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Sassy69
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star21 said:Okay well im sorry for saying your hawties look like men, but yeah im lookin at her stuff shes great didnt say anyone wasnt but i guess i wont ask for help from guys ... im guessing thats not the right thing to do
Hey girl - I know you did already post on the women's board -the thing is that you are asking to get the whole "fundamentals of diet & training" in one post. It takes more than that & most no one here wants to retype the entire history of it.
On the women's board there are two fantastic stickies that have links to probably every question you have. Most people are goign to refer you to those anyway -- there's some reading that is best done on your own because we get teh same questions every day here.
Couple things tho
-- every female has issues w/ bodyfat in those areas that where estrogen will tend to deposit more bodyfat than in others - we all deal w/ it, its not jut you. You can't spot reduce, so all you can do is keep plugging away at the diet & training and those tough spots eventually come down. Trust me - I battle that stuff all the time for competition -- I"m not a career competitor so every time I get back into comp, I have to deal w/it again. I'm also in my 40s and my bodytype builds muscle easily but also gains fat easily.
- Unless you are using steroids, your body doesnt' produce enough natural testosterone to make you look like a man. So anyone who tells you that you shouldn't lift heavy or whatever because you'll look like a man needs to go away & die. They are full of shit and don't know what they are talkign about. I"ve been lifting since 1981, I don't look like a guy. But what many women don't understand is that how they look depends on two things - bodyfat AND muscle mass. If you have no muscle mass, then you are skinny fat. If you have some bodyfat but also some muscle - the whole thing looks better.
But these are probably the two bigget issues that women have that 1) make them feel like they are "fatter" than they are, that keep them from getting sufficient muscle building exercise and make them feel more helpless than they need to.
You'll find some excellent sample meal plans in the "TOP THREADS" sticky on the women's board to also help you get an idea of a good balanced diet.
Also Daisy_Girl has a fantastic transformation thread on that sticky that lists her diet that she used. Your diet is very close - but I think if you don't have enough carbs or the cals are too low, you will see some weight loss but its goign to stall out because your body isn't getting enough to run on from that diet and then it will slow down its burn rate to match the fuel it is perceiving that it gets to run on. I.e. if its not enough, it thinks its in a partial drought and as a survival mechanism, it willl slow down the rate it burns fuel (your food, bodyfat etc.) to preserve the fuel it does have available (your bodyfat). This leads to the final myth of dieting - You have to EAT to drop bodyfat!
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