Managing IBD with a Plant-based Diet

Things are good. Still training hard every week. Bench is at 120+, DL 150+, Squat 140+. My deadlift is lagging because I had to stop training it multiple times due to my lower back weaknesses/pains. I've mostly stopped chin ups and been doing rows: mostly Yates these days, but a lot of Pendlays before. I've been doing some cycling too which is hard to balance with WL... I want a standing desk. Really tired of my set up. Diet is good, a little bit more loose than before. 164 lbs right now. I've been doing a loose IF and cutting fats.

I went down to 149 pounds about a month ago. That's when I decided it was enough weight loss. Battery died so haven't been able to weigh myself since then until I did so at the gym yesterday. Fully dressed and stuff, 159 pounds! Kinda nuts. I've been making some gains in the gym. That's my focus now - I don't care about my weight, it will manage itself. I just want to be fit - truly fit - for the first time in my life. I have quit online gaming (10 days so far), and a lot of the time I was putting in there is going into fitness/stretching. So far I'm doing body splits just because I don't have the energy of doing full body workouts (I tried). I basically workout whatever isn't sore every day. My diet is the same, but more volume, and more fat than before. I eat a lot of guac and more nut/nut butters. Planning to make gains without a protein powder too - I am pretty sure it is unnecessary. Only supplement I will take is creatine, because the research is

Things still looking good. Weight is at a stable 155 pounds lately. Feeling good. Yesterday's breakdown: http://imgur.com/a/sklvc

About a week ago, I decided to give intermittent fasting a try. This decision came after I heard an interview with Dr. Garth Davis, where he said he was very impressed with the current research on this topic. My goal was simple: burn the small amount of stubborn extra fat I have left without effort. I realized I had already been intuitively working towards intermittent fasting by delaying my breakfasts, but I was usually doing the mistake of eating a fruit when I woke up. I simply stopped this habit and don't eat for 2 hours more than usual. This has been quite easy for me to do. The results? I'm at my lowest weight ever in the last 3 years. In the last two days, I weighed myself a few times and I've been between 161-163. In the past couple months I was stuck at 164-167. In my previous weight update post, when I was at around 170 lbs, it was my goal to lose a final 8-10 pounds, and so I've reached it! What's next? I'm going to keep doing the fasting for as l

I was curious today to see how much nutrition there was in my newly adopted homemade burgers. They are incredibly cheap and easy to do. I've been buying pre-made veggie burgers for about a month now, and I'd like to avoid that expense. I realized it would be much better and more convenient to make a big batch of burgers to always have on hand. I ended up choosing Jeff Novick's bean burger recipe. I messed with Cronometer to see exactly how much nutrition I would get if I chose to eat that twice a day. After that, I ended up inputting everything I ate that day, which was 100% unplanned. As expected, the results were great. Plant strong diets for the win. (As usual, some things are wrong: the sodium content is much lower than shown here, because I couldn't find the exact same burger patties I bought, and had to pick Amy's to find the closest thing in terms of fat content. There's no trans fats in my burger buns either.) Oh and of course, I got a good hour of sun

I was just reading one of my earlier posts and I noticed that I had set a goal to be at 170 pounds for the summer. Well, without any restrictions whatsoever, I have already achieved this goal. (The last few days I weighted myself were around 169-172, mostly 170). I am very happy with these results, but I have decided that I wanted to lose another 8 to 10 pounds. I'm not setting any timeframe for it, I will let it happen naturally. My plan is to keep biking at least 3 days a week, and take a couple walks as well. My bike rides are moderate to high intensity 1 hour or so workouts, and so I feel like I get a very good workout for both fat loss and anaerobic training. Lastly, a new goal I just thought about is to reduce my grocery shopping expenses. In the last 4 months, I have paid literally no attention to the money I was spending. I was assuming that it was a little bit higher than before, due to the fact that I actually eat whole foods now, instead of processed garbage on sale