bwestgat’s BodyBlog

I have recently switched to a 3 day split where I do pulls, pushes and legs.  I have also done 2-3 days of cardio.  The good thing is that I have lost a lot of weight, the bad thing is I think most of it is muscle!  I am thinking about going back to a 4 day split, eating more and doing less cardio.  I am an ectomorph and have difficulty gaining and maintaining muscle.  At the same time I want to look cut.  It appears that I will have to hit the weights hard, and do less cardio.  As well keep my diet clean (which it has been) but increase portion size in hopes that I keep my very hard earned muscle while still loosing a bit of fat.  I eat 6 meals a day, each meal is a good mix of protien (30g) complex carbs and a fruit or veggie.  So diet is fine, portion size determines whether I loose or gain weight.  Anyway if anyone can give me some ideas on how an extomorph is to hold onto my hard earned muscle while loosing the fat it would be apprecitiated…

This is what I do to stay away from sweets…

A few tips that have helped me:
1) Use splenda
2) Use splenda in coffee
3) Try having cottage cheese, no sugar added yogurt and some grapes all mixed together, it is really sweat.  In other word replace unhealthy sweey meals with healthy sweet meals
4) another sweet meal is this: add one banana, 4-8 frozen strawberries and some skim milk to a blender and blend it up - very sweet and if you want more protien just add protien powder
5) I find when I stat getting cravings I just go make green tea.  This keeps my mouth busy until my next meal.  Sometimes it is just having something to do with your hands rather than eating sweet
6) Go eat a protien bar, they are healthier than a chocolate bar but many are very sweet
7) I do protien pancakes and add no sugar added syrup this is sweet as well (check out my blog for recipe for protien pancakes
8) Make sure you have no unhealthy sweets in the house, this way you can’t just go get some at the spur of the moment.  This includes chocolate bars, pop and other very unhealthy things…
Good luck.