Damn, I’ve been suffering from an intestinal virus for the past 2 days. No appetite, though I’ve been forcing protein drinks and crackers down every 3 hours.
This morning I looked in the mirror and I look as flat as a paper doll. I’d like to think I lost some fat, but in all likelihood it’s probably mostly water and some muscle.
Hoping to gain it all back once I get better. Today is a training day, but I feel a bit too shaky to think about hoisting iron.
No worries man…when in a contest diet deflating yourself is planned and when you carb up and get to eat food again your body sucks it up quick!
A forced fast such as this might be a good thing if you want to stay optimistic. Although an intestinal virus doesn’t sound like the way to do it 
lol
Once you eat again you’ll fill back out.
I’ve started my ‘bulk’ diet and have been sick the last 3 days barely making maintenance cals…so don’t feel too bad.
YOUR NOT ALONE! lol
get well soon man and back in the game. 
DG
I had that shit happen earlier this week, missed mon/tues at home staying within range of a bathroom all day, fight through it and ravage the shit out of that kitchen when you feel better =]
Thanks guys.
Yeah DG, a bulking diet is hell at times. Takes a lot out of me. Bloated and churning aren’t good feelings. LOL Being sick on top of it makes for misery.
I hope you’re right about inflating again. 
Everytime I’m under the weather I experience similar drops,… no appetite, or I just sleep for 14 hours straight (no food). At first, I look really shredded, but after a few days, you freak a bit and look for anything to get soem calories (pop tarts anyone? -lol)
S
I had strep throat and that sidelined me for almost 2 weeks. I lost weight and a good deal of strength, it’ll take about 3-4 weeks to get back to where I was before catching the crap.
Thanks to it being close to Christmas, food was being shoved in front of my face from everywhere. I ate every bit of it too, I have to make up for what i lost quickly.
I just lost 6 lbs because of stress. Not sickness, but still, it was kinda alarming that it would all go in a matter of just under two weeks.
Hope you feel better. PB always seemed kind to my stomach when sick
i recently went a month without eating
About 5-6 years ago, I had a tooth problem, dentist wanted to pull one of my front, lower teeth. As this notion creeped me out a bit, the alternative was some realignment work, whcih after it was set up (brackets and such placed on my teeth), I couldn’t close my mouth for a week (the upper teeth would clang into the brackets glued on the lower ones). Suffice to say, my eating was totally affected. I was having Oatmeal with Protein powder and PB mixed in 5x a day -lol
S
I can’t believe you lost any muscle in 2 days that was not to due to some sort of dismembering accident.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
I can’t believe you lost any muscle in 2 days that was not to due to some sort of dismembering accident.[/quote]
If I’m not mistaken, you eat a mostly muscle preserving hight fat diet diet so you might be biased.
[quote]GOTOSLEEP wrote:
Tiribulus wrote:
I can’t believe you lost any muscle in 2 days that was not to due to some sort of dismembering accident.
If I’m not mistaken, you eat a mostly muscle preserving hight fat diet diet so you might be biased.[/quote]
No normal person is going to lose an appreciable amount of muscle if they were locked in a closet and ate zero calories for 48 hours