I was up at the cabin this weekend. It was a really good weekend. I slept a lot (sorry Murray). Apparently my body needed a lot of recovery from the past week. I’m glad my body got what it needed.
Nutrition wise, I was extremely good… no white foods (yippee)… all good!
Probably the most important element of this weekend was the settling in of this plateau state, and what I can and need to do to get over it. As it typical for me, I’m not going to take this situation lying down. I’m going to achieve 20% bf by the time I leave to go on holiday… and here’s how I’ve decided to achieve it:
- Eat a maximum of 1,700 calories a day – unadjusted for exercise. Exercise is now additional expenditure, it doesn’t change my daily calorie allowance
- Eat only wholewheat / multigrain – no more whites. Potatoes, white rice, white pasta all off the menu. Only browns from this moment on
- Continue the training plan – as far as I can tell, the training plan’s working well – I’m enjoying it, and it pushes me. I’m still motivated and dedicated
- Include a thermogenic supplement - Animal Cuts is a thermogenic that seems to have pretty good reviews. I’m going to trial it out… see if that can help me over this hump I’m experiencing
None of the above is severe… it’s all within standard guidelines… I’m just pushing harder to achieve my goals. As they say – nothing worth achieving is easy. The harder I push now, the harder I’ll work to maintain the state that I’m in when I finally get to where I wanna be. Notice that these are ‘whens’ and not ‘ifs’ 