Luigi wrote:Today was a bit of a rollercoaster. I wake up in the late afternoon hungry AF and my gf wants to hang out. I eat some brownies to get some energy and tell her to bring food. She brings me a muffin and says thats all the shop had. So now its like 5pm and Ive had barely any food and I fear the soreness in my pecs is my body eating the muscle, rather than doms. I plan to eat some granola bars and drink juice for some desperation calories before doing squats as it was my squat day. She starts crying and saying if I work out we wont have time for dinner. I spend way too long calming her down and go out for dinner with her. We go to a fancy Chinese place, but the portions were pretty small. I ate about 75g of Kung Pao chicken, half a cup of rice, and 4 shrimp. She then wanted bubble tea so I took her for that too. I drop her off and at this point its night time and I've only had like 50g of protein all day. After reheating some frozen food and some rest I start my workout, but when calculating the weight for this session I notice something is off. I cant make the numbers add up to the total I recorded for last time. I realized that the new 10 lb plates I got I had miscounted as collectively 10 lbs. So my last session where I thought I went up 2kg, I actually went up ~6.5kg. It wasnt a crazy hard session or anything, but I do remember during my first top set thinking "fuck this isnt fun" or something along those lines. So I was super happy to realize this and motivated to hit my current session, which was now going to be 349 lbs for 3 sets of 9 reps. The workout went well, and I entered these numbers into a 1rm calculator. It says my 1rm should be about 450 lbs. I then checked my 6 rep record of 360 lbs and it gave the calculation of about 420 lbs. So the last while when I though I was stagnated I actually put about 30 lbs on my hypothetical 1rm. Quite glorious, indeed. Then, I had to solve the food problem. It was about 4am and I only had like 70g of protein, so I had to go to a 24H diner to get some eggs and bacon and toast. I ate as fast as I could, ran home, microwaved a frozen pork bun, ate a bunch of yogurt, drank a bunch of milk, and finally hit my protein goal at like 6 am.
This is how my diet often would turn out up until life stabilized and I had a consistent diet. Later on with the help of my girlfriend I cemented my dietary habits with meal preps that my girlfriend does mostly. You'd both be better off understanding each other needs if you lived together and did all that together. If you work out together, do meal prep together, you both get both your dietary needs and emotional needs fulfilled for the most part and work towards common goals. Going out for a movie or dinner is just a little extra and you don't have to sacrifice time, goals et.c. just for the sake of proving to your partner that you still care, instead you do it every day and both have a stake in each others daily life and goals.
