I want to lose weight, will protein make it harder or make me gain weight?

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Primetime

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I want to lose weight first and formost. I then want to become cut, but want to lose weight. My plan was to use hydroxycut for a month and thin down a bit while running, then get on protein and lift weights. I usually play hard basketball 2-3 times a week then soccer 1-2's a week, so much of my workouts are sports and all out running. I will lift a couple times a week. Will protein affect losing pounds in any way? My main thing is i want to lose my belly, weight and then become cut, whts the best way to go about this?

THANKS
 
Welcome to the forums.

First, drop the hydroxycut. It's not healthy and really won't help you.

Second, you can't spot lose weight so you are going to lose fat all over, not just specificly your belly. Nothing you can do about it.

Third, protein will help reduce the amount of muscle you will lose due to cutting calories.

Forth, if you want to lose weight, you won't be getting cut or gaining muscle since a calorie deficit is counter to muscle groth.
 
What you want to do is try to hold as much muscle as possible, as you lose the fat. To do this, keep up the cardio exercise and add some resistance training, i.e., weight lifting, and get adequate protein. Then when you have lost the excess fat, if you want to add more muscle, you will have to increase the calories and gain some weight, then another cycle of calorie cutting.
Protein has calories, and as such it will affect your weight loss. However, if you cut your overall calories, you will lose weight.
 
I did the same thing. I am normally very muscular. I had grown large. I kept working out (4 times per week strength and cardio) but did not watch what I ate. This winter, the "revelation" is that I do need to control how much I eat to keep the calories eaten below the calories used.

I think you have to first keep track of eeverything you eat and gradually cut it back and keep up the strength program
 
Are you talking about protein supplements?

Losing weight is about calories in and calories burned. Protein and carbs have the same calories per gram (approximately) Fat is almost double. You need all three. If you want to keep getting strong and losing the fat you need to eat very little if any junk.

Put yourself into a 500-700 calorie per day deficit and eat a balanced diet of protein/carbs/fat. Eat lean protein, good carbs like whole wheat bread and pasta, legumes and vegetables. Good fats are olive oil and nuts in small quanities and enough saturated fat in dairy products so you get enough calcium. That doesn't leave any room for booze or candy. The harder you work out the more you can eat of the muscle building protein. You'll only lose 4-5 pounds/month so you better have a long term plan.
 
thanks guys, so in general you guys say to not use hydroxycut or protein at this current moment and just concentrate on losing weight without those two because hydroxycut isnt worth it and protein will make weight lose a little harder, so just do calorie intake vs burned. Is there any thing else i could do to actually help me lose weight faster?

Thanks
 
Where did you get cut protein from? No. You need all of the food groups. You aren't suppose to just cut one off. You just have to control your calories.

And you need to get off the 'lose weight faster' mentality. It's not about speed. It's about slow, stead results. It takes time and effort. There is no shortcut.
 
I'm not getting this concept of "using" protein. Protein is food. What do you mean when you say you're going to "use" it?

You need to consume sufficient protein while dieting in order to retain lean muscle mass. So make sure that you eat about 1g of protein per pound of lean body weight.

Within that guideline, make sure you're eating fewer calories than you burn in order to lose weight.

That's pretty much the extent of it. You don't need to take drugs, and you don't need to "use" anything.
 
KaraCooks said:
I'm not getting this concept of "using" protein. Protein is food. What do you mean when you say you're going to "use" it?

You need to consume sufficient protein while dieting in order to retain lean muscle mass. So make sure that you eat about 1g of protein per pound of lean body weight.

Within that guideline, make sure you're eating fewer calories than you burn in order to lose weight.

That's pretty much the extent of it. You don't need to take drugs, and you don't need to "use" anything.
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Oh sorry, when I say protein im talking about the protein tht you buy at the store!! Does that change anything we were talking about?
 
i don't think like this

hey buddy i did this too but it bring me with more and more weight and now i am searching and working out that how i lose this weight which i gained by using massive protein riched food so please don't try this consult with some health physician please
 
Thanks, the thing is I would probably just take the protein i bought from the store and still eat healthy and light. I wont eat foods rich in more protein, ill eat light like im trying to lose weight and lift and do cardio.
 
Oh sorry, when I say protein im talking about the protein tht you buy at the store!! Does that change anything we were talking about?
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No. Protein is protein.

hey buddy i did this too but it bring me with more and more weight and now i am searching and working out that how i lose this weight which i gained by using massive protein riched food so please don't try this consult with some health physician please
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This is totally and completely wrong. Protein does not make you fat.

I wont eat foods rich in more protein,
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Taht's completely the opposite of what you should do and it makes me so frustrated that you've taken everything that everyone has told you that is verifyable and backed up by real studies ... and dismissed all of it based on one ignorant, grammatically incorrect post by someone who has 5 whole posts on the site.

Basically what that says to me is that you don't want the truth and you don't want help. You want someone (and you don't care if they have any validity or not) to agree with you.
 
When people ask for "help" more often than not what they are really asking for is someone to agree with what they already think and confirm it. The example you see is one incoherently babbled confirmation based on opinion is worth a hundred well worded and scientifically backed suggestions.

In the end people have to make their own mistakes and learn to sink or swim. Something I have learned from a book I read recently that applies well is that you can't get too frustrated in giving people advice that they don't take. You can do your best to suggest but if someone has their mind firmly closed only failure is going to illustrate that. In some cases even failure isn't going to illustrate that depending on the individual.

Common sense has never been all that common.
 
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Actually, if you notice, the post was a spam signature guy. They never actually say anything other than what the poster wants to hear just so that poster would click their link.
 
KaraCooks said:
No. Protein is protein.

This is totally and completely wrong. Protein does not make you fat.

Taht's completely the opposite of what you should do and it makes me so frustrated that you've taken everything that everyone has told you that is verifyable and backed up by real studies ... and dismissed all of it based on one ignorant, grammatically incorrect post by someone who has 5 whole posts on the site.

Basically what that says to me is that you don't want the truth and you don't want help. You want someone (and you don't care if they have any validity or not) to agree with you.
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First of all, I dont know what crawled up your butt today, but your making no sense. I didnt listen to one guy at all, I listened to every opinion. I didnt even say anything close to agreeing with him or even saying anything at all to him. I said Thanks to you all and responded to his comment in the same sentence, so I have no clue what your talking about, if anyone is going off on their own its you. Once again thanks everyone even the ones who got away from the actual postings. And for your info im am following the people who are more educated, i just want masses of opinions not just one. Same with you OCD, you two are the one who somehow got lost in this posting, not me but thanks for the info
 
My main thing right now is I want to do something with my body, i dont want to get any fatter then i already am. Im near 195 and im 5'10, im not fat but im not thin, best way to explain is hesky. My main focus is to lose fat around my mid section. I dont know how your confusing what im saying when I say I will be taking the protein shakes or drinks from the store and eat light and healthy with FOODS not rich in protein. So it basically comes down to what will taking protein shakes do for me in the end with a light diet plan and lifting, then more cardio while light lifting when my knee recovers from injury in couple weeks
 
Getting back to primetime's original question, I think the answer is that calories are the only thing you need to manage. My guess is that you already know how to eat a balanced meal and proteins, carb's, fats etc need to be included intelligently.

Eat less calories everyday than your body needs. Have you listed everything you ate today and totaled up the calories? That is the first place to start. Let me know how much that is.

Some of the people are trying here in the only way that they can manage.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
 
I like to say proteins are the dieters best friend. Protein is going to make you more satisfied for way longer than carbs or fat. You really cant over eat lean protein like you can starchy carbs and fat.

When your body breaks down calories of protein you have a faster metabolism than when you break down fats or carbs

Protein keeps your blood sugar level more even throughout the day so you avoid being hungry and you have more energy. Youre not going to get that huge carb rush after eating like pasta and you wont get that crash mid morning or mid afternoon.

A recent clinical report in the International Journal of Obesity found that low calorie diets that are high in protein are much more effective than low calorie, high carb diets.

Consider this, for the vast majority of mankind's history agriculture had not been invented. Our bodies evolved and were optimized on a hunter-gatherer diet. Civilized man eats way way too many carbs. Thats why we are all constantly getting fatter. Thats also why heart disease and cancer are virtually unheard of among the nomadic tribes that still exist such as the inuits.

Get in touch with the ripped and healthy prehistoric hunter inside of you. Eat meat.

Focus on lean meats. If you completely replaced all your starch and grain carbs with fruit you would still get more than enough carbs. And if you eat alot of protein youll get just enough fat as well. Of course make sure you dont leave out veggies.
 
TheW8LossMaster said:
Consider this, for the vast majority of mankind's history agriculture had not been invented.
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Actually, we have had agriculture for over 10,000 years.

Earliest evidence for domesticated wheat
0 9500BC

Identifying the exact origin of agriculture remains problematic because the transition from hunter-gatherer societies began thousands of years before the invention of writing. Nonetheless, archaeobotanists/paleoethnobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. There is earlier evidence for use of wild cereals: anthropological and archaeological evidence from sites across Southwest Asia and North Africa indicate use of wild grain (e.g., from the ca. 20,000 BC site of Ohalo II in Israel, many Natufian sites in the Levant and from sites along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC). There is even evidence of planned cultivation and trait selection: grains of rye with domestic traits have been recovered from Epi-Palaeolithic (10,000+ BC) contexts at Abu Hureyra in Syria, but this appears to be a localised phenomenon resulting from cultivation of stands of wild rye, rather than a definitive step towards domestication. It isn't until after 9,500 BC that the eight so-called founder crops of agriculture appear: first emmer and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas and flax. These eight crops occur more or less simultaneously on PPNB sites in the Levant, although the consensus is that wheat was the first to be sown and harvested on a significant scale.


So to say we haven't been doing agriculture for most of our history is actually false. It isn't about cutting grain and eating fruit and meat. There are no long term studies that say what you suggest is better than a balanced diet for weight loss. In fact, most studies suggest that people are more likely to regain the weight on the Atkin's diet you are promoting (and when I say Atkins, it's the idea around it, not the actual plan)
 
Ok, so I bought some protein. I bought AMP wheybolic extreme 60 and dietary mega man joint pills, I want to lose 15 pounds. My main concern with this was is it going to make it harder to lose weight and from all the info i gathered hear it sounds like it wont and will actually help me lose weight, is that correct.?
I do cardio workouts 3-4 times a week and lift 2-4 times a week but cardio is always more then lifting. With tht diet plan and the goal to lose weight first, is it safe to say that taking this protein stuff will help me lose weight and have a better body?

I just want to play it safe because i dont want to gain any more fat or weight at all

thanks
 
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