yep! :1orglaugh

I worked out 3 times a week with a personal trainer, and was on the 24/5 program (24 Hour Fitness' trainer/diet/supplement program) and in 8 weeks I gained 16lbs. I'm now working on trying to figure out how to alter the program to produce results that I'm looking for (trim down, not bulk up) but we haven't found it yet.

6'7 and now about 384 (and sportin my GFY long sleeve)

http://www.nukka.org/images/gfy2.jpg

For some it's not as easy as the books say it is, regardless of how hard you work. Not that I'm defending being lazy and eating like a cow, I'm simply stating that exercise and diet doesn't always produce results.

pics?! ;)

@pun

There is a easy way.
You have to burn more calories than you eat. Sounds simple, but that's all about.
Eat less and try to do some condition training (no hard dumb-bell training)
That works 100% - but it isn't easy.

Yep..

Losing Weight is simple math


gotta burn more calories than you bring in ...


Cardio is the key.

I am on my "Tony Little Gazelle" at least 3 times a week..

Its a slow but sure process... and its workin !!!

BIG B

Then you ate a piece of cake and it all came back...? LOL... Just kidding... but I heard it's a bit dodgey in that regard. If you look sideways at a cracker while on Atkins you gain all your weight back...??

It's all about the cardio-vascular workouts, gyms are fine as are the protein shakes but you gotta do the CV work too and plenty of it. Spinning/jogging/cycling all help, start off slow walking until you get used to it and then increase the speed/distance/time steadily, the more you do the easier it gets. :thumbsup

BigB!!! Well, you'll always be beautiful in my eyes...!

Yeah, cardio's key. My trainer's mad at me right now cos I keep pumping weights with him but not doing my cardio (being a lazy ass) ... which is of course making me heavier! LOL..

you said that you were working out...you might have turned some of your fat into muscle..

ive been at the gym working out for awhile now, and ive gained some weight, but ive lost a lot of body fat..

im a big guy just like you, im 6 feet 4 1/2 inches and i weigh around 270, at first i had just wanted to lose some of my fat, but i learned that turning it into muscle was easier..

if you find a good way to burn fat w/o bulkin up let me know :thumbsup


I love the pictures in the back btw..very sexy

your trainer must be either a newbie or an idiot. If you gained that much in 8 weeks, he didnt monitor you very well, what was your body fat percentage before/after the 8 weeks? You need to trim fat by doing low weight workouts/cardio before you start lifting the heavy shit, otherwise you are building muscle on top of your fat

I'm going to try to cut lifting next week to two days a week and have a day dedicated to an hour's worth of cardio only. I did lose 3% body fat in the first 6 weeks, so that was cool but I'm already enormous and I'm not trying to bulk up. :) If I do figure something out though, I'll definitely let you know.

About the pictures, thanks, they are from pinuptoons.com. I'm not paid to advertise for them, but I'd highly recommend checking them out.

Thanks god, I'm slim :D

good times and good luck :thumbsup

He's been a trainer for 15 years actually, and doesn't seem to be a complete idiot. When I first got my diet and noticed that they'd like me to consume carbs as 55% of my daily intake, I did make a comment to him saying I thought that was excessive. For example, on the sample menu, one of the days it has me eating 4 baked potatoes along with a serving of meat, some cubed cheese pieces, and some fruit. That meal was easily my heaviest of the day at just over 1k calories, but there was 152g of carbs.

Like I said in my last post, I did lose 3% body fat in the first 6 weeks. I'm still going to see if there's some way we can get the carb intake changed to something more reasonable.

Damn, I just noticed that you're from Marysville. Is that the Marysville, WA? I live in Everett so you'd pretty much be my neighbor.

Oh yea, thanks for the good luck. :thumbsup

Bah all you guys are really wrong.

Counting calories is for chumps.

Atkins diet. I dropped 50 lbs in 5 months with minimal exercise (yes I did do some) and never being hungry.

The fatter you are, the faster you'll lose it.

As to the previous post..

Who cares about pasta and bread when you can eat a fucking T-Bone or endless amounts of shrimp and lobster?

You gotta be kinda rich to pay for the food on atkins but so what, its a life upgrade.

haha, yea, i work in everett also..

i workout at the Bally Total Fitness center, that close at all to you? :thumbsup

I love the ball less wonders who are so brave on these boards. Make very rude statements here because they feel so worthless in the real world . Here they feel like they have some kind of control .

I was thin all my life then at 25 I had a foot injury and stopped working out. that wa it up up up.I lost 45 lbs on Atkins until I had a kindney stone and my cholestrol was sky high. gained 25 back
I decided slow and steady last year I lost 20 lbs. This year I am up to 10 lbs right on track, It may take me forever but i want it to be a lifestyle change and not A diet. It is a daily stuggle but i should be thin before I die

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Eat less, you won't be fat.

your trainer has the right idea. Building lean muscle mass will help your body to burn fat. Simply because musle mass is more biologicaly active, even when at rest. Fat is not. The more muscle mass, the more calories you burn even when resting, which in turn reduces the fat. Dont let the scale determine your success. Muscle is alot heavier than fat, so use the body fat percentage and the mirror to tell you if its working or not.

I don't know where that's at actually. I go to the 24hr Fitness on 99.

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