Diet setup critique

[Scott Stevenson]

Nordan,

In your previous cruises where you lost weight and we set back, did you come back after the cruise stronger, weaker or the same at the start of the next blast?.

(You missed this Q previously and this is what I meant by "Strength?" in my previous post.)

Strength based upon & over the last two sessions hasn't diminished buddy from what I recall and has improved.

In regards to losing weight then possibly.. but like mentioned it then shoots back up and I gain a lb to 1.5lb's after a training day so daily it fluctuates, one day I lose, the next I gain which is obviously down to the huge surplus one day and then deficit the next.. Weight come the end of the week seems to increase by .5lb approx as an average which is spot on I think as a natural If the goal is to increase as much FFM as possible.

This is the reason for my OG post.. would I be better continuing this up and down approach even though I have gained weight come the end of the week or adopt the approach I suggested (bringing rest day kcals up to maintenance and reducing the training day surplus down slightly to compensate the increase up to maintenance) which would presumably keep the weight stable across the week.

The goal is to gain in as little amount of surplus as possible so this is the reasoning of reducing the kcals on training days to compensate that change rather than just adding 400 kcals a day to rest days. That increase would equate to 1200 kcals more across the week which would technically make me gain .3lb more a week and approx .8lb a week which to me I think is too much from past experience.
Realistically I highly doubt any additional gains via muscle would be made and any weight gain would either be additional water or fat.

I'm only suggesting (for far) that you do something to prevent the weight loss during the Intermittent Cruise, as the rate of gain when blasting sounds great.

That could be probably be done by eating as if you WERE training on days you don't (at the end of the cruise and perhaps during it if you weight is slipping down d/t slightly lower frequency). You can do this by having a a couple large meals on those faux training days.



-S