Enough time, or a waste of time?

[gbrice75]

how long u been on current diet

Ok, not to bore you to death, but there is a little history here that I have to share so you know where i'm coming from:

I started hitting the gym in December last year. I was 255lbs, grossly out of shape. I had no idea about dieting (as if I do now!) and did the wrong thing - I was on VERY low daily calories - i'm estimating somewhere around 1300. I also was only eating 4 times a day - I literally had a meal at 8:30am and then not again until 1:30pm. Due to calorie restriction alone, I managed to drop 60lbs - but i'm willing to bet alot of it was lean mass. In fact to have lost 60lbs and STILL have this much fat on my body today - I have no doubt.

Anyway, the 'weight' loss stopped after about 5-6 months, and I started changing things up. Calories were upped to about 2000, and meals were more frequent, including a PWO meal (yes, I wasn't doing this before). Still no changes.

I would say over the past 2 months I have been eating similar to how I am now, but it has been tweaked and modified every couple of weeks, mostly based on feedback from this forum.

This CURRENT diet - i've only been doing for 3+ weeks. I should note that I messed up earlier - I have NOT been taking 400g protein per day; i was only contemplating doing that. I have been taking 300g per day for the past 3 weeks, and trying to make up the remaining 1000 calories (for my 2200 total) through carbs and fats, but i'm probably coming up short since carbs are pretty non-existent for the most part.

It's hard to imagine that adding MORE carbs to my diet is going to help me lose body fat, but your pics are the proof that it works, at least it did for you. I feel like i'm pretty much doing everything right for the most part - 7 meals a day, literally eating every 3 hours, high protein, low carbs and fat. It seems like a formula for fat loss but it's clearly not working!

Sorry for rambling, i'm super tired and getting delerious! Thanks again for reading through, and I hope I can get this licked!

[mg1228]

Ok, not to bore you to death, but there is a little history here that I have to share so you know where i'm coming from:

I started hitting the gym in December last year. I was 255lbs, grossly out of shape. I had no idea about dieting (as if I do now!) and did the wrong thing - I was on VERY low daily calories - i'm estimating somewhere around 1300. I also was only eating 4 times a day - I literally had a meal at 8:30am and then not again until 1:30pm. Due to calorie restriction alone, I managed to drop 60lbs - but i'm willing to bet alot of it was lean mass. In fact to have lost 60lbs and STILL have this much fat on my body today - I have no doubt.######i did this very thing before i learned to eat--i ate 2 times a day, lunch and dinner--how stupid is that now that we know
Anyway, the 'weight' loss stopped after about 5-6 months, and I started changing things up. Calories were upped to about 2000, and meals were more frequent, including a PWO meal (yes, I wasn't doing this before). Still no changes.

I would say over the past 2 months I have been eating similar to how I am now, but it has been tweaked and modified every couple of weeks, mostly based on feedback from this forum.

This CURRENT diet - i've only been doing for 3+ weeks. I should note that I messed up earlier - I have NOT been taking 400g protein per day; i was only contemplating doing that. I have been taking 300g per day for the past 3 weeks, and trying to make up the remaining 1000 calories (for my 2200 total) through carbs and fats, but i'm probably coming up short since carbs are pretty non-existent for the most part.

It's hard to imagine that adding MORE carbs to my diet is going to help me lose body fat, but your pics are the proof that it works, at least it did for you. I feel like i'm pretty much doing everything right for the most part - 7 meals a day, literally eating every 3 hours, high protein, low carbs and fat. It seems like a formula for fat loss but it's clearly not working!####everybody is different--some people respond well to carbs some respond well to fats---ive heard a couple guys say that ur body has to get used to eating 6-7 meals a day, up to 90 days---
Sorry for rambling, i'm super tired and getting delerious! Thanks again for reading through, and I hope I can get this licked!

good job on the 60lbs--i know it wasnt all muscle-------do this---- re-post ur diet close to a 40/40/20 split in a new thread so it will get looked at by some of the guys that really know there shit---it may take a little longer to get a response being with the holidays and all but b patient---we'll get this figured out-----also cut and paste that story of how u have been eating up till now in the new thread as well---that will help these guys know where ur coming from, very important