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Ahh XD OK OK! Sorry for being a pain... ^^' I had some amazing holidays in Barcelona and ate like crazy xD so I doubt I'll be able to eat as little again anyway. I still changed the program since I was doing SS for a few months already and like I said.. A few years ago when I did stronglifts, this was also my limit so I doubt I'd manage more. Even while eating more.

@RisenPhoenix you are right lol. I basically asked the wrong question. Even after all these years I'm still so silly. So I'm basically cutting right now. I still have fat to lose. I don't want to bulk. What should I do to at least maintain or very slowly gain some muscle while cutting? Cause I don't want to be a skinny flob when I finish this. I know that metabolic (high reps short rest time) is not advised anymore. So still proper strength workout is advised. Now starting strength or even strong lifts are meant for beginners who can increase the weight every day. Because I'm no longer a beginner, or at least I'm cutting so it's gonna be hard to gain muscle... What should I do? Hopefully this makes sense now!

Hey! I definitely want to to keep losing weight. It's just a little bit more... To be honest though, I like eating these amounts right now. I always thought that calorie counting made me overeat. I'd feel forced to eat the amount of calories I needed even if I didn't feel like it. Although there were days I wanted more. What I'm doing is not without its faults. I'm afraid as hell to suddenly feel like eating more and gain all the weight back. I guess that's the problem of not really actively do something about it. But the thing is, even before I never managed much more. My highest pr on the bench was 40kg a long time ago and just 1 rep. I'm doing 36.5kg now. Deadlifts are also very close to my prev max. Squats I only managed higher when I wasn't squating low. So, to be honest I do think my muscles are pretty much at their max. So it's probably time to do something that doesn't involve a new weight everyday. Cause I'm not managing it very well. I also read about the texas method?

Hi everyone! It's been a while. Sorry. Things have been going great actually. I went from that weird low calorie whole foods diet, to counting calories and eating a ton, to finally just eat whatever I feel like which apparently has been low cal, low protein. Nevertheless I've lost a lot of weight, waist, hip and thigh size which was and still is my goal. Unfortunately that means muscle mass too. I've hit a wall on Starting Strength. Actually starting to probably go back a little. Most likely due to the low calorie, low protein thing. But at the moment I'm really happy with my diet. I'm seriously eating what I want. And losing weight. So I'm not changing that. And truth be told I've barely ever been able to lift more than what I'm doing right now anyways. Which is why I think it's time to move on to a different program. Is madcow 5x5 still the best progression from starting strength? Are there others? Are there any changes for females? (I ask this because SS app has me doing 5x3 reps instead of 3x5). Thank you very much in advance

For some reason I couldn't find this topic on my phone lol... It took me a while since I had to search it manually. So I'm still here! I didn't get lost. I did get a bit wild but it was intentional and I loved every bit! So I worked out last week on Thursday but for some reason my SS app updated and lost that record. So I'm not too sure of what I did! Then my friends came Friday and it was awesome! We ate plenty, good food and chocolates and wtv. I counted no calories and had everything I was missing! We went to natural history museum, Harry Potter studios, Madame tussauds and the London dungeon. It was great! We also played lots of board games Then they left and left me with a bad cold. And I had the brilliant idea of working out that day and got even worse and had to miss work... I did decrease my workload a bit since it had been a while. Squat: 55kg 3x3x3x3x3 OHP: 25kg 3x3x3x3x3 Deadlift: 60kg 3x3x3 Chinups w/ assistance of 26kg: 4x4x4x4 Dips w/ assistance of 19kg: 4x4x4x4 4x Hollow body progression. And let's see hoelw this goes!

Ok so a bit late but let's recap last week. Apparently this is the last one! Omg! And I'm not sure I'll participate in the next one as I'll have friends coming for the next 2 weeks. So I dunno. I don't even know what to challenge myself on xD Learn skill Firestorm Hit the gym at least 2x week: check! Eat calories aloted and record on mfp: check! Make notes of weight and body measurements: done as well! Gather relics from the trophy rooms Plan at least 1 weekend in a different country: finally done! Barcelona in November. Not gonna be summer, but oh well xD at least it was cheap! Plan visit to Portugal: I'm afraid I won't be able to actually do much more since my off duty hasn't come out yet lol... Form a guild of allies Speak with friends: had an amazing conversation with a friend in Portugal. We're both solo kind of people, but when we talk it's awesome. Plan days out: yeah, for next week! Reach current gold cap I believe I've done that one ^^ So yeah. See ya on my battle log!

So my 2x workout this week had to be today, and here's how it was: Squats: 3x3x3x3x3 58.5kgs Bench: 3x3x3x3x3 34.5kgs Power clean: 3x3x3x3x3 33kgs Chinups: 8x8x8x8 33kgs assistance Dips: 8x8x8x7 26kgs assistance Hollow body progression: 4x, and I believe I'm hanging there for longer than before. Also lower! So basically squats I felt I probably wasn't going as down and I should só I'm gonna repeat it again next week. Bench was fine, power cleans were fine. I had these massive gains for chinups and dips though where I went from around 5-6 reps to 8! So I'm gonna use less assistance next time and see how it goes. Now next weeks are gonna be weird cause a couple friend of ours are coming mid week, and will go next midweek. Which means I'll probably only manage 1x workout per week, at least next week that's true. Hopefully I won't lose too much! Anyways, because of that I was also thinking, maybe there's no point for me to make a challenge for the next week's? I mean, 2 of them I'll barely go to the gym at all. I'll think about it xD

@Taddea Zhaanyou were right! Here's my measurements this week: Weight: 69.6kg Thigh: 61cm Waist: 75cm Hip: 94cm So basically this week I lost weight even though I've been eating the same, maybe even more since a couple of things happened (still in my calorie range though), and I also lost on my hips and legs! This is awesome, and my training today was absolutely great! Yey muscles!

That's pretty much how I am. I really take a big hit, I hate messups. I literally had to compartmentalize and kinda hide those guilty feelings in a dark place or I could've had a breakdown. I was probably even more scared that would happen, cause I could feel it coming. I just wanted to hide in somewhere and cry but I had to deal with it and could only relax when at home. The thing is... I do want to get the responsibility of being in charge. I want to learn. And I could really use with getting more income. Being in charge was a once in a lifetime opportunity, I very rarely get it. So I definitely really didn't want to mess it up! Of course, this had to happen. So besides feeling bad for the patient, guilty for myself, afraid of a further breakdown when I still had half a shift to go... I also got afraid my opportunity of "leveling up" on the job is gone. Which I guess helped me gather some kind of cool to pull it off through the day after I knew the patient would be fine. And this not wanting to sound bad. I seriously felt bad and guilty for the patient. I still do. But I can't avoid also feeling bad for myself and for an opportunity that I've probably lost for having messed up.

So... completely different than all of you and something that scared the hell out of me and I'm still pretty concerned and obviously will improve it in the future. Yesterday as a nurse I did my first medication error. As soon as I found out I told the patient and the doctor and tried to face it as better as possible since I was also in charge of that area and that error happened during the most horrible timing ever. I'd never done it. And it's scary as hell to face a patient and saying that you did a mistake. And then tell the doctors... and everyone else that appeared there because like I said, it was a very inconvenient time. Other than that... The patient was always fine and the error had no consequences at all. I also know what led me to it, the prescription had extra numbers than normal for the same prescription. And my eyes kept capting that instead of the values I really wanted. Now I can't blame the prescription because it was technically fine, it just had extra numbers in there and I could have chosen to ignore them. But because life happens, I didn't, even though I thought something was weird unconsciously, since I actually run the numbers 2x but ended up doing the same. Anyways, that was it. No harm done. Just a pretty bad moment that ruined my day. But I had to maintain my cool since I still had half the day to run the area and help the other nurses. I can't avoid feeling that I've failed somehow... but these things are, unfortunately, normal. I really wish they'd start putting prescriptions on the computer. I worked 4years before on a hospital with prescriptions on the computer and never had anything of the sort. Oh well... obviously that's not gonna happen to make me feel better.

@Urganmuscles would be great! I wish XD Ok so on to the gym I went! I really like my little microplates! Squats: 3x3x3x3x3 58kgs OHP: 3x3x3x3x3 25.5kgs Deadlift: 3x3x3 66kgs Chinups: 6x6x4x5 33kgs assistance Dips: 5x6x6x5 26kgs assistance Hollow body progression. 4x something XD Deadlifts were really hard actually. I was very surprised since 65kg seemed okay. Maybe it's because I'm paying extra attention to get a good form and my legs kinda suffered with the extra weight? What I know is.. My back was just sore from being tired! Which is awesome! It's fine now, obviously. No sharp pains or anything. I was super careful with weights. Yesterday I had around 1750 calories because I got super frustrated at work and... I deserved it. It's still lower than my TDEE supposedly...

So.. This weekend I was super lazy but here are measurements and stuff: Weight: 70.4kg Thigh: 62cm Waist: 75cm Hip: 95cm So basically, all measurements are the same, my weight increased. I've been eating around 1580 and 1630 so it shouldn't be that. Or maybe it was since I only worked 2 nights shifts. It still felt quite a busy week though. I'll see what happens this week and the evaluate

Ok so a bit late but let's recap last week. Apparently this is the last one! Omg! I have literally almost no idea what my next challenge will be and to be honest I'm not even sure I should be in the adventures guild. I feel seriously boring compared to so many people out there! Learn skill Firestorm Hit the gym at least 2x week: check! Eat calories aloted and record on mfp: check! Make notes of weight and body measurements: gonna put that next ^^ so late check! Gather relics from the trophy rooms Plan at least 1 weekend in a different country: almost done... Gonna check my schedule today! We're going to Barcelona! Plan visit to Portugal: I'm afraid I won't be able to actually do much more since my off duty hasn't come out yet lol... Form a guild of allies Speak with friends: done that! Discord is an amazing tool hihihi Plan days out: went to see my friends' baby girl and actually held her. I'm terrible with babies and things and it seems almost like I could lose my friends.. Since they're parents now.. I dunno, it's completely out of my comfort zone, but I've done it! Reach current gold cap I've pretty much done this as much as can to be honest. And my savings account is looking good again even after the laptop. And I'm still waiting for the laptop cashback, should be here by the 30th September. And that's all ^^ I was mega lazy this weekend... Night shift mode I guess xD

I reckon one of the reasons we don't have one already might be because paleo is strongly advised and you technically shouldn't need to monitor calories because of that? Which I'd totally love... but I totally gained weight on paleo so... xD hello to counting calories again! Well... it was totally my fault though, but I simply can't stop having cheese in my diet.

Do you actually know what's making it so easy for you to get injured? Isn't it a medical issue of some sort?? Or just the kind of muscular/trapped nerve sort of thing?? You might want to consider less reps as well? Also, have you discussed with someone about an IBS diet? Usually, people end up knowing what triggers it. Obviously, you can't really avoid stress, only learn ways to cope with it better.