3 months heavy lifting im 242lbs

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Beaver

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I know its not to good but thats why im working on it. hehe. Bit imbarished but ive been obese all me life now I want to muscle up.










I feel sorry for you if you looked at these :S

I want to bulk up and get more muscle. Looking at these pictures would you reccomend to carry on bulking for say 6 months with 30 mins cardio each time I go for my goals off being big and chunky but muscle not fat?

Thanks
 
I would say start a nice cut instead of trying to bulk right now
 
Beaver said:
Ok bud. Fair does. So lots of cardio eat small amount of calories and take protein shake?
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well u dnt need lots of cardio at first because since lets call you a beginner it will come off with just possiibly 20-30 minutes a couple times a week. Diet is the most important you can start yourself off with planning to eat 5-6 meals a day. Lets just say for instance you eat around 3500-4000 calories a day you obvioulys want to cut that probaly to maybe 200-2500. You can eat 5-6 times a day with lets say 200-300-400 calories each meal. THere are plenty of things to eat not just the protein shake look at the nutrion sticky under the nutrition section. You will deffintily be able to mix and match and get urself 5-6 meals a day. Its going to be very mentally hard and u are going to have to give it time. The main reason people dnt stick with their diets is becasue they start off so severe by going from 4000 calories a day to like 800 basically starving them selves because they are also working out. By the 2nd or 3rd day they end up saying F*** this, this is way to hard, and that is not what you want to happen to urself. For your first week I would suggest just subtracting around 500 calories from ur normal diet. After a few weeks of dieting u may stop losing fat so fast so than u can add a little more cardio and subtract a few more calories. Good luck to ya my brother
 
Beaver said:
Ok bud. Fair does. So lots of cardio eat small amount of calories and take protein shake?
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Eat many small healthy meals a day incorporating carbs protein and fats into each (think 5-6 mini-meals) but make sure you are in a caloric deficit, get yourself into a weight lifting program to help maintain your muscle mass, and do some cardio as you see fit. don't make the cardio your main focus...make your diet and lifting the main focus with cardio as a supplement to help your caloric deficit.

you're lifting program is really up to you. i wouldn't recomend sets of 20 reps. Aim for 8-12 rep sets to make sure you are working your muscles hard enough to maintain and work all your muscles groups, leg, chest, arms, core, back
 
Keep in mind that with every meal containing carbs, Beaver has to inject insulin. It's tough to keep rotating injection sites when you're jabbing yourself 5-7 times a day ;)

Whenever a diabetic consumes carbs, they need to deal with it. The average ratio is 10gm carbs/1 unit insulin, but that differs from meal to meal, day to day and how active the person is.

It's a juggling act, believe me. That's one reason why I like low-carb diets. The fewer carbs I have to deal with, the easier it is for me to maintain awesome blood glucose levels.

Beaver, I'm assuming you take your BG before and after your workouts? Have your insulin doses gone down? The more you exercise, the less insulin your body will require per gram of carbs.
 
i_love_muscle said:
Beaver mentioned that in another thread ... you didn't miss anything here :)
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lol i thought i missed it here to but alright so meals will be interesting but with the weights deff the 10-12 of light weight. What are your goals. You should make a plan on losing 1-2 pounds a week and weight uself at the end of each week or every 2 weeks to track the prorgress. You can do it as long as you are mentally tough thats the hardest part but I know you can do it. Good luck man.
 
i would say, do some minor weights, but get on a good healthy diet stricitly, and do cardio for around 45 min, and fat burning excersices, i used to think that bulking up is the way to go, but diet then bulk, that is what im doing and it has been working....good start though
 
Didnt want to make a new thread so i ask here.

I think im going to try and loose 40lbs so I get down to 200lbs. Diet is kind of hard but I am eating alot healthier and less "crap" food. Im wondering that is one chocolate bar a day bad or is it ok??
 
Beaver said:
Didnt want to make a new thread so i ask here.

I think im going to try and loose 40lbs so I get down to 200lbs. Diet is kind of hard but I am eating alot healthier and less "crap" food. Im wondering that is one chocolate bar a day bad or is it ok??
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What type of chocolate bar are you eating?

And why are you eating a chocolate bar every day? You're a diabetic. That chocolate bar has Xgms of carbs, correct? Substitute those Xgms of carbs with healthy carbs. You don't need a chocolate bar everyday anyway.

There is a reason why I don't eat breads: it's because I can get better carbs from other foods. When you're a diabetic, you have choices. I choose to optimize the carbs in my diet.

I eat one square of chocolate once or twice a week and it's either dark or bittersweet.

Are you counting your carbs, Beaver?
 
Nah dont count carbs. Its hard , what can I take to college to eat easily at dinner though? I try to eat the same amount. 22 units of insulin I give myself. I give myself 24 if I eat abit more.
 
Beaver said:
Nah dont count carbs. Its hard , what can I take to college to eat easily at dinner though? I try to eat the same amount. 22 units of insulin I give myself. I give myself 24 if I eat abit more.
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Nobody said being diabetic was easy. It isn't easy at all.

I'm actually quite surprised you don't count carbs. If you're going to workout, you have to know how many carbs you're eating because your insulin doses are going to change the more fit you become.

So unless you know your carb/insulin (i.e., gms/unit) ratio, you're probably going to have a hard time fine-tuning your bolus injections.

Maybe you're one of those people who can just "wing it" with diabetes. But if I were you, I'd start counting carbs.

If you're taking 22-24 units of insulin, you're probably consuming 220-240gms of carbs a day. You might want to think about reducing that amount.
 
yupy. I can either count carbs or eat similar amount every day if I eat alittle more or less I lower or highen my dossage
 
Some more progress pictures... Im still needing to tweak my diet though and I did give up the gym and just do weights at home but im back to the gym now doing weights/cardio.
 
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