Where am I going wrong?

Diet and Nutrition
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Stats:
Age: 23
Height: 5’10"
Weight: 195 lbs
BF: Mid-teens?

I am trying to lose weight (and add some lean mass) by dieting and working out. I am trying to avoid cardio, in order to not risk losing muscle mass. I am currently using the mutation series as my workouts. Here is an example of what my daily diet looks like…

6am: 3 scoops Low Carb Grow
or Cheese Omelet (6 egg whites and 2 whole omega 3s)

9am: 1 1/2 cups fat free cottage cheese and a piece of fruit (orange or grapefruit)

12pm: Steak or Chicken Salad
or Steak/Chicken with pasta or rice
or double meat Subway Sub

3:30pm 1 1/2 cups fat free cottage cheese
or protein bar

7pm: (Postworkout) Shake with Grow!, Surge, and creatine

9pm: 1cup FF cottage cheese or 16oz skim milk

Any critiques or comments are appreciated. This diet doesnt seem to be helping the fatloss goal I am going for, but I dont understand why not?

Thanks for any input,
fred

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[quote]JFred wrote:
Stats:
Age: 23
Height: 5’10"
Weight: 195 lbs
BF: Mid-teens?

I am trying to lose weight (and add some lean mass) by dieting and working out. I am trying to avoid cardio, in order to not risk losing muscle mass. I am currently using the mutation series as my workouts. Here is an example of what my daily diet looks like…

6am: 3 scoops Low Carb Grow
or Cheese Omelet (6 egg whites and 2 whole omega 3s)

9am: 1 1/2 cups fat free cottage cheese and a piece of fruit (orange or grapefruit)

12pm: Steak or Chicken Salad
or Steak/Chicken with pasta or rice
or double meat Subway Sub

3:30pm 1 1/2 cups fat free cottage cheese
or protein bar

7pm: (Postworkout) Shake with Grow!, Surge, and creatine

9pm: 1cup FF cottage cheese or 16oz skim milk

Any critiques or comments are appreciated. This diet doesnt seem to be helping the fatloss goal I am going for, but I dont understand why not?

Thanks for any input,
fred
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Hmm, well the one thing that strikes me right away would be the amount of dairy that you’re eating in the form of cottage cheese. Some people respond fine to this, some don’t. It may be something you might wanna cut out and see what happens.

However I would ask that you post your daily totals of carbs, fats, and proteins and calories .

That would give another indication of what’s goin on.

But here are some suggestions based on the information you provided.

Add more variety to that diet.

Instead of all that cottage cheese, maybe have one meal of cottage cheese, with the other two being tilapia, salmon, BEEF ( 96% lean, 93%, or sirloin, whatever leanness your diet allows you to eat) or chicken. Get some more VEGETABLES. Also might wanna try addin some fish oil to your diet.

Try shifting around your carb intake

Now this isn’t to be taken as dogma but often times a massive eating style approach is a good way to go. Doing a big chunk of your carbs in your first two post workout meals kinda maximizes fat loss AND recovery.

Why are you combining surge and Grow! ?

If you’re tryin to use less surge to save money, I guess that’s fine. But the proteins are too slow to be the ideal proteins to use post workout.

Are you judging fat loss by the scale, or by mirrors or calipers?

How are your clothes fitting? You said fat loss so I’m assuming you’re not payin much attention to weight,but I could be wrong. Just wanna make sure you’re not allowing the scale weight to misinform you regarding your actual bodyfat loss.

Training. What is your training like?

Alright well hope this helps. Post your totals and I’m sure more people will tackle this.

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JFred,

New Damage gave you one hell of a post.

You really need to evaluate and answer all the ?'s he reaised befor any of us can give you a real hand in your progression problem.

The main thing being telling us the macro. and caloric intake you are getting each day. Then training you are doing.

Get those and everything else New… suggested and I am sure a few of us can join together and give you more info. than you ever wanted.

Phill

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[quote]JFred wrote:
Stats:
Age: 23
Height: 5’10"
Weight: 195 lbs
BF: Mid-teens?

I am trying to lose weight (and add some lean mass) by dieting and working out. I am trying to avoid cardio, in order to not risk losing muscle mass. I am currently using the mutation series as my workouts. Here is an example of what my daily diet looks like…

6am: 3 scoops Low Carb Grow
or Cheese Omelet (6 egg whites and 2 whole omega 3s)

9am: 1 1/2 cups fat free cottage cheese and a piece of fruit (orange or grapefruit)

Drop the fruit. If you want fiber eat things like broccoli or anything green. You need to lower your carbs here.

12pm: Steak or Chicken Salad
or Steak/Chicken with pasta or rice
or double meat Subway Sub

Drop the pasta, rice, or bread. Have a salad instead or make some type of stir fry with limited oil and starchy vegatables.

3:30pm 1 1/2 cups fat free cottage cheese
or protein bar

Watch out for your protein bars because they have alot of carbs in them. Most of the time they are just glorified candy bars. Why not cook up a bunch of chicken breasts on the grill fajita season them and have some salsa, green peppers, onions, on some lettuce?

7pm: (Postworkout) Shake with Grow!, Surge, and creatine

I would drink 1/2 of your surge during your workout properly diluted. Take one half PWO, and have your grow shake 90 minutes later.

9pm: 1cup FF cottage cheese or 16oz skim milk

Drop the skim milk before you go to bed. I bet you that’s killing you right there. Milk is loaded with carbs. If you want and love milk why don’t you take it in the morning for breakfast or PWO. Or forget the milk completely.

Any critiques or comments are appreciated. This diet doesnt seem to be helping the fatloss goal I am going for, but I dont understand why not?

Try the T-Dawg 2.0 with 30 g carbs on non training days and 100 g on training days with 75% of your carbs consumed during and immediately after your workouts.

If those numbers don’t work for you lower them by 10 g and try that.

walleye

Thanks for any input,
fred
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