I don't understand my body type.....

[Exodus]

jen,

it sounds like your taking in a butt load of protein. thats not necessarily a bad thing........... but

during my last contest i kept my protein high, extremely high..... i could not loose as much or as fast as i would have liked.

my friend simply pointed this out......"protein may be good for you but it has calories, and calories are calories."

i may be wrong but you might want to check your levels on the protein.

i could be way off....... but im just trying to help.........

X

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

I figure, I'm eating 1600, to 1800, caleries per day. I weigh 165, and I'm 5'6. ( I did weigh 163, just last week)

With the extra cardio, I have been burning around 1000 caleries per day just with my workouts.

I'm also a waitress, and walk around alot.

So with the simple fact that I'm burning more caleries, then I'm taking in, I should be losing. But I'm not.

I'm eating more protien, only because I have drastically lowered my carbs. I was eating around 180-200 carbs per day----with the same amount in protein. 50/50 is the ratio I have been doing.

So now, I'm taking in around 90 carbs a day, with, 230 grams of protein.

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

Sorry, but BUMP..........


BUMP

BUMP

BUMP


I will post a new picture I'm taking this Sunday for ya'll too see my progress as well, thanks for the help!

 

[the People's Champ]

I dont understand how you are so fizoine either! but I like.... just my 2 cents

 

[Belial]

Far too few calories. If I get this right, you're taking in 1600 a day, minus 1000 for workouts. Subtract another 500 or so (arbitrary) for waitressing, and you're giving your brain, internal organs, muscles, etc.... 100 calories to run on.

Shoot me a PM; i can send you an e-mail and give you some ideas. It sounds like it might be time to try things a little bit differently.

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

I know doing an hour of cardio seems drastic with only eating 1600 caleries per day, but I STILL can't drop any fat. I just wanted to do it for 3 weeks, then go back to just doing 20 minutes of high intensity running 3 times a week.

The only thing I can figure, is that my body is not working with me, but working against me. But it still dosn't make alot of sense.

So, I'm going to keep my low carb diet for a couple of months, I'm only on day 5 of the diet, and lower my cardio.

Belial----could you just post your ideas here? The PM's don't give you alot of space to write.

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

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[bridpop]

Jen, i think its obvious that your metabolism is running hyper effeciently after so much training, week on week - that it has more or less adapted to the strain you put on it, so much so that your fat loss rate is now a shadow of its former self.
From my experience, and im an endomorph like you, the way around it is to stop doing cardio for a week or two - just eat healthy and work out as normal, but stop busting your gut on the treadmill - give your body some time to adapt to NOT doing cardio, then shock it with cardio again.
I dont know if you use fat burners or not - but these are the key to getting lean. People like us were not made to be lean naturally and we need SOMETHING to get us into shape. I would recommend an off the shelf fat burner as an absolute minimum. And at the other end of the spectrum something like clenbuterol, T3 and Yohimbe.
Also, the body for life diet isnt a very fast way of losing fat - theres far too many carbs in this diet (I have Bill's book on my bookshelf - ive read it from cover to cover) - so i would experiment with low carb's or switching to only green vegetables for carbs.

Hope this helps,

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

bridpop---Yeah, i totally agree about needing to "shock" your body with cardio here and there. But thats why I was only adding more cardio for 3 weeks. Even my first week I didn't loose much. My second hardly anything, and this last week, well, its not over yet, but most likely nothing as well.

I started a lower carb diet last monday, so I'm on day 5 right now. Its NOT the adtkins diet---just lower carbs (around 90) and only carbs in the morning.

Plus, I have been using Phen-free for my fat burner. Maybe I need to try something stronger. But I think this diet might help out alot, hopefully---because before I was eating around 200 carbs---and I used fruit, wheat bread, bars that had too many sugars, ect. So I have cut all those out, which are not "bad" foods, but I think they were really hurting my fat loss. When I was just starting, they worked fine, but now that I'm getting leaner, I guess I have to be REALLY strict with my food. No more free days I will probably take 1 free day a month, or 1 free MEAL a week----crossing my fingers!!!! I will keep ya'll posted.

 

[flex4life]

agree w/ ya' on the bars & cheat day... made a BIG diff for me cutting out the bars (mystery calories from sugar alcohols)

& limiting cheat meal to once every 2 or 3 wks... (10 min of eating cheat food took 3 days to get back to looking 'lean')

good luck in the 'tweaking'!