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Originally Posted by koogala  Not so well......scale moving wrong direction. Trying to find that magical balance of protien & calories.
Mr. OD, can I get by on 200 grams protien daily over the 5-6 meals? I think you & I discussed my lean mass was around 260-270. I've been doing around 250 per day. I keep wanting to dodge that last protien
shake around 9:30 or so at night but its right after my lifting and I'm scared I'll mess up. (My bench continues to gain 5 lbs per session.  That is a working weight, not a max.)
Also, is all the upper body work spent on a speedbag workout going to hurt my lifting? I'm loving the speedbag. Its a world of cardio I didn't know about. I don't want all that soreness from the speedbag to be a sign of canibalism or something
I'm very happy w/ the lifting if I could just get the scale to move down a LITTLE. I was supposed to be at 460 by end of January. Well, I'm 468.
2 pound loss in 1 month.  |
You may be doing better than you thought! Don't forget the scale is the worst tool you can use to figure out if what you are doing is working since you are lifting weights and adding muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat!! You need to check other measurements; ideally body fat using the hydrostatic method, but even measuring your waist, neck, etc with a tape measure will give you an indication if you are slimming down.
You need to figure out what you want your goals to be....the more protein you can wolf down the better it will be for muscle growth, but the worse it will be for weight loss because consuming more protein means you are consuming more calories to get that protein. You cannot have the best of both worlds. You either focus on one of the other, or your compromise and do a little of both, where you get some weight loss combined with some muscle growth. I cannot tell you what to shoot for consumptionwise without knowing exactly how you want to approach this. Go ahead and down that last protein shake as long as it's immediately after your workout (preferrably within 45 minutes after you finish your exercise session). Look for a low calorie hi protein protein shake if possible. The protein shake I use is only 210 calories but yields 50g of protein.
Speedbag is great, and won't harm your lifting. Just make sure to do it after the lifting...you don't want your arms to be so tired that you cannot lift weights afterwards!
And I will say it again, quit depending on the scale so much since you are adding muscle! It's great to see positive results to keep you motivated, so you really should find a hydrostatic body fat testing setup somewhere near you.