Low fat and low cals

[Millie]

Well, with this workout routine you have and your diet, don't expect much to happen.

You have too much processed food in there, you need to clean up your diet, regardless of how much you want to lose.
And you need to change that workout, doing only biceps, triceps, back and abs is not enough.
Are you in high-school?

 

[JBoxHero]

what processed food do you mean? i know cereal is almost always crappy but its pretty much just a protein and fiber tpye, other then that i dont know what food you mean.

and yeah all i have right now to workout with is some dumbells, and a bench with an attached preacher curl, so i cant do squats or anything, and i dont have a rest to hold the weight so i cant do bench press (i really need to get one somehow), but i do like 5 sets of pushups for triceps which gets chest kinda.

how should i chagne my diet?

 

[ProtienFiend]

your best bet would be to peruse the forums for a bit and gather some dieting knowledge to arm yourself with... come up with a simple routing (pullups, situps, pushups, iso-squats, etc..) and a good diet.

did you ever think of getting a gym membership?

 

[Millie]

processed food in what you have listed:
- cereal
- bread
- burritto
- fast food

If you want results, you have to eliminate these from your diet.
If you keep them and just lower your cals, all that will happen is that you will most likely lose a quite a bit of muscle.

 

[JBoxHero]

wait why would eating stuff like whole wheat bread make me lose muscle?

i thought about going to a gym but the price wasnt really worth it, and i might start working out at my friends home gym anyways

millie can you tell me what exactly is wrong with those things? i know when they process stuff they do some bad stuff to it,but i didnt know it was that bad, what exactly DO they do?

 

[Millie]

no, no, whole wheat bread per se is not going to make you lose muscle.
when losing weight in general, your body breaks down both muscle and fat for energy. thus the idea is to try to maintain as much muscle mass as possible and primarily lose the fat. eating clean foods is a good way to achive this goal.

as far as processed food, Daisy_girl gave a very good explanation in another thread recently:
"Processed foods are NOT a good idea for pre-training....processed foods usually contain chemicals and/or ingredients that our body cannot use appropriately. This means that they will not be effective in giving your body energy to train.

Clean foods are easier for your body to use, therefore will be more effective as pre-workout foods.

No matter WHAT your goals, cleaner foods are better than processed...no ifs ands or buts about it. Stick with rice, potatoes, oatmeal, cream of wheat for carbs."

 

[bran987]

millie.. out of curiousity.. what's processed about a chicken burrito (besides the flour tortilla?)

 

[ProtienFiend]

millie.. out of curiousity.. what's processed about a chicken burrito (besides the flour tortilla?)

not much...

but the flour tortilla is bad enough!

 

[Millie]

bran, are you talking about a home-made one or a frozen one from the store?

for home-made, you can make it pretty healthy, depending on what you add to it.

for the freezer ones, pretty much everything about them is processed. they have to last a longer time, so they are loaded with chemicals to keep them fresher.

 

[bran987]

well I meant for instance there is this place here called Chipotle

the flour tortillas they make the burrito in are well.. flour tortillas.

but they stuff them with black beans, different kinds of rice, grilled veggies, chicken, fresh salsa, fresh guacamole and stuff like that