> Bruce wrote: > Excellent. In four weeks, i am down only 6 pounds, but more importantly > I am down 3% in body fat. I am doing a lot of weights and low impact > aerobic exercise
The best measure is Zap's: your belt! Professional trainers, good ones anyway, always say the best measure is how your clothes fit, not what the scale says. Listen to The Fitcast ( fitcast.com ) and eat lots of protein. Some Quickie tips that have helped me: * Cut back on the carbs (50/day if you can handle it) and don't count fiber as carbs. Up your good fats to about 40% of your diet * Get LOTS of protein, meat, and look into buying Whey protein. * Stay away from high GI/II carbs with one exception: after your lifting. * Right after you lift make a shake of Whey and High GI carbs: I drink POM juice. * Keep you daily calories below 2000 and above 1800. * After 4 weeks of this, add in cheat days over the weekend. On, say, Saturday eat what you want. If you do it right, you'll jump start your metabolism, but your body will become "fat adapted", that is it will use fat for energy rather than carbs. Once that happens your body will make up the calorie deficit by burning fat. In this way you can lose fat, but gain muscle at the same time. After experimenting for 5 years, this is the ONLY way I've found to do it. It's a variation on Dr. DiPasquale's Anabolic diet pushed by Jen Heath. (See t-nation.com ) Bottom line is, it works, and it's easy for a FFB (former fat boy) like me do! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:244619 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
