I'm on a diet and I'm training 3 days a week, but still not losing weight!

[Cancerman]

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Also, if you wanna lose fat, you NEED to do at least 20 minutes of cardio 4 days a week.
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I do cardio 3 days a week at the moment but can easily kick it up to 4 or even 6!

 

[Cancerman]

Okay so today when I woke up at around 11,15 AM i drank a BCAA drink and after that I had 2 boiled eggs (including the yolk) and a oat meal together with a small piece of lettuce 3 slices of cucumber and 3 slices of tomato. I had water to drink.

Then I did cardio for about 10 minutes.

Around 4 PM I drank a vitamin drink.

Around 4,20 PM I did cardio for about 15 more minutes.

Around 4,50 I had a drink of water.

Around 5,20 PM I had dinner. 1 big steak together with steamed rice and a small piece of lettuce 6 slices of cucumber and 6 slices of tomato. I had water to drink.

That's it!

So what should you recommend me to eat next? Some fruit? Orange, grapes, apple, pear, water melon or maybe pineapple?



Thanks!

Cancerman

 

[silverskyline]

Okay so today when I woke up at around 11,15 AM i drank a BCAA drink and after that I had 2 boiled eggs (including the yolk) and a oat meal together with a small piece of lettuce 3 slices of cucumber and 3 slices of tomato. I had water to drink.

Then I did cardio for about 10 minutes.

Around 4 PM I drank a vitamin drink.

Around 4,20 PM I did cardio for about 15 more minutes.

Around 4,50 I had a drink of water.

Around 5,20 PM I had dinner. 1 big steak together with steamed rice and a small piece of lettuce 6 slices of cucumber and 6 slices of tomato. I had water to drink.

That's it!

So what should you recommend me to eat next? Some fruit? Orange, grapes, apple, pear, water melon or maybe pineapple?



Thanks!

Cancerman

Grapes are excelent for vit A and C but prolly most importantly B6, Oranges are good for the vit C, apples are good for the fructose. Banannas are grat for the potassium but whats more for the body builder, glutamine.

I'm taking it you are not lifting weights today? If you plan do never forget your PWO.

A ten min cardio is a great warm up but that is when your body really starts utalizing expendature. However if thats all you can do or have time for either way it's kcals out.

Your morning meal is shaping up to be much better! and remember to seperate the BCAA's drink from your PWO shake (even though you havnt had that yet)

Bro I'm certafied in nutrition - keep it to one egg yolk. Infact I worked for the Mayo Clinic and a relative study was done... by Dr. Gerald Gau...

"American Heart Association recently acknowledged that as long as you limit dietary cholesterol from other sources, it may be possible to include 1 daily egg in a healthy diet — a statement that was heavily reported in the media.

Here are the facts: One large egg has about 213 milligrams (mg) of cholesterol — all of which is found in the yolk. If you are healthy, it's recommended that you limit your dietary cholesterol intake to less than 300 mg a day. If you have cardiovascular disease, diabetes or high LDL (or "bad") cholesterol, you should limit your dietary cholesterol intake to less than 200 mg a day. Therefore, if you eat an egg on a given day, it's important to limit or avoid other sources of cholesterol for the rest of that day."

Bro one egg yolk has 100 percent of your daily cholestrol good or bad or should I say HDL or LDL.

You do what you want but those are the facts.

Done

 

[st8grad]

Great post...except I disagree about not eating egg yolk. The cholesterol in the yolk is GOOD cholesterol. If you wanna eat whole eggs, go ahead, it's only going to be good for you. There aren't any downsides in eating 2-3 eggs a day - only benefits.

*****
Also, if you wanna lose fat, you NEED to do at least 20 minutes of cardio 4 days a week.
*****

I agree that people are afraid of eggs for no good reason. God made them whole for a reason. You will actually have higher HDL and lower LDL eating eggs everyday as long as you diet is in check. Stop the fat is bad mentality.

 

[st8grad]

Regardless of the egg debate, if you taking in less calories than you burn you HAVE to lose weight. You are no different than any other person in this world. You don't have a slow metabolism, you don't have crappy genetics, and there isn't one magical piece of food that you need to be eating to make this work.

Write everything down that you plan to eat in a day. Add up the calories and macronutrients. For the most part you need to pay attention to total calories and make sure you aren't completely cutting out a macronutrient group.

While it is true that 3500 calorie deficit should produce a 1lb per week loss of fat/weight, that doesn't mean you should only go 500 cals per day below maintenance. But you also need to make sure that you aren't below 1200 cals a day and putting your body into starvation mode.

Right it down and for practical purposes try to aim for something easy like 40/30/30 of carbs/protein/fat. AFTER you get a handle on that and start losing weight, you can make modifications to ensure continued loss and muscle maintenance.

 

[silverskyline]

Regardless of the egg debate, if you taking in less calories than you burn you HAVE to lose weight. You are no different than any other person in this world. You don't have a slow metabolism, you don't have crappy genetics, and there isn't one magical piece of food that you need to be eating to make this work.

Write everything down that you plan to eat in a day. Add up the calories and macronutrients. For the most part you need to pay attention to total calories and make sure you aren't completely cutting out a macronutrient group.

While it is true that 3500 calorie deficit should produce a 1lb per week loss of fat/weight, that doesn't mean you should only go 500 cals per day below maintenance. But you also need to make sure that you aren't below 1200 cals a day and putting your body into starvation mode.

Right it down and for practical purposes try to aim for something easy like 40/30/30 of carbs/protein/fat. AFTER you get a handle on that and start losing weight, you can make modifications to ensure continued loss and muscle maintenance.

Perfect ^^^ Thats all there is to it. We are not prisoners of our genes and the number one rule they teach you in any personal training or nutritional certificaion course is kcals in kcals out.

Eat all the Eggs/birds you want Beak and all

 

[nimbus]

I agree that people are afraid of eggs for no good reason. God made them whole for a reason.

uhhhh yeaa, so that a chicken can hatch. rofl

 

[monsterbodybuilder]

I might suggest that if you aren't losing the weight you want to or seeing the results that you want, you might want to look into some supplements to help you out. Now granted, like silverskyline said, you want to measure your bodyfat more than your actual weight. But if you still arent satisfied with the results, I can personally say that a product like hydroxycut by muscle tech or xellex by tripharma. You would be surprised the deals that you can get on these products, which are safe, and will help you immensely in reaching your goals.
Hope this helps.

 

[DJLegacy2k1]

^^^I would NOT tell him to take "fat burners" till he get his diet and training in check...They are an aid, not a FIX IT. He needs everything else in line or he will be wasting his money.

-Legacy

 

[poysyn]

Great post...except I disagree about not eating egg yolk. The cholesterol in the yolk is GOOD cholesterol. If you wanna eat whole eggs, go ahead, it's only going to be good for you. There aren't any downsides in eating 2-3 eggs a day - only benefits.

*****
Also, if you wanna lose fat, you NEED to do at least 20 minutes of cardio 4 days a week.
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That is definitely not true..you can easily burn fat without much cardio, but it helps. The main thing to be concerned with here, in my opinion, is to lift heavy and attempt to keep increasing while eating a clean, healthy diet that is sufficient enough in calories to maintain steady, healthy weight loss. eat clean, lift hard, try HIIT 2-3x a week