Spatts......

[spatts]

Where are the nutrients? Where are the veggies? You can't be watching carbs because there aren't any! lol You have to have carbs to burn fat. As far as I can tell, you're starving, and as long as you're starving you're going to be bone and fat.

Get some veggies...please. Green veggies won't make you fat, and you need the nutrients.

Eat more CLEAN carbs like oats or rice or sweet taters before your weights. This will make your time in the gym more productive, and that will help to raise your metabolism. Then, after your postworkout shake (hint hint), eat protein and fibrous carbs (veggies) the rest of the night. All the cabs you ate earlier get used up in training. Then, on days you don't lift weights, go ahead and no/very low carb if you want. It's like filling your car's tank with gas, but only enough to get where you're going. Make sense?

 

[Candy]

Oh my god are you serious? I know that veggies dont make you fat but I was just ..... um..... trying to cut out ALL my carbs....I ... thought that was good. heh. I figured low carb? Screw it I'll go no carb!

so maybe a more low fat mod carb thing.... clean carbs before I go to the gym? Post workout shake and around 1600 cal a day.

Maybe I'll do a little better now - was kinda low on engery towards the end of the week.......

 

[spatts]

If you hit about 1600 cals on training days and about 1300 on non training days, that would be a good place to start.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Wow, Candy, you are not doing a CKD. You need ALOT more raw green veggies, as spatts said. Also, where is your fat? You need to up to 1500-1600 cals, and increase your fat intake alot. In fact, you could add the 300-400 calories in the form of fat, and replace a couple hundred of your protien calories with fat. Cheese and olive oil are your friends. What does your refeed day look like?

 

[Citruscide]

If you hit about 1600 cals on training days and about 1300 on non training days, that would be a good place to start.

I agree with this.

Also, being bone and fat isn't too fun LOL -- not that I'd know... but that would suck.

As Spatts suggested, try to balance out your food better... from the looks of what you wrote down, it looked like alot of your meals are just protein.

You should also supplement with vitamins and minerals -- especially ALA and Vitamin C -- these will help quash free-radicals that occur from strenious training -- you dont' want to get sick, now do you?

C-ditty

 

[Candy]

My refeed day is pretzels, pasta, and oatmeal. sorry guys. I KNOW its my diet. I'm having a really hard time understanding what my body needs and why to get it to do what I want it to do. I promise - I'm not stupid. I'm just trying to figure out whats right for me. Its taking a long time.

 

[takniteasy]

Might I add that waiting too long between meals is not too good either. From 6:15 a.m to 10:00 a.m. - almost 4 hours may be a lil too long to refeed your body and keep metabolism up. Try to add another meal in there somewhere to lessen the time between meals. And to get those veggies in. Hope this helps!

 

[bignate73]

wow! thats the first thing i saw. if its supposed to be CKD, then the fat intake should be waaaay higher. that just looks like a strictly protein diet, which will be unhealthy as all get out. thats like saying to your car "you can have gas, but no oil or antifreeze" (so to speak)

 

[JJFigure]

Whenever I drop below 1500 kcals/day, I quit losing fat; my body just kind of shuts down on me. Once I increase my kcals back up, the fat loss starts again.

Spatts has given you good advice; I personally don't count the carbs or kcals of my fibrous vegetables; I found when I count them, I tend to cut them out. My body likes me much better when I keep them in. Besides, both the kcaloric and carb content of fibrous vegetables is so low, there's really no point in limiting yourself.

 

[Candy]

ha ! Thats funny (the whole car thing) I put gas in my car but rarely get oil changes or any maint. like that. I know that the fat is supposed to be high.... but its hard getting all that fat in ya know? So JJ - you dont count the carbs or cals from your fibrous veggies??? thanks for the advice!