lost 10 pounds in 5 weeks.

I think I'll stop cutting now.

 

heres my diet:

eat whatever the hell i want
drink however much i feel like
ride at least 100 miles a week.


using that last year i went from 235 to 175 in 6 months or so. thanks to ****ty weather, tg, and xmas i floated back up to 190. at 182 currently.

 

Theories about abs will always vary, that's just the nature, like what to eat afterwards, etc. Research is still being done. You can get by doing it 3x a week only. But I guess it wouldn't hurt to do it every day. I noticed the easiest way to keep in tact with nutrition is YOU MUST PLAN THE DAY AHEAD (make the food, pack the food). If you rely on the *wake up, hmm what is there to eat* you won't make it. Gotta plan the day ahead, make it the night before (tedious work, but it has helped my diet tremendously)

Cardio is good, but building muscle + cardio is better. You can run 5 miles a day, but your body will get used to it and that too does a plateau effect. (ex. 1 month I ran 3 miles a day, I burn 500calories a day, 2nd month I run 3 miles a day, I burn only 300 calories cuz your body adapts and tries the least amount of work to do what your body is doing) The reason why p90x works is because it's built around muscle confusion. 12 weeks you'll be confusing your muscles so bad (yes, doing a bunch of new lifts, so you probably won't be lifting mad weight, but you will still see results) that they will have to adapt and grow.

 

I enjoy the pump phase 2 does to your biceps! The first week was insane, but the 2nd week gets a bit better, the muscles do stay on longer and you gain a lot =). I can barely hold my arms extended for 3 days because of the pump/tightening/rebuilding.

 

first day is the worst, it usually lasts me a good week for the first workout back from a break.

 

all good word of advice iLoqin, I always watch those p90x and I am glad they work as good as they claim. Maybe ill give it a go this summer.
Its just so hard to not do a default workout when your exhausted after work, almost as hard as that first week you make yourself go to the gym

 

Can someone answer how to cook some healthy carb foods? Stuff like Potato's (maybe just bake 'em? Cut 'em up and put 'em in water?) Just tryin' to figure out what to eat when it comes to carbs besides plain boring brown rice by itself or with veggies.

 

6 weeks in the bag, only 7 more to go.

P90X Day 1: 203lbs
P90X Day 42: 194lbs

Goal weight at day 90: 185lbs

Keep in mind this is w/o the prescribed diet plan, a key component to P90X if you want the sculpted look. This is just from healthy eating.

 

GOAL: lose 72 lbs.

Beginning weight 02/01/2010: 192lbs.

Current weight 03/01/2010: 182lbs.

End GOAL: 120lbs.

I've got a LONG way to go. 62 more lbs to go. Haven't been to the gym in the past 1 1/2 weeks since I've been so busy, but I'll be going back by the end of this week after midterms. Thank goodness I've been cutting back on the overeating.

 

120lbs is for someone who is maybe 5'3 or shorter.

Beginning: 170lbs
Current: 155lbs
End Goal: 145lbs.

Weight isn't much of a goal. Getting ripped is =). I don't mind being 170ripped.

As long as you spread your meals out around 5-6 meals per day, you won't overeat... I know I used to overeat because I used to do the big meal/starve roller coaster. Not good or healthy.

Never use (body mass index) BMI as a way to calculate your "correct weight" there are plenty of people, like E. Smith, who are running backs that are 5'6 220lbs. According to BMI you're wayyyy over weight, obviously he was a lot more muscular.

 

2 cycles of Deca and PCT with Nolvadex will get you there.

 

true. i still would like to at least reach 130. getting ripped isn't for me though. i don't want to be all muscular but i definitely wouldn't mind having tight arms, stomach, thighs, and butt haha

 

Is this the antithesis of the beer thread?

 

I recently got heavy into the nutritional side besides following the spreadsheets and changing all my foods to healthy ones and started to count calories @ fitday.com. I SUGGEST EVERYONE DO THE SAME! Whether on the program or not. It's very easy, you log in, either search it up or you can grab the things you eat (which I did on everything) turn it to the backside and read the nutritional label and input. I basically saw that I was overeating during the whole process of the day.

Having a 2000 calorie diet is extreme difficult. I am around 155-150, tryin' to hit 145. Figured I'd take the estimated calorie intake, and subject 300-500 calories to lose some weight for the final 4 weeks. Having to ration my food is pretty difficult.

In any case, count the calories!

-If you want to get bigger, eat another 300-500 calories!
-If you want to lose weight, or have a target goal in mind, you have to drop the calories off!

Normal goal = 2400 calories to be 145 and doing p90x
Currently eating = 2,100 calories

Fitday.com automatically makes a pie chart below and so you can see the percentages. Stay extremely close to the percentages and your body will process most of the things! Pretty awesome site and I suggest anyone seriously trying to get into shape use fitday.com

It does take some time, but after you've inputted all your own personal things you eat and their servings or how you use them. It takes less than 5 minutes, most of the time I'm thinking of how to mix up what I eat and still keeping the percentages! Anywho, on week 9, tryin' to cut the final 5-10lbs so my abs show a bit more! Afterwards, I'll be taking a break and working on my pullups for a month or two. Then I'll be back @ p90x eating around 3k in calories!

Obviously, your body has to adjust to the amount of carbs and protein intake. Instead of following the spreadsheet guides, I'm following these ratios:

fat/carb/protein percentages
20/ 30 / 50 Phase 1
20/ 40 / 40 Phase 2
20/ 50 / 30 Phase 3

Hope this helps, and good luck to everyone!

 

I'm currently eating a donut and drinking a guinness.... i'm 5'11 187, I hit the gym 3-5 times a week, hard and heavy, ***** to the wall training.
I run sprints once a week,
I'm trying to bulk up without sups, so I'm on a dirty bulk (eating whatever)
If you are trying to loose weight, look into H.I.I.T high intensity interval training.
CLA is a great natural sup to take as well.

... back to watching the biggest looser.