Thanks so much, as usual, Rick...
Here's more of a recap on me:
I learned I had above-normal blood sugars in early September.
One year ago, I was lifting weights 4 days/wk. We'd have max effort days
and light days. Two upper body days, two lower body days. We would not
repeat any exercise within a week (altho we would hit the same muscle more
than once/wk, just using a different exercise).
I feel I was pretty strong then, altho I just learned that I've torn
something in my shoulder and have osteoarthritis in my hip, which explains
so so much of the pain I'd be in at any given time and the limitations.
But I was doing squats and dead lifts (I've lifted over 200# - don't
remember the exact number but it's in my training log). I could curl a 45#
bar for reps.
But I was not "lean" (my "Ideal" body weight is 133 and I run between
136-140)..
In an attempt to 'get lean', a year ago, I opted to go virtually vegetarian.
I managed to stay on that WOE for 3 months before I got fed up with it. Not
only was my poor tummy in a constant state of upset, I was getting flabbier
by the day.
Over the summer, I attempted to follow a calorie-restrictive WOE but always
failed because I was always hungry.
While I'd dabble with Fast5 periodically, I was always working out in a
fasted state; usually 8-9 hr fast.
But still, "leanness" evaded me.
Enter dear Ellen who kept telling me that her hunger was curbed eating a
high fat diet and helped her to regulate her blood sugar.
So, in mid-August, I changed to a high fat WOE. A year earlier, I was
probably consuming 125-150g protein (of course, low fat). While following
the vegetarian WOE, I was consuming around 35g (still low fat). The caloric
restricted diet was about 100g P. The high fat ratios currently have me at
60g Protein.
Then in October, I changed my way of working out. I'd read both Slow Burn
and Body by Science and was ready to take on the BBS "Big Five" workout. I
was amazed to see the physical difference just after my first workout!!!
But that was the end of that (difference)
days. I started getting 8 full hours of sleep every night (first time in
probably 20 years!). I think I had 6 of these work outs then I had my
doctor's appt and learned about the torn shoulder thing and the
osteoarthritis. Not being able to find anyone who could help me to adjust
the "Body by Science" "Big Five" work out, I stopped working out.
Even tho I was following 'good' ratios for the high fat WOE, my weight
slowly increased about 4 lbs. Eating high fat, low carb, my blood sugars
came down (from 130-140) but then I couldn't get them below 100.
Being disgusted that my weight was going back up and that I was losing
muscle tone, I went back to the gym, to my old lifting partner, to our
4-day-wk lifting routine in January. My lifting partner had changed the
work out. No longer do we have max effort lifting, we only squat once/wk.
We don't deadlift anymore. Our workouts are fast and much lighter. Instead
of taking an hour, we're done in 30-35 minutes. We still hit the same
muscle more than once/wk but never by utilizing the same exercise.
I was shocked at my loss in strength in a few short months (from when I
stopped this type of lifting in October to January). I'd only been off from
lifting totally for 6 wks. And, in the 2 months since I've been back to
this lifting pgm, my strengths have not increased that much. As stated
earlier, I used to be able to curl an Oly bar for 5-6 reps; now, I curl a
30# for 8 reps. My max effort for benching had been 110# and now I'm
benching maybe 55# for reps...
I talk with people who seem to state that just eating right can develop
muscle (or create leanness...) while others state the only way to build
muscle is by lifting weights.
I feel my problem is my "diet"; I just don't know how to change it.
With, of course, optimal health and normal blood sugar being goal number
one.
I've meanered some around Mark's site. Guess I need to spend more time
there. But then I run in to conflicts of whether to lift fasted or not.
Whether to hold off on eating post-WO by an hour or to eat right away.
Then, how in the world DO you eat once you eat??? Oy.
And it's not so much that I want to LOOK like a body builder. I'd just like
my body not to be mushy, ifyoudontmind.
either. Able to hoist a dogfood bag, etc.
LMK when you create your blog, LOL!
-----Original Message-----
Rick wrote:
>>... As long as you eat good proteins at your meals, you will not suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous protein deficit. Anyway, after you lift
weights, your body flips on the protection switch and it will not burn it's
own good muscle to provide nourishment. .......<<
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