Hi all!
I’ve started working out around 3 weeks ago, since then I’ve been:
Doing Cardio 6x a week. (Sometimes more)
Doing the BBB routine from CW.
Following Tom Venuto’s diet religiously for a week now. I’m eating 2600cal/day and I am not doing any cheat meals at all. I am weighting everything I eat, I eat every 2:40hours 6 times a day. My macronutrient balance is now: 40/40/20.
I sleep 8 hours a day religiously.
I do my cardio at 6am, fasted.
I wait until 4pm to do my weight lifting.
I’ve lifted weight before for 1 and a half year, when I was about 17, back then I was skinny as hell and worked out really hard to put the small amount of muscle I had back then, gaining around 4kgs of muscle slightly decreasing my body fat.
Now I’m 21 and I am seriously overweight due to 3 years of serious sedentary behavior.
I weight 185 pounds/84kg, I’m 5’11 and I’m willing to go all the way to 8% body fat.
The thing is, I haven’t lost any weight. I still can’t measure my bodyfat because my caliper is on it’s way.
Could this be because I’m regaining my muscle mass?
Am I eating too low calories and my body entered starvation mode?
Thanks dudes, I’ve been lurking your forums for some time and you guys know your shit.
You need to give it more time, weight loss comes in spurts. You could diet strict for a month will working out and not see any real weight loss. Then you’ll wake up one morning and be 2-3 pounds lighter and you will be able to see a difference. In general give your diet about 2 weeks then weigh yourself and maybe take some measurments other body size measurments. If you don’t see any progress then consider dropping your cals a little lower. Your intake of cals looks good but my guess is you will probably have to drop it another 200 cals.
Go easy on the cardio, drop it to around 3 times a week and see if you loose any weight. You don’t want to go all out right away, you can always increase cardio in a month after you have lost some weight and your weighloss seems to be stalling.
Don’t strictly pay attention to the scale. If you start putting some muscle on, the scale is not going to reflect what is fat and what is muscle. I think the scale is the easiest way to get discouraged. Keep doing what you are doing and go by the way your body feels…not what the scale says.
[quote]Ed_Sahione wrote:
Now I’m 21 and I am seriously overweight due to 3 years of serious sedentary behavior.
I weight 185 pounds/84kg, I’m 5’11 [/quote]
Last time I checked, a 21 year old who is 5’11" 185 pounds is no where near “overweight”
[quote]bmitch wrote:
AmericanNitemare wrote:
Ed_Sahione wrote:
Now I’m 21 and I am seriously overweight due to 3 years of serious sedentary behavior.
I weight 185 pounds/84kg, I’m 5’11
Last time I checked, a 21 year old who is 5’11" 185 pounds is no where near “overweight”
Depends on how much muscle he has…[/quote]
Thats why BMI is garbage. Probably half of T-Nation would be considered overweight by that scale, even at 10% bodyfat.