LtDanAintGotNoLegs

Greek Yogurt is tasty, but I'm pretty meh on it without sweeteners. I'm honestly willing to tolerate a fair bit of inefficiency on protein intake in exchange for making things taste better/ be more convenient / increase food novelty. That said, I really should start cooking my own lunches and the like, I could probably take a batch of chicken breasts, season them differently in pairs, than just bake them all on the same sheet. I also have a Sous Vide machine and a vacuum sealer, which is probably perfect for preparing the breasts en masse, throwing them all in the fridge in vacuum bags, than reheating them on the stove top over the course of the week. The vacuum bags are a bit pricy though. I'll have to think further on this.

Ah, well I am well short of those milestones. Especially pistol squats, those things look insane. But it's good to have something to strive for. I guess I'll aim to bulk for a month or two then resume cutting, or stop whenever my waistline expands too much.

Thanks for the link, that's quite helpful. Thanks for the advice, I was using bodyweight.com to look for more complicated excercises, so I'll look to step those up. So based on a visual inspection, I'm around 20-25% body fat, according to my cheap scale (One of those electric resistance ones off of Amazon) I'm around 19%. I have a tape and calipers on order, but assuming I somewhere under 25%, is it too early for me to have moved to bulking? I was originally aiming for around 150-160 as my target weight, I moved to bulking because my results were very much slowing down, and I had read that it helps, but did I start too early?

Thanks! It's certainly been interesting, I've never really given much effort or thought to my weight before, so taking control of it has been pretty empowering. I've been going through boxes of clementines in an effort to eat less sweets in general. I've just started doing the protein bars because it let me add more protein to my diet while still relatively easily restricting my calories, I hate having to count. What are lazy, relatively low calorie ways to add protein via whole foods? Can I get away with Beef Jerky and stuff like Tanka Bars? I have kind of a weird confluence of being a big foodie, but only rarely wanting to go to the effort of cooking for myself (Because when I do I tend to make a big production of it). I don't normally drink many sodas outside of weekends, on weekdays I keep a jug of unsweetened peach iced tea handy and chug that. I could probably swap in more milk for soda on weekends, but I'm moderately lactose intolerant so most decent chocolate milk is slightly problematic. Did not know that about air resistance, but it makes sense. Time isn't a huge downside though, I'd rather have an hour pass by quickly while reading or watching TV than have twenty minutes drag by slowly while sprinting or jumping rope. That said I'll probably incorporate some of those anyway.

Hello all! I've been dieting for a while now, but I've only recently started to look at really getting in shape. I honestly just want to look decent with my shirt off, and build enough muscle mass that I can have a relatively high caloric intake. I discovered Nerd Fitness and it seems like the kind of evidence based approach to fitness that could really work for me. Plus, it's properly nerdy. So that's nice too. Good to meet you all!

I'm cross posting this on here and the diet sub forum, as I have two different questions but the setup should be pertinent to both. If that's not the right way to go about it I apologize. So as I said I've been doing the bodyweight exercises and I can mostly go through 3 sets w/o any issue (Except Saturday apparently where I woke up, warmed up, had a protein bar, then nearly fell over half way through set three, and had to go much slower. I think my blood sugar just crashed because I didn't feel sore). I've already moved up to 24/24/24 on squats, 24/24/24 on lunges, replaced the barbell pulls (I was doing 20 at 15 lbs of weight) with pull ups (I'm at 7/6/6) [*edit* Looks like I've been doing them wrong, upon actually reviewing proper form, I've only been doing a partial descent. I'll see how many I can do correctly this evening], 40sec/30sec/30sec on planks, and 20/16/16 pushups. How do I scale up the exercises as I get stronger? At what point should I move to different and more challenging ones as opposed to merely adding more reps? For Cardio I'm doing an hour and a half of walking 3 mph (I'll drop it down and raise it a bit, but 3mph is the average) with a small incline(It's a manual incline, so I don't know exactly how much, but it's noticeable). I've recently started adding a weighted (Currently around 40 lbs) hiking backpack in preparation for a backpacking trip to Europe next month for as long as I can comfortably, (currently around 45 min). I have a TV set up in front of my treadmill, which really helps keep me entertained in otherwise boring Cardio, plus I have downstairs neighbors and roommates, so outright running is too loud. Any advice people have would be great, I've mostly been assembling my workouts piecemeal from various sources, and something more systematic would be useful. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, new forum user here, looking to get some advice. So since August or thereabouts I've been dieting, and I've been doing about an hour and a half a day on the treadmill (at this point, with incline at around 3 mph) since December. About 3 weeks ago I discovered Nerd Fitness and I've gotten up to doing the body weight workouts 3 times a week (MWSa) with treadmill (TuThFri) and Sunday as a rest day. From my peak weight of 225 (I'm around 5'7'', male) I've dropped down to the 165-170 range, and having more or less stalled there, I figured I should move to bulking out a bit. My current diet is 1/2 cup of Soylent with sugar free swiss miss for breakfast, whatever food truck I fancy for lunch (So variable caloric intake, but I don't order sides or drinks, just an entree) and a light dinner, either a protein or meat bar, maybe some pickles, some oranges, a Soda or a popsicle. On days off I don't diet and mostly eat whatever (So yesterday I think I had half a 10' meatlovers Pizza, like 9 clementines, two sodas, a bowl of ham fried rice, a few handfuls of chocolate covered almonds, 1/4 of a doughnut, two mini peanut butter cups, two handfuls of cashews, two handfuls of rock sugar candy, and a falafel wrap). In order to support heavier and more intense exercise on weekdays, I've moved to adding a scoop of Whey Protein Isolate to my Soylent on Cardio days, and having a second protein bar after working out on strength training days. Given relatively low self discipline (It's *really* hard for me to restrict my portion size, or avoid eating when I'm bored, hence my issues on weekends), how can I alter my diet to support exercise and muscle building, while hopefully dropping the last 10 or so lbs of fat I need to finish getting rid of my belly? I've had pretty decent results so far with just eating a bit more than I used to on Strength training days, and I'm definitely seeing results, but I'm getting a bit anxious deviating from my previous restrictions. Thanks in advance for reading.