barcafan said:Well assuming you're an average height/build man then $#iT, 800-900 calories is WAY too little. Theres no reason to go under 1500 in order to lose weight (if you're exercising). If you go too low you'll risk the chance of exhaustion and serious muscle atrophy.
JayMan said:barcafan said:Well assuming you're an average height/build man then $#iT, 800-900 calories is WAY too little. Theres no reason to go under 1500 in order to lose weight (if you're exercising). If you go too low you'll risk the chance of exhaustion and serious muscle atrophy.
ive decided to not exercise
Harie said:JayMan said:thanks for the tips. if i go from 700-800 calories back to 2000+, is adding back 200 a day too fast or no? At that rate it would take me 6 days to get back to my normal calorie level: 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600. Sound good?
That sounds like a good plan to me. Continue to take your Ephedra & exercising though. You will probably gain a few pounds back since your body is storing everything you eat now, but in a while your metabolism is going to speed back up.
If you feel like you've gained too much weight back, go back to 1600 - 1700 calories per day and slowly lose the weight.
JayMan said:stopp scaring me
JayMan said:i will probably need some good advice though once i'm there on how to not look skinny-fat.
collegechemistrystudent said:skinny-fat is a condition where you are skinny because there is not much under your skin, but fatty because you have a lot of fat under your skin, which is less stable and less shaped than muscle. Skinny-fat people still have over 20-30% body fat.
To not look skinny-fat, you need to lose that fat. but hopefully without losing more muscle, or you'll just be very bony.
But if you can build muscle fast, even from bones, and not put on more fat in the process, then try it.
Harie said:JayMan said:stopp scaring me
No one ever said what you were doing was healthy.
After you're at your goal weight and have ramped the calories up to normal levels, stop taking ephedra and see what happens. If you start to baloon up, then you've got to decide what to do to keep the weight off.
You can quit ephedra cold turkey if you want.
s.a.f said:collegechemistrystudent said:skinny-fat is a condition where you are skinny because there is not much under your skin, but fatty because you have a lot of fat under your skin, which is less stable and less shaped than muscle. Skinny-fat people still have over 20-30% body fat.
To not look skinny-fat, you need to lose that fat. but hopefully without losing more muscle, or you'll just be very bony.
But if you can build muscle fast, even from bones, and not put on more fat in the process, then try it.
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s.a.f said:collegechemistrystudent said:skinny-fat is a condition where you are skinny because there is not much under your skin, but fatty because you have a lot of fat under your skin, which is less stable and less shaped than muscle. Skinny-fat people still have over 20-30% body fat.
To not look skinny-fat, you need to lose that fat. but hopefully without losing more muscle, or you'll just be very bony.
But if you can build muscle fast, even from bones, and not put on more fat in the process, then try it.
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