My recent health/fitness hiccup

[jon-nyc]

@Klaus said:

Wow, that sounds awful but I'm glad it's looking better now.

What do you do to get to 4000kcal a day? That's a lot of food.

In the beginning I couldn’t pull off 3k and started drinking homemade shakes with milk, cream, whole milk yoghurt, oat flour, and peanut butter.

Then I sort of trained myself to eat more.

Typical day:
Breakfast 1 ~ 700 calories
bagel with 2 servings cream cheese (64g)
2 eggs
Yoghurt

Breakfast 2 (after gym) ~ 750
Calorie dense toasted muesli (I found a brand with 390cal in 85g, not sugar laden either)
Whole milk
Banana
30g protein shake

Lunch ~ 980
Turkey sandwich with 85g turkey and thick cheddar slices, generous mayo
60g peanuts
6 chocolate covered pretzels

Dinner ~ 1000
Baked potato with 2tbsp butter
Meat/fish 6-8oz
Veggie

Snack at night - 400-500
Peanut butter toast
Another yoghurt
Banana

Or

Ice cream

Those two breakfast and that lunch are pretty fixed so I get 2500 calories by mid day. Keep in mind I wake up before 5.

[jon-nyc]

Typical macro breakdown:

Protein 200-220
Fat: 160-190
Carbs: 350-450

[Axtremus]

@Klaus said:

What do you do to get to 4000kcal a day?

Would have been epic had the answer been "pies."

Get well soon.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc wow! I had no idea. Sending positive thoughts to you!!!

[jon-nyc]

So during my trip I averaged 3416 calories/day and 144g/d of protein.

In the previous 10 days before the trip, I averaged 4065 kcal and 201g protein per day.

Also no weights while I was gone. I didn't get much exercise except walking, and not too much of that.

I lost 4.3lbs on the trip.

Back to work. Should catch that up in a few days. By next weekend for sure.

[Mik]

That is so very foreign to my experience as to be alien. I get calories from oxygen.

[Tom-K]

I couldn't lose 4.3lbs. if I stopped eating for a whole month.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc said:

I didn't get much exercise except walking, and not too much of that.

Maybe a dumb question, but is there a benefit to not exercising so much? Would that help with keeping the weight on?

[jon-nyc]

I would have thought so. In fact I wasn’t worried about lesser calorie intake so much since o was burning less. But here I am.

[Mik]

I just started back to HIIT on the Airdyne the past week or so. Supposed to build VO2 max faster. I’m getting upwards of 110-120 bpm. Plateaued at 67 lbs on weight loss even thought my waist keeps shrinking. Maybe the weight training.

I didn’t have to work this hard in my 30s. Grr.