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I did the primal blue print diet which was basically paleo for about a year prior to leangains it got me down to 178lbs from a bulky 225lbs (I looked flat and lost muscle mass), but then the fat kid in me came out and I needed carbs thats when I turned to leangains which brought my lifts back but also gained a couple of pounds and I was trying to cut.Maybe the low carb history is F'ing my progress?
I am actually also gaining weight on CarbNite. About a pound a week through week four. Not trying to hijack your thread, OP, merely want you to know you aren't the only one in this boat, fwiw.The difference for me, I think, is that fat is slooooowly decreasing along with that weight gain - about 1mm on the calipers (single site pinch test) after 4 weeks. Allowing for inaccuracy, I put myself somewhere between 11 and 12% BF right now. I do though, as someone else alluded to might be a drawback, have a long history of low-carb dieting having been on DiPasquale's Anabolic Solution for BB for over 3 years before 'going crazy' and upping my carbs to about 80-100g/day on training days for a few months before coming to this.I'm hanging in there to see what happens and hope that you will, too.
that's a great idea, I have never thought of doing that, can I just use any type of thermometer, or does my wife have to put on a pair of latex gloves in the morning :'(
I am only telling your if it were me that is what I would do. Since you have been at this for awhile I would hesitate to say "be patient". One thing I've had some success with is taking your waking body temp in the morning first thing out of bed. Take a baseline of what it is this week and if your stay on your high calorie levels and it starts to climb I would say you metabolism is climbing which is what you want.Ideally it should be 98.6 but I've never gotten that high. If its super low then most likely that is your problem.
Coffee wakes you up but taking the temp that way will make you alert pretty quickly too :). In all seriousness though taking the temp on the side of your cheek will work just fine.
Tanner, if we have a screwed up metabolism, wouldnt that be a good time to lift heavy but eat a good baseline caloric load to maximize muscle gain while minimizing fat gain? Could that work?
Yes. I wouldn't go balls to the wall with calories as your metabolism is already slower than normal and that is a perfect recipe for some fat gain.But in order to swing the pendulum the other way after being suppressed I think you need to go a bit above baseline for some time. That along with heavy training should, over time, fix these issues if your metabolism is slowed due to intense dieting.In my opinion I would focus on getting the metabolism issues fixed first before worrying about any other goals. If there are underlying issues then the foundation for your goal is starting out weak, and anything built upon that will crumble pretty quick.
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