New female user looking for help with diet before starting clen

[prettypoodle]

wow... okay, so many things that confuse and concern me about everything you are stating, however I am going to give you credit for posting a thread here for us to help you, and try to work with whatever you will allow us to work with. I can honestly say that it seems as if you are not fully commited to doing what is necessary to make what should be obviously needed differences in your physical condition. I understand you are only 22 years old, but you have already shown a consistent pattern of letting food rule your life. I'm going to agree with GB and base, obviously, and ask that you set your goal at losing 60lbs of fat before using the clen. This being said, your diet is terrible, but you are going to get great diet help from GB and base. Your workouts were not specific, other than the leg portion, so I'm not sure what you mean when you say you have been working on getting your upper body stronger. Not that it really matters, since that needs to be completely re-vamped as well. You will definitely decide you will cook your breakfast every morning, as your non-cooked breakfast is not an acceptable choice, and that you will pre-pare all of your meals and eat what and when you are told. Since you are doing cardio after 5 it is a good thing that it is after not having eaten for 3 hours, since that is how long it should be if you aren't doing them first thing in the am totally fasted. Your weight training should be a total body routine that will be identical every day you train until we get to a target weight that allows us to modify it to your goals at that time. We are here for you, but please give us your totally and complete best. We must have your total honesty, but it is very dis-heartening to work with someone who really doesn't care if they stick with a program or not. We will want you to succeed even more than you want to, and we have the knowledge and experience to help you get there as fast as anyone.

I don't think I let food rule my life... I don't over eat or anything... it's that I don't eat enough and when I do eat, it's usually not the right things. I'll be the first to admit that I don't have much knowledge about nutrition and what I should be eating to fuel my body and how to work out... no clue, and that's why I came here to get help from people who know what they're talking about. I'm definitely serious and fully committed to making changes and wouldn't waste my time (not to mention everyone elses) if I wasn't; you guys tell me what to do and I'll do it. You say I should wait to use clen until I've lost 60 lbs of fat... but after 60lbs of fat loss, I'd already be at my ideal weight. Do you think it'd be best to just lose all of the fat naturally, or lose say 40lbs of fat before using clen for the last 20? Like I said earlier, my ideal weight range is 170-180, just with a healthy BF (22-24%)

Baseline- I can start running early in the morning before classes but on certain days, I don't know if I'll realistically be able to eat so frequently simply because I have no where to store it. If I replace 2 of my day time meals with some sort of protein shake, would that be ok? If not, I'll find a way to get all of my daytime meals in.

Gbrice- So much great information, thank you so much, wow. That many eggs won't be a problem and I've never had cottage cheese to say if I like it or not, but I've heard it's gross so I'll stick with the lean red meat which I don't eat enough of anyway. And honestly, I eat crappy food like, all day at least once a week but no more than twice. It's usually on the weekends when I sleep in later, go out at night and find myself eating and sleeping really poorly. This also got me to thinking that I should cut down on the alcohol... I drink once a week, but I know that it adds up.

As for my upper body/core workouts, if you'd be willing to help me with a plan, that would be great. I always think that in order to see results, I need to go for the higher weights as opposed to 5lb dumbells, but I'm probably wrong about that. As for toning down the leg workouts, will I lose any of the muscle and tone I've developed if I stop working them so hard? My legs are really strong, really tight and I'd hate for the one really developed part of my body start to disappear.