Quote: (01-13-2012 06:58 PM)Chad Daring Wrote:
Quote: (01-13-2012 03:43 PM)Prowl Wrote:
Someone already said it, but you have to run a calorie deficit.
Once you run a deficit, your body will start eating itself. The more muscle mass you have, the faster it will self-consume. If you continue to lift and take protein, hopefully the muscle cannibalization will be minimal, and it will take away the love handles instead.
An easy way to run a calorie deficit is just to be hungry. Figure that if you're not getting FATTER you must be roundabout your maintenance intake, so just skip a meal or something. If you're not hungry you're probably not running a deficit, or enough of one.
I eat a ridiculous amount of food and I'm ALWAYS hungry.
To put it into perspective this is what I ate for breakfast today at 8am.
2 cups of cooked oats with .5 cups blueberries and .25 cups of walnuts
3 cups of fresh fruit
roughly 10 eggs scrambled, 5 pieces of bacon
Now thats a lot because today is a gym day, I eat much more on gym days, normally I would've go for the oats at all and would do about half the fruit
I was pretty hungry by noon.
The running training seems like a good alternative to me. I might take a month off of the weights (or go lighter) and just run, probably when it gets a little warmer and sunnier so I can grab a tan in the process.
For the moment I'm just gonna keep on doing what I'm doing and hope that my muscle gain will eventually over run the fat Im holding onto. Im actually kind've starting to see that effect already.
Again thanks for all the input
Okay this is why you have love handles. I don't care how much you exercise you do or how much muscle you have, there's no way you're working out enough to offset the amount of calories you're taking in if this is at all a typical meal (there's probably over 1500 calories in what you listed--I'm actually shocked that you're not gaining weight). Paleo or not, ultimately weight loss is about taking in fewer calories than you burn. I don't see any way you're going to be able to lose fat without reducing your intake.
I know where you're coming from. I get really hungry too and I do a lot of cardio to compensate for the fact that I like me some food, but I still can't eat absolutely anything I want without getting fat. At the end of day it's about deciding what your priorities are and having some self-discipline.