Cant loose fat!!!

[ricey100]

I have been eating a clean diet and training 5 times a week for a couple of months now.
I train with weights Monday, Wednesday and Friday and cardio Tuesday and Thursday and I also do a very physically active job.
I eat 5 meals a day, hitting my macros all of the time and drink plenty of water.

My problem is, I am not losing any body fat.
Any advice from you guys would be greatly appreciated.

[tomnationwide]

The information you provide is insufficient to figure this out. Assuming you ARE doing the right things then how are you measuring fat? Are you replacing lost fat with muscle thus keeping the same weight? It's too vague.

[ricey100]

The information you provide is insufficient to figure this out. Assuming you ARE doing the right things then how are you measuring fat? Are you replacing lost fat with muscle thus keeping the same weight? It's too vague.

I had my body fat measured a couple of months ago and again yesterday at my gym and they were the same.

[tomnationwide]

Then your diet is totally wrong. Working out is a small portion of the process. Eating is most of what you will get as a result of weight training. Your body needs nutrients to grow muscle. It needs good food to drive the machine. If you aren't eating good food then the machine stalls. Maybe you have a slow metabolism and need to perform some cardio as well. There's a balance of food intake and energy output that you are not reaching. What is your diet and what do you eat? Be specific.

[mcapote3]

taking in too many calories /thread

[induced_drag]

You are eating too much....simple.

You say you are eating your planned macros. What are they? Please specify g of carbs/fats/pro. What is your weight and apox bf%?

[kimm4]

Eating clean and eating 5x a day doesn't mean anything. You need to be in a calorie deficit for fat loss. Until you learn proper portion sizes your food needs to be weighed, measured and tracked accordingly on a food scale.

Stay in your deficit and there will be steady loss.

[philipj]

Ellington Darden was a major bodybuilder in the 1960s, not has a Phd in exercise of some kind. His new book 30 lbs in 30 days is a weightlifting and diet program that works wonders. Try www.ellingtondarden.com

Yes I follow what he writes about, and it is working

[EB68]

Eating clean doesn't mean anything. You can lose fat eating pizza and ice cream as long as you eat less calories than you burn. You can also get fat as hell eating chicken breasts and brown rice if you eat more than you burn. You need to weigh measure and track every morsel that enters your pie hole for a week and see how many calories you are eating. Once you figure that out lower that by 500 per day and watch the weight/fat go away. It is really simple, but most refuse to believe that, eat lass than you burn and lose weight, eat more than you burn and gain weight. Don't add calories to your diet to make up for exercise either, just stick to 500 below maintenance and succeed.

[Brackneyc]

I've seen all this somewhere before. Oh yeah, 8th grade health class.

[FltDoc06]

Are you counting calories, measuring food, recording your intake and working toward specific macro goals?
If not, you haven't been working at it, you've just been wishing for it. Lifting weights is the easy part; the nutritional discipline is much harder.

If you have been doing those things (measuring, recording), then you need to rework your calorie goals. The calculators give a general recommendation based on population studies, but they may not apply to your specific metabolism/body/situation. You have to tailor those recommendations based upon the results you see. The comments above are correct; if you reduce calories sufficiently, you WILL lose weight.

[Rossella69]

Lifting weights is the easy part; the nutritional discipline is much harder.

I couldn't agree more..

[36912]

Op why not post your diet up, so people can help.

[JerryB]

I have been eating a clean diet and training 5 times a week for a couple of months now.
I train with weights Monday, Wednesday and Friday and cardio Tuesday and Thursday and I also do a very physically active job.
I eat 5 meals a day, hitting my macros all of the time and drink plenty of water.

My problem is, I am not losing any body fat.
Any advice from you guys would be greatly appreciated.

It's a numbers game regardless if you do not keep track or keep track of your caloric intake. Without some information about your caloric intake, your weight, and some idea of your daily activity level what advice do you expect to receive except eat less?

[pharmamarketer]

Loose

[Landor]

You either have to eat to lose fat, eat to gain muscle or eat to maintain. To lose fat you should be eating at a 500 calorie deficit. If you try to eat more then a 500 calorie deficit your body might go into starvation mode and put everything you eat right to fat stores.

On the other hand you could just be eating to much.

You need to count calories to know for sure. Also how are you measuring body fat to conclude you are not losing fat?

Everybody is different. You need to find what works for you. Four or five pounds a month would be a good month.

[latebloomingmom]

Loose

women? cannon? foot loose and fancy free?





I got some loose fat
jiggles every damn time I take a step
man don't ya hate that

[lindaaperez169]

If you are that particular to lose weight, you can try out a liposuction or a tummy tuck procedure. But you got to choose a right surgeon who is well experienced. Make a complete study by researching on the reviews of plastic surgeons on sites like goodsurgeonbadsurgeon.

[TiborDublin]

Op why not post your diet up, so people can help.

Because then he'd have to face with the fact that his diet is not right

I'm on a slow bulk now and still counting calories just to make sure to have my strength back before getting into proper bulking without gaining any more fat than it's necessary, but when I was cutting I counted every single bite for 3 months and that was the hardest thing since I've been lifting. Macros, macros and macros. You can be huge eating only sweet potatoes if you eat 3 big ones a day, clean diet means f.ck all.

[GKC45]

If you are that particular to lose weight, you can try out a liposuction or a tummy tuck procedure. But you got to choose a right surgeon who is well experienced. Make a complete study by researching on the reviews of plastic surgeons on sites like analdildos.com.

Excellent advice. I too agree, OP should just continue to eat poorly and get surgery to compensate.

[2nd_chance]

Loose

I've only become recently aware of how many people cannot use the proper spelling for this word. *facepalm*

[DuracellBunny]

I've only become recently aware of how many people cannot use the proper spelling for this word. *facepalm*

Try looking for how many use then instead of than, it's far worse.

Advise/advice is bad on this forum too.

[orb85750]

I've only become recently aware of how many people cannot use the proper spelling for this word. *facepalm*

Yeah, I know, though the rules of English are so arbitrary and inconsistent.

choose and schmoose, lose and whose -- all sound similar.

[silverlightning]

women? cannon? foot loose and fancy free?





I got some loose fat
jiggles every damn time I take a step
man don't ya hate that

I Only Feel The Fat Jiggling When I'm Driving On A Bumpy road

[WBNATL]

You mentioned that you're eating about 5 meals a day. It just seem like if you're doing everything else right, you're probably taking in too many calories between those 5 meals to see a significant drop in weight and BF%. Keep a log of how many calories you're taking in daily. I would also increase the amount of cardio...you mentioned that you're only doing cardio 2 times a week....another day or two if you can find the time.

[BB12s]

May want to adjust what you're eating around your workout to utilize the nutrients.

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