Diet | Look At My Muscles
Mar 6

I recently turned 30, and for the first time have braces. While most of my friends dealt with this back in grade school, I’m dealing with it now as an adult. My teeth were never that crooked, and growing up we didn’t have a lot of money so there wasn’t a justification for it. Now that I have good dental insurance (and my teeth have moved quite a bit), I’m on a 16-month plan to get my teeth straight. The main problem is that I’ve been losing weight like crazy. It’s always been difficult for me to keep on weight, especially taking in enough calories to match the lifting I had been doing. Now that it hurts to eat most foods, my workouts have been a disaster. While I can still take weight gainer and protein shakes, by not eating anything else, it’s been tearing up my stomach, so I’ve cut back on those too. The good thing is that my abs are showing pretty clearly since I’ve lost all of this weight, the bad thing of course is that I’ve lost a lot of muscle mass.

Any body builders out there that have braces? Any suggestions on how to keep the weight on?

Nov 16

I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled out a few days ago, and have been on a soft food diet ever since. It’s been an interesting reflection of the foods I usually eat and crave, compared to what’s available and convenient for me to prepare in a soft-food form. I haven’t been to the gym at all, and will probably miss a little over a week of workouts, but as mentioned in a previous post, a break every couple of months can be good for a lifting regiment.

I haven’t checked to see how much weight I’ve lost in the last 3 days, but I imagine by the time I’m eating solid food again next Thursday, that it’ll have been a few pounds. Since soft food isn’t as readily available as most processed and fast food though, I’ve actually been eating pretty cleanly. Protein shakes are the easiest and most familiar food so I’ve been having about 2 of those a day. Otherwise, my wife has been making soups and porridges and then sticking them in the blender. Overall it’s been a very low-calorie, high protein diet that I doubt I would ever be able to stick to if it weren’t a necessity. This experience has shown me how much better I could eat though if i were more dedicated to having a perfect diet.