Help undo the Skinny Fat hell I'm in

[thatsright]

OP: You sound like someone with a decent frame who can probably handle 200lbs. I am of the belief that you need to be very active. Heavy weights is what you need to get back the muscle, no way around that. Don't starve your muscles or you will regret it.

Try to find a sport like Squash or pickup games of Soccer / Basketball for the cardio. Of course you need to eat right but don't get too preoccupied by it if you get real active.

Good luck.

This is all true! I've always been able to carry the weight and look 'fine' to everyone. But when your face puffs up and that killer jacket you loved to wear tells you your fat again. Well your a fat ass again.

I'm only about 10 days into this seriously. I'll drop cardio for now. Hopefully that eliminates me starving. Then I can also do more weights, which I really need to balance my body out. Im single and dating, so there are so many benefits to putting muscle back on-obviously.

I'd rather hike in the mountains for 6hrs than do 30 minutes of cardio in a gym. I'm serious.

I've only weighted myself about 3 times and the # is about the same. I'll have to do a better job of doing it every day for a bit so I can get an average weight per week to go on and know if I'm really loosing weight and its not just a body fluctuation. I've I go for two weeks or so and not dropping lbs, then I'll have to cut cals-no way around it.

 

[z1ggy]

Keep it up!!!

I wouldn't 100% discount cardio though. I respect davidpaul a lot for his accomplishments in fitness, but just because he says something, doesn't mean YOU need to follow it. Same goes for what anybody says for that matter. I've known plenty of "ripped" guys who do a decent amount of cardio, and then there's obviously ones who did a tiny bit, and then some who did none at all. I think he is right in that cardio can up your appetite... but... so what? It's called will power. Eat more filling foods that provide small amounts of calories (think salads with vinegar dressing... celery..) and just fight off that little birdie in your mind telling you to eat.

Anyway that's enough of me on the soap box for now. At the end of the day, you do what works for you.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Well it took a bit of time, but below is todays food log.

OT, but what site are you using for that food log? At the beginning of March I began keeping one in a simple text file (with the help of a spreadsheet) and have, much to my surprise, kept at it now for 19 days. I could use something that's a little less time consuming, though.

 

[Davidpaul007]

I'm a fan of myfitnesspal.com

 

[thatsright]

OT, but what site are you using for that food log? At the beginning of March I began keeping one in a simple text file (with the help of a spreadsheet) and have, much to my surprise, kept at it now for 19 days. I could use something that's a little less time consuming, though.

The site I use: http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/
Its great as it has almost never not found something. Whoa that was a triple negative run-on sentence!

 

[thatsright]

Update: since I took measurements on March 6, I have lost 1.5 inches off my waistline and about 0.5 inches off of my gut / beer belly. I'd say this is pretty dang good And very motivating.

I actually haven't been a hundred percent psycho strict about my diet. I'd say it's about 90 percent spot on with what I'm eating. But again I've never push myself to failure at the gym and now I'm taking a lot of supplements that really help. Ive dropped cardio completely. So fsr so good but it actually seems like on the scale I might have gained one or two pounds of muscle

 

[iyogaprops]

Try taking it slow for a while because you might stress out and exert yourself more and just gain the opposite results of what you want. Go running. Try something more relaxing like yoga or pilates. Or simply eat more healthy, organic food.

 

[Kaido]

Update: since I took measurements on March 6, I have lost 1.5 inches off my waistline and about 0.5 inches off of my gut / beer belly. I'd say this is pretty dang good And very motivating.

I actually haven't been a hundred percent psycho strict about my diet. I'd say it's about 90 percent spot on with what I'm eating. But again I've never push myself to failure at the gym and now I'm taking a lot of supplements that really help. Ive dropped cardio completely. So fsr so good but it actually seems like on the scale I might have gained one or two pounds of muscle

Awesome :thumbsup:

Keep it going! You only need to be 80% strict with your diet too, don't kill yourself. And even the people who compete are only 100% strict in the months before going on the stage. Gotta enjoy life too!