Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: Amused
[QThat's a bit simplistic. Calories don't all turn into fat if not burned by activity. Your metabolic rate has a lot to do with determining this.
I was a bit chubby before I started working out and my diet was around 2000 calories a day. Now I have to fight to take in enough calories to maintain muscle growth. It's tough to do 4000+ calories a day of healthy food.
Simply eating smart will leave you satisfied, and cut the number of calories you take in. I could do 4000+ calories in one sitting if I drank soda and ate candy. As it stands, I struggle to get 4000 calories in 5 meals.
I stand by what I said. Going hungry is counter productive in the long run.
Lonyo is maintaining his present weight with little to no moderate physical activity and absolutely no intense physical activity. Simply increasing that with a 40 minute run 4 days a week will burn that fat right off. In fact, he'll probably have to increase his calorie intake to have enough energy to do it.
Putting him on a calorie restrictive diet AND running him four days a week will not only burn him out, it'll leave him with girly muscles.
If lonyo has no weight problem now the cardio you prescribe almost surely will cut him up decently.
You're lucky though going by those calorie amounts!
End of December I'd topped up to about 20% bodyfat. I've been working out for years so I have above average muscle though admittedly nothing special. Eating what I want I hit about 4000 calories a day and I was gaining weight from that at a steady, though not crazy, pace. Even lifting at a good speed if I take in more than 3000 calories/day I'll be putting on fat. Since the end of december I've gone down to about 1700 calories/day over 5 meals, each heavy on protein. Once or twice a week I ignore my diet and eat what I want (around 4000 as I said).
Weights 3 days out of every 5 and 30 min run every second day give or take. I've lost weight at a healthy clip and am now down by around 13 pounds. Although I could have lost more I've actually increased muscle strength at the same time . So I've been losing about a pound of fat a week and am nearly up to my previous peak (when I was 19) of muscle strength. I know that losing fat and gaining muscle at the exact same time is difficult to impossible, but my guess is that on the fat loss days I about break even on muscle and then on the "off" days it basically flies onto me from all the calories.
Additionally my weight loss has not slowed a bit. From week to week I'm still losing at the same original pace so I am quite sure I've not hindered my metabolism by a significant amount.
I know you say not to be hungry but I can eat bananas and chicken breast and basically the amount of food required to keep me sustained will make me gain weight, whether that food is chocholate or salads. I know that I could do 1-2 hours of cardio a day and keep things in check, but since I'm absolutely uninterested in that idea, the only thing that's ever worked for me is watching the net calorie intake. I keep the food quality high to get my required nutrients but otherwise have to watch the amount of food I eat.
