In this conversation, Cheryl McColgan shares her journey of preparing for a NPC Fit Model bodybuilding competition at the age of 52. This episode is in vlog format and best viewed on YouTube although it’s still being released as an audio podcast. She discusses her training regimen, nutritional strategies, and the mental challenges she faces throughout the process.

Cheryl emphasizes the importance of protein intake, understanding ketosis, and the role of supplements in her routine. She also reflects on her daily activities, meal preparations, and the significance of maintaining a healthy body fat percentage while training for the fit model competition.

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• Challenging oneself can lead to personal growth.
  
• Nutrition plays a crucial role in competition prep.
  
• Understanding individual carbohydrate needs is essential.
  
• Daily routines can help manage energy levels during prep.
  
• Supplementation can enhance performance and recovery.
  
• Protein intake should be prioritized for muscle synthesis.
  
• Meal prep can simplify tracking macros.
  
• Finding enjoyable foods can make dieting easier.
  
• Maintaining a healthy body fat percentage is important for women.
  
• It’s important to listen to your body during training.
  

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Episode Transcript

Cheryl McColgan (00:00.504)
So I’m back a little later in the day here getting ready to make my dinner, but I realized when I started editing the video that I did not really set this up very well. So I wanna put this at the beginning. I am sharing with you a day in what I’ve been doing for the last almost 10 weeks now. And that is training, eating, losing fat for possibly competing in the fit model category in the NPC.

When I thought about this in the, well first of all, thinking about doing this at age 52 is quite daunting, never having been stepped on stage before in a bodybuilding competition. But if you wanna learn more about that thought process, I have another podcast that I did on that and I’ll link that down below. But basically, I’m still not 100 % certain that I’m.

to do it, but I’ve been training, eating, doing fat loss for last 10 weeks as if I am definitely going to do it. So it’s just a little scary and that’s the only reason I’m thinking about not doing it. I think it’ll be fun in a lot of ways. I think it would be a great experience and I’m all about

challenging myself and putting myself out of my comfort zone. So that’s why I started it. anyway, so this is kind of just my day, how I’ve been training, how I’ve been eating, bio hacks that I do, supplements that I use, all that kind of good stuff that will all be here in the video.

Yeah, I don’t normally do vlogs, so this is totally new format for me, but hopefully you’ll find it helpful or somewhat entertaining or maybe while you’re trying to get through your cardio, you’ll be watching this video, which is how I’ve been getting through a lot of my things that I’ve been doing over the last several weeks, listening to podcasts, watching videos, watching other people talk about their preps and things like that.

Cheryl McColgan (01:55.946)
So without further ado, let’s move on to my day. Hey everyone, good morning. This is going to be a totally different kind of video for me. I’ve never done one of these before, but I thought I would take you through a day in the life of prep. So you can see a little bit what it’s more about, get some of my feelings on it. Yesterday was a particularly difficult day. So we made it through, woke up this morning. Actually, the first thing I do in the morning that I did not video is get on the scale because that’s what you do

you’re tracking and I…

this morning, so despite yesterday being an awful day, we did have progress, at least in the sense of what the goal is right now, is moving that body fat down. So now, I’m just going to make some coffee, do some fasting cardio, which by the way, there’s still no great evidence that that’s that much better, but I have been doing that right now just to go ahead and push my first meal off a little bit, because when you’re in a cow

deficit especially for this long it gets to be quite monotonous a little challenging so the later I can eat that first meal the better so but first coffee and I do a pour over every morning so I’ll show you that. So here is my little coffee setup I’ve got I this is the Breville it’s actually a tea maker which I’ve had this for I don’t know 15 years now or something I’m obsessed with it it has a basket that goes in here to make the tea that actually

the handle in there like brings it up and down so that it puts it into the water and you can change the temperature for the different types of teas. You can see all the different ones. I just put it on custom to heat water. anyway, when it makes the tea, it heats it at the proper temperature. So if you have black tea is a different temperature than green tea. And then when it’s done brewing the handle here, it brings the basket back up so that it doesn’t steep too long. But anyway, delicious tea. But in the morning I use it to heat up the water for

Cheryl McColgan (03:57.072)
I have my burger grinder and then I have the pour-over so that’s what’s coming next.

Cheryl McColgan (04:13.646)
So ideally you’d be taking more creatine just before a workout and I do have a lift today but I find that sometimes I forget doing it pre-workout so I like to just do it in the morning first thing. Also, I’m very interested in creatine for its cognitive benefits other than just muscle building. So for me, I feel like just getting it during the day is more important than the exact timing so I’ll often just take it.

Right here in the morning just so I get it in and then I occasionally will also Right now my protocol is to take it before and after this so I will take it after for some reason I don’t have as much trouble remembering that but then I also put a little Taurine and hyaluronic acid in my coffee in the morning I haven’t been doing the collagen just because of extra calories, which you do have to be a little bit concerned about while you’re on a calorie

because it is getting plenty of protein right now, so I’m not doing that at the moment.

Okay, before coffee, just thought I’d share this with you because if you came to this channel for its original content, you may have been here because you wanted to try keto or had curiosity about the keto diet or being in ketosis. And so what I wanted to share is since I’ve been training more and doing this contest prep, I’ve actually been eating 100 carbs a day, which has been very different than what I’ve done in the past. But what I want to show you about that is that

truly being in ketosis if that’s your goal or

Cheryl McColgan (05:49.44)
eating what amount of carbs will allow you to get in that metabolic state is really different for everyone depending on your activity level and a variety of other factors. How long you’ve been doing it, that kind of thing, how easily your body goes in and out of ketosis if that’s truly your goal. So I just want to show you I have my ketone meter here and I thought we would check this this morning so that I can show you what that’s like now that I am in fact eating more carbs and for some people that want to have the benefits of ketosis but like having more carbs or miss their

This can be really useful information for you. So this will just be a really quick thing. Get the strip out here and put it into the meter and then we’ll go ahead and test it this morning.

meter and putting in the strip and breaking the feeder. I done this in quite a while but you know I always test I used to test all these things quite a lot so I have all of them so let’s go ahead and get this in here. So it takes a countdown of 10 to get the number and like I said I had about

yesterday. I’m waking up fast this morning.

and my ketone is reading at 0.9, which is a very therapeutic level of ketosis, despite the fact of eating plenty of carbs. Anyway, this is just a point of data to share with you. And then I’ve also been using my lumen. I test a lot of these things for my job, obviously. So I have the lumen. I’ve been using it occasionally. I actually used it the last three mornings, again, just out of curiosity. And what this tool does is it allows you, if you are a person that wants to check on your metabolic health, but be more flexible with the amount

Cheryl McColgan (07:34.547)
of carbs you have, actually directs you on a day-to-day basis of if you’re in fat burning mode, so kind of waking up in ketosis or not, and then how many carbs and different macronutrients you should plan for the rest of the day, depending on your goals. And so I’ve used that the last three mornings. It’s come up with fat burning every single morning. And it’s just an interesting tool again, especially if you’re looking for more flexibility in your diet. And like I said, I test some of these for my job, so it’s just kind of a curious thing for me. But definitely it’d be…

You know, being in ketosis despite eating a fair amount of carbs is definitely interesting information for a lot of people, especially way back in the day of keto. People were like, you know, if you had one little thing off, they were just thought ruined it and you’d have the keto police to come after you. It was quite a funny thing. But anyway, just for some extra information for you there.

So I’m definitely not used to a vlog format. We’ll see how this goes. But anyway, I came outside to enjoy my coffee before I go for my walk. It is rained last night. It’s about to rain again all day, but I have a break this morning so I can get that in. But I’m just going to enjoy this out here with the birds chirping for a few minutes and then we’ll get on the road for the cardio.

Cheryl McColgan (08:51.633)
workout outfit ever. I just have the same stuff I’ve had forever and I don’t typically try to wear fun things when I’m working out. I don’t know, I’m just fine with normal shorts or whatever but I have gotten a couple of little things lately from Amazon just to try to…

up my gym attire. This is one of the things I’m wearing today. I really like this a lot because for cardio it’s got pockets on the shorts that I can put my phone in when I’m out walking. I also have like a thing that attaches to my waistband that is not a fanny pack for carrying my phone which is quite useful because you can it’s magnets so you can attach it on any waistband that you have but whenever

It’s nice because it’s got the pocket for the phone. I’ll just show you the little outfit because it’s super comfortable.

and I really have been liking it but it’s just it’s a onesie kind of thing it’s got the built-in bra here’s the pockets and then this fun shirt that’s got like the fun back so anyway trying to look a little more presentable in my gym attire. So I found a new trail close by that’s been really great for doing all this extra cardio which I haven’t shared about that yet so right now my cardio is at 40

five minutes, four times a week, then I have twice a week, that’s 80 minutes that just turned on last week.

Cheryl McColgan (10:31.437)
And that’s because I’m getting towards the end here and we’re just trying to keep the scale moving. So as you know, all of this is for a very specific purpose. This is not like a long term thing. So it’s just planning for this specific event and that’s the goal. So that’s what we’re doing. But today is a 45 minute day and I just walk because I was a runner for 17 years and my knees do not get too happy about doing work.

aggressive things these days. I’m just happy to be able to walk and hike pain free. So I’m just walking fast has been enough to do what I’m supposed to do right now. So I’m about a third of the way through at the moment. And I was just trying to get this in before it rains. So we’ll check back with you when it is time for me to be finished with this and eat something.

kind of a lot. Keeping in mind that I test a lot of these for my work stuff. So some of them are things that I use for that reason. And then some of them I’ve added on prep, example, boron as something that my coach suggested. And when I looked at the purposes of that, does significantly help a little bit with fat loss, but also for maintaining bone.

a deficit, then I take this vitamin K2, that’s for heart health, and let’s see, my thyracin, that’s just thyroid support, and got another bottle in the cabinet and that, but that’s out. This one, urolithin A, this is for mitochondrial health and also to help with energy and strength, and it has some

research behind it that shows that you’ve got like 18 percent increase in strength over months. I’ve been taking this

Cheryl McColgan (12:33.201)
probably for a year now. it’s hard to say, but the one thing about supplements is you don’t know if you gained that much strength if you didn’t have it. So it’s kind of hard to tell, but I’ve definitely gained strength. Then I’ve also been taking fatty 15, which is an essential fatty acid that was discovered more recently. So it’s kind of a newer thing. And that’s one thing I’m testing out for.

just like I said for my job. And then I have the Methylgard Plus, and this is because I have the MTHR, MTHFR mutation, which basically means my body doesn’t methylate as well. And when I did some of my testing,

before I had a higher homocysteine level, which is bad for your heart health. And it’s something that happens when you have that gene mutation. So taking a methylated B vitamin helps your body methylate better, lowers homocysteine. And that’s definitely been the case since I’ve had it tested again since then. Then I have my vitality bits. So this has spirulina and corolla.

in it and those are good for energy and has super oxide dis-mutease in it which is again something that really helps with cellular function. So it can be a lot of pills but I just take them one at a time and then it’s finally on to eating. I almost forgot D3 that’s so critical because that is really helpful with fat loss and also just overall general health and something that most people are low

especially those of us that live further north and don’t get sun all winter. Okay, now for breakfast. This is actually one of my biggest diet hacks. I’ve said this before, making your food boring is really good for fat loss. It also just helps you, you know the same thing to make and to eat every day. It really just helps keep tracking simple. But I was eating this for a couple months actually before I started my fat loss thing. I’ve just kind of modified the quantity a little bit. So what I have been doing right now on

Cheryl McColgan (14:36.943)
Fat Loss Face is one egg and egg whites. So egg whites is 150 grams. These are just for my macros. Obviously your mileage may vary. fortunately I couldn’t find the one that I usually buy this time. So I’ve got something different, but it’s still just egg whites. guess I should shake that a little bit.

Cheryl McColgan (15:13.233)
and then a little salt and just whisk this up.

Cheryl McColgan (15:32.657)
So the egg whites and cottage cheese that I’m about to have in the breakfast or breaking the fast, the first meal of the day is about 30 to 35 calories, or 30 to 35 calories, 30 to 35 grams of protein. And I feel like this is a mistake that people make, especially when they’re on fat loss, because I see a lot of women in particular, smaller competitors, that will have meals that don’t get up to 30 grams of protein. And the reason I say that,

that is a big mistake, especially as we get older, is because what the research shows is it takes about 30 grams of protein to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. So every time you eat is an opportunity to stimulate that process of growing muscle. And as we get older, your body loses the ability to effectively kick in that process. It requires even a little bit more protein. And the real thing that you’re looking for is leucine. There’s like this thing, a theory called the leucine threshold for muscle protein synthesis. And so if you make sure you’re getting 30 to 35,

even up to 40 grams of protein in a meal. It can be more than that. This is just the minimum that you want to stimulate that process. So I really feel like you should focus on that. Again, I’ll see the macros sometimes for women having these meals and they’re like 20, 25 grams of protein and I just think that’s a huge mistake. So I always am at at least 30 in every meal, if not more. I really shoot for more like 35 now that I’m older.

it’s a bigger meal like at dinner sometimes it’s like up to 50, 60 grams of protein. Actually another recent study that’s shown that your body will keep using that protein for muscle protein synthesis. So we used to think that there was an upper level for that, but really it shows that your body can use even more protein. So don’t let that fool you or prevent you from actually doing a little more. It just all depends of course on what macros you’re actually trying to hit for your goals. So since we’re, you know, I mean that lost right.

now I’m keeping the protein level at about 130 to 150 every day. So I don’t have the opportunity to go too much over that threshold in each meal. But like I said, I definitely make sure I hit that minimum of 30. So I know most blogs, or most blogs like a day in life or whatever don’t go into as much educational part, but I really can’t help myself because you know that’s what I do here on this channel. So I try to never

Cheryl McColgan (17:57.107)
is an opportunity to share that information about protein synthesis because I just think it’s something that not everyone knows and you want to make sure you’re getting the most out of your muscle building every single day whether you’re in a build mode or fat loss mode. So this meal cooks super quickly. I’m just about having my eggs perfectly done here.

And now we’re going to complete this by weighing out my cottage cheese. So like I said, with the macros trying to get to that protein map, it’s been one egg, 150 grams of egg whites and a hundred grams of cottage cheese. So that gets me to my protein goal for this meal.

And this is the very best cottage cheese ever. Good Culture is so hard to find. It’s sold out all the time. The backup that I found that has just and what I love about this is the ingredients are so clean. Skin milk, whole milk, sea salt, live cultures. That’s it. The one that I occasionally get as a backup that will be on sale at Whole Foods is this Nancy’s brand. And it’s also very clean. It’s actually organic, which I would prefer if Good Culture was as well. But all it’s got is

the organic milk, organic cream, salt and four lactic is actually like promoted as even a more probiotic kind of brand. So those are my favorites. And now we eat and especially since it’s a lower amount of food, I really like to be present with my food and savor it. So try not to eat while scrolling on your phone and all that kind of good stuff. It’s nice to just chill out for a moment.

appreciate your food. So one thing I’ve noticed about being on-prep is finding, you know, still things that you can have like that are little treats. And this is one of my favorite things I have almost every day is kind of my pre-workout. you might have been wondering.

Cheryl McColgan (19:57.873)
hey, where was the carbs in that last meal? That was just my first course of practice. This is the second course and this is where I get the carbs to then go do my workout. So these rice cakes I found are organic. There’s a lot, a surprising amount of garbage in rice cakes. When I looked at these in the grocery store, I couldn’t believe some of the ingredients, but these are super clean. It’s basically just like rice and salt. So I’ve been using those. The brand is, what’s the brand? Lindbergh.

Yeah, Lindbergh Organic. So anyway, those are great. And then I have this organic powdered peanut butter. And so again, for my macros that I’m working right now, works for me is about 10 grams of this. And wow, that turned out right on the button. And so then I just take this, put a little bit of water in here and stir it up. So that’s what that looks like once it’s stirred. And then the last thing is something

Cheryl McColgan (20:56.323)
And the last thing is something that I never had a lot on keto at all, which were bananas. They have a fair amount of carbs in them. So that was something I didn’t use very much for years. But with the peanut butter, it’s really a great flavor. So put the peanut butter on the rice cake and spread that out.

Then what I do is take now, because if you’re in prep, you don’t want to waste like a spot of any of your food that you’re allowed, right? So I take the bowl that the peanut butter was in and I put my banana and I usually, I do like half of a medium banana, which usually turns out to be like 40 to 50 grams of banana. So yeah, that’s right at 51. So that’s fine. And then I just chop up.

The banana and the rest of this little leftover peanut butter, so that I mix that around. I mean, this, when it’s done, this is like, it reminds me of such a little like dessert treat. It’s really nice and it’s just kind of the perfect amount of carbs for a pre-workout. Now that being said, I will say that I don’t notice like a huge amount of increased energy when I have carbs.

before working out because I think it’s just so many years of not having them that I’m pretty used to that but I can’t really tell that much of a difference so to me it wouldn’t matter maybe going back to less carbs but because I can still you know eat these have a few more and still eat toasts in the morning which is not the goal right now the goal right now is like fueling my body for training so I’m not too worried about it but in any case it is still interesting so now I put a little

drizzle of honey, usually just ends up being about four to five grams of honey. Because obviously you’re tracking all of this. And then here’s the best part, you gotta have salt on the top of it. So that is my little second course of breakfast and then we’re gonna go get the workout.

Cheryl McColgan (24:18.641)
So this is yet another biohacking thing that I do, the sunlight and sauna, which is amazing. Had it for over a year now and really good for heart health, great for recovery. So doing that here after the workout. Just completed another check mark, gotten the sauna for about 35 minutes and then going to give shower and then eat again.

So one of the things I’ve been enjoying for my midday meal is some Greek yogurt with berries. And because Greek yogurt has so much protein in it, I kind of cut back my protein serving of meat that goes with it. So right now I’ve got some chicken left that I already…

prepped the other day. So I’ll weigh that out and then the remainder of my protein for this midday meal will be the Greek yogurt and then some berries to go with it. All right, so you can see this is a good amount of yogurt and strawberries, very filling, very much of a treat. I put just like a little few drops of Stevia on there and then I’ll put about five grams or so of honey just to give this a little

sweetness and that will be the second part of my midday meal. Okay so right now it’s 12 40 just getting ready to eat the second part of my midday meal. The first part like I said was just a little bit of chicken breast that I had left and so I measured out the Greek yogurt to make sure that I got to the 30 grams of protein like I was describing to you before.

I’m at 700 calories for the day right now and still have two meals left. Usually I will go ahead and have like my snack in the afternoon, a low calorie thing, and then save the rest of the calories for dinner. But yeah, this is the point in the day. Like I’ve done my cardio, weightlifting’s already done, sauna, showered, and now get to do a big chunk of work this afternoon.

Cheryl McColgan (26:25.905)
But what I started to say about this is this is the part of the day where I really am starting to drag. So even after I eat this, I’ll probably pretty low energy. And that’s why I like to do all of this in the morning for me. It works for my schedule, where it allows me to work a big chunk of the day later in the afternoon. But getting out of way in the morning when I actually have some energy after sleeping is really useful. know not every

the ability to do that. If you’re working in an office or something you’ve kind of got to go into the office early but just due to my schedule I’m able to do that and so that is one thing that has really made this whole training program and being in this much of a deficit doable for me. So yeah, so we’ll see how the rest of the day goes but there’s a few things left that I’ll share and then that’ll be the end of this day in the life.

So this literally might be the best part of my day during prep. I resisted this for such a long, long time, but…

got the Ninja creamy and it lives in this other. I make a low-fat version of ice cream that has protein powder and skim milk and it just makes me really really happy and it’s a way to get in 30 more grams of protein during the day so getting ready to make that now.

If you don’t have one of these, I do have a code for it. But anyway, super. So put it on there. Just turn it up, press that, put it on light ice cream, because that’s for ones that are ice here. And then when you hear this noise, you’ll see why it’s in the other room.

Cheryl McColgan (28:11.204)
So here’s the creamy in all its glory, this whole thing, 30 grams of protein and about 160 calories.

Okay, so time to make dinner and it’s Friday and my husband’s out of town and I decided that I wanted to have something that’s kind of a little treat for dinner since I’ve been doing nothing but eating chicken for the most part a lot. So I got a filet mignon, small four ounce filet that’s got about 230 calories. I think at this point I have something like 300 left I need to check.

So I need to figure out a little side to go with that that’s around 100 calories. So we’ll figure out what that is. And I think I have a few carbs left to play with as well. So I’m gonna get the steak started and figure out what I’m gonna have to go with it. So I had some tomatoes left over from the other day that I didn’t use. And of course that’s a great low calorie option.

that is healthy and delicious.

So just going to use those and I had a cucumber in the refrigerator as well. So that should get me pretty close to meeting my rest of my macros for the day. And you also got a little taste today of kind of if you’re doing macros rather than a meal plan, how you can use real foods that you actually like to meet your calorie and macronutrient goals, switch things

Cheryl McColgan (29:48.736)
out. So you don’t always have to do a meal plan. If you get good at this and I’ve been doing macros and tracking for years, this is pretty easy for me at this point. But if it’s something that you haven’t learned yet, it’s really useful if you’re doing something like this where you’re trying to meet certain calorie and nutrient goals for the day. So this, I had already weighed the tomatoes out.

was about 200 grams of tomatoes.

and I’ll weigh the cucumbers here.

So about 130 grams of cucumber. And then we’ll see if we’ve got room for anything else. So normally I would not do this, but I have just a little bit of calories and fat left. So I’m just gonna put this nice, high quality, extra virgin olive oil on there.

and that’s just two grams so not a lot that will add a little extra flavor. All right so that is Friday night dinner such that it is of course more salt.

Cheryl McColgan (31:01.85)
and going to eat this, enjoy it, and then I usually, and it’s six o’clock right now, so I’ve usually been just quitting eating by 5.30 or six. I do that for a few reasons. It’s really important for your brain health to digest your food before you go to bed and have a couple hours to do that. One of my doctors that I worked with at Wild Health was talking about that.

to Alzheimer’s and dementia. You don’t want to have food so close to when you sleep. I can’t remember the study or if I looked that up after we talked about it, but also just for me, my digestion is a little slow and so it really helps me sleep better if I quit eating early in the night. So this will be the final food of the day and then we’ll just do some wind down activities and it’ll be time for bed. So a couple other bio hacks I usually do before bed and I will…

share those with you so that you have a full picture of the day.

Okay, last thing before starting to relax for sleep is I have on my Pulsetto device, is something that is a Vegas nerve stimulator and it’s supposed to help with sleep, recovery, a whole bunch of things. I actually interviewed the founder of the device a while back. He’s a big biohacker himself and he discovered this technology, started using it and found that it

helped him so much. anyway, I’ve been using that just about every night for a little while. And of course I got my blue blockers on. So when I’m looking at the screen, it’s all red and it’s just telling my brain that it is time for sleep. So if you are going to be on devices in the evening, this is a good idea. It’s not perfect, but you know, if you’re going to do it, you might as well make it as least detrimental as possible. So anyway, that was my day in the life.

Cheryl McColgan (32:57.378)
of training for this crazy fit model thing. I don’t know if I said this before, but really the only reason I decided to seriously consider this was because they brought in the fit model category, which is not nearly as much muscle and theoretically you don’t have to be as conditioned, so not quite as low body fat. I mean, it’s still gonna be very low body fat, especially based on the winners that I’ve seen thus far, but it’s not the total extreme of bikini, which again,

my age and having just trained for a couple of years in this section of strength training, think that getting the muscle for bikini would be nearly impossible if I was actually going to do well. I mean it’s another thing if you just want to compete and be on stage and if that was the only category that there was, I probably wouldn’t be doing this at all. I don’t know maybe I still would have thought about it, but the fact that there’s this new fit model category that is much more appropriate for where I am both

in age, health, muscle mass, all that good stuff. That’s really the whole reason I decided to do this. anyway, I will keep you updated and this will be continuing for the near future. It’s pretty much a day by day thing. I mean, I think I mentioned in the caption in one of them, like the first several weeks of doing this process and really starting my fat loss.

was not that taxing on me. mean, was definitely, it’s all work and things that I do on a daily basis anyway, but doing it with a lot less food is definitely more challenging. But it really wasn’t until the last week or two where I started to have some days where I’m just.

seriously low energy and that’s because now my body fat is getting much lower. I started at a body fat that was already in the healthy range right at about 26 % higher than I really like to be. But because like again, I was doing this building phase, I just decided to go with that for a little while, but that’s not really where I’ve stayed for most of my life in the past. And then now as of my most recent Daxa, I’m down to around 15 or 16%. So that’s definitely a significant decrease.

Cheryl McColgan (35:09.92)
and it’s a level where your body is going to start, you know, finding you a little bit because for women, we have a critical need for body fat and because we’re, you know, designed to build little people in our bodies basically and so our bodies don’t like it when we start getting too low in body fat. So that’s definitely part of it but it’s not so low yet that it’s

dangerous or should be a significant impact to health or anything like that. anyway, for now, we’ll stay the course again. It’ll be, you know, like day by day decision making on how I’m doing and how I’m feeling about this whole thing. But for today, got through another day and actually felt pretty good today. Definitely tired, but did not have the crushing kind of day that I had a couple of days ago. I think part of it was I did a little refeed in between and I think that really helped a lot. So anyway, I hope you have a great night and I

see you next time!