What is your weekly diet / training / supplements regime?

[ElizaF]

I just ask out of interest.

I started using weights (and cardio) to lose weight but quickly got more into weights as I loved the results (tone, defination etc.)

I walk 5 x 60mins a week (Walking home from work)
Cycle 2 x 110 min sessions on the gym bike a week
Weight train 3 x 60 min sessions a week

Along with a diet of 1500 cals a day, I went from 200lbs to 178lbs and then stopped losing weight.

I tried a Clen and Cy combo and lost a further 7lbs taking me to 171lbs but they seemed to stop working after a short while I stopped as I was really afraid of buggering up my thyroid for life.

Then I used DNP for two weeks and lost 16lbs. Now I am 155lbs and planning one more cycle of DNP to get to 136/140lbs which is the middle of the healthy weight range for my hieght and frame size.

and that is pretty much my story to date.....

[bigcountry76]

Originally Posted by ElizaF

I just ask out of interest.

I started using weights (and cardio) to lose weight but quickly got more into weights as I loved the results (tone, defination etc.)

I walk 5 x 60mins a week (Walking home from work)
Cycle 2 x 110 min sessions on the gym bike a week
Weight train 3 x 60 min sessions a week

Along with a diet of 1500 cals a day, I went from 200lbs to 178lbs and then stopped losing weight.

I tried a Clen and Cy combo and lost a further 7lbs taking me to 171lbs but they seemed to stop working after a short while I stopped as I was really afraid of buggering up my thyroid for life.

Then I used DNP for two weeks and lost 16lbs. Now I am 155lbs and planning one more cycle of DNP to get to 136/140lbs which is the middle of the healthy weight range for my hieght and frame size.

and that is pretty much my story to date.....

I was just curious what was the total time that you went from 200 to 155lbs? those are some great results for any amount of time. congrats on your achievements thus far. i bet you are pretty happy. wish you the best of luck.

[Preacher]

Good for you, thats awsome... My wife would love to hear more about how you achived your goals...
what routine did you do in weights, what you ate mostly eg: % of carbs, protien, fat? Or you just stick to 1500 cals?

you have lost a great deal of weight and I wish you luck on the rest.

[Cory W.]

That is great I applaud your progress. It sounds like the reason why your not "losing weight" is because you are burning fat but also putting on lean muscle mass which, as you know, is obviously better but you also know muscle weighs more than fat which could very well be seeming as if you are not losing weight but in fact you are toning; And we all know the more muscle put on the more beneficial for general health and the better your body will progress at further burning fat. So great job seriously. Keep up the awesome work and keep us all posted.

With Respect,

Cory

[ElizaF]

Originally Posted by bigcountry76

I was just curious what was the total time that you went from 200 to 155lbs? those are some great results for any amount of time. congrats on your achievements thus far. i bet you are pretty happy. wish you the best of luck.

Hi there, the timeframes were:

From 200 to 178: 3 months by diet and exercise

From 178 to 171: 1 week by by diet and exercise, T3 and clen

From 171 to 157: 1 weeks by by diet and exercise and DNP and 1 weeks diet DNP (too knackered to exercise)

From 157 to 155 1 week by diet and exercise (and losing water weight after DNP cycle)

Currently: 154 and holding

[ElizaF]

Originally Posted by Preacher

Good for you, thats awsome... My wife would love to hear more about how you achived your goals...
what routine did you do in weights, what you ate mostly eg: % of carbs, protien, fat? Or you just stick to 1500 cals?

you have lost a great deal of weight and I wish you luck on the rest.

Hi there and thanks to you (and everyone else) for the best wishes.

By 1500 cals, I mean just that. If I knew I was going to have a 600 cal pizza and a 100 cal ice-cream for dinner, my breakfast and lunch and snacks were divided up to make up the othere 900 cals. I wasn't obsessive to the point of couting cals like a woman obsesed, I probably was a 100 over or under most days but it seemed to work for three months. I had pasta / potatoes / rice /quinoa / cous cous / fajitas / wraps the whole time, I just limited the volume based on calorie content. 5 pieces of fruit and five portions of veg. and four litres of water were a daily minimum.

My routine in the gym was starting out with 20 mins stretching for chest, upper back, back of upper arms, back of thighs,calf, front of thighs, outer thighs, inner thighs, lower back, gluts and torso.

Then I did: 110 mins on the bike at top resistance twice a week. Each session burned between 3500 and 3800 cals a go.

Each (non-cycling) trip to the gym involved:
90 mins weighs (twice a week)
I use a:
Chest press
Leg press
Vertical row
Leg curl
Sholder Press

I start off on a low weight and do a session of 40, incresing the weight and lowering the reps by 10 until my heartrate is about 140+ (fat burning zone)

In addition to the gym, I did
5 hours fast walking to work a week. Each (daily) session burned about 350 cals.

This was the programme I worked out to fit in with my life, it probably wouldn't suit everyone with jobs, children and spouses but at the end of the day, hard work (and illeagal drugs) got me within 14lbs of my goal and I am trying to decide how to get the rest of the way.

I am currently on an ECA stack and working on changing my gym routine around a lot to get the rest of the way and just look leaner than I do not. (My stomach still looks like it needs a lot of work

But I am getting there and in the habit of working hard which is hell of a lot further on that I was a year ago which was sitting on sofa eating ice-cream going "oooh I am so fat and pregnancy caused it all"

Best of luck to your wife and tell her the solution is hard work and exercise and no desserts. God, I miss Ben and Jerrys.


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[ElizaF]

Originally Posted by Cory W.

That is great I applaud your progress. It sounds like the reason why your not "losing weight" is because you are burning fat but also putting on lean muscle mass which, as you know, is obviously better but you also know muscle weighs more than fat which could very well be seeming as if you are not losing weight but in fact you are toning; And we all know the more muscle put on the more beneficial for general health and the better your body will progress at further burning fat. So great job seriously. Keep up the awesome work and keep us all posted.

With Respect,

Cory

Thanks for that. I will admit that my back, arms and legs look even more toned than they did when I was a pre-pregnancy) 140lbs which has always been my natural trim weight. (I am 5"8 and have a medium frame)

The reason I want to kick the last 14 - 18lbs is to get rid of the disaster that is my stomach and I know spot training is a myth etc. etc. but I have started Callenetics training. I am going to give them two hours a week for eight weeks and see if it makes any diffrence.

The real reason I posted was to find out the work other women on the forum are doing but perhaps they are shy or I am the only one

Anyhow, thanks again to all who replied and hopefully I will update this section again in eight weeks to say I found a cure for my tummy (toning knickers) but more importaintly am at 136lbs.


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