-Diablo's Journal, 10 Aug 18

A thing that helped me is that never ever in my life I had diet so my metabolism was healthy 😇 

Protein 1 gram per lb you weight...if you weigh a lot than 1 lb per goal weight (what diablo said ) 

My maintenance for 120lbs pounds is around weight x 16 =2000 calories 

But since I can’t hit 2000 i keep stalling at 117 lbs 🙃 I know I should force myself to eat more cause I don’t want my metabolism to adapt but I don’t feel hungry and that fat person syndrome does not help. 

Regard less of my body, l can only do between 70/80grms of protein per 24hrs because l have chronic kidney desease now and definitely no protein shakes or pills cause of the high creatine...thats like putting a gun to my kidneys head..so my muscle gain is at a very..very slow rate..and that sucks but l can still burn fat easliy. 

Health is 1 yes for sure 👌🏼 

Job good knowing your limits Murph 😏 

*sigh* I remember having that problem. Eat and eat and never gain weight, gain muscle and slowly lose 😢. Not I smell a cookie and the scale jumps up 0.6# lol. I’m 136 with a target of 120. So 1200-1360 for me. That works on days I’m not active and is maintaining or losing a small amount. What works for me in maintenance is 136*12(1632) and 120*13(1560). I’m right about 1600 and losing 1# a month which is super slow but I’m also lofting trying to gain muscle. My dr just this week told me 100g protein was good for me and my age/activity for muscle building and maintaining. I’m 37, 1 hour each cardio, weights and some sort of class like yoga, tai chi or water aerobics. I also walk a lot just taking kids everywhere and shopping. 120 would probably be better but as I told him, that’s hard to get! I use premier protein shakes. 160 cal and 30g protein. For me that’s just cutting out my snack and having the shake instead. On maintenance I can still have several snacks as I’m keeping both meals to 200-600 calories so when I cut to 1200 again I’ll still be used to smaller meals.  

Feeling is mutual Chris 🤪😁. When I need a mood lift I just head to your journal 🤩 

Hey, peeper, I'm essentially the same age and I inhale cookies and lose. Not really, that may be painful but I did eat 4200 calories yesterday and lost a pound. Of course, I'm training for a tough mudder so our activity levels are way different. Don't hate me, I'm working hard over here. 

🤯😡🤬 Lol I don’t hate you but I would steal some of that muscle if I could. Or the calories... nah the muscle so I’ll burn more calories on my own 😋 I wouldn’t like your activity level! My trainer keeps saying ‘You are a member so I can’t stop you from coming in on our off days’. I take this to mean I shouldn’t be working out on days other than our program days. However I still do at home some and lift a bit after Friday’s class. It ends mid September and THEN I plan to start working harder. Youngest will have practice there so I’m thinking I can sneak in half an hour those nights if we get there early enough :). I am jealous of your muscles and metabolism though! You and Chris should really have to share those calories...and your muscle lol.  

Peeper just because someone is a trainer doesn't mean they have all of the answers, I know many PT's that believe many myths from old bodybuilding magazines. The same goes for doctors. About 5% of their schooling went to nutrition but people take their word as gospel for eating plans. I'd rather follow expert nutritionists. Also, I'm the opposite of Chris. Can't wait to bulk! 

I'm not saying rest days are a bad idea I just think the body can withstand a lot more than what some believe. People are more likely undertraining than getting anywhere close to overtraining 

Omg chris yesterday I ate two plates of food and I felt pregnant 🤰 it’s not worth it I won’t eat as much again. I only ate one serving size bag of Cheetos 😏🙌🏼 Alcohol, let’s just not even talk about it 😆 🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰🤰 it truly is a awful feeling when one overeats 🙌🏼😏 

Oh alcohol is totally worth it thou 🙌🏼🥃💃🏻 

Under training 🙋🏻‍♀️ another 7 months of calorie counting and exercise 👌🏼 In I’ll probably be more at my ideal body figure 😆 But it’s cause I’m already happy don’t feel the need to rush 😳🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 

I'll drink to that, Rosio! 😂😂 I don't always agree with Diablo, but when we do agree, you can bet the farm we are right, to wit, back in my lifting days I did two-a-days seven days a week, I bulked up huge and quick, muscle memory is a real thing, and pushing yourself to exhaustion, then doing some more is at the core of getting results.  

Plus you can train different body parts each day, I only do squats and lift dumbbells 💪🏼 But I have heard of “leg day” n stuff  

Diablo, this is the liveSTRONG program for survivors. We get a free gym membership after the program. This and the way she speaks makes me think that we are supposed to train per their guidelines (I’m not aware of what they are) and then see the difference after the 12 weeks are up. We did max lifts in June. Well the lifts we were comfortable with, but I did the max I could if I had to do 2-3 of them and that’s it. I’m 20# past that on the leg press but the same on the chest press. It’s been about 6-7 weeks now.  

Our PT juices, makes healthy meals for clients and others and is big on some sort of new fad thing like the pink drink. Me? Yeah no thanks lol. I hate the always hungry feeling liquid diets leave me feeling. I’ve had to wait 6-8 hours on eating before with liquid only and it wasn’t very fun. I also get dizzy when I don’t eat at least a few token meals per day. So I completely agree with you on nutrition stuff. I know she’s always learning as she wants to start a healthy restaurant but I just can’t follow what some of her other clients do. ‘Love handles begin and end in the kitchen’ isn’t working either. They’ve lessened but they seem to like me lol.