Not Losing Weight

Training
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[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:

[quote]Sethnacht wrote:
Week 1:
Lifting 5 times /week

Week2 2:
Lifting 4 times /week
construction working for 2 days :wink:

Week 3:
Lifting 3 times/week
Muay Thai 3 times/week

My weightlifting schedule consists of 3 different days of nearly only complex whole-body movements (front squat, squat, DL, bent over row, kroc rows, dips, bench press, pull ups, etc.).[/quote]
Your program needs serious improvement. Get on a consistent routine, not changing things each week.

I’ll put this nicely
 you don’t deserve a cheat meal each week and you certainly don’t deserve or need two in a week.

You’re already drinking beer, having cake, eating fried potatoes and you’re 20% bodyfat (or whatever, I’m guessing you’re pretty pudgy. Maybe a muffin top over the top of your jeans). You need to earn a cheat meal with 6 days, sometimes 13 or even 29 days, of the kind of strict eating that leads to visible and measurable progress.

If you were doing things right, then I agree, you should’ve seen some results in the last three weeks. But you haven’t seen progress and you’ve been eating and training a certain way. Wouldn’t it make sense to now change your nutrition and training?

Caffeine and testicles will fix that.

Seriously, which is a higher priority for you right now in the short term, your Muay Thai or not being fat? Starting tomorrow, literally tomorrow, do this:

Once that’s done, do this:

As far as training, again, almost any program in the archives will be better than what you’re doing now.[/quote]

LMAO balls + caffine great stuff so true

Those 2 articles were great as a guy thats done AD & paleo for the better part of 3yrs I can honestly say that the difference between 30g-100g of carbs isnt that dramatic a difference in weight loss as long as cals are in a deficit
 The only thing that throws off the loss is if you go the route of carb ups. In that case running 100g per day + blasting them on weekends will just make you fat
 As far as no energy for MA I think its bogus I find a cup of coffee and a banana before 2hrs of JJ is just as good or better then any expensive suplement
 Just eat 1hr before you go. The guy that trains the MMA peeps at my gym loves the paleo diet and puts most of his fighters on it. Probably for the leaning out reasons

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[quote]pwolves17 wrote:

[quote]myself1992 wrote:
You don’t need as many calories as people make it seem. If you’re not losing weight just eat less muscle loss and “metabolic damage” are both blown way out of proportion[/quote]

Strongly disagree about metabolic damage being blown out of proportion
countless competitors, not to mention typical trainees have pushed into uncharted territories of leanness, only to quickly gain back all of the fat they lost and then some as a result of adding food back in too quickly at the conclusion of the diet
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If they’re eating x amount of food, diet down and then start eating x amount of food they will be just as fat as they were before. That doesn’t mean their metabolism has “crashed” its just that they started eating way too much and more than they need

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[quote]myself1992 wrote:

[quote]pwolves17 wrote:

[quote]myself1992 wrote:
You don’t need as many calories as people make it seem. If you’re not losing weight just eat less muscle loss and “metabolic damage” are both blown way out of proportion[/quote]

Strongly disagree about metabolic damage being blown out of proportion
countless competitors, not to mention typical trainees have pushed into uncharted territories of leanness, only to quickly gain back all of the fat they lost and then some as a result of adding food back in too quickly at the conclusion of the diet
[/quote]
If they’re eating x amount of food, diet down and then start eating x amount of food they will be just as fat as they were before. That doesn’t mean their metabolism has “crashed” its just that they started eating way too much and more than they need[/quote]

We’re on the same page, Myself. I was referring to people who diet on extremely low levels of food, to the point of harming hormonal health. Looking sick in the new avi by the way!

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^love this back and forth. Reminds me there’s still good people on this site! =)

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[quote]pwolves17 wrote:

[quote]myself1992 wrote:

[quote]pwolves17 wrote:

[quote]myself1992 wrote:
You don’t need as many calories as people make it seem. If you’re not losing weight just eat less muscle loss and “metabolic damage” are both blown way out of proportion[/quote]

Strongly disagree about metabolic damage being blown out of proportion
countless competitors, not to mention typical trainees have pushed into uncharted territories of leanness, only to quickly gain back all of the fat they lost and then some as a result of adding food back in too quickly at the conclusion of the diet
[/quote]
If they’re eating x amount of food, diet down and then start eating x amount of food they will be just as fat as they were before. That doesn’t mean their metabolism has “crashed” its just that they started eating way too much and more than they need[/quote]

We’re on the same page, Myself. I was referring to people who diet on extremely low levels of food, to the point of harming hormonal health. Looking sick in the new avi by the way! [/quote]

Thanks brother! I agree that the metabolism slows down but I think that even after crash dieting it doesn’t slow down that much maybe 200-500 calories at the most. The problem is people thinking the diets over and thinking they deserve to eat whatever they want and thinking that they will gain muscle instead of fat because of the “rebound” so they’ll just go from minimal calories, a shitload of cardio fat burners etc
 to no cardio, no fat burners and more food. So even if they are only eating 500 calories more they’re also burning 500 calories or whatever less so it nets out to 1000 calories over what they were at before if that makes sense. It’s only logical that if someone loses 30 lbs in a short amount of time that he will require less calories to maintain gain and lose weight.

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[quote]jskrabac wrote:
^love this back and forth. Reminds me there’s still good people on this site! =)[/quote]
Shelby had you dieting pretty hard didn’t he? What are your thoughts on this