Fitness FAQ - Fat/Weightloss/Bulking

Most important things for gaining body mass if you are skinny is healthy carbohydrates (e.g. Pasta, potatoes etc) and the most important thing for gaining muscle mass is protein, such as meat and eggs.

If you want to bulk up avoid cardio such as running, and focus on muscle building exercises such as weights. Rowing is also good for all over torso muscles.

Avoid fatty or overly sugary things, they just make you put on weight in the wrong kind of way and make your skin awful! :')

Hope this helps! x

Can someone tell me what I've been doing wrong - I go running every other day and have been genuinely eating less and better. I now stick to just the 3 meals a day, very few snacks and completely avoid chocolate/ice cream/crisps. I eat a lot of carbs but I always have and it seems I can deal with them fine, I've never felt bloated or whatevs. I have a pretty decent metabolism in that I can eat quite a lot (way over 2000cal a day especially when I was at school) and either stay at a constant weight or put it on slowly - over the entire 1st year uni I put on 3kg, and before then was constant 52kg for years. (am 5"1). But I've never lost weight. Ever.

The point is, been doing this diet for about a month, running for 6 weeks......and gained 2kg. Wtf?!?! How? What is going wrong here? I know you gain muscle but I really have not put on 2 kilos worth of muscle. Please help, this is ridiculous, I have friends who can go hungry for a week and shed pounds, and my weight either don't move or creeps up.

How many calories are you eating right now?

About 1500 at a guess? I have cereal for breakfast, a wrap/leftovers/pasta for lunch, and whatever my dad cooks for dinner. With about 200 calories max of snacks. I've realised I've kind of broken my diet every few days what with birthday cake, end of exam binge food, scones and 2 dinners on one occasion... but on a good typical day it would be as above.

Can someone tell me what I've been doing wrong - I go running every other day and have been genuinely eating less and better. I now stick to just the 3 meals a day, very few snacks and completely avoid chocolate/ice cream/crisps. I eat a lot of carbs but I always have and it seems I can deal with them fine, I've never felt bloated or whatevs. I have a pretty decent metabolism in that I can eat quite a lot (way over 2000cal a day especially when I was at school) and either stay at a constant weight or put it on slowly - over the entire 1st year uni I put on 3kg, and before then was constant 52kg for years. (am 5"1). But I've never lost weight. Ever.

The point is, been doing this diet for about a month, running for 6 weeks......and gained 2kg. Wtf?!?! How? What is going wrong here? I know you gain muscle but I really have not put on 2 kilos worth of muscle. Please help, this is ridiculous, I have friends who can go hungry for a week and shed pounds, and my weight either don't move or creeps up.

Hi,

It's the summer and I really want to work on my body. Currently my body looks like this: http://tinypic.com/r/15g6knr/6

I don't think I am 'fat' and I'm not overweight, but nevertheless I would like to look slightly better. My girlfriend doesn't have an issue with the way I look and doesn't have an issue with my body and doesn't really understand what I'm on it about, so 'transforming' my body is something I want to achieve for myself.

I would like my body to look something like this but slightly less 'musclely'- 6 pac abs etc doesn't really appeal to me: http://shechive.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/eye-candy-jake-gyllenhaal-12.jpg?w=500&h=837

I was really wanted some tips on how I begin, how many calories should I consume, what sort of diet I should go on and what workouts to do. I really don't want to be really 'musclely' just want to look quite lean and fit.

Thanks

I've decided to try and lose weight as well...I need to My current fitness level is non existant, I am 6ft and weigh about 17stone.

I have just goined a gym and am struggling to find a plan or anything useful a novice such as myself can follow and carry out any special requirements (basically I don't know what I should/shouldn't be doing/how much of etc and would prefer to stick to machine use). Due to work and other things I can only go twice a week, 3 every odd week.

On the food side of things I have already started eating more healthily breakfast/snack/lunch-wise, but I fall at main meals, I am somewhat of a plain/fussy eater and dislike things that take a lot of preperation/cooking time, so I struggle here : /. I realise suggesting meals would be unreasonable with not knowing what I like etc, but anything like types of food/how much I should be eating and stuff would help


Any help will be appreciated

Hi, I'm coming to this forum because it seems to have lots of users and everybody seems to really know their stuff.

For my own reasons I want to get myself fit and make my body toned and hopefully a bit more attractive. I am very slim and my body appears quite toned but that's only because I'm so thin I think.

I've not exercised properly or constantly for a while but I used to do a lot of swimming. Anyway I don't really know where to begin. I want to make my body a bit bigger and make it a bit more appealing.

I have plans run 5 mornings a week for about half an hour a morning. Mixed with this, some ab crunches and using some weights I've bought for home use.


Any advice/good running stuff I could buy/ any other things I could do?

Any help would be appreciated, I really have no idea about this type of stuff, thanks. Pos rep as always for the helpful ones.

Hi, I'm coming to this forum because it seems to have lots of users and everybody seems to really know their stuff.

What cereal, wrap etc? Sounds like a high proportion of simple carbs. Cut them out and eat complex carbs (weetabix, brown pasta, brown bread etc).

The cereal varies but now I'm eating muesli/fruit and fibre. The wrap is chicken caesar or similar. The complex carbs sounds like a good idea - I couldn't live on just meat and veg, though it looks like I'll have to. It's just so frustrating that I used to stuff my face at every opportunity and stayed at 51kg, and now I'm eating ONLY 3 decent sized healthy-ish meals a day, walking around the city and going running and it's having no effect on my body, if anything I've got podgier in recent weeks (57kg). Argh. The minute I fly home I'm starting a regime of wholegrains for breakfast, only salad for lunch, fruit/nuts for snacks and matching my mum portion-size for dinner. That's the main problem, my portions are bigger than everyone's in my family. Lunch is OK as I'll buy something, hence it's normal-person size, but dinner is like an all you can eat.

I've decided to try and lose weight as well...I need to My current fitness level is non existant, I am 6ft and weigh about 17stone.

I have just goined a gym and am struggling to find a plan or anything useful a novice such as myself can follow and carry out any special requirements (basically I don't know what I should/shouldn't be doing/how much of etc and would prefer to stick to machine use). Due to work and other things I can only go twice a week, 3 every odd week.

On the food side of things I have already started eating more healthily breakfast/snack/lunch-wise, but I fall at main meals, I am somewhat of a plain/fussy eater and dislike things that take a lot of preperation/cooking time, so I struggle here : /. I realise suggesting meals would be unreasonable with not knowing what I like etc, but anything like types of food/how much I should be eating and stuff would help


Any help will be appreciated

Joined a gym but also unsure of routine