Quick background. I am 160 pounds. 5'8". 34 YO white male.
I decided I wanted to start eating better and workout and finally get a 6 pack. September 1st, I went and had one of those full body scan things done. It said I had 72.5 pounds of lean muscle and I was at 21.3% body fat. I started scouring the internet in what to do to be healthy. To gain muscle and lose weight. I wanted to take my body fat percent to 18%.
I decided that day, September 1st, I would go STRICT on diet and working out. I read online my protein each day needed to be at 117 grams. So I got protein powder and started eating more meat. I normally would only have about 60 grams of protein so I needed the protein powder to help get me to the 117 min. I cut out carbs hard. Like seriously to 50 grams a day max. Somedays I don't think I went above 25 grams. I was thinking that would help me lose weight faster because my body would burn my fat in place of carbs. Thinking the fat would shed off fast. I COMPLETLY removed all sugary or artificially sweet things from my life. No soda, no juice, no flavored anything. Just water for the next 30 days, and a LOT of it. I also ran every M-W-F 2-4 miles. I would do upper body and abs T-TH. I would rest Sat and Sun. I wouldn't eat junk food. I normally just ate my protein and small amount of vegetables and fruits. That is basically all I ate for the whole month every day. I also took a multi supplement vitamin and fish oil supplements.
Everything above sounds like the perfect setup. I should be in great shape right now. But I'm not. I'm worse off than I was before I started this hard core diet and working out. I got rescanned October 1st and it had said my body fat was now 21.6% and my body was now at 71.2 pounds lean muscle. I was devastated. I went from 21.3% to 21.6% of fat and also 72.5 lb to 71.2 lb of muscle. I was better off before I started working out strict and eating better. I am still crushed. I have been slacking greatly on my working out since the 1st of this month because I am still devastated what is going on. This doesn't seem possible. I imagine I was in a 500 calorie deficit every day minimum.
None of this makes sense. I am heart broken thinking all the effort I did for an entire month, all the times I was hungry but fought through it, all the times I wanted to just sleep in and be lazy and watch TV but I forced myself to get up and workout instead. All of it was for nothing. Actually less than nothing. I just made the situation worse than I was before. The guy that scanned me could tell I look defeated, because I was, and still am. He said he thinks it is because I went so low on carbs. Is this true? How could this be true? I could see this if my body didn't have any to burn but I have 21% of my body to use as energy. And the fact I gained more fat is even more confusing. I am just really torn up right now. I don't know what I am doing wrong. How am I going to get to my goal of 18% and a nice 6 pack if me working out does the opposite of that.
I decided I wanted to start eating better and workout and finally get a 6 pack. September 1st, I went and had one of those full body scan things done. It said I had 72.5 pounds of lean muscle and I was at 21.3% body fat. I started scouring the internet in what to do to be healthy. To gain muscle and lose weight. I wanted to take my body fat percent to 18%.
I decided that day, September 1st, I would go STRICT on diet and working out. I read online my protein each day needed to be at 117 grams. So I got protein powder and started eating more meat. I normally would only have about 60 grams of protein so I needed the protein powder to help get me to the 117 min. I cut out carbs hard. Like seriously to 50 grams a day max. Somedays I don't think I went above 25 grams. I was thinking that would help me lose weight faster because my body would burn my fat in place of carbs. Thinking the fat would shed off fast. I COMPLETLY removed all sugary or artificially sweet things from my life. No soda, no juice, no flavored anything. Just water for the next 30 days, and a LOT of it. I also ran every M-W-F 2-4 miles. I would do upper body and abs T-TH. I would rest Sat and Sun. I wouldn't eat junk food. I normally just ate my protein and small amount of vegetables and fruits. That is basically all I ate for the whole month every day. I also took a multi supplement vitamin and fish oil supplements.
Everything above sounds like the perfect setup. I should be in great shape right now. But I'm not. I'm worse off than I was before I started this hard core diet and working out. I got rescanned October 1st and it had said my body fat was now 21.6% and my body was now at 71.2 pounds lean muscle. I was devastated. I went from 21.3% to 21.6% of fat and also 72.5 lb to 71.2 lb of muscle. I was better off before I started working out strict and eating better. I am still crushed. I have been slacking greatly on my working out since the 1st of this month because I am still devastated what is going on. This doesn't seem possible. I imagine I was in a 500 calorie deficit every day minimum.
None of this makes sense. I am heart broken thinking all the effort I did for an entire month, all the times I was hungry but fought through it, all the times I wanted to just sleep in and be lazy and watch TV but I forced myself to get up and workout instead. All of it was for nothing. Actually less than nothing. I just made the situation worse than I was before. The guy that scanned me could tell I look defeated, because I was, and still am. He said he thinks it is because I went so low on carbs. Is this true? How could this be true? I could see this if my body didn't have any to burn but I have 21% of my body to use as energy. And the fact I gained more fat is even more confusing. I am just really torn up right now. I don't know what I am doing wrong. How am I going to get to my goal of 18% and a nice 6 pack if me working out does the opposite of that.
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