It sounds like a food sensitivity or allergy. What foods are you eating when this happens? Please give me a list of everything you eat when you have these symptoms.

Furthermore, please let me know how long it's been happening and if anything changed in your diet, including medication/supplements, and so forth.

Thanks, Ray!

Yeah, sorry, I didn't write my post very well--I'm on a 3 day rotation, lifting 6 days a week (and planning to during school from 5:45am-7:15am, if at all possible). So during school, I'm planning 25min cardio (20 HIIT) and lifting for the rest (~1 hour, with a little stretching after), and the 100 cal under BMR will be fine for maintaining muscle during cutting? That's awesome.

Is it more important to maximize my muscle usage or keep my heartrate up during lifting on a deficit? So far, I've been following your basic warm up & drop-set 80-60-40-20, but I do really slow decline motions, and I'm wondering if I should speed those up to keep my workout more intense (still keeping them controlled, but I have about a 3-4 second extension, with about a 1 second contraction on most exercises).

Thanks again!
~Steven

Correct, it will be fine.

As long as you have a cardio pace established - ie: 135-165 BPM, the more intensity on the weights, the better. If your heart rate slows, you need to exert more energy. Basically, do as much as you can while keeping your heart rate in the cardio zone.

I am in such a confused state right now.

Yesterday I jump on the scale and it says 276.8, today I jump on the scale and it says 285.

I played basketball for like two hours yesterday (after weighing myself) and also did not eat anything bad. I think all I ate was grilled chicken with broccoli as one meal, and a chicken caesar salad as another meal. Then there would be little snacks in between, but nothing bad or terrible.

It doesn't make sense to me, the scale I bought is brand new

Health question here. Can you explain how alcohol works and it's effect on erections.

I had 5 beers last night (each 10% alcohol) over a few hours and was pretty buzzed, but by no means wasted. I was laying in bed making out with this chick who i've never hooked up with before, about to have sex, and just could not get hard. I'm usually turned on as soon as a girl gets in my bed. My issue just a few years ago was that I'd get hard way too easily...

We ended up going at it in the morning, but i feel like now every time I have sex i'm gonna be worried that I won't get hard.

It was really embarrassing though. I'm a 22 year old guy, I feel like this shouldn't be happening to me. nahm saying? While im def over reacting a bit, I'm all worried that I'm gonna have to be taking cialis or some shit. (How many older guys don't actually take this?)

Don't weight yourself once a day. That's the problem right there. Your body will fluctuate with water and waste weight periodically throughout the day.

What you have to do is weigh yourself ONCE a week on the same scale, at the same time, under the same conditions.

IE:

Every sunday morning at 9am wearing boxer shorts and after urinating (also before eating).

Part of the problem is psychological. Alcohol can have strange effects with regard to sexual appetite. However, the physiology of alcohol is sometimes has contradicting effects in people. For some, it's an aphrodisiac, which will make you achieve powerful erections, sometimes lasting longer than they should. For others, it's a libido killer.

Part of the analysis comes from what alcohol actually does in the body. For some, the benefit comes with the vasodialation properties of alcohol, which initially improve circulation and give you a feeling of being warm (even though you technically lose more body heat). Secondly, the mental inhibition of alcohol also helps others to overcome psychological issues that would regularly cause a type of erectile deficiency.

Then there are others, who the vasodialation properties of alcohol actually prohibit sufficient quantities of blood to store in the tissues of the penis. This can cause obvious erectile issues. Also, psychologically, alcohol can also act to make someone overthink and overassess. This is a paradoxical effect of alcohol on certain people.

The bottom line? It's fairly normal to have erectile issues while consuming drugs or alcohol. I wouldn't worry too much about it, and certainly not consider any type of erectile medications at this time. If you begin to notice the problem under sober conditions, we will revisit everything and go from there.

Okay, thanks!

Quick question.

Should I wait two weeks on keto before first cheat day? I play on doing a cheat day every 7 days for the first two or three weeks and slowly decreasing over time (7, 10, then 14 days is what I usually do). I have heard mixed opinions about waiting two weeks at first.

Also looked for the soda you recommended, hard to find in my area. My girlfriends dad got me onto natural flavored seltzer/sparkling water. Definitely couldn't stand it while off the diet, but now that I'm on the diet its like god's gift!

Double post but forgot to ask and too late to edit!

I got a bunch of free protein bars from the gym. They are "low carb" meaning they have about 18g carbs but 14g are sugar alcohol. Should I even bother with these or just toss them? I have never trusted sugar alcohols.