Bulking

I have mentioned in here several times the weight loss I have experienced, starting late in 2021.  It was significant enough that my medical provider sent me for a barrage of tests just to make sure there wasn’t anything nefarious going on.  The tests did not reveal anything significant.  That being said, several weeks ago I weighed myself at night, which is normally your heaviest part of the day and I was 169lbs.  That’s nuts.

To me I haven’t been doing anything that much different.  My breakfast and lunch is identical to what I was eating when I weighed 185-190lbs.  My only guess is my dinners have been less caloric since I have been making them myself. I also have been burning more calories playing pickleball I suppose. So anyway I have been making a conscious effort to eat more, a lot more.

I have been getting these pasta meals from Trader Joe’s that supposedly have 4 servings in them, I now eat the entire bag myself, routinely.  I am forcing myself to be gluttonous.  When I was at the bar I downed a 10 inch pizza all by myself along with four or five beers.  The change has started moving the scales a bit in the positive direction, last night I was 174lbs so I still have at least another 6 lbs to go until I feel “normal”.

Now of course my goal is to not just gain blubber, I am increasing my intensity at the gym accordingly.  Yesterday I had my best set of numbers bench pressing on the Smith machine in many, many months.  I am also trying to add core movements like squatting and even dead lifting back into the rotation to see how it goes.  Of course the numbers for these movements are very light until I can establish a proven platform that allows me to increment without hurting myself.

So for the rest of 2023 bulking will be high on my priority list, a list which is getting bigger every day, ironically.