In order to keep track of the gains, I weight myself every morning, soon as I get out of bed. It’s really easy to tell if I did not eat enough the previous day, because the drop off the next morning can be a few pounds on the scale.
What is also detrimental to poundage is running. I’ve reincorporated this much loathed cardio exercise back in to the regiment for a few weeks now. Without fail, the day after running, the scale is down a few pounds. All of it water weight, surely. But it’s interesting to see nonetheless.
The weird thing is, I feel completely ravenous after running every single time. And I don’t have reservations about eating as much as I want afterwards. But it seems there’s no amount of food to counteract the weight loss, as measured the following morning. Trust me, I am not going easy on the food after I run. Carbs on carbs on carbs.
I can now see why the weight lifters looking to bulk up as quickly as possible elect to skip cardio entirely. N of me to be sure, but cardio seems to be detrimental towards the weight scale continuously increasing. You can work all week to eat more and lift weights, only for one prolonged cardio section to knock you right back down the water spout. So then you have to do it all over again.
The obvious solution is to eat (even) more. I love food as much as the next person, but there is a limit to how much food to consume before it becomes a tiring chore. We’ve all, at one point or another, have eaten so much that the digestion process afterwards render us immobile. Imagine that feeling, but all the time. No thank you. I’ll keep to my snail’s pace bulking.
Keystone.