Success or Failure... dieting results

[GenX]

I busted my ass watching my diet and doing cardio (probably too much) and had my bodyfat checked 8 weeks apart.

In 8 weeks I managed to drop 30 pounds. However I lost 20 pounds muscle and 10 pounds fat. Also i also dropped 17 pounds of water too. I only managed to actually drop 1% bodyfat and it remains quite high still.

Success or failure?

GenX

[rado]

how much did you weight in the beginning ? and I assume your goal was to loose a good amount of weight right?

[GenX]

i weighed 189 now 160, my goal was to drop bodyfat.

GenX

[scorpion]

If your purpose was to drop BF% than it is a failure IMO... it all depents what you feel about it though

[Josh]

id say failure bro- no flame but did u use clen or any supps?

[BigD]

Hate to say it but sounds like failure. I too dropped from 190 to 165, but I only lost a few lbs of muscle, I went from 13%bf to 7% now. Did you take anything to help with muscle preservation? Sounds like you just overdid the diet and cardio to me!

[swolegreaser]

wow 189 to 160!!! yeah I would say failure bro, you don't wanna lose that mauch wait, u'll dissinagrate here pretty soon if u keep doing that. If I was u, I would of went to 220 and than dropped some wait to get BF down. But thats crazy, you lost way to much muscle wait, and 1% BF? damm thats not good. I busted my ass to put on 30lbs, and as I did that I went up 1% in BF. All that muscle that u worked hard for is all gone, man that would make me PISSED!!! Good job though, hard work but I think u over did it.

[rado]

Originally posted by GenX
i weighed 189 now 160, my goal was to drop bodyfat.

GenX

that was failure then, no flame intended though

[MYRICK]

yeahbro anytime u lose twice asmuch muscle s u did fat its failure that is ur purpose right to have muscle? better luck next time bro

[DiamondBling]

Did you take T3??

[GenX]

Originally posted by ironfist
Sounds like you did something seriously wrong. Didn't you notice all the muscle you were losing. You over did something and probably didn't take in enough protein. How was your BF, waterweight etc checked?

When I said I lost 20 pounds muscle I also dropped 17 pounds of water. Im not exactly sure the corralation between water and muscle though but I dont think I lost as much muscle.

The test is one were they check your how much water you have and then determine fat and muscle.

GenX

[GenX]

The main thing I did was probably under eat or did not adjust my calories. I ate roughly around 1900 calories but should have eat more since i was on t3.

It was a good learning experince and have a few more weeks left on my cycle to hopefully make some good of the couple weeks I have on.

[BigD]

With T3 in there, your cals should have been around 50% higher in my opinion. I'm cutting for competition now, doing no cardio at all. I'm running T3 @ 75mcg/day and my protein is over 300g's day, cals are around 2700/day. And I only weigh 167lbs and 7%bf right now too. You just dropped down way too low on cals and protein, and overdid cardio. Next time, eat more, it'll be easy

[goliath.jr]

i just don't see how that's possible!? i mean really, were you eating ANY protien at all?

[GenX]

Originally posted by goliath.jr
i just don't see how that's possible!? i mean really, were you eating ANY protien at all?

I was following a ckd diet so I eat 70% fat and 30% protien roughly 150 gram of protien per day.

GenX