Please help me!

[Canyon Kitty]

Hello,
I am new to this site! I need some advice. Let me start out with my stats.
I am 5'11, pretty athletic build. (meaning, I ain't no petite thing!) right now I weigh 178! (GASP!!) The heaviest I ever weighed was 190!(even bigger GASP!) the least I ever weighed was about 145, when I was much younger, I am now 27 years old.
I want to get down to 150. That's my goal. I just did a huge change in my diet the last three weeks. I eat lots of protein, very few carbs and avoid sugar as much as I can and I eat every 2 to 3 hours. I just started riding my spin bike for an hour a day, and that's all the activity I get for now. I drink (try to anyway) a gallon of water a day, take 6 multivitamins a day, 2 hydroxycuts and just started on Monday taking cytomel. My husband is a body builder and has a lot of supplements. I brake the cytomel in half for now. I notice I sweat so much when I take it. I feel fine on it.
Anyway, I want to drop to 150. I am currently NOT weight lifting, just doing an hour of cardio a day, after dinner. I don't pork out on dinner because I know I have cardio to do. I work early in the morning till late at night, so it's really the only time I get to do cardio. If I wait to eat dinner after cardio I won't be eating till 9:00P.M., too late for me, then it's right off to bed on a full stomach, I hate that!

This is my diet so far... please feel free to pick it apart!!

morning: 1 cup of whole oatmeal with about 4 strawberries. 1 liter of water on the way to work. 2 multi's, 1 hydroxycut, 1 CLA.
Mid morning: 1/2 whole wheat pita with canned chicken mixed with sugar free italian dressing with some chopped celery. 1/2 cytomel.
Lunch: Chicken salad with salsa, or whatever was left over from dinner the night before. Today was chicken fajitas w/ 1 whole wheat tortilla and 1 cup of black beans. 1 Diet soda (only half)
snack: Handful of cheddar goldfish, or a slice of cheddar chesse or string cheese. Or a peice of fruit.
Dinner: Usually chicken or lean beef patty minus the bun. Salad with sugar free dressing with some pinto beans.
I drink tons of water throughout the day.

So, anyway, am I on the right track here?
Any advice would be GREAT!! THanks!!!

 

[valerie]

welcome to the womens board Canyon Kitty. you will find lots of good info.

first off I'd drop the cytmel. screwing with your thyroid leads to nasty rebounds. I'd sure not do that.

I would highly recc adding in weight lifting and drop so much cardio. The problem is that you have to do more and more to get any results and then pretty soon it has no result but to keep you fat. Muscle is the answer. Muscle will give you the shape you want AND allow you to eat more food. you really don't want to be just skin and bones do you?

Reality check here for your height 150 is too light. you won't be happy with how you look. also it will be increasingly difficult to maintain.

your diet doenst look to be high protein. Looks like you eat a lot of wheat for your complex carbs. How about adding sweet potatoes , brown rice, whole grains, etc. also no protein listed for breakfast?

I know the others will chime in here shortly-good luck-valerie

No shortage of excellent info on this site. There is a search function you may want to use. As it seems we get alot of these ?

 

[Canyon Kitty]

Cool, Thanks!
Protein for Breakfast? What could I eat? I cannot eat eggs, they KILL my stomach.
I have a few protein shakes available. would those be ok with oatmeal and fruit?
Kill the cytomel huh? Yeah, I really don't want any problems down the road, but I was told I should take it for no more than 6 weeks and taper off. I've taken it before and I got down to 160, but I stopped working out

 

[Daisy_Girl]

Hello,
I am new to this site! I need some advice. Let me start out with my stats.
I am 5'11, pretty athletic build. (meaning, I ain't no petite thing!) right now I weigh 178! (GASP!!) The heaviest I ever weighed was 190!(even bigger GASP!) the least I ever weighed was about 145, when I was much younger, I am now 27 years old.
I want to get down to 150. That's my goal. I just did a huge change in my diet the last three weeks. I eat lots of protein, very few carbs and avoid sugar as much as I can and I eat every 2 to 3 hours. I just started riding my spin bike for an hour a day, and that's all the activity I get for now. I drink (try to anyway) a gallon of water a day, take 6 multivitamins a day, 2 hydroxycuts and just started on Monday taking cytomel. My husband is a body builder and has a lot of supplements. I brake the cytomel in half for now. I notice I sweat so much when I take it. I feel fine on it.
Anyway, I want to drop to 150. I am currently NOT weight lifting, just doing an hour of cardio a day, after dinner. I don't pork out on dinner because I know I have cardio to do. I work early in the morning till late at night, so it's really the only time I get to do cardio. If I wait to eat dinner after cardio I won't be eating till 9:00P.M., too late for me, then it's right off to bed on a full stomach, I hate that!

This is my diet so far... please feel free to pick it apart!!

morning: 1 cup of whole oatmeal with about 4 strawberries. 1 liter of water on the way to work. 2 multi's, 1 hydroxycut, 1 CLA.
Mid morning: 1/2 whole wheat pita with canned chicken mixed with sugar free italian dressing with some chopped celery. 1/2 cytomel.
Lunch: Chicken salad with salsa, or whatever was left over from dinner the night before. Today was chicken fajitas w/ 1 whole wheat tortilla and 1 cup of black beans. 1 Diet soda (only half)
snack: Handful of cheddar goldfish, or a slice of cheddar chesse or string cheese. Or a peice of fruit.
Dinner: Usually chicken or lean beef patty minus the bun. Salad with sugar free dressing with some pinto beans.
I drink tons of water throughout the day.

So, anyway, am I on the right track here?
Any advice would be GREAT!! THanks!!!

I agree with valarie - drop so much cardio and add weight lifting in. When you say you do an hour of cardio everyday, is that 5 days? 7 days? You'll probably get better results doing cardio about 4 days a week and dropping the time to around 30 min or so BUT increasing the intensity a bit.

You can add weight lifting in to fill the extra time you gain by cutting down on cardio. You can lift 3x a week on a split that you like.

Protein in the morning? Hell, you can have a chicken breast, lean red meat, whatever. There is nothing that says you have to have eggs for breakfast! A protein shake would be good thought too.

Breakfast - add a protein
Mid Morning Snack - looks good
Lunch - looks good
Snack - Probably better off having another protein source here. The cheese is okay, although can be high in fat, and dairy isn't always recommended when dieting. But maybe add some raw beggies instead of fruit (high in sugar and you get some fruit in your oatmeal). Veggies like brocolli, celery, green beans.
Dinner - looks good

And no matter how you taper T3, no matter how long/short you are on it, it always has the potential to cause problems. Plus, it burns fat AND muscle. So you may be losing weight, but that weight may be muscle (especially if you aren't building any muscle with weight lifting). If you lose muscle, your metabolism drops and it becomes harder to lose weight since muscle burns MANY more calories than fat. Drop it. Stick to a clean diet, cardio, lifting and lotsa water and rest.

 

[NubianBeauty]

Welcome to Elite CK!! I'm with valerie on this one... drop the T3. It will only eat away at what muscle you do have... trust me on this one been there done that! There are many choices for protein for breakfast but adding a Protein shake there would be good (sometime I do) At 5'11 IMO @ 150 lbs you will look scrawny. Read this thread http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93209

Good luck!

 

[Canyon Kitty]

Great! Thanks so much! I will adjust my diet and start to add in weight training and a little less cardio (Now that I can handle!) Cardio, I usually do 3 days in a row, then rest a day, then back to it. We bought a spin bike to keep in our spare bedroom and I've just been hoping on that everynight after a light dinner and pedal away for an hour. So, a half hour to 45 minutes would be more beneficial if I up the intensity huh? and add in weights.
My husband USE TO train and it was fun and easy to go the gym with him to weight train. He fell off the wagon ever since we got married (8 months ago!) I am trying to get him back into it, but he is lacking some serious motivation right now! I remember when I first started weight training, how great it felt. ***sigh***
Well, I know I can get back in there and hopefully we can get back in there together!!!
He HATES cardio, I like it!! That was always a problem for us in the gym, after a hardcore weight session he was ready to go home and I wanted to do cardio... ha-ha!!

He got mad results from lifting and of course *cheating*, but he didn't get lean because he never did cardio!! uggghh!!!

 

[Canyon Kitty]

Oh yeah, I will drop the T3. I only started it on Monday, so I've taken half of a 50 for a total of three days.
Thanks again!!

 

[Daisy_Girl]

Sounds like a plan! I think once you get the workout (lifting and more intense cardio) and the diet (CLEAN!) down, you'll see the results you want. Good luck! And keep us posted!

 

[ArtsyChic]

Ditto on that 150 thing. Have your body fat checked...when I started dieting I was aiming for a nice round number...like 145. Ha. I found out my LEAN BODY MASS was 137 after a year of lifting. My goal weight is whatever I am at the high teens in body fat..which if my mizath is correct would 160 to 170. FWIW, I'm four inches SHORTER then you are.

I know the number on a scale is a pride issue for some women..but I take GREAT pride in being heavy and having a functional body. I simply like being big and strong and having bigger arms then my brothers. It's cool.

Alicia

 

[TEXgrl]

i agree with the girls here who said to add protein at breakfast. how are eggbeaters for you? sometimes i even have the canned chicken breast for breakfast, they make some with low sodium and its easy for folks on the go. i would drop the cardio to maybe 30 minutes and do weight training on alternate days.


oops! almost forgot about the weight thing, forget about the scale......muscle weighs more than fat, so you will kill yourself trying to get to your goal, and probably look like crap doing it, as well as feeling like crap. hell, ask spatts for her stats and take a look at her avatar! she is a living testimony to throw the scale away! before i saw her, i would agonize about my weight. now i could give two shits about my weight.