If you haven’t been following along, start with my explanation of this calorie counting experiment or check out all posts tagged with 2019 calorie counting

Macros

Just like the last update, I increased my macros leading in to these weeks. I also decided to eat the same between training and rest days. It went well. Week seven was a full seven days, week eight had two cheat days that weren’t tracked, and I stopped week nine at six days because I’m on vacation.

	Day Type	Carbs	Fat	Protein	Calories
Baseline	All	259	99	140	2,485
Goals 1	All/Training	220	70	200	2,310
Week 1	All	212	83	196	2,379
Week 2	All	200	85	200	2,365
Week 3	Training	222	71	203	2,342
Week 3	Rest	184	81	200	2,263
Week 4	Training	221	71	201	2,313
Week 4	Rest	193	73	200	2,229
Goals 2	Training	245	85	195	2,525
Week 5	Training	243	87	196	2,541
Week 5	Rest	184	95	197	2,379
Week 6	Training	249	87	197	2,567
Week 6	Rest	201	80	198	2,312
Goals 3	All	255	90	215	2,690
Week 7	All	257	86	215	2,666
Week 8	All	255	90	216	2,695
Week 9	All	272	95	215	2,809

In the last week or two I had been sneaking some small snacks that I wasn’t tracking and then for the last few days I did record them. As you can see my calories went up there. I did start adding extra cardio work on most days, so my body was asking for more food.

Water

Still no issues drinking enough water.

Scale

	Weight	Body Fat %
Start	199.3	15.0
Week 1	199.0	15.2
Week 2	196.9	15.0
Week 3	197.0	14.2
Week 4	196.1	13.8
Week 5	196.4	13.9
Week 6	194.9	13.8
Week 7	196.8	13.4
Week 8	196.9	13.0
Week 9	195.1	12.9

Note: these are an average of three days at the end of each week.

My weight went back up after that big week 6 dive and leveled off with the increased calories before dropping again in this last week with additional cardio workouts. Nice to see my body fat continue to decrease since I want my weight to be stable here.

Thoughts

Like I mentioned early in the post I’m on vacation for the week so not going to track my food. If I was home I probably would, but I’m traveling to San Diego so I’m going to enjoy whatever I want to eat. I can almost guarantee I won’t get enough protein, but the body needs a good shock from time to time.

I’ll probably start tracking macros again next Sunday and I plan to adjust them once again. I’m going to shoot for 275g of carbs, 100g of fat, and 215g of protein for 2,860 total calories. That’s an extra 20 grams of carbs and 10 grams of fat.

This will likely be my last update on the experiment. There hasn’t been much to say and these posts seem pretty boring. Coming up with macros and adjusting is really easy to do, especially with the free Renaissance Diet spreadsheet. The hard part is making up your mind to make a change and then committing to it.