Losing 15lbs of Fat

Training Over 35 Lifter
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I am determined to get rid of this 15 lbs of fat that is clinging around my middle. As fast as I can it, w/o sacrificing muscle mass.

Here are the references:

Refined Physique Transformation - Christian Thibaudeau
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1615551

Get Shredded - John Berardi
http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=1150209

Either seem great but I am asking about it because there is a big disparity in protein recommendations.

The daily calorie recommendation are the same, about 2200. Carb recs are the same - under 50g.

However Berardi protein recommendations for my body weight are 183g per day – this works out to about 1g per my lean body mass.

Christian Thibaudeau protein recs are 235g a day.

John Berardi makes up the calorie difference in fats.

Both of these guys certainly know what they are talking about.

Am currently following CT, but some days I feel like it is a lot of protein to take in.

Just wondered if anybody had any thoughts.

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Either will work. Berardi says that 1 g/lb is minimum.

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Thanks, stuward.

I can’t find where he says minimum 1g per pound in GSD. Calorie reqs appear to be body weight x 10. And then I am using the ranges he has under “The Macronutrient Split,” which are:

30 to 35% of your calories from Protein
10-15% Carbs
55-60% Fats

I worked mine out to 35% -10% - 55%

Anyway I think I will try GSD out for two weeks and re-access. Sometimes I feel like a lab experiment that has gone awry, LOL.

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BTW the other difference I noticed is that CT does not count green vegetables as part of your carbs (they are free) whereas Berardi does.

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[quote]e-loo wrote:
Thanks, stuward.

I can’t find where he says minimum 1g per pound in GSD.
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It’s in another article on his own site.

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[quote]stuward wrote:
It’s in another article on his own site.

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Thnx – I will look for that. Even if I can’t find it (my search skills are bad sometimes) I think I am going to readjust the ratios so I get 1g per lb.

Will report back in a couple weeks.

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I’ve pretty much stuck with the Berardi’s “Get Shredded.”

I dug in a little at the Precision Nutrition forums and a few guys over there confirm – “Just Follow The Formula In The Article.”

I have been losing about 2lbs a week on it. I appear to be handing on to my muscle mass.

I had to scale my workouts way back, just because I am not getting enough calories to do all the interval cardio, HIIT cardio, and number of days training that I was doing before.

That’s recommended too – the guys said stick with 3 or 4 days lifting, and moderate walking cardio.