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Reverse Diet 2 - Week 13: Wedding Weekend Macro Estimation

9/23/2015

OH SNAP! This was a weird week for the macro experiment. I only weighed myself twice this week (at the end of the week) and I usually weigh every day and average all the weights. So I apologize for this little hiccup of a week! I have been on POINT with macros this whole reverse diet, but this week I did some serious estimation, as evidenced by the POUND gained.

I was the maid of honor in a wedding and spent four days being more chill with my macros; I allowed myself to eyeball things as opposed to whipping out my mini food scale at the bachelorette party or rehearsal dinner. But ya know what, life happens, no one is perfect and I do not regret it! I'm glad I was able to completely enjoy every moment and not feel like I had to be neurotic about food.

So this week I will be keeping macros the same and am curious to see what happens with my weight. If it increases significantly again, I may hold off on reversing anymore for now or just add in at a much slower rate. Interesting stuff!

YouTube video update coming soon by the way! Stay tuned <3

- C

REVERSE DIET 2 STATS:
(Click to view reverse diet 1 stats)

Date     Weight (lb)     Protein (g)   Carbs Fat   Total Cal
9.23.15            121.0                  130                      210            52             1828 (+0)
9.16.15            120.2                  130                      210          52             1828 (+58)
9.9.15              120.1                  120                    210            50             1770 (+58)
8.26.15         119.7                120                      200            48             1712 (+58)*
8.19.15            119.3                  120                      190            46             1654 (+58)
8.12.15            119.1                  120                      180            44             1596 (+58)
8.5.15              119.0                  120                      170            42             1538 (+58)
7.29.15            119.2                  120                      160            40           1480 (+58)*
7.15.15            118.6                  120                      150            38             1422 (+58)
7.8.15              118.5                  120                    140             36            1364 (+58)
7.1.15              118.6               120                      130             34            1306 (+58)
6.24.15        118.2                  120                      120           32            1248 (+58)
START                            120                      110             30            1190

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Reverse Diet 2 - Week 12: Mini FAQ

9/16/2015

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I seriously cannot believe how much food I eat every day while maintaining my weight. It's CRAZY AWESOME. This week I'm adding protein instead of carbs as my weight starts to go slightly above 120.

Also, I want to clear a few things up in this post. I've gotten some questions recently about why I started this reverse at such low calories. VERY good question and it deserves an explanation. If you go back in my posts, you'll see that I was cutting for a few months before summer and didn't count macros while I was on vacation in Japan. I lost about 10 pounds in 3 months and decided to reverse again.

I definitely would have low-balled my starting macros for this reverse, had I been trying to start at maintenance. BUT I'm NOT saying I started this reverse at my maintenance intake. I thought it was a better choice to go slightly lower rather than taking the chance of guessing too high. I know myself and how my crazy head would get if I were to do something like that. So for sure, I was still cutting when I was eating 1200 calories (which, by the way was only ONE week so don't poop your pants). As you can see from the data, however, my weight increased after that first week. So I do actually think that was close to my maintenance. It is what it is; I did what I did.. and it worked out just fine for me. I hope that answers those types of questions, and please let me know if you have more! :)

I will always keep it real up in here my friends. I'm just a girl with a passion to help other people who struggle with a crappy metabolism like I once did. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a nutritionist, I'm not a professional coach or athlete, and I don't have all the answers. In fact, I bet I'm wrong a LOT. Only God knows all the details of how the human body works and I am totally cool with that. God is so awesome -- the complex and creative ways he made us completely fascinates me!

Hope you guys are having an awesome week! More FUN updates soon to come... ;)

REVERSE DIET 2 STATS:
(Click to view reverse diet 1 stats)

Date     Weight (lb)     Protein (g)   Carbs Fat   Total Cal
9.16.15            120.2                  130                      210          52             1828 (+58)
9.9.15              120.1                  120                    210            50             1770 (+58)
8.26.15         119.7                120                      200            48             1712 (+58)*
8.19.15            119.3                  120                      190            46             1654 (+58)
8.12.15            119.1                  120                      180            44             1596 (+58)
8.5.15              119.0                  120                      170            42             1538 (+58)
7.29.15            119.2                  120                      160            40           1480 (+58)*
7.15.15            118.6                  120                      150            38             1422 (+58)
7.8.15              118.5                  120                    140             36            1364 (+58)
7.1.15              118.6               120                      130             34            1306 (+58)
6.24.15        118.2                  120                      120           32            1248 (+58)
START                            120                      110             30            1190

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Reverse Diet 2 - Week 11: Pumpkin Spice Gainz

9/9/2015

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I'm so excited! It's pumpkin spice season... as you can tell from pretty much all my recent IG posts! I love the fall! I'm also excited because I have decided that next year I am doing something I've always wanted to do but never had the cajones. And somehow I acquired the metaphorical balls necessary for the endeavor. :P You can probably guess what it is and I will be talking about it much more in the next few months.

Also, I just bought "THE" youtube v-logging camera. Last year when I started my channel I was right in the middle of grad school aka hell on earth so I wasn't able to be too consistent about posting videos. Now that grad school is over and my lifestyle is more chill, I plan on youtubing on the reg. I know everyone and their mom has a youtube channel these days, but it's all G.

As far as my reverse diet goes, I've been going strong at it for about 3 months now (13 weeks total; 2 weeks I kept the same macros as indicated by the asterisk) and have gained 2 pounds. Not bad. My weight appears to be increasing at a quicker rate these past few weeks, so I will probably start increasing less each week from here on out, just depending.

Hope you guys have an awesome, PUMPKIN-SPICE-FILLED week!

Much <3,
- C

REVERSE DIET 2 STATS:
(Click to view reverse diet 1 stats)

Date     Weight (lb)     Protein (g)   Carbs Fat   Total Cal
9.9.15              120.1                  120                    210            50             1770 (+58)
8.26.15         119.7                120                      200            48             1712 (+58)*
8.19.15            119.3                  120                      190            46             1654 (+58)
8.12.15            119.1                  120                      180            44             1596 (+58)
8.5.15              119.0                  120                      170            42             1538 (+58)
7.29.15            119.2                  120                      160            40           1480 (+58)*
7.15.15            118.6                  120                      150            38             1422 (+58)
7.8.15              118.5                  120                    140             36            1364 (+58)
7.1.15              118.6               120                      130             34            1306 (+58)
6.24.15        118.2                  120                      120           32            1248 (+58)
START                            120                      110             30            1190

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Enjoying Food: Pumpkin Spice Protein Waffles w/ Pumpkin Cream Cheese Icing

9/7/2015

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It's that time of year when the world FALLS in love... with pumpkin everything! I know I'm a huge dork. But seriously, these pumpkin spice waffles are EVERYTHING. I made them a few days ago, and tweaked the recipe a bit today to get the PERFECT consistency and taste! I will probably be making these every morning now, no joke.

PUMPKIN SPICE PROTEIN WAFFLES W/ PUMPKIN CREAM CHEESE ICING
286kcal: 10F/13C/36P (waffles only)

Ingredients:
- 1 scoop protein powder (I used trutein cinnabun)
- 14g almond flour
- 3 tbsp (46g) egg whites
- a dash of baking powder (about 1/2 tsp)
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 75g canned pure pumpkin
- stevia to taste

Icing ingredients: I just used the pumpkin flavored Philadelphia cream cheese, however regular whipped cream cheese mixed with a little bit of stevia is AMAZING as well. There's something about cream cheese and pumpkin spice that just WORKS. They are just meant to be together. <3

Directions:
1. Heat up waffle maker.
2. Mix all ingredients in a bowl.
3. SPRAY waffle maker and pour in batter. This usually makes one big waffle and one smaller waffle.
4. When the waffles are done, top with cream cheese or whatever you want -- white chocolate chips and/or pumpkin spice m&m's go great with it! I always add 0 calorie butter spray and walden farms pancake syrup too. Enjoy!

Note: You can sub coconut flour for almond flour if you want. This will reduce fat and add carbs to better fit macros with a lower fat ratio. :)

- C

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Reverse Diet 2 - Ladies Only Post

9/2/2015

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Warning: This is a ladies only post so dudes put on yo earmuffs.

Last week I made an accurate prediction, if you know what I'm saying! :P So, macros will stay the same this week, just as I did during the week of 7/29. I want this to be as accurate as possible so I will rule out my period as a cause of lasting weight gain. I don't know what the deal is but during this time, I feel like my workouts suck and I don't have as much energy. Anyone else feel that way? Just curious.. Another interesting observation I've noticed is that the higher my calories are, the more hardcore my period is (in all aspects). Maybe my bodyfat is just higher, but my guess is it's a combination of those factors. Even though it hurts, I'm happy because at least it means my body is healthy unlike before I started this blog and didn't have a period for an entire year. Not cool! Thank God for reverse dieting!

In other news, my calories are so high that for the first time ever I am able to fit half a pint of ben & jerry's into my macros and still get my fiber in for the day. So I'm doing that tonight! Kind of random but I'm obsessed with ice cream so I consider it a blog-worthy benchmark for me.

I've got a few new exciting things I'll be talking about in the next couple weeks, yay! So stay tuned... and have a great week my friends! <3

- C