Please Help a Beginner

[jiujitsumma]

I recently had to go on Paxil and gained about 30 pounds. I am about 5'6" 210 pounds and am in my mid-twenties. I do not look obese or anything I just have a pretty nice size gut, love handles and a slight double chin. I currently grapple about 3 times a week intensly and eat alot of poor foods (think greasy Chinese and Pizza all the time). I am planning a massive overhaul for a tourney including HIIT Sprint Intervals 3-4 times a week for Anaerobic capacity, 3-4 Muay Thai Pad Round 5 times a week, Grappling 5 times per week, 3 Days of a HIT style weight program and beginning a Cycl-Keto Diet.

My goals are to improve my strength and overall endurance for grappling and Mixed martial arts as well as getting a Men's Health Physique (for the ladies lol). I understand that this a big goal and will take time.

I am a total beginner in weight training so I hear I should make big gains to start and obviously would not be interested in Anabolics. However, I guess my question is how to approach losing weight on the Cyclo-Keto. Right now I would say I would be showing abs at about 155 or so. So that puts me about 55 pounds overweight. Should I begin without ECA supplementation or begin ECA right away? Would Clen be a faster way to get there without too much risk or side effects? Right now I am not sure how I feel about supplements or anabolic long term health implications. Please help guide me in the right direction.

Thank you,

jiujitsumma

 

[SofaGeorge]

Bro, don't even think about ECA... or any other diet aids. The first thing you need to learn to do is control your wanton carbs. I think you will find it much easier than you imagine. If you are eating really badly... a small amount of control is going to yield good gains (or losses in this case. )

Cut the carbs to a reasonable level and you should see a steady gradual improvement. There is no reason to try to do it overnight.

Other than that... sounds like you are doing a lot of good work.

 

[Cuthbert]

Hop over to the diet board, get a good eating plan. Diet is the most important thing for you right now, your grappling workouts alone will probably lean you out a good bit with a great diet.

That being said, grappling, along with consistency, a good diet, and good training will work wonders on your body.

Congrats on realizing you need to make a change...now DO IT.

Cuthbert

 

[jiujitsumma]

TTT. Please help a beginner out with any advice you may have.

Thanks,

jiujitsumma

 

[2Shy]

Ask your doctor to switch you to something else other than Paxil. There are lots of SRRIs that don't make you gain weight. I gained a lot of weight on Paxil but chalked it up to bad eating and a tendency to stress eat. Yeah, those both had a lot to do with it, but I have never gained as quickly as I did when on the Paxil.

I agree with everyone else: get your eating habits under control before you think about adding anything else.

 

[Lee]

its all about diet and cardio brother. check out the diet board and pick a diet for you, then bust ass! good luck man. we'll be here for ya if you have any questions.