My body problems and my planned resolution! feedback and help appreciated-beginner

[Phily4321]

Ok people.

I am new to this site..I joined for advice and feedback on my plan..

I am 5'8 and 12st..i dont know what my bf percentage is but i am sure it would be quite high.

I am so depressed about my weight and body.

My plan is to eat 1000kcal a day including whey shakes post workout and at night..these will be incorporated into the 1000 daily kcal intake..

I am also going to the gym every day working different muscle groups doing 4 sets with roughly 6-8 reps

I try to do cardio when i can and i play football which gives me 2-3 cardio sessions a week..i am also going to do short interval training as cardio to boots my metabloisn...

I wanted to say all this in hope that a few more experienced users could give me feedback or even give me constructive criticism on what i am trying to do...will this enable me to burn fat and put on lean muscle mass?????!!?!?

any help greatly appreciated thanks.

[Phily4321]

any sort of feedback at all would be greatly appreciated

[Apocalypto08]

Honestly, if you play football with any sort of intensity, on top of lifting and cardio, you'll get absolutely destroyed at only 1,000 Calories per day.

Your diet isn't something you randomly engage to the extreme. If you dropped straight to that from wherever you are now, your metabolism would be shot, you'd get sick, probably face a whole bunch of mineral deficiencies (say hello to getting crushed on the field), and the sad part is you'd lose weight but a significant amount of it would be muscle.

Your goal isn't weight loss, it's fat loss, and with what you know now you're not ready for it. Do a lot of research, figure out your maintenance level for calories (DO NOT GUESS, way too many people do this, chart out your food every day for a week and see if your scale weight stays the same) and go 500 less from there to begin with. Don't eat ****, don't say, "I went to practice so I deserve a soda now," eat a lot of meat and start out with something like 40% of calories from protein, 30% from fat, and 30% from carbs.

Stop whatever routine you're doing now, hitting everything every day is NOT good for you, just do Starting Strength which you can find in the stickies or some other pre-written beginner routine that you didn't write. DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING unless you have an injury, or something like that.

Good luck.

[Phily4321]

Honestly, if you play football with any sort of intensity, on top of lifting and cardio, you'll get absolutely destroyed at only 1,000 Calories per day.

Your diet isn't something you randomly engage to the extreme. If you dropped straight to that from wherever you are now, your metabolism would be shot, you'd get sick, probably face a whole bunch of mineral deficiencies (say hello to getting crushed on the field), and the sad part is you'd lose weight but a significant amount of it would be muscle.

Your goal isn't weight loss, it's fat loss, and with what you know now you're not ready for it. Do a lot of research, figure out your maintenance level for calories (DO NOT GUESS, way too many people do this, chart out your food every day for a week and see if your scale weight stays the same) and go 500 less from there to begin with. Don't eat ****, don't say, "I went to practice so I deserve a soda now," eat a lot of meat and start out with something like 40% of calories from protein, 30% from fat, and 30% from carbs.

Stop whatever routine you're doing now, hitting everything every day is NOT good for you, just do Starting Strength which you can find in the stickies or some other pre-written beginner routine that you didn't write. DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING unless you have an injury, or something like that.

Good luck.

for the past week or so I have been doing this and haven't noticed much of a difference energy wise, and I havent been feeling weak or anything. But i will take all of what you've said on board for sure and will probably make a new routine now..thanks a lot!!

just out of interest, if i was doing this and losing muscle, i take it that there would be no point in me lifting as the extreme diet hinders the muscle growth etc?