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Reverse Diet 4: Weeks 5 & 6 - Glass Cage of Emotion (I Kid)

7/24/2017

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Forgive me friends, for I have marked "non-compliant" this past week on my avatar check-in! I actually think it's a pretty cool feature, because if you mess up and go over by a lot (or under but lets be real who even does that?!) you won't ruin the algorithm's adjustments. So yeah. I got my period and became a ball of emotions (note anchorman quote in title lel) and had a day where I went over by quite a bit! I also tweaked my lower back and shoulder lifting this week. It's so bad that for the first time in a few years, I think I am going to take an entire week off to let my body completely heal. I will do some light cardio here and there to stay active, but yep. The one redeeming thing that happened was... I got to see my dear friend Christine compete at the Tennessee State bodybuilding competition here in Nashville!
She absolutely killed it and won second place in her class (I of course presented her with the snapchat hot dog trophy). She has gone through a lot of adversity lately and is one of those people who no matter what hard times are going on in life, PUSHES through and freaking makes it happen. Definitely blessed to have such an awesome friend speak truth into my life! :)

So guys, back on track this week! No beating myself up about it. Let's rock!

Date                     Weight               Protein (g)             Carbs             Fat            Total Cal
7/21/2017  (NC)   133.0                 131                       169                 44            1596 (+0)
7/14/2017*          133.3                 131                        169                44            1596 (+45)
7/7/2017              131.2                 129                        162                43             1551 (+0)
6/30/2017            133-135.5         VACATION MODE AvatarNutrition Feature
6/23/2017            130.8                 129                        162                43             1551 (+49)
6/16/2017*          131.1                 129                        152                42             1502 (+50)
START                   130.0                 128                        145                40             1452
KEY: *=period, NC=non-compliant mode

Hope you guys have an awesome week!!

<3,

- C

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Reverse Diet 4 - Weeks 3 & 4: Vacay YOLO Macro Results

7/7/2017

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I'm back from my family vacation, where I ate, drank, and was perhaps a little too merry at times.. ;P I had an absolute blast and ate intuitively for the most part. I tried to hit my protein, continued to lift, and just enjoyed the heck out of my time! As you can see, I ate the best churro of my life on this vacation. In fact, I ate 2 of them with NO RAGRETS.

As I mentioned in the last post, I used Avatar Nutrition's vacation mode feature to let the system know that I would be on vacation and not hitting my macros. I have never used this feature before, so when I got back I left it on vacation mode for another week and hit my previous week's macros, as I expected that my weight would drop back down some.
I only weighed myself a few times during the vacation, and and it ranged from 133-135.5. After hitting my normal macros for a week, my weight did as expected (see chart). This week, avatar kept me on those same macros. I probably should have taken it off vacation mode as soon as I got back (so I'd have a macro increase), but to be safe and conservative, I kept it on as I hit my previous macros. It's all good, that's what experimenting is all about!

Date                     Weight               Protein (g)             Carbs             Fat            Total Cal
7/7/2017              131.2                 129                        162                43             1551 (+0)
6/30/2017            133-135.5         VACATION MODE AvatarNutrition Feature
6/23/2017            130.8                 129                        162                43             1551 (+49)
6/16/2017*          131.1                 129                        152                42             1502 (+50)
START                   130.0                 128                        145                40             1452

Moral of the story -- don't freak out about macros on vacation! Just be smart about it, enjoy it fully, and your weight will go back down once you're back in the swing of things!

<3,
- C

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full."
- John 10:10

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