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Carbs = bad, protein = good.

Drool. . . . . . . she is beyond hot, holy crap.

Amaya wrote:Carbs = bad, protein = good.

Carbs are essential. If you're not eating carbs, have fun not having any energy. : )

:Edit: FUUUUUARK I'm behind on my bulk, just chugged another pint of milk

Ahahaha.

Not really. You only need 100, perhaps 150 grams of carbs daily depending on your body type. I've been staying under a 100 day and I easily have enough energy to work out 5-6 times a week, play basketball, and work 40+ hours a week.

Yeah, I typically aim for around 140g carbs per day (though sometimes I eat more).

Without Carbs, you will feel very tired at first. However your body will adapt and burn fat (and a lot at that). I don't think no carbs is a good idea, but less is better. Stay away from the dirty carbs found in soft drinks etc.


BTW, I started my fitness workout today. I will take pictures, but they are going to look bad. I am not showing them until I have some better pics.


Anyone using the online fitness log (onlinefitnesslog.com)? It is a pretty good tool for keeping track of everything.

Yeah, low carb diets are the ultimate fat burner.

IMO a better approach to diet for fat loss is carb cycling. Diets that are low in carbs do help you burn fat, but they aren't sustainable long term. Eventually, your body goes into a state where carbs are more likely to be stored as fat.; this is a physiological responce to starvation.

Carb cycling involves having days when you vary the proportion of carbs in your diet each day. Some days are "high carb", some "moderate carb" some "low carb", some are carb free. By cycling the carbs you can burn fat and control insulin, but you don't enter the carb hoarding state where any carbs turn to fat..

Google it.

Son_Of _Deddog wrote:IMO a better approach to diet for fat loss is carb cycling. Diets that are low in carbs do help you burn fat, but they aren't sustainable long term. Eventually, your body goes into a state where carbs are more likely to be stored as fat.; this is a physiological responce to starvation.

Carb cycling involves having days when you vary the proportion of carbs in your diet each day. Some days are "high carb", some "moderate carb" some "low carb", some are carb free. By cycling the carbs you can burn fat and control insulin, but you don't enter the carb hoarding state where any carbs turn to fat..

Google it.

This man is very smart. Listen to what he says.

Since I'm bulking, I'm consuming everything in sight. Feels fat man, but at the same time I've gained a gak ton of mass this semester. You can see the difference after two months, hahaha

@ Lord Scythican- post pics anyway. That will make your final goal look even better. Hell, right now I'm going to show a picture from before I even really started lifting.

Embarrassing? A little. Of course I'm way more tan in that picture than I am now; I want to get that tan again during the summer! (Also note the distinct lack of mullet )

It's all a process dude. Don't expect to be rivaling Arnold after working out for a month. : )

Cycling Carbs is helping me drop weight for Rugby League. It's not dramatic, but it's sustainable for me. Also, you avoid any cravings as you're not going without. Obviously don't go crazy and eat a loaf of bread-even on high carb days-but it's just more manageable than full on no carbs...

Son_Of _Deddog wrote:Cycling Carbs is helping me drop weight for Rugby League. It's not dramatic, but it's sustainable for me. Also, you avoid any cravings as you're not going without. Obviously don't go crazy and eat a loaf of bread-even on high carb days-but it's just more manageable than full on no carbs...

Awesome to hear that you're doing rugby, if I was going to play any sport it would be Rugby.

And of course I'm not gonna go overboard on high carb days, I definitely know what you mean there. : )

I don't do carb cycling, I have vegemite.... And I work out three times a day.

Asherian Command wrote:I don't do carb cycling, I have vegemite.... And I work out three times a day.

Vegemite...food of Champions!!


@Vladsimpaler- I play rugby union in the winter, but the seasons getting over, so it's time for league. The sports are similar, but with different demands. League needs a lot more speed,power and core. So it's a lot more kettlebells , dumbell snatch and power cleans for me....

Well, done with my deload week. I celebrated by getting a triple cheeseburger. : ) (with a wheat bun of course! )

Now I'm eating a clif bar and a banana, and I'm gonna finish off my half gallon of milk for the day.

Cutting may be a bit harder than I expected.

Vegemite is the only food that I have run low on. It is the apocalypse! Australians with a low amount of Vegemite might self destruct or worse! Become an American! I say to everyone I shall never ever eat peanut butter sandwiches for it is fating and I don't like the texture!

Mate a half gallon of milk? damn mate thats alot of milk good luck with it!

Asherian Command wrote:Vegemite is the only food that I have run low on. It is the apocalypse! Australians with a low amount of Vegemite might self destruct or worse! Become an American! I say to everyone I shall never ever eat peanut butter sandwiches for it is fating and I don't like the texture!

Hahahaha I've never had vegemite. People are pretty divided, either they like it a lot or they hate it.

Mate a half gallon of milk? damn mate thats alot of milk good luck with it!

Every day. : )
Whole milk too. Good stuff man, I've been putting on a lot of good weight with it.

Ive gotta say the difference in your physique is pretty impressive. You looked rather gangly in your first pic. Now you can definitely see muscle building up on ya. Keep it up man.

Damn dude, that picture of you by the pool looks like me now!

It's nice to see you've come a far way. I guess I should cave in and start bulking up, too. Most of my friends hit the gym daily anyway.

Inspiration +1

I've got some enforced time off... on the upside, at least I have a chest infection and a strained back *at the same time*, as either of them would stop me doing anything more strenuous than a bit of light yoga or tai chi!

KingCracker wrote:Ive gotta say the difference in your physique is pretty impressive. You looked rather gangly in your first pic. Now you can definitely see muscle building up on ya. Keep it up man.

Thanks brah, part of it is newbie gains but at the same time I've been working pretty hard to maximize them so it's all good.

The people who thought I was "huge" when I returned from my fall semester are gonna gak brix when I return this semester.
I project that by mid-April I should break 170 pounds, which is crazy. I'm starting to develop a little bit of a gut, but I ain't even mad though. I've been really good about gaining weight, but for some reason my genetics have it so that I look like I'm a lot smaller than I really am. I mean, I'm like 168 right now and I don't look super big, but you don't really start to look huge until you get into the 180 realm so I'm not worrying

@Micromegas- Yeah dude, start hitting up the gym man. If you friends go, there's even more motivation. Plus the ladies love it, and you feel way more confident. Win win in my opinion.

@ Ian- Dang man, sucks to hear that.

Well brahs,

I've reached critical mass. 170 freakin' pounds. I feel big but at the same time I'm not fitting into any of my clothes anymore so I'm going to start cutting.
Here's the most recent batch of photos, taken yesterday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54848130@N07/sets/72157626460472115/

I'd like to cut down to around 164-165. Personally I just want to see abs showing. I may take this slowly so that I don't lose all of my hard-earned muscle mass! I feel great though. Getting lots of compliments on how big I am now so that's sick.

Lettuce compare, shall we?

You've come a long way man and are looking great for it

corpsesarefun wrote:You've come a long way man and are looking great for it

Thanks brah, much appreciated. It's going to be even better when I can fit into my old jeans again! (or at the very least, fit into them at all!)

Not gonna lie guys, I've been feeling super burnt out for this past week. I've also been cutting my weight down a bit for the coveted 6-pack.

The newest set of videos is below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54848130@N07/sets/72157626662963292/

Strong Progress. Bump for OP. Would rep if this forum had a rep system.

What sort of training are you doing?

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