[quote]golferguy12 wrote:
I am 17 years old al most 18 i have always been pretty much over weight i am like 5’10 235 i lift alot like 5 days a week i want to start loosing weight and good diet programs im going to start taking a fatburner tommrow i want to drop 20 pounds by january please help me out[/quote]
Stop wasting your money on the fat burner, be consistent with training and eating good, unprocessed food. The more processed the worse, and make sure you’re getting a lot of protein, and don’t over eat.
While you’re doing that for the next couple of years, read as much info as you can from guys like Dr. John Berardi.
swr,
Question what kind of fat calipers would you recommend to meaure body fat? CT new book uses lbm to figure out calorire intake, so I guess I need some.
[quote]DION88 wrote:
swr one more question what kind of fat calipers would you recommend to meaure body fat? CT new book uses lbm to figure out calorire intake, so I guess I need some.[/quote]
I went more by my eye, so it wasn’t very accurate, but my guess was that I was around 25%bf, so I used that number to get my LBM.
I’ve seen those electronic calipers that do all the math for you, you just pinch the areas that it tells you and push the button. I think they’re pretty cheap too.
Since I only guaged my bf with an estimation, I’m going to adjust my calories as I progress.
I’m going to weigh myself every two Sundays and adjust from there (well, I’ll weigh myself more often that that, but I’ll only use the numbers I get every 2 weeks to adjust calories).
There is a lot of room for error with any calipers, even with people who use them often, so you can use them for a rough estimation.
I think those scales that tell bf% are even less accurate than the calipers though.
[quote]DION88 wrote:
swr,
Question what kind of fat calipers would you recommend to meaure body fat? CT new book uses lbm to figure out calorire intake, so I guess I need some.[/quote]
DION88, if you’re still looking, I used to have these calipers before I broke them:
I guess it’s just a personal preference, and again, don’t take them as 100% accurate, but they can give you a good ball-park figure to go by if you follow the directions carefully.
[quote]DION88 wrote:
I might do that too. Are you following CT’S recommendations for calories intake expenditure of 80-85%? or are you doing your own diet scheme[/quote]
Yup, I used his formula in the ebook to get all of my calories and macronutrient split.
I came up with a total of:
240g Protein
146g Carbs
65g Fats (split in thirds by saturated, mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated)
I may decrease the calories as I go into Phase 11 after 1 week into it if I don’t find that I’m losing any weight (mostly because my bf% was just a guess).
My lifting #'s are going up, so that’s good, but in a way it might be bad as it could be an indicator that my calories are still too high. I don’t want to over-analyze it too much though, so I’ll be patient before making any calorie changes.
It is great like you said very detailed I have read most of CT’s stuff have not really got into anthony’s but will soon. I still need to read it more it is one thing to read through it another thing to take it in and undetstand it.
Thats f’ing awesome achievements. I dont know how I didn’t put 2+2 together and figure out this thread was you.
Your looking better all the time. Consistency will get you to where you want to be, and once your there you can look back at all you went thru to get there and be happy it is all behind you.
No wonder you get mad support here. You earned it!
Thats f’ing awesome achievements. I dont know how I didn’t put 2+2 together and figure out this thread was you.
Your looking better all the time. Consistency will get you to where you want to be, and once your there you can look back at all you went thru to get there and be happy it is all behind you.
No wonder you get mad support here. You earned it! [/quote]
Hey, thanks.
I was actually surprised with the support from the other thread too. It’s not like I get a lot of feedback on a regular basis (besides those who have responded to my threads). And the same goes for those I respect on this site. I don’t really give them very much props, so they wouldn’t know how much I appreciate their hard work.
There have been many times I thought I was annoying most on here with my constant posts.
Don’t hesitate to ask on your thread, here or anywhere on this site if you start to get into a rut with your diet and/or training.
You’d be surprised at how much help you can get with others’ support.
SWR, for the non-mixing approach diet you are suppose to only eat carbs and protein for the first three meals, what should I do if a w/o in the afternoon? should I save one of the carb/protein meals?
[quote]DION88 wrote:
SWR, for the non-mixing approach diet you are suppose to only eat carbs and protein for the first three meals, what should I do if a w/o in the afternoon? should I save one of the carb/protein meals?[/quote]
Yes. The 3 carb meals in the morning is ideal, but it’s fine to save the last carb meal (PWO) for later if you can’t workout early.
That’s exactly what I do.
I eat a protein-carb meal for my first and second meals, then I star eating my protein-fat meals until I workout, then eat my last pro-carb meal (for post-workout), then I usually still have 1 meal left, which is protein-fat.
There have also been some days that my last meal of the day is my PWO drink because I didn’t get to the gym until late.
I try not to have my PWO drink last, but it’s better than pushing my workout to the next day, and overall I don’t think it will hurt the results any.
SWR, I was wondering if after these phases you will eventually do the maximum fatloss phases. I was messing around with the calculations and it came out that I would be taking in 27-60 carbs a day. Seems like a keto diet even though CT states it is not. I ask because I think you are around the weight as me. Will you go on to the max fatloss or put on some lean mass?
