Todd_A’s BodyBlog

I have been successful at loosing fat without loosing much muscle at all. The bad news is that I am now 163 pounds and I have more fat to loose still.  I was covered in more fat than I thought at first I guess. if I continue at the cutting I will be in the 140’s by the time I reach mt bodyfat % that I want to get to.

So, I decided I need to do a bulk. Not some big, nasty, all you can eat pizza buffet type of bulk, but a nice, controlled, clean bulk. I have started ramping up my calories a little at a time hoping to not add fat in the switch-over to a calorie excess. 

Funny thing - I started raising my calories 2 days ago but each morning after raising them, I lost weight and it was mostly fat! I dropped another BF% since I started eating more. I have a feeling I had dropped down past where I needed to be in my daily calorie intake.

 I’m still doing higher fat and lower carbs, but I am raising both the fat and carbs to get more calories.

The last week I have been following a low carb with higher fat and a good amount of protein with walking and lifting and have been having great results… finally!

At teh begining of the week I weighed in at 169.2 pounds with 18.8 % bodyfat. The diet is right at 2072 calories a day during the week. I have 85 grams of fat, 240 grams of protein and 92 grams of carbs each day. This morning I weighed 166.8 with 18.1% bodyfat.

So far , so good. Tomorrow is saturday and I am going to carb up for 2 days btu it will be a very light carb up. I am going to increase my carbs from 92 to 180 grams. Doubling them while keeping the fat and protein the same as all week.

Last weekend I only carbed up one day and it was mild and I had great results this week, so I think this midification should work well. I noticed I was loosing a bit of lean mass, so the increase in carbs for 2 days may offset that. I don’t mind the mass loss right now as my main goal is to get this stupid fat off of me. I would like ot retain as much lean mass as possible though.

 As for working out - every morning I wake up and walk 30 minutes, then head off to work. After work each day I lift weights then walk for another 15 minutes. I split my lifting up into 5 days so I don’t run the workouts too long and I can lift then walk and still get in my post workout protien in a reasonable time frame.

We’ll see in the morning for my weekly weigh-in.