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Just wanted to get some general feedback about my food intake inconjunction with my workout schedule. I recently (since mid-january) started loosing alot of weight. I believe in 3 or 4 months I dropped from 245 lbs to 183 lbs.
Even though I had been weightlifting for almost a year, I didn't know alot about nutrition or what I should of been getting in (nutrition-wise). I just put myself on a starvation diet. After seeing my benchpressing drop from a max. of 275 lbs to 245 lbs (in the span of 1.5 months), I began to take protien supplements. My benchpressing didn't drop anymore after that.
When I reached 183lbs (around 13.1% bodyfat), my weight stopped dropping. After massive amounts of research and asking around. I heard of several different things to continue making me lose fat. I decided to go on ECA, which helped me drop down to 178lbs now.
Anyways, I was feeling pretty crappy cause I noticed that my legs are disgustingly small. So far in the year and some months that I've been training, it was only arms and chest and a little back. I've never worked my shoulders/abs/legs exclusivly until starting 2 months ago. I also noticed some loose skin around my waist area, even tho I noticed my abs poking out somewhat when I stand up. All this made me think that I wasn't filling out properly... I had big arms, and a big chest, but that was it.
In the 2 months I've been attempting to even things out, my squatting has almost doubled. I'm up to 5 reps on 225lbs, though I still have a long way to go. I know that I can't gain and not eat carbs, so I've started eatting massive carbs again in these 2 months, but my weight hasn't fluctuated up again. The carbs I eat all come from fruits and vegetables. In the span of a day, I go through about 4 to 6 extra large bananas, 2 or 3 large apples, and maybe a couple of large oranges. Ontop of that I eat a 8" inch sandwich everyday with meat (chicken or beef, never fish) cooked in olive oil, on a 12 grain bun, with some bbq or ranch sauce (around 2 or 3 tablespoons, not fat-free or anything), and lettuce + tomatos + cucumbers + green peppers + onions. I also intake about 48g of protien after I wake up and another 48g at night before I goto sleep from protien powder. Other than that, the only other thing that enters my mouth during the day is around 75mg to 125mg of Ephedrine-HCl + corresponding dosages of caffine and asprin (I try to cut down on the caffine).
I think it's safe to say that I won't be going back to my old habits of pigging out constantly. I try to not have any refined carbs. Before I began losing my weight I would have about 4 very large meals a day, along with many snacks. The snacks were usually chocolate bars and such. 1 Snack would be maybe 2 or 3 chocolate bars. I would also take late-night fastfood drives. But I was also lifting alot during this peroid.
Onto the question at hand, I've seen people (like this guy I talk to sometime who's name is pen) that say they bulk all the time. But he has a 6-pack and he's huge. Mind you he's been lifting for 3 years, while I've been only lifting for a year and some months. My question is if I keep eating the way I described and keep pushing weights like I normally do, will I go back to the way I was gaining before I stopped dropping weight and end up like pen in 2 years... my loose skin getting filled out with musclemass? With the way I eat now, I never go hungry at all. I push weights for around 1.5 to 2 hours a day, everyday. I listed workout routine, I alternate between the days:
[Day1]
13 sets chest
12 sets biceps
4 sets wrists
4 sets triceps
[Day 2]
9 sets shoulders
9 sets legs
6 sets abs
5 mins running at 8.5 to 10mph
Any feedback/suggestions/comments/whatever would be appreciated.
- KAZ
Even though I had been weightlifting for almost a year, I didn't know alot about nutrition or what I should of been getting in (nutrition-wise). I just put myself on a starvation diet. After seeing my benchpressing drop from a max. of 275 lbs to 245 lbs (in the span of 1.5 months), I began to take protien supplements. My benchpressing didn't drop anymore after that.
When I reached 183lbs (around 13.1% bodyfat), my weight stopped dropping. After massive amounts of research and asking around. I heard of several different things to continue making me lose fat. I decided to go on ECA, which helped me drop down to 178lbs now.
Anyways, I was feeling pretty crappy cause I noticed that my legs are disgustingly small. So far in the year and some months that I've been training, it was only arms and chest and a little back. I've never worked my shoulders/abs/legs exclusivly until starting 2 months ago. I also noticed some loose skin around my waist area, even tho I noticed my abs poking out somewhat when I stand up. All this made me think that I wasn't filling out properly... I had big arms, and a big chest, but that was it.
In the 2 months I've been attempting to even things out, my squatting has almost doubled. I'm up to 5 reps on 225lbs, though I still have a long way to go. I know that I can't gain and not eat carbs, so I've started eatting massive carbs again in these 2 months, but my weight hasn't fluctuated up again. The carbs I eat all come from fruits and vegetables. In the span of a day, I go through about 4 to 6 extra large bananas, 2 or 3 large apples, and maybe a couple of large oranges. Ontop of that I eat a 8" inch sandwich everyday with meat (chicken or beef, never fish) cooked in olive oil, on a 12 grain bun, with some bbq or ranch sauce (around 2 or 3 tablespoons, not fat-free or anything), and lettuce + tomatos + cucumbers + green peppers + onions. I also intake about 48g of protien after I wake up and another 48g at night before I goto sleep from protien powder. Other than that, the only other thing that enters my mouth during the day is around 75mg to 125mg of Ephedrine-HCl + corresponding dosages of caffine and asprin (I try to cut down on the caffine).
I think it's safe to say that I won't be going back to my old habits of pigging out constantly. I try to not have any refined carbs. Before I began losing my weight I would have about 4 very large meals a day, along with many snacks. The snacks were usually chocolate bars and such. 1 Snack would be maybe 2 or 3 chocolate bars. I would also take late-night fastfood drives. But I was also lifting alot during this peroid.
Onto the question at hand, I've seen people (like this guy I talk to sometime who's name is pen) that say they bulk all the time. But he has a 6-pack and he's huge. Mind you he's been lifting for 3 years, while I've been only lifting for a year and some months. My question is if I keep eating the way I described and keep pushing weights like I normally do, will I go back to the way I was gaining before I stopped dropping weight and end up like pen in 2 years... my loose skin getting filled out with musclemass? With the way I eat now, I never go hungry at all. I push weights for around 1.5 to 2 hours a day, everyday. I listed workout routine, I alternate between the days:
[Day1]
13 sets chest
12 sets biceps
4 sets wrists
4 sets triceps
[Day 2]
9 sets shoulders
9 sets legs
6 sets abs
5 mins running at 8.5 to 10mph
Any feedback/suggestions/comments/whatever would be appreciated.
- KAZ
