[quote]Sir wrote:
Hostile wrote:
Thanks for all the responses. I just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page. My end goal is to be 200 and much lower BF than I am at right now. My intent of the post however, was because I am trying to get leaner for a vacation I have coming up in a couple week and feel like my fat loss has stalled out and even regressed a bit. Also, I can understand the concept that eating more is going to speed up my metabolism. What Im having difficulty with is, if Im trying to get more lean, I’m supposed to eat more…if Im trying to bulk up, Im also supposed to eat more. So what’s different with the diet, can anyone elaborate on this a little for me?
You have to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat, so I don’t know why people are telling you to eat more. However, 1600…is a bit extreme.
Checkout these two articles:
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1499282
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1615551
The nutritional and training information in those two are exactly what you need to lose weight. Now, you’re not going to lose much in two weeks for your vacation. So the question is…
1.) Are you only trying to lose the weight for this vacation and then plan on bulking when you get back?
2.) Are you going to try and cut before and after this vacation until you get to single digit body fat and then slowly bulk back up?
If the answer is #1, then I suggest you forget about even cutting and just bulk up to 220 and then cut. If you the answer is #2 then you get the green light for the cut. It would be retarded to just cut for 2wks because not much will happen and then go back to bulking when you could have just used the two previous weeks to bulk up in the first place.
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Generally, people do need to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat, but if he is only eating between 1600 and 2800 k/cals a day, even on heavy training days, he needs to get his metabolism back in order. He claims his progress has totally stalled and there is no way I would recommend reducing his calories even more
. Also, changing his training will also effect the amount of calories he expends. If he really goes to a strength training, complexes and cardio plan, he’d most likely be expending more energy (hard to say for sure as I have no idea how intensely he is working right now).
I must have missed the part where he said the trip was in just a couple of weeks. Not too much progress you can make in that time from where you are (that is not meant to be a dig, making significant changes in this amount of time is not really feasible for 95% of trainees). Maybe you want to reassess and make more of a long term goal at this point.