Experts, please advise!

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Hey everyone,

Is it normal to lose weight before gaining muscle?
Here's my problem. I'm a skinny guy who holds most of his fat around the stomach area. So while my arms and legs are thin like, my stomach protrudes outward.
I've been trying to build mass while also losing fat so that I will have a 6-pack. I'm weight training 3X a week and do high intensity interval training for cardio 3X a week. I've also been doing my research and eating about 6 times a day (low fat meals and high in carb & protein). All this has kick started my metabolism and over the last couple months I think I've lost 5 pounds. But the problem is I can't afford to lose 5 pounds! I'm 5'6'' and weigh 125 pounds.
What's going on? Is this normal? I've been eating more though! Here's my daily sample meals.
Breakfast
4 egg whites
Whole wheat toast with all natural peanut butter
glass of skim milk
Snack
Slice of whole wheat toast with 3 slices of lean turkey meat
Lunch
Chicken with some sort of veggies (i.e. brocolli)
Snack
Wendys' Large Chilli
Dinner
Veggies and Meat
Snack
Low fat chicken tenders & some fruit

Thanks for listening and I look forward to the suggestions!
 
If you have gone from relative inactivity, to a weights and cardio reigime, your matabolism will suddenly sky rocket, and your fat burning capabilities will too.

Muscle weighs more than fat, but since you havent been training ,ong enough to build muscle, you have lost fat but not gained any muscle (maybe youv even lost muscle if your nutrition isnt right)

My advice is to stick to it, and eat more. At least 3000 calories per day, you cant gain weight and lose fat simultaneously, so choose one or the other. if you want to gain muscle mass, eat a lot, and dont worry too much about cuting out the fat, dont go overboard, but dont be finickety about excluding all fat.

you should gain weight if yu follow this advice.

good luck!
 
Thanks a lot Alex!

Do you think I should be eating 3000 calories when I'm only 5'6'' and 125 pounds? Isn't that excessive? Especially if I eat 40% of it in protein. Isn't that a lot of protein for my body weight?
 
look, when i said 3000 calories that was just a ball park figure.

You would need o sit down and work this out for yourself.

Suppose one pound of inactive muscle burns 40 calories in a day. Find out your lean body weight(by using your bodyfat %, eg. you weigh 125 pounds, and suppose 18% body fat, thats 102 pounds lean mass, but some of that is organs and bone, difficult to say how much.

ANyway, suppose 20 pounds of muscle * 40 calories = 800 calories, just if you lie down all day and do nothing!

then add up your average exercise, e.g. 1 hour of vigorous weight lifting uses about 400 calories, 20 minutes of statinary rowing uses about 160 calories, everything ou do uses calories; sanding walking talking!

so we end up with about 1800 calories just to support your daily functions. if you want to gain weight, you need to take in more than this, say 2500.

all these figures are just rough estimates, so im not sying they are 100% correct!

you can either sit down and work out the exact number of cals you require, or just eat more, and log what you eat (try ), and see if it works over time.
 
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