My Diet - My Weightloss not working together!

[phubaba]

Ok I am about 135 pounds and all i really wanna do is get away from 10% bf. I seemingly can't do it and there is no way I can do keto (at a boarding school). Recently my battle of loosing the fat is not happening because i am loosing will power to resist good food! This mainly spawns from the fact that I don't know if my diet is really working. I know I am light but i want to cut so i don't have these wierd ass neck lines that are really reallly pissing me off.

OK so i plan to cut through the summer and then bulk for 8 months and gain some weight =) !

Currently my diet is as follows

meal 1
2 cups of cheerios
.5 cup skim milk
3 egg whites

meal 2
1 tbsp of peanut butter

meal 3
1 tbsp of peanut butter

preworkout
2 tbsp of peanut butter
1 can of tuna

post workout
40 grams dextrose
1 scoop prolab whey

meal 4
1 can of tuna
a bit of carbs

meal 5
2 tbsp peanut butter

meal 6 (before i go to bed)
1 tbsp peanut butter


I know I am heavy on the natural peanut butter but it is good calories. (I think?)

Total: 1651
Fat: 66 593 36%
Sat: 13 120 7%
Poly: 17 152 9%
Mono: 29 263 16%
Carbs: 133 482 29%
Fiber: 13 0 0%
Protein: 147 586 35%

are my totals for the day... every like 6 days I carb up and eat like 600 more calories of cheerios.

Any suggestions as to why I am not loosing weight or what I should change...? I would be greatful for any help because this is just annoying me.

 

[jerkbox]

at 135 lbs you should be doing nothing but bulking.....and furthermore you are not eating nearly enough as it is even for a cutting diet.


I suggest you do some reading.

 

[HANSEL]

I agree with JB 100% however, not everyone wants to be big, maybe he just likes being thin, thats up to him.

I do think you could be eating more food with better variety and still lose BF by eating clean and working out a little.

 

[Vageta]

Peanut butter and tuna... *shudders*!

The one thing that stands out to me is too little protein and possibly too much fat. Not to say you should go low fat as I am a proponent of lots of good fat, but too much of anything can ruin a good thing.

My recommendation is to not eat peanut butter alone at any meal. Add a scoop of protein to each of those meals and then perhaps drop your peanut butter intake in those meals in half. So for instance...

meal 1
1/2 cup of oatmeal
1/2 cup of milk
3 egg whites + 1 whole egg

meal 2
1/2 tbsp of peanut butter
scoop protein powder

meal 3
1/2 tbsp of peanut butter
scoop of protein powder

preworkout
1 tbsp of peanut butter
1 can of tuna

post workout
40 grams dextrose
2 scoops prolab whey

meal 4
1 can of tuna
a bit of carbs

meal 5
1 tbsp peanut butter
scoop protein powder

meal 6 (before i go to bed)
1 tbsp peanut butter
scoop protein powder


That's just a quick recommendation but honestly I don't expect you to get that much protein powder. If at all possible try to get whole foods in at least half of those meals. A chicken breast and a scoop of peanut butter makes a good meal. Also for your final meal a nice 4-6oz steak is great. However being in a boarding school I really don't know what kind of access you have to whole foods like this. You certainly can use that much powder and get away with it especially since it's only for a short time, though it would get boring very quickly.

Also dump the cheerios they are really bad carb wise. If you must have cold cereal at least get some low GI kind like fiber one, all bran or the like and feel free to top it with some splenda. I'd recommend oatmeal if you can manage... all you need is a microwave and a tupperwear bowl and you're good to go.

And while peanut butter is "good" fat you can certainly get other types of fats. Olive oil on top of green beans or just in a shake is fine. Smart Balance brand butter or mayo are great as well since they are good fats. Put some smart balance mayo in your tuna in place of the PB or put the butter on some veggies as well.

Food choices are completely up to you but the bottom line is to not eat fat alone at any meal, you should add some sort of protein or just eat protein alone at that meal. Also if you love cheerios then have them after your workout as you could use the insulin spike that they provide.

 

[phubaba]

Believe it or not I was a good 123 pounds when I started bulking on Janurary first and I was a cross country runner before I hurt my back.

It took me a bit of trying on my first bulking cycle to learn what to do but i ended up gaining up to 140 pounds with little or no fat gain. However, I have these neck lines that drive me completely insane and cutting to get rid of them Is my top priority. Believe me once summer ends it is all out bulking for 8 months and hopefully i'll get up to 180 !!!! (i am optimisitic =)) To put it this way: I definitely don't want to be 135 pounds next summer and I will do whatever it takes for that not to happen!


Ok I have done reading but everyone that cuts is all liek 200 pounds and everyone has access to excess meat and something to cook with:::::: Does meat microwave well?????? I have read that it definitely is possible http://www.mycustompak.com/healthNotes/Food_Guide/Chicken.htm, but maybe I can buy some cold meat instead?

Everyone always says weight * 11 for total calories and thats painfully low... IS IT JUST IMPOSSIBLE to cut when I am so light?! on a healthy ideT?!!. My food variety isn't usually my choice because my school's cafeteria food isn't the best thats why I am limited to peanut butter and tuna. but the protein + fat suggestion is definitely something I didn't know and can use to my advantage by buying something other then just peanut butter. Also the ckd diet says to eat anywhere from 1400-1700 calories throughout the week and I figured any other diet would be around the same.

Vageta ThANKS a lot! that was a really helpful reply. The fat/protein things sounds very good and I didn't know cheerios were bad: I'll start up with the raisen bran.

Since I apparently don't know what I am doing (I guess info from forum.bodybuilding.com is bad) @! how many calories do you think I should aim for... I have read mr. x's diets and it seems like the protein carb switching one looks the most appealing to me (besides keto)


4 carb 4 protein fat 9

So for 4 days I would do 54 grams carbs 239.75 g protein and then like 20 g fat.

but that would be nearly 3316 calories so that seems not to be much of a cutting diet=) and, therefore, it probably isn't


So what do you guys suggest weight * 15 so Like 2000 ish calories?? I hear a lot of different things micronutrient wise I would just need to up the protein=)


sigh.. that was long but maybe someone can help:

thanks a lot,

Rob

oh ya I do workout. I follow the 5x5 program listed on this site. However, my cardio consists of DDr for about 30 minutes at night 4-5 times a week.. Its just like HITT I do a hard song on and easy song off min 30 on min 30 off.. My heartrate gets to about 180 on the hard songs.

 

[phubaba]

meal 1

1 cup raisin bran
.5 cup milk
3 eggwhites
1 full egg

meal 2

1 tbsp peanut butter
6 oz chicken breast

preworkout

2 tbsp peanut butter
tuna

postworkout

40 grams dextrose
2 scoops whey

meal 3

tuna can + some carbs

meal 4
1 tbsp peanut butter
6 oz chicken breast

Total: 2048
Fat: 57 516 26%
Sat: 12 111 5%
Poly: 14 124 6%
Mono: 22 200 10%
Carbs: 125 451 22%
Fiber: 12 0 0%
Protein: 264 1055 52%


DOES this look good, ALL i know Is that i'll get that meat if its the last thing on earth that I do! =) I significantly boosted the calories to a more reasonable level.

 

[ariolanine]

I'm assuming you are a teenager and unless you are really fucking fat, don't diet. Eat and lift. I know that's not what you want to hear, but that's reality. Restricting calories is bad for anyone that hasn't stopped growing.

 

[Senior Woonaki]

you dont want stunt growth. EAT CLEAN
oatmeal, yams
chicken turkey fish
flax oil and almonds...
veggies (non starch)

AVOID bread, pasta...

Keep the calories high but eat clean and train - you should get great results