Losing Weight than Gaining Muscle?!
Question: Losing Weight than Gaining Muscle?
I'm not exactly skinny even though my weight would suggest I am underweight. I have a lot of flabbiness in my chest/hips/butt and I would really like to slim down and be a skinnier person. For the past two years I have been drinking pop almost everyday, eating outside 5-6 times a week, and only exercise was playing tennis during the summer.
I am now dedicated to reaching 154 Pounds by May 1st and from then on I will hit them gym and life weights every other day while doing cardio on the other days
I started this plan this week and this is how it went down
Sunday -
No Lunch (Wasn't Hungry)
Chicken Noodle Soup for Dinner
500 Calories on Eliptical
Monday -
Chicken Noodle Soup for Lunch and half a cup of apple juice
4 Slices of Toast and Some Tortilla Chips for Dinner and a bowl of cookie crisp cereal
1000 Calories on Eliptical
Tuesday -
A little Bread for Lunch
Turkey Tom from Jimmy John's for dinner
1000 Calories on Eliptical
Wednesday -
Nothing for Lunch (Wasn't Hungry)
4 Slices of Bread and a few Tortilla Chips for Dinner and one bowl of cereal
1500 Calories on Eliptical
Thursday -
A little salad for lunch with light ranch and cheese
Three Homemade no Skin Chicken Legs, 3 Wheat Rolls, a little potato for Dinner
2000 Calories on Eliptical (3 hours on high intensity)
Friday -
Salad for Lunch and an apple
A 12" Turkey, Lettuce, and Cheese sub on Italian bread from Subway, and 3 Slices of Toast, a banana for Dinner
2000 Calories on Eliptical (3 hours on high intensity)
Saturday
Jimmy Johns Sandwich with only Turkey and Lettuce for lunch
two chicken legs, one wheat bread roll, a little potato, 2 slices of toast, one easy mac, 2 bowls of cookie crisp cereal, a banana
2000 Calories on Eliptical (3 Hours on high intensity)
Sunday
Two Wheat Rolls, Two Packets of Chicken Noodle Soup, One Bowl of Cookie Crisp Cereal
a banana
2000 Calories on Eliptical (3 hours on high intensity)
Monday
Two bowls of cookie crisp cereal
Two Pieces of home baked Chicken Breast
four slices of toast
Bowl of Chicken noodle soup
bowl of tortilla chips and salsa
cup of sugar free jello
a banana
2000 Calories on Eliptical (3 Hours of High Intensity)
2000 Calories is really wearing me out and doesn't give me much time to do stuff during the day, so I am going to start doing 1000 and add some more vegetables to my diet.
I am not starving myself, I am just eating whenever I am hungry.
At this pace if I cut down to about 1000 Calories on elliptical per day until May 1st will I lose about 20 Pounds? I would really like to look lean and from there I can build muscle.
Answers:
i have NEVER seen such a horrendous diet plan ,its loaded with junk carbs ,its so bad,im looking at it in disbelief -
ALL you need to do to burn fat and gain muscle is eat HIGH protein / fibrous complex carbs meals for 5 days then have a carb reloading session over every weekend (400 /500 grams of starchy complex carbs,oats in water WITH more protein) ,that's it,so chuck the bread,tortilla chips,cookie chip cereal,sugar free jello,wheat rolls,,apple juice,well basically everything and begin eating pure protein food,chicken,fish,egg whites,turkey WITH any green veg,mushrooms etc and lift hard /heavy 3 times a week (on the low carb days,30 grams per day max),the excessive cardio is not needed as your OWN body will be burning the stored fat from you as your glycogen is lowered,so just concentrate on the lifting and that will give you anabolism IF you carb up for the 2 days so you cut the fat for 5 days then the insulin response will pile on the muscle as you refill on good clean complex carbs, on Monday simply repeat the sequence...
Dude, that is a TERRIBLE diet. You do realize that when you fluctuate your net calories each day, your body doesn't properly adjust. So if you eat 1000 net calories (after subtracting what you burned off) one day and then 300 the next, your body will go into "store energy mode" and it will literally begin storing everything you eat as fat in order to keep itself from starving. If you want to lose weight you need to eat CONSISTENTLY at the same level of calories. At your age you still have high metabolism so I would eat around 1800 to 2000 calories NET a day. With the exercise you will cut down 20 lb. by May. But doing what you are doing goes against any rational dietary plan. You'll end up gaining back all that weight the moment you go back to a regular routine.