First Cycle Journal

**noarch** · 01-17-2015, 08:34 PM

Something like that. Transferring data from a meal page (dinner) to the main totals page. Somehow the total calories for dinner went from 472 to 70 (was referring to the wrong cell)!!

(That said, though, I guess I'm pretty clear on where my maintenance level is, since the scale's not moving!)

**Thirsty** · 01-17-2015, 08:44 PM

Perfect! So drop it 500, keeping the ratios the same, and run it for a week or two and reevaluate.

**noarch** · 01-17-2015, 08:45 PM

Interestingly, I'm looking through some Lyle McDonald diet stuff and he starts off assuming maintenance at 15cals/lb of bodyweight (178x15=2670), and fat loss at 20% less (2136). I did the math, and those numbers line up exactly with what I thought I was eating. I thought I was eating 2210, but was actually eating 2612.

The one things all these diet plans don't account for: user stupidity!

**noarch** · 01-19-2015, 07:22 PM

OK, "off cycle" lab work is back....Test=517 and Estradiol=25. Cholesterol is high as it always is....weird thing is a low alkaline phosphatase number, and a high RDW number...a little research and both of those can be due to iron deficiencies and anemia. I wonder if that's why I've been feeling so sluggish....maybe add in some beef to my diet or something....

**noarch** · 01-25-2015, 05:24 PM

Things seem to be moving in the right direction....16.3% on January 4 to 15.0% today. Only lost 1.5 lbs though, so lean mass is going up and body fat is going down. Good news.

**kubes** · 01-25-2015, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by noarch

Things seem to be moving in the right direction....16.3% on January 4 to 15.0% today. Only lost 1.5 lbs though, so lean mass is going up and body fat is going down. Good news.

Nice brother... The hard work is paying off! Job well done

**noarch** · 01-25-2015, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by kubes

Nice brother... The hard work is paying off! Job well done

Thanks man. Hoping the fat loss will accelerate now that I've seemed to have gotten it figured out. Gonna slowly start pulling carbs out little by little each week until my cycle starts in March.

**kubes** · 01-25-2015, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by noarch

Thanks man. Hoping the fat loss will accelerate now that I've seemed to gotten it figured out. Gonna slowly start pulling carbs out little by little each week until my cycle starts in March.

The more muscle you put on the more fat you burn

**noarch** · 01-30-2015, 08:43 PM

It's definitely working....I'm down only 2-3 lbs since the first of the year, but I've taken an inch off my waist!

Heading out of town for the weekend....hope I don't kill my momentum!!

**noarch** · 02-06-2015, 08:15 PM

So much for a healthy cut before my cycle.....just got walloped with food poisoning. I think I've been able to eat a total of 15 saltines since Tuesday. This sucks.