Thread: Question About Body Weight

Keep in mind that weight can fluctuate drastically from one time of day to another. It could be that you had extra water retention at that time. I personally feel that the scale is not something you should worry about, at this point anyway. Let it be based on how you feel/look, if clothes start to get a little loose you know you are accomplishing something.

Careful with the wheat bread, it can be misleading and not as healthy as it appears. I prefer the La tortilla factory low carb wraps....yes the fat is 3.5 for the big ones but the fiber and protein can't be beat (they are good fats anyway).

How many calories are you taking in a day? If you are packing a lunch for work why not just make yourself two chicken breasts the night before and bring them with you? Or make your lunch but break it up into three bits....if it is a tuna sandwich make three smaller sandwiches, bring some veggies (those can be bought bagged from any store), and maybe and apple or berries. Lean beef jerky (or lean turkey jerky) is easy to carry, have that with some sort of carb like a ryolta crisp bread and veggies/fruit. Consider taking fish oil caps or flaxseed oil.

Coffee has gotten a bad wrap but it can be beneficial in workouts, the caffeine helps to block pain so you can lift bigger. Personally I would reccommend green tea, it has less caffeine but boosts your metabolism!

Definetly ditch the beer.

What is the purpose of taking the flaxseed oil caplets? Excuse my ignorance here.

Tortilla wraps would be fine with me, never thought of that. So what your saying then is just instead of packing myself one lunch, maybe make a few smaller lunches.

Typicall this is my day.
Breakfast 7am
Lunch Noon
Dinner 8-10pm (depends on the day)

If I had something smaller at 4-5pm I think Iw ould hav emore energy for my workouts and also not eat as much at my final meal. I typically work 8am-7-8pm M-F. What would you reccomend for times of the day to eat.

Thanks very much for your advice.

I suggest you read the sticky 'Guide to...' . This contains excellent info in getting your diet fixed, which is the biggest factor in changing your body. Compare your present diet with the recommendations and see how it stacks up. Once you sort out a diet to suit you, post it meal by meal with cals and macros for a critique.

Some pointers. Keep your cals and macros in a similar range. e.g. Dont have 800 cals in one meal and 200 in another. First figure out how much protein you need. then work out fats under 30% and the rest are carbs. Divide the total by 6, so that gives you the approx cals per meal that you should work at. Take your pwo shake (no fats in your pwo shake) into this count as well. Keep your first meal a bit higher in carbs compared to the rest and the last bedtime meal consisting of a slow digesting protein like Cottage Cheese and fats (e.g. walnuts are a great source of EFA's).

p.s. Flax oil is an EFA. The sitcky has it explained very well

what did you do to gain 60 lbs of fat in 5 years ? did you completely stop exercising ?

ive gained 50 lbs before in 5 months. Was injured and had extreme depression. Ate and Ate and layed around. Those were dark days for sure.