The Night Thread Mk. IX

How many extra calories are you taking in per day?

20 nuggets, 4 big macs with large fries, 2 chocolate sundaes and a diet coke please

Dirty bulk can be nasty though on the body at times.

Always the Diet Coke, wouldn't want to consume excess carbs.

I'm a human dustbin at the best of times. But I find the easiest way to clean bulk is with myFitness Pal and following the IIFYM philosophy loosely. Ideally I'd hit those macro-nutrient targets every day, but lifes to short to be that strict about it and I'm not a professional athlete so don't need to be.

I've dropped 2 stone since 7th December which is pretty sweet considering Christmas and New Years and not really training either. IIFYM is quite good, unless you want to be shredded like fuck. I've found myself personally that I need to make sure my fat and sat fat isn't too high for a few days in a row, once I'm doing that it's all good and I'll lose weight.

EDIT: I've been experimenting a bit with a fasting and feeding window. Last meal at about 8pm and then don't eat again until midday the next day, so basically fasting for 16 hours everyday, although a good bit of that is obviously sleeping.

How many extra calories are you taking in per day?

20 nuggets, 4 big macs with large fries, 2 chocolate sundaes and a diet coke please

Dirty bulk can be nasty though on the body at times.

At about 4000 atm, protein shakes are helping a lot tbf. Just tough maintaining that amount whilst also training and my jobs not exactly a set routine so just making sure to always stop and make sure i have something every couple of hours.

Job interview tomorrow, the leisure centre I work for have opened a brand spanking new £600,000 site, so I've applied and now need to boss this interview!

At about 4000 atm, protein shakes are helping a lot tbf. Just tough maintaining that amount whilst also training and my jobs not exactly a set routine so just making sure to always stop and make sure i have something every couple of hours.

Jesus Christ!

I suddenly understand why you're struggling to eat enough. That's roughly what I expend when I am at work, and I lose several kilograms per week even when I eat something each break.

Wtf do you do for work if you're burning 4,000 calories everyday?

I work here. I build and dismantle exhibition booths, furnish the conference halls etc. I expend about 3,500 to 4,000 calories just by walking around in that massive building for 8 to 12 hours a day, then there's the heavy lifting etc.

Basically, I expend that much because I work with my body.

Remember that 2,500 is the average for an adult male who sits on a chair in an office all day long, and that an adult male expends about 2,000 just by laying down in bed the entire day. IIRC soldiers in the field burn over 6,000 calories per day.

Always the Diet Coke, wouldn't want to consume excess carbs.

I'm a human dustbin at the best of times. But I find the easiest way to clean bulk is with myFitness Pal and following the IIFYM philosophy loosely. Ideally I'd hit those macro-nutrient targets every day, but lifes to short to be that strict about it and I'm not a professional athlete so don't need to be.

I've used myFitness Pal, but having just read on IIFYM that you're not supposed to add calories back for exercising?

Need to cut a few kg, tried no carbs diet but I got a right sweet tooth so although it did drop a bit I couldn't hack it. Jumped back on my fitness pal app, it's given me a daily total of 2300 calories (put that I am highly active, as I'll be working/uni + training once or twice day), so that's pretty manageable. However today for example I added 40 minutes of indoor football which gives me back 400 calories or so.. Do I follow that or what IIFYM says? Only had 6g sugar left before adding it

Feel so manly counting calories

If you're setting yourself at 'highly active' then no. Its giving you a calorie count that is taking into account the amount of exercise you do, if you then make subtractions on myFitness pal for the exercise you're doing then you're effectively double counting all the exercise you do.

I've had success with setting my activity level to sedentary to account for the general effects that being alive has on calorie consumption and then making deductions for exercise on top of that which might be an idea if you've got something like a fitbit thats going to track calories more accurately than a calculator.

Ahh yeah fair play, makes sense. Changed it to that. You can still eat over 1500 calories (or whatever it gives you), if you exercise as it adds calories back right?
Not bad on the calories front, more on the macro's though with sugar surprisingly over today. Fuck all to drink that tastes nice and hasn't got any/much sugar

Good luck pal

I'm a little drunk but I'm not sure what question you're asking?

And I try and drink nothing but water and Green Tea, but I'm lucky that I prefer Diet Coke to Coke I guess (although I fucking love Irn Bru and the sugar free version tastes like shite).

Saying you try and drink nothing but water and Green Tea whilst in the same breath admitting you're drunk

I got an interview, well, an assessment centre on Friday! Absolutely bricking it. Have to give a presentation and I hate giving presentations.

I dare you to try and watch a United match sober at the minute.

For your PhD? Got my offers without having to interview for them thank god. Just waiting to hear on funding now.

Fingers crossed for your funding! But no, this assessment centre is for a job. I didn't make the shortlist for the PhD I applied for unfortunately. Gutted because I really wanted the project it was on.

Ah thats a shame, take it it was for an advertised position then, rather then a topic you chose yourself?

Yeah it was a fully funded study at Leicester, looking at a nickel sulphide deposit in Zambia. But never mind!

Do you actually burn much calories from excercising? I used to have a Nike running app, and like 6 mile runs never seemed to burn anything too significant?