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Hey guys, been lurking around this forum for about a week and decided to join today.A little history about me. The only thing I did growing up was play video games. By the time I graduated high school, I was pretty fat. 245 pounds, size 40 waist, no muscle. When I turned 22 I decided all that should change. I jumped in head first and never looked back. After about 4 or 5 months of lifting from magazine programs, I found crossfit, and the fever started. Almost immediately I started the digging and reading articles. Of course, during my first two years of crossfit, anything that didn't agree with crossfit was dumb. I ate strict paleo plus dairy and oatmeal. I leaned out. I got a little stronger. I looked good. Then started trying to compete. I wanted to be better. Changing my training regimen to regularly include a lot of heavy lifting made me hungry, extremely hungry. Of course I couldn't eat carbs, I was paleo man! So nuts and seeds and coconut flakes and fruits instead. I got fat again. Even though I was training harder than ever and more strict than ever, I was also hungrier than ever and now gaining fat faster than ever! I went through a serious bout of depression for several months after this period. I backed off on training, saw my weight normalize finally, and I've been toying with nutrition ever since.The best results I've had so far were from the Lean Gains diet. I was the most lean I've ever been after about three months of that. But then I got extremely pissed that everyone around me was getting faster and stronger and i wasn't! So I went on a bulking stage to get stronger. 6 weeks, 20 pounds total, 7 pounds of muscle, and 13 pounds of fat. Not impressive. I got slightly stronger, I got a shit ton slower. So upon trying to switch to take the weight off, I wanted to try something new. I met up with a dude on the board I follow (for Crossfit programming) who said he would hook me up with a diet. I mean, this guy is jacked and strong as shit and lean, he knows what he's doing. I get the diet plan in a week later; 7 meals a day. I tried it, just for arguments sake. Tired, no energy, moody, and hungry all day. So friend of mine has been working with Scott Paltos, and he told me to check out DH and CBL. Now, I haven't had chance to check out the book (broke college student), but I hope I have garnered and already know enough information about nutrition to properly set up my macros and timing.I'm 5''11", currently 195 pounds, about 16-17% bodyfat. I want to get down to under 10% by May or sooner while maintaining my lifts and performance. I would prefer to drop 10 pounds in the next 4 weeks. I do still intend to crossfit, however, not main site. I follow a blog (projectnomad2013.wordpress.com) that focuses on a heavy strength or oly portion each day with mostly short (5 to 10 minutes) metcons involved, occasionally something longer. Its decent so far. Anyways, thats my long intro, so I won't have to type that ever again haha. Glad to be here, I know there are some smart motherfuckers around and I'm happy to be here for the support. Thanks in advance guys.
Welcome to DH and the forums man! Glad you made a decision to better yourself. When you can and able, try to buy the book. It will answer a lot of questions and give you a lot of knowledge on how to structure CBL to fit your needs!
@bk How can I help, and who's your buddy? SP
@Scott I just saw this man, sorry for the delayed response. Josh McGuire from Alabama I believe had done some consultation with you. What I still have issues with is how much should I eat and what should my macros look like? I'm currently doing 230 grams of protein daily, with Training days having 100 grams of fat or slightly more and 300 grams of carbs or slightly more. On rest days I try to match my fat intake with my protein intake. I'm worried about the amounts that I'm eating. I'm preforming well enough (not as well as I would like but who does?) but I'm not changing either my bf percentage or weight. Honestly, my vanity goal would be to only recomp, stay at 195 pounds and build enough muscle while losing enough fat to hit 10%. I want to keep my strength the same. If I could get stronger while doing this, that would be awesome but aren't results like that almost mythical? When I start losing strength and start feeling bad are the points when I start losing it and bailing on my diet, and start driving toward Taco Bell haha. Of course the numbers that I gave you just now are only macro goals. I'm probably eating much more than that and not realizing it. Psychologically I love eating clean, but I love eating a ton of food too. I'll sit down for breakfast and eat 6 slices of bacon, 4 oz of sausage, 5 eggs with a serving of cheese and topped with an avocado and then complain about still being hungry because I know I can squeeze more delicious animal in my belly haha! Its because of that that I believe I may not be eating enough, but I'm also so paranoid of getting fat again that I've found it hard to experiment with different things, and also to fully commit to something at the same time.
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