I have a question about your diet.
Now my goal is not to compete. My goal is to embrace this new life style with everything I have and strive for the best me. Although I have lost 5 pounds in the last few months I still feel like it is taking forever to get to my goal. My goals have changed. I wanted to weigh 110 and now that I do, I want to weigh 105 and have a 15% body fat count. Now before you say "that’s way to small" I am only 5′1 with a very small frame. I can still get away with weighing 105 without looking sick. So to my questions…How can I keep eating small portions like I am supposed and get the muscle that I strive for. I hear that you are supposed to feed the muscle…but you are suppsed to "diet" to lose the fat. This is why I’m confused. So I strive to eat about 1200 to 1400 calories a day. It sounds like a lil bit but I feel like I eat all the time. Anyway…I can’t seem to get that cut up look I’m going for. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe I’m still eating too many carbs. I don’t know. I come to you because like most I am living on a budget and that budget has no room for a personal trainer. So any details that I may be missing would be so appreciated.
June 16, 2009 at 3:36 pm
well how many carbs are we talking about? and what is your bodyfat right now? with just the five pounds to lose my first instinct is to not play with diet much more and add a little more cardio….need more info though.
and the whole diet/feeding the muscle thing….it’s kind of an either or….and any given time you really can’t for the most part lose fat and gain muscle. Sometimes it happens inadvertently, but as far as a plan that achieves it…..the factors are soooo individualistic you just have to try to learn your body as best you can for something like that end up manifesting.
June 16, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I share your goal. To be in great shape & drop a little BF for definition. I’ve lost approx 5 lbs since early May. To lose BF you need to EAT. Lots of folks starve themselves & end up sending their metabolism into shutdown. You should eat 5-6 small meals/day, every 2-3 hrs or so. And you need to walk the line of feeding yourself plenty of nutrients to feed the muscles & maintaining a SLIGHT calorie deficit per day (eat clean, yes…….but still need to burn more calories than are consumed). I’ve reduced cheat meals, lowered the carbs (esp simple carbs…..i.e. sugars), and increased protein in the daily diet. It’s working so for for this old guy………GOOD LUCK!
June 16, 2009 at 3:45 pm
You should look up articles on carbs cycling. I am just beginning but it has been working well for my wife and I. Some days are higher carb days some are low and some are really really low carb days. So basically we are not eating the same amount of carbs every day. If I am training and very active on a certain day I will up my carbs. On days that I am not training I my have a really low carb day like about 50 g total. The most important is getting a high glycemic meals right after training, to replace glycogen stores. I am at work so I can’t write anything else. Go look up on carb cycling. If you want more explanations let me know. My wife is tootiny76 you can talk to her also. Good luck. Your answer is all in the way you manipulate your carb intake.
June 16, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Thank you so much for the advice on reading up on carb cycling. I am going to start to tomorrow. I was eating a turkey samdwich on what bread every day. I just made a turkey chili that is really good and low in fat and carbs. So maybe I will eat turkey chili with a small spinich salad for a while. I don’t eat bad for you carbs. Well very seldom anyway. I have the clean eating down pretty well. But I think I may be the type that holds on to fat because I eat too many carbs. I hope it works.