Am I training too much with atkins 1 hour cardi and 2 hour weight training????

[Fat2FitFast]

Weight loss is very slow on week 5 and not even 14 pounds yet

1 hour on bike, then sometimes more

weights supersets for 2 hours

200 sit ups per day

all kinds of arobics workout total about 3 hours

only carbs are the reccomended veggies

might have to cutt out cheese

what do you all think

[Slapshot]

One thing for certain is that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise, if that.

You should post your typical menus. Perhaps it might reveal what's going on.

[JulieB]

Originally Posted by Fat2FitFast

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only carbs are the reccomended veggies

might have to cutt out cheese

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Ummm - there are carbs in cheese - so, either you already cut it out, or you are getting carbs from things other than veggies (cheese)

Do post your menu, we have some very knowlegable people here who will point out little things that can make all of the difference.

Best Wishes,

[Fat2FitFast]

typical days diet,

breakfast

glass of water
2 boiled eggs
2 peices of bacon

lunch

3 sausages mixed with salad and feta cheese
(few small cubes maybe 10)

or salad mixed with chicken 2 wings skin included and 1 leg

2 litres of still water minaral

pre dinner snacks

peppers with stuffed cream cheese (3-5)
small portion of cheese maybe 1 gram
sun blushed tomatos 3-5 small wedges
4 sausages
2 tablespoons of mayo
few slices of very thin seranno ham, (curred ham)

dinner
one of these

200 grams of salmon with garlic
200 grams of pork
200 grams of chicken
200 grams of steak
200 grams of gammon

1-2 cups of veggies usually 1

asparagus 5 spears
runner beans around 15-20
maybe some califlower

thats it



half litre of water

[Slapshot]

Aside from the very high sodium content, looks pretty decent to me. However, if the water you listed is the only water you're drinking, you're well below what you should be drinking, and could explain why you're probably holding a good 5lbs+ of water weight caused by the sodium intake (which is really high) and the lack of water to flush it out.

[chinadoll]

Also have you been measuring yourself? If you are lifting heavy and working out like that I expect you are exchanging fat for muscle and if so that is probably why the scale isn't changing much, but I bet your measurements have changed significantly. IF so, you have been losing fat all along but the increased muscle is preventing you from seeing a loss on the scale.

[ziggy]

ya i agree with what chinadoll said

and also

with 15 hours a week worth of cardio and the Atkins diet i lost 100 pounds of total weight and now that i think about it it prob was 110 pounds of fat and gained 10 pounds of muscle

so ya from 330 too 230 my weight whent however a year or so later i started going to the gym and doing heavy full body muscle work outs with atkins

iv been going to the gym for almost 2 years now and i have stayed 100% the same weight or maybe up 3-4 pounds

but i must have lost another 40 pounds of fat and gained 40 pounds of muscle so in total thats like 140-150 pounds of fat loss and 40-50 pounds of muscle gain

so i broke my fat loss stall with hard intense muscle work outs and not endurance cardio

so if you are looking better and better and look like you have less fat on your body then dont worry what the scale says you could have lost 30 pounds of fat already and gained 15 worth of muscle



also as for your work outs dont focus so much on cardio and endurance i know it feels good to do a easy exercise over and over all day long but it doesnt give much gains

try to vary your abb workouts abit instead of 200 situps try 80 rope pull downs 80 leg raises on a bench then 80 situps

also a whole hour on a bike is pointless try 10 mins on as high resistance as you can go and every 3 or so mins go as fast as you can then break and go normal speed also if you do that then only use the exercise bike once or twice a week

arobic work outs give a good stretch and feel good doing but its just light cardio you can do it as much as you want but going overbord and doing it all the time wont hurt you but wont give you any extra benefits like fat loss either

remember short but hard intense muscle work outs are what really drain the glucose from your muscles and when a muscle is drained of glucose that = super fat loss and good muscle gain when on the Atkins diet also remember to get all the muscles on your body dont forget about your shoulders and such

you will most likely need someone to help show you how to work every muscle on your body and how to work them good and hard and safely

anyways thats the tips i got for now good luck! your doing good so far

[sarny]

hi everyone, am completely new to this site, have done atkins a few years ago and lots loads, but since rhen i have gone back to work full time so i have not been able to train or run on a daily basis and the healthy eating has gone out the window so the weight has gone on, i need to lose 9lb in total, the difference this time around is i am a runner, half marathon races coming up in few months, so i need advice on the best food to eat while training, all help gratefully accepted,

[ziggy]

Originally Posted by sarny

hi everyone, am completely new to this site, have done atkins a few years ago and lots loads, but since rhen i have gone back to work full time so i have not been able to train or run on a daily basis and the healthy eating has gone out the window so the weight has gone on, i need to lose 9lb in total, the difference this time around is i am a runner, half marathon races coming up in few months, so i need advice on the best food to eat while training, all help gratefully accepted,

sarny if you only got a few months before a marathon you better get on the atkins diet asap
i just read this

http://www.musclehack.com/do-you-really-need-carbs-to-workout-effectively/

Some interesting observations here. Yes, the subjects did see a decrease in endurance after 1 week on the ketogenic diet but lets see what happens after 6 weeks.
Endurance time on the keto diet was significantly INCREASED over the baseline value. Also, the oxygen/energy cost of the test was significantly DECREASED compared to baseline.

and they never even ate all that much fat the atkins diet is super high fat so you will do even better just make sure you get on the atkins diet asap if you got a marathon in only 2 months

and i think some of the best foods to eat while training are



eggs, butter and red meat which promote maximum serum levels of the 3 muscle-building hormones:

1. Testosterone
2. Growth Hormone
3. IGF-1

id recomend unsalted butter and broccoli is important to eat too
and theres lots of other healthy foods you can eat too while on atkins