Progress: https://imgur.com/a/yYCI7T3
To be honest, regarding the science of losing fat vs muscle etc I don't really have a lot of tips because you've heard mostly all of them. Eat clean, train hard and keep your calorie deficit reasonable, not too low and not too high. I feel that if I could attribute anything to somebody that was like myself it would be the mental perspective of life and food I have followed and followed happily for the last four years and will do for life.
(Warning: Some DEEP shit incoming, if you are allergic to this sort of thing, Avoid !) For the longest time, since I was a child really, I comfort ate. MY meals during the day were actually something I relied a lot on for enjoyment. So much so when I'd try and diet and take them away, I'd feel so deprived. It was always a countdown until I could go back and eat the way I wanted again. I discovered something about the foods that are exposed to us everyday.
90 % of the food in your supermarket isn't designed for our nutritional benefit. It's designed to be delicious. The research and development departments of these companies are consistently trying to make their product more delicious than the rest and ultimately irresistible. These foods are specifically designed for us to like them and crave them. No part of that R&D team is concerned with how much protein, how much carb, what types of fats etc, all they want to know is "how hard is it for people to push the plate away".
Not everybody is susceptible to bad eating patterns with these foods though. Some people (Lucky fuckers) have the ability to take and leave them, or eat them in regular portions and have control.
I have had to learn one thing about myself. I am prone to comfort eating. These foods are kryptonite to me. If I eat these foods that's sole purpose is for enjoyment, I will get caught in a vicious cycle. That leaves me with two potential solutions:
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Work on my emotional state in order to gain control and be able to push the plate away If I do end up eating them
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Eliminate these foods from my diet to exit that vicious cycle. No.2 was what I did originally. It works exponentially but leaves you deprived and on the cliff edge of a severe relapse where I will binge eat these foods when I give myself a cheat day. Relentless binging = "I'm allowed have it now, I better fit it in as much as I can so I can be fully satisfied for the next stage of deprivement and cutting"
**Newsflash**: No matter how much I crammed in on that cheat day, I never felt fully satisfied going into that next cut. The very next day I would feel the exact same way as I did before I had even cheated, craving these foods. Even though I had them the day before, IT was almost like I never cheated at all, I still wanted them as much as I did prior to cheating.
"But I ate EVERYTHING I craved for the last 2 months?!" I would write a list down as I was dieting of the foods I'd like to have on my cheat day. When I look back, Mother of god those cheat days were incredibly ridiculous. Outrageous amounts of everything. Even when I ate them, I wasn't even satisfied for a day. Why? Because I was searching for something while eating these foods and I wasn't getting it. I was looking for something in these foods that I wasn't getting.
It was then it hit me.
I was looking for happiness in these foods and they didn't give me that what so ever. They gave me mental peace for as long as the chewing of that mouthful lasted, that disappeared once I swallowed. Leaving me craving another piece, another piece AND another piece until I psychically couldn't eat any more. The feeling of bursting at the seams overriding the craving for peace and happiness.
That's when I went to see a therapist and that did more for my body composition than training did. Am I still liable if I include these foods? Absolutely! That's just who I am right now and I've accepted that. I now know that If I eat them, Ultimately I wont be able to stop and trigger these feelings of depravity and longing.
The thing is now that I am out of the vicious circle, I see those foods for what they are, fake and a crutch. They don't make me happy. No matter how much I have, ill never get that feeling I crave for. They wont give me the elation I currently experience seeing my hard work and progress.
My aim is to one day have a six pack **but** **also** to be able to order a small pizza, eat it and leave it at that. Usually, Id order a large pizza, Garlic bread, a six pack of Yogurt rice cakes, a chocolate bar and a Chocolate muffin and ice cream for the way home from the Pizza place.
I want to have the peace inside to take a small portion, eat it and not be full. Then to have the power & peace inside to smile and leave it at that. That for me is true peace and power.
I can do 1000x workouts in the gym and it won't achieve that for me, this workout must be done in a sofa chair, reflection & understanding.
I know that food doesn't make one happy, love and peace inside does. That is what I search for.
Reader, This might not even apply to you. I do hope though that someone in a few years time comes across this old post and it will give them that enlightening moment I had 4 years ago. I've never told anybody this but I think this is the best tip I've got I'm afraid.
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