Well, it's been another disastrous BFL week for me. I only completed 3 out of a planned 6 workouts, stopped counting calories (although I did stay LC) and generally felt de-motivated.
Part of the problem is a very high stress level right now, which has caused me to lose a lot of sleep, and then I don't feel like going to the gym. Also, I have been extremely hungry for the past month and that's making it really hard to stay motivated to keep LC-ing. I'm figuring that if I have to be hungry anyway, then if I ever do BFL again I might just do it by the book. Maybe I would have more energy for the workouts, or better recovery, or something.
On the positive side, I'm consolidating my gains in the bench press and can now do 99 lbs x 8 followed by 104.5 lbs x 4 or 5 reps for the heavy set. When I hit 104.5 previously, it was a big jump on a day where I felt especially strong. Now I'm doing it regularly in a smooth progression.
Squats are still at a high weight of 121 lbs and I am getting a lot of soreness the next day, despite glutamine supplementation. Yesterday I could hardly walk, so needless to say, cardio didn't happen.
I intend to really blast it for the final 2 weeks, and hunger be damned.
Emily