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03-07-2011, 01:18 PM #1New Member
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Kick Starting my Metabolism... Questions
My metabolism seems to be very slugish. I have been eating very low fat low carb diet high protien diet for 3 months (dramitic change from what I had been doing). I eat 6-8 smaller meals \ snacks a day with 80% of my carbs comming in the AM with breakfast. I also have been doing cardio 3-5 times a week, 30 to 60 minutes and lifting heavy 3x's a week. I have not been losing any weight and my sense is that my eating and workouts should be burning off fat and the weight should be comming off. I actaully counted for a stretch and ran a caloric deficit (300 to 800 day) for almost 10 days and did not lose a pound. Is that possible?
My questions are:
1. How much food is the minimal amount that will stimulate the body to increase its metabolic rate?
2. How much protien can the body actaully make use of from one feeding? Is there a guideline like 30 to 50 grams?
3.Could having a few drinks on the weekend or during the week have on the metabolism? (clear liquor with no sugar no carb mixer). In anticipation of the answer to this, I have stopped drinking all together in the hopes that this is what was holding me back.
4. Suggestions for speeding up a slugish metabolism or for seeing if mine is in fact sluggish?
Perhaps I missed the question that I should be asking so any thoughts or comments are appreciated.
38yo
6'3" 250
27% to 30%
Thanks
Matt
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03-07-2011, 01:50 PM #2
1- you need a detox, get some colon cleanser and do a detox, eat protein and water for the seven days (no sugar and alcohol) when you buy colon cleanser get the more expensive one. Do a lot of cardio 2xday, in morning at empty stomach and later afternoon.
2- get some b-12 from our sponsor AR-R , and syringe, shot 1 ml/week.
3-eat clean, protein intake has to be 1 to 1,5 gr/pound
4-carbs only after detox, in the morning ours (oats), make your body turn your fat in energy during day.
5- after ou reach your desired bf or close, get a diet to build some muscle
6- get blood work done, your test levels my be very low, you are a candidate for HRT.
Thats what I did to go from 35% bf to 12% in 6 months.
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03-07-2011, 01:50 PM #3
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03-07-2011, 02:58 PM #5New Member
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This is very close to what I eat almost every day.
7am 8 egg whites / .5 oz FF cheese / 1 pc whole wheat toast / Coffee w/ Splenda
10am 1 cup FF Cottage cheese with Spenda dn cinnamon / 1 apple
Noon - 8 oz chicken / 1-2 cups of salad with ff dressing or 1-2 cups of cooked or uncooked veggies.
workout starts sometime between 12:30 and 2:30 for 1 to 1.5 hours. MWF -weights (focused on big muscle groups and big lifts, Bench, Squat, Pullups, Deadlifts military etc) then 30 min cardio at 70% max
PWO Carb drink
an hour later
PWO Protien - Whey shake
5-6pm Dinner - 10-12 oz meat, lean, usually chicken, veggies 2 cups, perhaps a little rice or pasta (1 cup) if I feel tired.
1-2 times a week an Ab or core kettlebell workout (20 min)
8 pm snack- FF Cottage cheese (1 cup) or 4 oz meat.
10-11pm Casien shake before bed
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03-07-2011, 03:30 PM #6
I really think you need to move your cardio to the AM if possible but the diets not that bad i've seen far worse. This diet doesn't look low carb to me. U should figure up your macro's (calories/carbs/protien/fats) for each meal and the whole day. Its a pain but definitely worth an hour of your time.
Also google, BMR (base metabolic rate) and TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and figure those up and you'll know better where you need to be
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03-07-2011, 03:31 PM #7
bouble post
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03-07-2011, 03:43 PM #8
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03-08-2011, 09:00 AM #9New Member
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Thanks for the great info! I am making the following adjustments immediatly.
1. no drinking...
2. changing bread for oats or brown rice, yam
3. Trying to move cardio to AM...very hard to do. If not, I will lift prior or add 20 minutes of additional cardio to burn off stores.
4. Adding fat like Flax or similar into PWO and bedtime drinks.
5. Dropping to 1800 cal.
6. Counting all macro values of all food I take in for 7 days.
To answer a few questions.
I had my thyroid checked and the doc said it was fine. However that was the same doctor that said T at 409 was good also....I am now on 50g T cream daily.
My PWO carb drink is Creatine x3 by Six star 200Cal and 42 g sugar
My protien drink is Gold Standard with a 1/2 scoop of Whey and 1/2 Casien for 24 g of protien and 120 cal
I used some online tool to deteremine my BMR. I also used the PX90 guidelines. Both put me at about 2800 to 3100 without exerecise and up to 3800 with exercise. I just checked another BMR tool online and it has me at 2330 so I have lowered my daily intake.
Thanks for the input and I will update this thread every few days with my progress.
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