Conversely, If I were to get anything at home it would be a primo cable rack. My garage is going to be reorganized for either a few pieces of equ, or a sauna booth thing. Already have a stairmaster, commercial treadmill.
FIT.Y.E.R.O. (Meathead, wellness, fitness, diet, exercise) Thread
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Lots of solid options hitting the market lately for home gyms.
217#
15.9% BF Lowest I've seen since I started measuring.
19 days to final weigh in for goal. Gonna come down to the wire. Adding carbs back in next Friday, hopefully that's enough to get the BF down in the 14s.
15.9% BF Lowest I've seen since I started measuring.
19 days to final weigh in for goal. Gonna come down to the wire. Adding carbs back in next Friday, hopefully that's enough to get the BF down in the 14s.
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^ that’s awesome.
This week (5/30)
Weight: 202.1
Fat %: 23.4
Visceral Fat Index:10
SMM: 102.1#
BMR: 1810
Metabolic Age: 47
Upon exiting gym this morning (ridic leg day); Aga, the Polish Goddess, stopped me and we chatted.
Asked her about reverse diet. She said that I should just start to incorporate more clean carbs (every other day -midday) and eat after workouts. She said I lost enough weight and that to lose my body fat will be the slow, arduous grind. She advised to stop my 16-8 fasting routine… so, another year’s worth of process.
I’m in…going to be patient and experiment.
Last week ^
Hope all tracks well for next week.
This week (5/30)
Weight: 202.1Fat %: 23.4Visceral Fat Index:10SMM: 102.1#BMR: 1810Metabolic Age: 47Upon exiting gym this morning (ridic leg day); Aga, the Polish Goddess, stopped me and we chatted.
Asked her about reverse diet. She said that I should just start to incorporate more clean carbs (every other day -midday) and eat after workouts. She said I lost enough weight and that to lose my body fat will be the slow, arduous grind. She advised to stop my 16-8 fasting routine… so, another year’s worth of process.
I’m in…going to be patient and experiment.
Feel like someone else has been suggesting this.^ that’s awesome.
Last week ^
This week (5/30)
Upon exiting gym this morning (ridic leg day); Aga, the Polish Goddess, stopped me and we chatted.
Asked her about reverse diet. She said that I should just start to incorporate more clean carbs (every other day -midday) and eat after workouts. She said I lost enough weight and that to lose my body fat will be the slow, arduous grind. She advised to stop my 16-8 fasting routine… so, another year’s worth of process.
I’m in…going to be patient and experiment.
I f'ing hate Kooky Kats. And that GYERO Chef of the Year nonsense while bragging about his weight loss is just icing on the cake. 
Pretty ****** far from ‘nonsense’…. (2) 2-1/2” thick Snake River Farms bone-in, Ribeyes. Chimmichurri to cut through the richness. Perfection.
I’ll be back down in Lex in August for my son’s ’white coat’ ceremony and for my inaugural Wayne Dougan ***-beating.I f'ing hate Kooky Kats. And that GYERO Chef of the Year nonsense while bragging about his weight loss is just icing on the cake.
100#s isn't enough?
I get it, I'm struggling with the thought of going up next week but I know it's the right call. Just keep the good habits and add more of them.
Presentation 1/10. You also didn't let the steak rest after cooking and therefore your plate is a soggy mess. That alone should lead to the mods forcing you to take down your "chef of the year" signature.
120. But who’s counting.
319 to 199.
319 to 199.
Rested for 9 minutes.
Agreed presentation wasn’t my best, but fam was starving. If I had guests, it would be plated like a champ. If I had you over, I’d be sure to throw the bone at your head.
Can I be your hype man? I promise to bring a white board and plenty of markers.
Is weight loss your actual goal? Are you more looking to improve body composition? As anth said, you've lost more than 120 pounds. That is two-thirds of me. That's amazing! It might be time to be more specific about your goals because you've accomplished something amazing.
Did you pull the trigger on an Eight Sleep? Are you tracking your sleep and recovery?
After Gatlinburg I hit a severe depression, becoming despondent and visibly frustrated. I felt and looked like ****. Just couldn’t believe how quickly it happened, and that I timed my bloating and weight gain right at memorial f*cking weekend. We got back from that ******** just in time for me to be shirtless at our country club pool where 60% of the guys look like the Baha Mar model dudes. One of our best friend couples the guy has a legit 8 pack and I basically wanted to be dressed in a turtle neck by the end of the day.
Anyway I woke up Tuesday and saw that our city is going to be a ****** rainy soggy mess for the next two weeks. So I said f*ck it. I don’t care what’s healthy or recommended, I’m not eating a damn carb. Ive worked out 6 of the last 7 days with cardio 5 of those days. I’ve dropped 3 lbs the last 6 days. I’m just limiting carbs, doing cardio, and eating as much protein and going to see what happens.
Anyway I woke up Tuesday and saw that our city is going to be a ****** rainy soggy mess for the next two weeks. So I said f*ck it. I don’t care what’s healthy or recommended, I’m not eating a damn carb. Ive worked out 6 of the last 7 days with cardio 5 of those days. I’ve dropped 3 lbs the last 6 days. I’m just limiting carbs, doing cardio, and eating as much protein and going to see what happens.
Dude, Memorial day weekend hit me like a sack of bricks. I gained an easy 4-5 lbs.
I feel like when I workout and eat healthy, I'm ultimately happier, even if I don't really sort of "realize it".. if that makes sense. I've never felt bad after a workout, or going to bed early and getting my 8 hours.
Having kids really makes it touhg to keep up your eating and fitness goals. If anyone has a 6-pack or an 8-pack, but doesn't have kids under the age of 13.. I'm not ALL that impressed, because that guy simply has dozens of more hours a week to dedicate to eating and fitness. My kid was sick a few weeks ago.. it was 2 weeks of basically being awake most of the night with her.. Any and all workout health/workout goals went out the door for that time. And that's the difference.
Ron, f that noise. Let's go grab some some Lobster rolls and beers at Hank's. I had to stay downtown this week and noticed it was there. I love that restaurant.
Btw, I had a team dinner at the downtown Pearl location this week. My buddy parked in an ally behind that main street. Smash and grab - laptop gone. I thought Columbus was supposed to be nice?
Obviously, my health was awful.
It was combined with a good dose of COVID depression(as I’m a social butterfly), medicated with lots of bourbon. I was treated with HBP meds, statins, and betes meds. My doc never told me, ‘lose weight, fatass.” Then COVID hit and my perspective of the medical profession changed. Pills as treatment seemed dubious at best.
I decided to do everything in my power to lose weight and see what happened next.
Lost 40 lbs walking, lifting, and sweating every morning on treadmill. Plateaued.
Saw Aga on June 17 2024. She set me on a dietary plan. Lost 80 pounds more, strength training to date.
Now, I’m changing goal to muscle building and reducing fat %.
I am off meds, with exception of statin and a baby aspirin. On a CGM, took a sleep test yesterday… to prove to the medical ‘experts’ I healed myself.
Lifting and the Hallow App have cleared any depression. (Daily Rosary with Marky Mark also).
Even though I’m 23% +/- BF, I don’t look it. I have defined musculature and dare I say abs. Just gonna do this the rest of my life god willing. My goal is to be shredded, not huge.
Sleeping still stinks. My son home from college isn’t helping, with the pizza rolls being nuked at 2:45am, nightly piss at 3, Yanks on west coast… 6.5 hours is max. Last piece of puzzle.
I’m literally going to Hanks tonight after the memorial tournament with some of my wife’s in laws that are in town. Which means here in an hour I’m going to a house on the 18th at the memorial, drinking like a fish, and then continuing it tonight. Which means I’m completely full of **** because I’m going to eat like trash all day today. Also went to a crew game in VIP seats Wednesday and drank. Our social life is ruining me. But at least it’s fun,
Columbus has definitely gotten better since the shitshow that was COVID, but unfortunately it’s just like any other city with crime. Sorry about your friend. Bridge park in Dublin is where a lot of the locals have started going out.
He has a 6 year old and 3 year old. My wife was pretty much ogling him the entire time. I’m completely baffled how he’s so fit. I might have to stop being friends with him.
3 FITYERO’s in Columbus this week, has to be some kind of record. I always stay at the Hyatt Regency downtown despite most of my meetings in Dublin / New Albany area. Never had any issues walking around downtown and seen more riff raff around Rupp than the Arena District.
* next time I’m in Cbus, we need to grab a drink Ron.
Weight - 193.7
SMM - 96.8
BF - 13.2
Need weight to go up, will be adding rice back to workout days. SMM & BF continuing to increase and decrease properly.
* next time I’m in Cbus, we need to grab a drink Ron.
Weight - 193.7
SMM - 96.8
BF - 13.2
Need weight to go up, will be adding rice back to workout days. SMM & BF continuing to increase and decrease properly.
Meal prep is crucial for keeping it off, especially with kids. Knowing you have a perfectly macro'd meal that is 8 minutes in an air fryer away. It just keeps out those bad decisions 95% of the time. Gonna be really tough to stay consistent without cooking at home(or meal prep). It also allows you to go wild one night then jump right back in. Link up with a service or just make yours on Sunday afternoon. I used a local service for years then I realized I had most of a side of beef just sitting in my deep freeze. Then I got a deer. So I have like 120#'s of meat I need to get through the rest of the year.
Right now I'm cooking 5# of chicken breast. Green beans. 2lbs of ground turkey and 1lb of ground beef. Broccoli. 18 hard boiled eggs. I'll have a greek yogurt and banana at breakfast. That gets me pretty well through the week at 2000calories and 200+g protein. Use whatever seasoning or marinades I have around or are open in the fridge. Next week I'll cook a weeks worth of rice. Takes me roughly an hour on Sunday. Also, means I only have to count calories 1 day per week.
If we grill out I typically cook extra of whatever protein we're cooking for a treat during the week.
After cut I'll go back to just ground beef/venison, chicken thighs, steak, pork chops to keep it intersting.
Right now I'm cooking 5# of chicken breast. Green beans. 2lbs of ground turkey and 1lb of ground beef. Broccoli. 18 hard boiled eggs. I'll have a greek yogurt and banana at breakfast. That gets me pretty well through the week at 2000calories and 200+g protein. Use whatever seasoning or marinades I have around or are open in the fridge. Next week I'll cook a weeks worth of rice. Takes me roughly an hour on Sunday. Also, means I only have to count calories 1 day per week.
If we grill out I typically cook extra of whatever protein we're cooking for a treat during the week.
After cut I'll go back to just ground beef/venison, chicken thighs, steak, pork chops to keep it intersting.
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I have never been either as I do everything at home or on a trail.
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Accountability post time.
After vacation, I'm still lighter than I was pre-pregnancy. I realize this is the opposite of a problem for most people, so I can't really talk to anyone in real life about it because I get the "oh no, poor skinny *****" treatment.* But since I started lifting consistently, I HATE getting lighter because it virtually always means I've lost strength. I'm 174 right now; I feel my best around 180-185. Right now, my leverages are different enough that none of my main barbell lifts feel good. Since baby I've really struggled to eat enough because he has a magical ability to start screaming right as I start getting my food ready, which means I've had a corresponding loss of appetite, made worse by postpartum depression and husband's heart attack sending my normal baseline mental health stuff into the stratosphere. Clearly, I'm a "sad/anxious = don't eat" person.
Baby will be seven months old next week. The mental health fog is finally lifting. I have my first post-baby annual physical soon and I will be requesting a full battery of bloodwork to make sure nothing is haywire. Once I confirm it's all good, I am going hammer down on putting mass back on. I recover better, lifts feel better, and honestly my mental health is better when I'm stronger, so that's what I need to do. I've already been swapping out carby snacks for protein ones and I have creatine on the way to restart that, but I probably need to track calories for a while to make myself eat enough. I'm going to stick with the lifting program I've been doing because I know it works for me and I enjoy it, but I may reassess that if I'm not feeling more like myself by end of summer.
Anyways. Let's have ourselves a summer, FITYERO.
* for a little lol, I was 145 lbs soaking wet in law school and thought I was fat. I truly was a skinny *****. Ridiculous.
After vacation, I'm still lighter than I was pre-pregnancy. I realize this is the opposite of a problem for most people, so I can't really talk to anyone in real life about it because I get the "oh no, poor skinny *****" treatment.* But since I started lifting consistently, I HATE getting lighter because it virtually always means I've lost strength. I'm 174 right now; I feel my best around 180-185. Right now, my leverages are different enough that none of my main barbell lifts feel good. Since baby I've really struggled to eat enough because he has a magical ability to start screaming right as I start getting my food ready, which means I've had a corresponding loss of appetite, made worse by postpartum depression and husband's heart attack sending my normal baseline mental health stuff into the stratosphere. Clearly, I'm a "sad/anxious = don't eat" person.
Baby will be seven months old next week. The mental health fog is finally lifting. I have my first post-baby annual physical soon and I will be requesting a full battery of bloodwork to make sure nothing is haywire. Once I confirm it's all good, I am going hammer down on putting mass back on. I recover better, lifts feel better, and honestly my mental health is better when I'm stronger, so that's what I need to do. I've already been swapping out carby snacks for protein ones and I have creatine on the way to restart that, but I probably need to track calories for a while to make myself eat enough. I'm going to stick with the lifting program I've been doing because I know it works for me and I enjoy it, but I may reassess that if I'm not feeling more like myself by end of summer.
Anyways. Let's have ourselves a summer, FITYERO.
* for a little lol, I was 145 lbs soaking wet in law school and thought I was fat. I truly was a skinny *****. Ridiculous.
Anyone add L-Carnitine to their supplements and find it valuable? I see a lot of deals for liquid L-Carnitine, and I see decent reviews. But I never know if this stuff is just BS. Supposed to help with energy and some metabolic burn.
I've seen L-Car pinned and claimed to provide energy/fat burn, usually by folks who don't need a GLP-1 and don't want to dabble in anything more serious. Not sure how well it works but if it provides the benefit they claim, have to think injection > pill, like just about anything out there.
Also, Anth's trainer got a shout-out on the most recent podcast for helping an individual who had reached 650 pounds start and stick with his weight loss journey. 27 minute mark, but whole pod is worth a listen to hear this guys story.
Also, Anth's trainer got a shout-out on the most recent podcast for helping an individual who had reached 650 pounds start and stick with his weight loss journey. 27 minute mark, but whole pod is worth a listen to hear this guys story.
TMG/Betaine & Taurine w/CoQ10 was a great add for me. Noticeably, looking leaner, BF% drop.
Dropped L-Arginine from the stack for a bit.
Dropped L-Arginine from the stack for a bit.
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Was out at dinner in Dallas last night with clients. As we all shook hands to leave, one of the spaghetti-armed execs from the client gave me a hand shake with a left hand to the upper arm pat and then said, "whoa" in reference to the size of the guns under my sport coat sleaves. Then another guy from my client who I go to the gym with said in front of the group of 12, "yeah, Wayne bench pressed 245 X 12 the other day".
- That's gotta be a top-10 feeling in the world
- I didn't post this to brag as much as I just wanted to give Kooky a warning for what he's going to run into when he gets here in August.
Best feeling in the world.
I still remember when mags called you quiet and sweet in real life that one time
Well after Kooky gets his we can go see about Mags.
Friday of Truth.
215.4
105.6 SMM
15.3% BF
Loss some muscle WoW. Still only about a 1.5#s over the last 3 weeks and same as my 05.09.25 weigh in BUT first time I've felt it working out. Definitely time to start eating more carbs and eating more in general. Gonna keep it very clean until the final weigh in to try and see 14.()% I' hoping the carbs will be enough to push that BF down.
Lowest BF% in... I'm not sure. Long time. Elastic waist bands loose. Feel great. Gonna very much enjoy 2 cups of rice this afternoon.
^ you should know.
Weight: 201.1
Fat %: 22.2%
Visc Fat Index: 9
SMM: 103.2#
BMR: 1817
Metabolic Age: 44
Had a good week, y’all.
Listen, I know my HUME scale is not medical grade equipment, but for trends- I like where I’m going and how I’m looking.
This week 6/6:
Weight: 201.1Fat %: 22.2%Visc Fat Index: 9SMM: 103.2#BMR: 1817Metabolic Age: 44Had a good week, y’all.
Listen, I know my HUME scale is not medical grade equipment, but for trends- I like where I’m going and how I’m looking.
Went wild in gym. Ate 250g protein all week, with minimal caloric uptick.
25 minute stairmill at 9 speed after workouts 3x.
TMG.
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