[quote]FatAss2008 wrote:
Its weight loss. Plus i’m borderlined diabetic so I’m fighting that as well. I’m under the impression that the lower calories the better. I know that I need around 1800-2000 calories in my diet. OTEP was right, I was a little low on my calorie count so the number is a little messed up.
Is 1800-2000 still too low? My personal trainer said that any given day the body burns 1800 calories by itself wihtout physical activity. That would mean if I just ate 1800 calories I would be burning fat the more I trained. Dunno, you guys are the experts.
EDIT:
TRAINING
30-45 Minutes of Cardio (Interval) 7 days a week
Monday - Legs
Tuesday - Arms
Wednesday - Back/Chest
Thursday - Cardio Only
Friday - Legs
Saturday - Arms
Sunday - Back/Chest[/quote]
My main problem with people throwing out specific numbers for your base metabolic rate, or for the number of calories burned during a given hour of running, or walking, or lifting, or whatever, is that they’re wrong. All of them, almost all the time.
Inaccurate would be a better word. Because as your body gets accustomed to an action (sprints, lifting), it becomes more efficient, and uses less energy. So over time, those numbers you’re quoted, even if they started out right, will slide.
And usually they don’t start out right. The only way to know for sure is by physically measuring your CO2 intake during a given period of time, and even that is limited in that it becomes unfeasible to measure multiple days in a row.
So the idea that you burn 1800 kcal in a day just by virtue of breathing is laughable.
That said, it’s probably not too far off the mark.
What you might wanna do is pick a number, err on the high side, and eat healthy at that caloric number. So you’ve got 2500 kcals (or 3000). Fill it with meat, olive oil, nuts, veggies, eggs and flax. If you lose fat (and you probably will, even at a relatively high kcal intake), good. stick with it. If not, drop the kcals some.
It’s somewhat slower going, but it’s easier to maintain, and in the long run, its more effective than running your metabolism into the ground.
If you’re diabetic, The Anabolic Diet is right for you:
(I tried to link it and couldn’t. So go to the Supplement and Nutrition forum and find a thread called ‘My Experience on the Anabolic Diet’ by a guy named mDragon)
Many here (including me) can testify to it’s effectiveness in dropping fat. It will also likely simplify the number of times you pin.
Your training program lacks specifics. Even so, you’re probably going to kill yourself with that regimen. FIrst off, you can’t maintain any type of intensity when doing a 30-45 min session. Second, with only one day off a week from lifting, you pretty much aren’t allowing much time or energy for your body to adapt.
That said, if you have a trainer that designed your program, ignore the nameless guy on the internet and trust your trainer. There are many ignorant PT’s out there, but if you’re paying her, you trust her, and you gotta take a chance.