Success or Failure... dieting results

[GenX]

Originally posted by ironfist
You did the hydrostatic dunk tank for your test? You should have kept your protein very high...

its an electrostatic test. They mesure bodyfat by checking how much water you have. Its not the most accurate test.

GenX

[someday]

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

GenX

70% fat?!


I just finished up a cut cycle and was able to drop 25 pounds over 12 weeks eating between 550-600g/day of protein. Dropped my bodyfat around 8-9%. I also ate around 150g/day of carbs and about 100g/day of fat. I kept the protein very high since this was a non-AS assisted cut. I lost a lot of strength, but I don't think I lost much muscle. It did kind of suck seeing some lifts go down so drastically, but I just tried to keep reminding myself it was only a temporary thing.

Personally I think you should be at least 2g/day of protein on a cut diet to help fend off any muscle loss.

[MYRICK]

dude look at it this way now u can go on a bulking cycle

[hoax]

It happens man i ended up doing the exact same thing last year, i went from 177 to 144 and it sucked bad. Just learn from it. This year i hope not to drop past 190.

[prolangtum]

How tall are you?

[BIG_GUNS_21]

I would say it was a failed attempt by the standards you used for testing...BUT, those fucking electrostatic tests are shit. If you drink a glass of water before you take one it will change the results. If you have a high sodium diet and are holding water the next day it will change the result.

One guy I am traiing used one of those hand held ones. You could see abs and veins on the guy, the that damn thing STILL tested him out at over 17% BF.

[Juicemonkey101]

150 grams of Protien a day is not is even close to enough. I guess you live you learn, Eh?

[muscle_n_blood]

I couldn't maintain my left leg on 1900 cals a day. probably not enough protein, either. let things level out. then reevaluate your goals get some diet advice, see where to go next. there is no failure if you learn from it.

[prolangtum]

Originally posted by muscle_n_blood
I couldn't maintain my left leg on 1900 cals a day

When i tried 1800 cals a day, my leg indeed fell off

[del1964]

Failure....no flame either. Bump up the protein and increase the cardio IMO. I'm using a 2800 cal a day diet cycling carbs. 213lbs, 8%bf 6'0" losing 2lbs a week approx.

[GenX]

Im going to try to see if I can do the test agian. I dont have to pay for the test cause it included with my membership at the gym.

Non the less I took this as a good learning experince. thanks for everyones comments.

GenX

[goliath.jr]

Originally posted by GenX
its an electrostatic test. They mesure bodyfat by checking how much water you have. Its not the most accurate test.

GenX

all bets are off bro. these tests are the most inaccurate BF tests available bro.

this makes sense now. get a caliper test, or a dunk test (hydrostatic). and for christ sake - double your protien intake.