I agree with this guy, i mean ya being calorie deficit will make you lose weight, but most people have other goals they hope to achieve, like maintaining muscle mass. If i eat 1800 calories of twix bars, it will not be as effective as eating a healthy 1800 calories of clean veggies, healthy fats, whole grains, and good sources of protein. I firmly believe that all calories are not at all created equal.
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03-29-2009, 06:57 PM #31
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03-29-2009, 07:43 PM #32
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Wow this is incredible! I feel like genetics have a lot to do with it For a while I was doing a lot of circuit training and eating great (no bad stuff just good carbs with good protein) and still didn't see any major changes... could it be that my body just doesn't want to give it up?? I really want to believe that if I try and try something will eventually work for me ..
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03-29-2009, 08:02 PM #34
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I did! This past mon-fri I took off. and weighed myself for the first time in 3 months (I usually don't weigh myself I look at how I look and how my clothes feel) My jeans have started to feel really tight, so I weighed myself and was 145! (138 about 2 months ago) and today in the am before bfast 147 I have been good all week, since I didn't work out mon-fri I did low carb high lean protein and still gain??? WTF?! I just don't get it
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03-29-2009, 08:06 PM #35
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03-29-2009, 08:19 PM #36
you already look good~! so getting in great shape shouldnt be too hard for ya. what was your typical diet like before you started trying to cut? that will tell the story in what you need to do.
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03-29-2009, 08:20 PM #37
and weight gain in the short term means nothing! water/sodium balances can account for that.
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blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
"You can't make an empire out of a Republic" - Julius Caesar
Proverbs 24:29. "Do not say, 'I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.'"
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country" James Madison
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03-29-2009, 08:48 PM #38
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03-29-2009, 08:58 PM #40
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Well I just started to "cut" but I guess my diet has been pretty similar to the so called "cut" diet all along... maybe I wasn't eating enough calories before when I was lifting more weight??? I use to do heavy weight and do splits and did heavy legs plus cardio, and ate what I eat about now
my diet is usually this
5:30 am 1/2 C of dry oats to 1 C water with a scoop of natural Whey, 8:30am 1C no sodium non fat cottage cheese, sometimes with whole wheat English Muffin and sometimes just without anything (on lower carb days) 11am 5oz grilled chicken light salt, cooking spray with 1/2C cooked brown rice and broccoli with spinach, 2pm non fat Greek yogurt with cottage cheese
5pm 5oz grilled chick. with broc and spinach and 1TB olive oil, then 6:30pm I hit the gym, leave at about 7:30-8pm and when I get home I have more cottage cheese or protein shake of just a scoop of protein on water..
This is my diet Mon-Fri
weekends I might change it up a bit (Sat I might have a glass of wine or fro yo) but same concept and I do hikes and spin class
My workouts are a mix of weights +resistance +circuit + 45-60 min cardio on diff machines with diff resistance heart rate at about 150-160
Lately I have been worse on weekends (more choc, more fro yo, like a small serving Fri, sat, and sun instead of just one day.) Or cookies, but can 2 days of adding more sugary sweets really make me gain??? It wasn't like I was eating cheesecakes and pies all day long!! :/
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03-29-2009, 08:59 PM #41
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03-29-2009, 09:05 PM #43
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Thanks for the tip! I looked and it some of the stuff sounded like foreign language to me! Is it save to say that you switch you carb and fat intake?? so if you're doing 30 g of fats and 140 carbs to switch them? Or is having about 70g of fats with about 30 grams of carbs and 147 of protein good? I'm 24, 5'5 about 145 and last time I was at 19% body fat although that was months ago...
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03-29-2009, 09:08 PM #44
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hah! Yeah I have that bum too! and yes most of my fat is in my thighs I;m not even asking for much I don't want to be super lean I just want to fit into my jeans and not have a huge dose of cellulite and for starters I want to get my old weight back! and fit into my old jeans!! I already got rid of 2 fave ones since a year ago
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03-29-2009, 10:01 PM #45
I try for a gallon of water a day. However, the bloating will be more from diet rather than water intake. Sodium and starchy carbs will cause you to reatain water also. As far as girls retaining water, I don't know how all that stuff ties in with menstrual cycles or anything, but I know that sodium intake, and what type of carbs you consume will have an effect on water retention
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03-29-2009, 10:34 PM #46
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03-30-2009, 01:44 AM #47
Do you know what your bf% is at? If your avatar pic is current you certainly don't look like someone at 5'5 147. I would have guessed 130 tops with a lot of muscle. It could be possible you packed on some muscle which accounted for the weight gain, and if thats the case your bf % should be proportionately lower.
Just remember the improvement won't be during the week you took off but shortly after you get back into your routine again.
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03-30-2009, 01:55 AM #48
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some people hate cottage cheese!!! peanut butter and cottage cheese are like crack! i dont now how anyone can possibly stop as just one spoonful. as far as i know water retention and the menstrual cycle, is that progesterone causes water retention so its closer to the end of the cycle that girls puff up.
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03-30-2009, 07:20 AM #49
according to what you said you eat and you working your legs hard, my assumption would be your leg muscles are growing, thus making you think you are fatter but your not.......
your diet seems good, try to keep the carbs low after like 5 oclock, but get plenty fo good carbs before that........
as far as your exercises try doing all exercises in the 17-20 rep range as this will maintain and tone what you have but wont make you grow...........
do cardio as much as possible.........
drink a gallon of water a day, i know it sounds like alot but it does wonders..
DONT DO KETO, its complete crap"...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." Thomas Jefferson
"You can't make an empire out of a Republic" - Julius Caesar
Proverbs 24:29. "Do not say, 'I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.'"
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country" James Madison
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03-30-2009, 07:34 AM #50
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