NEW YEARS RESOLUTION WEIGHT LOSS THREAD 2012

[Speedy1975]

Oh, and just for you BB, Speedy is officially ready for the TX Mile in October LMAO

[bossbunny]

Originally Posted by Speedy1975

Oh, and just for you BB, Speedy is officially ready for the TX Mile in October LMAO

HAHAHA. I like the hat!! I'm very excited for the TX Mile. It will be fun! And holy crap your arms are huge.

[Speedy1975]

Haha, thanks. It's on a bright white concrete air strip and the sun is just BRUTAL so I needed something. Tired of getting scorched every time I go, and figured I might as well get a cowboy hat as it is TX after all.

[bossbunny]

Originally Posted by Speedy1975

Haha, thanks. It's on a bright white concrete air strip and the sun is just BRUTAL so I needed something. Tired of getting scorched every time I go, and figured I might as well get a cowboy hat as it is TX after all.

I feel ya! The sun is brutal here. During the summer I live with sunscreen being that I'm pale. Other wise I'd probably have cancer by now.

[CFD]

200 jump rope singles

Jump roping is an exhaussting cardio workout. Because of issues with my foot I haven't been doing it but when I did 10 min and I was wiped out.

Today was my somewhat annual physical, I will be getting the results on my bloodwork in a few days but everything else is looking great. My doctor did comment on me putting on a bit of weight but I'm at the end of a bulking cycle, 185lbs compared to my last physical when I was 175. but now that his comment kind of pissed me off LOL I'm going to cut a bit more than usual and take it to the single digit body fat percentage, most likely I'll need to cut to 170 to achieve it.

[camaroitalia]

Originally Posted by CFD

200 jump rope singles

Jump roping is an exhaussting cardio workout. Because of issues with my foot I haven't been doing it but when I did 10 min and I was wiped out.

Today was my somewhat annual physical, I will be getting the results on my bloodwork in a few days but everything else is looking great. My doctor did comment on me putting on a bit of weight but I'm at the end of a bulking cycle, 185lbs compared to my last physical when I was 175. but now that his comment kind of pissed me off LOL I'm going to cut a bit more than usual and take it to the single digit body fat percentage, most likely I'll need to cut to 170 to achieve it.

Do you usually cut, bulk, cut, bulk, etc. to reach the body you want muscular wise? I read about some people on body building.com doing that

my meals/workouts today:
9:30am 1 mile walk on empty stomach

10:30am Boiled Egg Whites

11:15am 1 mile HIT on treadmill

12:00pm Grilled Chicken and salad mix

1:30pm 3 mile walk

3:00pm Apple with cinnamon

3:45pm Weights

5:10pm Protein Shake

5:15pm 1 mile walk

5:40pm Grilled Chicken with mustard wrapped in Pumpernickel

Rest of the night: Will end up walking another 2 miles

[CFD]

Originally Posted by camaroitalia

Do you usually cut, bulk, cut, bulk, etc. to reach the body you want muscular wise? I read about some people on body building.com doing that

my meals/workouts today:
9:30am 1 mile walk on empty stomach

10:30am Boiled Egg Whites

11:15am 1 mile HIT on treadmill

12:00pm Grilled Chicken and salad mix

1:30pm 3 mile walk

3:00pm Apple with cinnamon

3:45pm Weights

5:10pm Protein Shake

5:15pm 1 mile walk

5:40pm Grilled Chicken with mustard wrapped in Pumpernickel

Rest of the night: Will end up walking another 2 miles

Your diet is looking pretty good. It might be adventageous to add a small amount of carbs with your boiled eggs early in the day. Eating carbs early will give you needed energy and will help with utilizing the protein intake. Oatmeal is an excellent fat burning enrgy source.

Cinimon is also excellent for fat loss. It has powerful antioxidens and steadies/slows insulin spikes.

I do usually cut and bulk in cycles. Unfortunately, in order to buld muscle you need a caloric surpplus but along with it usually comes fat retention. By cutting and bulking the idea is to bulk for muscle gain and then to cut for fat loss while trying to retain the muscle you've gained but again cutting usually results in some muscle loss so diet is very important so that you avoid extreme fat gain and muscle loss. During bulking cycles usually I increase certain carbs for energy and productive lifts and maintain high levels of protein intake, during cutting cycles protein intake is always maintained to avoid muscle loss but carbs are somewhat restricted. Also unfortunate at my age fat retention is much easier than muscle gainning.

[CFD]

I ran out of SSin Juice and decided to try 1MR. For those that use a stimulant type pre workout drink this stuff is intense. No jitters or crash but holy crap, perhaps I will use 1/2 scoop LOl.

[kalimus]

Originally Posted by camaroitalia

Do you usually cut, bulk, cut, bulk, etc. to reach the body you want muscular wise? I read about some people on body building.com doing that

my meals/workouts today:
9:30am 1 mile walk on empty stomach

10:30am Boiled Egg Whites

11:15am 1 mile HIT on treadmill

12:00pm Grilled Chicken and salad mix

1:30pm 3 mile walk

3:00pm Apple with cinnamon

3:45pm Weights

5:10pm Protein Shake

5:15pm 1 mile walk

5:40pm Grilled Chicken with mustard wrapped in Pumpernickel

Rest of the night: Will end up walking another 2 miles

Holy crap! I read this, and read what CFD said... man you need some carbs in a bad way lol. I hope you don't eat that few carbs every day. I cant' imagine you're getting more than 50 grams of carb in there. I would definitely add oats to your breakfast (I eat them every single day with breakfast), and maybe something extra with your salad. And you're exercising at least twice a day... your body is going to get pissed off quickly! Other than that though... it looks pretty good. Are you counting your daily calories? Weighing them, measuring them? You should know within about 100 calories how much all that is. Getting that diet right takes a long time. When I first started, it was probably months before I was really efficient at it. I was always undercutting my calories, or not eating enough carbs, or not eating enough fat. You'll be a pro at this in no time with all this help though!

[camaroitalia]

Originally Posted by kalimus

Holy crap! I read this, and read what CFD said... man you need some carbs in a bad way lol. I hope you don't eat that few carbs every day. I cant' imagine you're getting more than 50 grams of carb in there. I would definitely add oats to your breakfast (I eat them every single day with breakfast), and maybe something extra with your salad. And you're exercising at least twice a day... your body is going to get pissed off quickly! Other than that though... it looks pretty good. Are you counting your daily calories? Weighing them, measuring them? You should know within about 100 calories how much all that is. Getting that diet right takes a long time. When I first started, it was probably months before I was really efficient at it. I was always undercutting my calories, or not eating enough carbs, or not eating enough fat. You'll be a pro at this in no time with all this help though!

Yupp I weigh everything out for my meats into 4oz servings, weigh out my sweet potatos and w.e else I can lol. Use mainly a measuring cup for the rest and do count everything. I log what I eat everyday so if I cannot figure out what I want to eat for the day I can go back and have everything listed

With the carbs I do usually eat a lot of oatmeal. Such as tomorrow morning will be oatmeal for breakfast and lunch will be grilled chicken with brown rice!

[CFD]

Originally Posted by camaroitalia

Yupp I weigh everything out for my meats into 4oz servings, weigh out my sweet potatos and w.e else I can lol. Use mainly a measuring cup for the rest and do count everything. I log what I eat everyday so if I cannot figure out what I want to eat for the day I can go back and have everything listed

With the carbs I do usually eat a lot of oatmeal. Such as tomorrow morning will be oatmeal for breakfast and lunch will be grilled chicken with brown rice!

That sounds better. At first I thought you were restricting carbs daily, As long as you don't restrict them too much and never more than a few days in a row you will be ok.

[camaroitalia]

Originally Posted by CFD

That sounds better. At first I thought you were restricting carbs daily, As long as you don't restrict them too much and never more than a few days in a row you will be ok.

Yeah I guess today was a low carb day lol honestly I do not look at the carbs to much, but my body feels perfectly fine and I have the energy for all of my workouts. But I do try to stay away from the high carb foods everyday because they are typically higher in calories...

But was the apple with cinnamon a good pre workout choice? I remember hearing banana was good because of the sugar spike and carbs but I honestly prefer the apple slices, they still have sugar and carbs and they are less calorie.

I have been taking pre cut apple slices, tearing them in half and putting them in a baggy. Then mixing in cinnamon and shake it all up. It is really good!

Also last night I grilled a bunch of chicken and pre packaged them into 4oz servings for my meals to heat up through out the day/week.

[CFD]

Originally Posted by camaroitalia

Yeah I guess today was a low carb day lol honestly I do not look at the carbs to much, but my body feels perfectly fine and I have the energy for all of my workouts. But I do try to stay away from the high carb foods everyday because they are typically higher in calories...

But was the apple with cinnamon a good pre workout choice? I remember hearing banana was good because of the sugar spike and carbs but I honestly prefer the apple slices, they still have sugar and carbs and they are less calorie.

I have been taking pre cut apple slices, tearing them in half and putting them in a baggy. Then mixing in cinnamon and shake it all up. It is really good!

Also last night I grilled a bunch of chicken and pre packaged them into 4oz servings for my meals to heat up through out the day/week.

If it's pre workout you should be eating/drinking protein and high GI carbs. The cinnamon should not be used as should not fats. The cinnamon slows the isnsulin spike which is great but pre workout is when the insulin spike along with protein intake is useful.

[camaroitalia]

Originally Posted by CFD

If it's pre workout you should be eating/drinking protein and high GI carbs. The cinnamon should not be used as should not fats. The cinnamon slows the isnsulin spike which is great but pre workout is when the insulin spike along with protein intake is useful.

ohh ok! thanks! how useful is doing half a scoop before and half after?