Thread: Can someone help me get ripped please....

Personally when I cut, I have carbs only during breakfast. Let me tell you whole wheat is for wiping your butt with, I still get fat eating whole wheat bread. Ground up grains are still going to have a crappy GI index, unfortunately.

Apperantly there are some 3g carb tortillas, it was a very recent post so that should be easy to find, search under recent posts by aggies1ut.

Dont worry about getting ripped, I would shoot for just being normal first. While your carb intake may be low to you now, I have never in my life been near 40% bodyfat and still you are eating WAY more carbs than I would use to cut, FWIW on a bulk I am 300-400 carbs a day eating like a complete pig. On my cut, 27-54g carbs approximately for the ENTIRE day, and thats oatmeal.

If using oatmeal and you absolutely "need" something sweet, try honey instead of a traditional sugar. I avoid milk/bread at all costs on a cut, PERIOD, no whole wheat toilet paper either.

Mudge thanks for your advice. I always heard about lowering your carbs when cutting. In this forum i have been told plenty of times to not do this and to eat carbs in all my six meals. Now that you mention 27-54 gr of carbs per day, how do you come up with this number? where do you get 27-54?

***who ever is reading this post feel free to give your advice on the carbs issue.

I eat carbs in all of my meals except when I am really into my diet (about 4-6 weeks in or so) then I eat carbs at breakfast and pre and post workout only. You defenitly don't want to drop the carbs to soon for a variety of reasons, (1) you need fuel to work out hard and you need to spare as much protein as possible for muscle building and (2) you need to leave yourself somewhere to go, ie something to adjust to otherwise you will back yourself in a corner and you will no longer be making progress.

I agree with mudge on the wheat bread (it is just white bread colored brown). try to shoot for some sweetpotatos, oatmeal or an apple instead and don't skimp on the green veggies.

Everyone is different with carbs, but for me I have to practically pretend they dont exist and just dont touch them.

27-54 comes from 1 serving of oatmeal (1/2 cup = 27g), old fashioned oats not quick oats (GI index is not the same).

If you are looking for a slower, not absolutely keto diet then small amounts of carbs in the first 4 meals or so may very well work for you. When I want faster results though its pretty much breakfast and maybe pre workout that I have carbs, no other times during the day.

Green apples are supposed to be pretty good for a fruit (and better than red).

definetly drop the tortillas for a slow burning carb..oatmeal, yams, brown rice

well, p-funk i have been on a diet for a couple of weeks and my carbs are down to 100 grams per day, i did increase protein to compensate calories. So knowing this what will be you advice since i am at 100 grams of carbs lower to 54 grams like Mudge has said? i do want fast and good results, so please advice me well on this.

Diet is unfortunately individual. Some people stick to say 75g specifically and no more, that would basically be 3 servings of non-flavored oatmeal per day, just as an example.

100g is not much, it may work perfectly for you. Are you losing bodyfat like you want? Are you keeping most of your muscle or is that even a concern for you?

You have to guage your own progress and tweak the diet to your needs.

like Mudge said, diet is an extremly personal thing. I personally would not go donw to 100g of carbs until the end of my diet, that is just to low for me and I end up looking flat and un-muscular. Fast results are not something that you want when you are dieting. If you are losing weight to fast chances are you are losing muscle which will shoot you in the foot in the long run and screw up your metabolism. Trust me, when dieting, slow and steady wins the race.

so based on both your advie p-funk and mudge, what is the average or what is the normal amount of carb someone should eat, how do you get that number? I have tried at 100 gr per day of carbs and i loose weight but not as fast.

Normal is probably 200-500g carbs a day, but you dont want normal I assume. If you want a cutting diet, you are looking at I'd say 100g or less.

If you tried CKD you would be 20-30ish for the entire day, with a refeed I believe once a week. Without even knowing it this was basically what I was doing, I would have pizza once a week.

I find the best way to obtain a starting point with a diet is to simply write down your actual diet before you start, what do you eat. Do that for 3 days or so without cheating yourself, and find where to start. Since it is a bit late for that now, just keep tayloring what you are doing now.

say what about a person with hectic training schedule 18 hours a week of training(12 hour enudrance training/6 hour sprinting + weightlifting). And he wants to lose fat, and he's 175lbs and a teenager, how much does will he need to lose fat?

The best way to start out is write down your current diet, I dont see this opinion ever changing. How else will you know where and how much to cut?

Duchaine recommends doing this for 3 days, count EVERYTHING. Examples of things people forget are, creme in coffee, 3am snack - and the like. Count it all, dont cheat.