I am exhausted. I'm working 70 hours/week this month. Eating (except for this weekend) has been pretty good, because I keep it clean and simple when I'm at work and I'm too tired to eat junk when I get home. My problem is with the lifting side of things. I am finding I simply do not have the strength to get through a workout like I used to. (I think I've lost a lot of strength over the past few months anyway, but that's another story.)
My interest right now is in fat loss - I can get back to strength training later, when life isn't so crazy - and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest some lifting ideas that will help me lose fat and not put such a complete and total tax on my system that I am wiped out after 3x10 with a moderate weight. (Yeah, that happened the other night, and yeah, I actually cried out of sheer frustration.)
Do I just need to drop the poundage? Get away from the compound stuff and do higher-rep isolation work for mass-building? (Though I'm skeptical as to whether I can actually build mass right now, given the fact that I don't eat much, can't recover from workouts, and get what seems like not nearly enough sleep.) Working less and/or sleeping more are not options. 30 hours/week of this is OT and we need it badly. I cannot drop the workouts because I will gain fat like a fiend, and I'm not willing to settle for maintenance. It's the holidays, for God's sake, and the only way I'll get through them without gaining weight is to make it my goal to lose weight.
I'm not trying to gripe, y'all. I'm just so