight readings before moving onto each next phase which is why it took so long to get off the beer.
Cake and donuts: all cake posts. More cake than donuts since I'm not a big donut fan.
UPDATE: As of April 1oth it is done! after 21 days of cake I finally lost the final kg. But I saw some very surprising performance improvements during the 21 days of very slow loss. So I decided to enter IMTX at the last minute as a big training day. That gave me 2 weeks of normal eating where I focus on calorie surplus in order to fuel the workouts adequately. As an aside, I really enjoyed parts of this diet and also did not enjoy other aspects. I'm going to tweak it a bit and make this my off season diet for sure. That way I get to eat all the holiday foods and still lose weight! I also felt that it reset my relationship with food, making me a bit less paranoid about what I eat. For health purposes, I prefer to eat a lot of veggies and lean meats, but doing this has also made me feel a lot more ok with occasional eating of ice cream, burgers and cake, without the usual feelings of guilt and "unprofessionalism"
---
Ok, so I'm kind of fed up with the BS that people believe especially as it relates to daily diet and nutrition. Perhaps it's the time of year, but I've recently had quite a few people reach out to me for advice on early season weight loss. The thing they've all had in common is that they have a misguided sense of priority and ignore the most fundamental of principles... they focus on this diet or that diet, low carb, high fat, high protein, paleo, ancestral, whole 30, zone, atkins, nutrisystem blah blah blah blah-dee-blah....
While ignoring the simplest of facts: just eat less!!! Even if you follow a strict macro-nutrient or food type of diet, if you eat too much you won't lose the weight. I have made this mistake countless times, so it's not that I know better or anything like that...
To prove my point, tell me what your favorite "bad" food is, and I will eat it to get to race weight. I'm racing IM Boulder in June, and have some weight to lose before then. I currently weigh 78kg, and should race around 73kg (or a bit less if possible). I'll get there by eating whatever I want, just less of it.
Here are the rules:
- Let's get a list of "bad" foods going. You tell me your favorite bad food, and I'll choose one at a time. The more delicious options will get preference!
- I'll eat the majority of my daily calories from that food type (1500-2000 calories per day).
- In addition to those calories, I can eat whatever I like on top of that.
- I'll update this thread with details of what I'm eating.
- When I lose 1kg / 2 lbs, I'll move on to the next "bad food" on the list.
- I'll still be training hard over this time, including Tour of Sufferlandria coming up. And of course prepping for IM Boulder.
- While we're at it, let's debunk some other BS, like not eating carbs at night.
- Maybe it will backfire completely! In which case I will of course admit that I'm wrong.
- Overall, I will be happy if the end result is that people relax and enjoy what they eat a bit more!
Ok, let's get the ball rolling, what's your best unhealthy food?
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updated with provisional schedule:
- 78-77kg: burgers
- 77-76kg: milkshakes / ice cream
- 76-75kg: pizza
- 75-74kg: beer
- 74-73kg: pancakes, donuts and cake
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