Well, I am almost done cycle 3 of Joel Marion's new Xtreme Fat Loss Diet... sounds great in theory and I thought, what the heck... I figured I would give it a try while I am not following a strict PL program. He claims you can lose up to 25lbs in 25 days (5- 5day cycles). I don't want to give the details, because he makes a living selling his stuff, but basically, he has each day designed to modify what you eat (or don't eat) with a specific plan to create the utmost caloric deficit for fast fat loss. I never expected to get his BEST results... I am doing my own training, but am definitely adding in extra cardio (intervals) and haven't taken a darned day off exercise since I started.
Here's been my weigh ins thus far:
Day 1 Cycle 1 - 66.3kg (see why I wanted to try)
Day 1 Cycle 2 - 64.5kg... now, I'm thinking, wow, Joel is really onto something here... this is fantastic!
Day 1 Cycle 3 - 65.9kg... HUH?? Now, I am a female and realize that I could have been retaining some water this weigh in, but even if I am retaining water, this means I am retaining at least 1.5kg of water (that's a lot of water) but then, if just 1.5kg water, that I haven't lost anything this week...
Here I am Day 5 of Cycle 3, water should be gone, official weigh in day is tomorrow and I am at 65.1...
Okay, so yes, I am down from my last weigh in day, but after almost 3 full cycles of this program I am down just over 1kg?!?! You tell me, do you want to do a highly restrictive eating program and not take a single day off the gym for 15 days to lose 1kg? NOT ME! I realize I wouldn't be getting elite results because I'm not doing his 2-3 a day workouts... but some days I am doing 2 and I train hard... I'm not a wuss in the gym. In the same respect, when I'm taking in 1200kcal in shakes one day, fasting another (consuming maybe 250kcal in BCAAs at most!), 1400kcal on my moderate carb day... There is no reason why I should have to do the extra workouts to see more than 1kg loss in 15 days...
Except, if the science is flawed. Now, I'm not a nutrition expert, so the science sounded good to me... but maybe it's all hype... not sure... and I'm not going to pay JM to design my nutrition privately.
Frankly, I will see where I fall tomorrow at my official weigh in, and take some measurements. Maybe I am losing inches and in that case, I will come back and update my log to sing JM's praise... because I realize my training could be contributing to huge weight retention as the muscles heal and repair (more than he accounts for with his exercise recommendations).
I have a few other people I know that are doing this program as well, and I will ask how they are doing... if they are achieving success, then maybe it's just me... maybe I messed it up somehow... maybe my kcal are too high or I'm not exercising hard enough. But, at this point, my more "moderate" approach to weight loss, using Thib's Carb Cycling Codex and the AMAZING PRECISION NUTRITION, has yielded significantly better results without the hunger and accompanying b*tchiness...
No comments:
Post a Comment