Question for Steve

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jzthedetermined

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Steve,
After poking around here for a week or so, you seem to be the one to ask. If my goal is to lose fat weight, but keep my muscle, is there any certain diet I should follow? Does creatine help to do this? Would you suggest creatine? Again, judging from your advice, and your pics, I figured you could answer this fairly easily.
 
Hey man...

I highly suggest reading through the stickie threads. They're found at the tops of the various subforums. I'd start with this one:

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/topic/11337-words-wisdom.html

I wouldn't concern yourself with creatine just yet. Get your diet under wraps before spending money on supps.

I don't recommend any particular diet. I'm not one for diets. I just apply the fundamentals to the person in a way that 1) works for them and b) they enjoy enough to do it consistently.

You want to maintain your muscle, you can start with eating adequate protein. Assuming you're healthy, for the most part, I'd stick with 1 gram per pound of lean body mass.... which is everything but the fat. If you don't know what that is, just estimate it. If you aren't carrying a lot of fat, you can simply stick with 1 gram per pound of total body weight.

I build my diets around that concept.

From there I add in essential fats, veggies and fruits. I then fill in the remainder with whatever I want, which usually consists of pasta, rice, potatoes, bread, etc. But this varies from person to person. Some people don't handle carbs as well as others... and when that is the case, I'll use more fats than carbs.

Hope you get the idea.

Lifting weights is another great way for sending the appropriate signal to preserve muscle.
 
jzthedetermined said:
Thanks, I will do that once I learn how. Pretty sad that a "gen-x-er" isn't familiar with forums/threads/posting/ect... :)
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Top blue toolbar. Hit search. Click on advanced search. You can input my name as the user and search for whatever keywords you're interested, such as creatine. Bottom left, I'd suggest hitting the post button opposed to the thread button.
 
Good advice, and thanks for the lesson(search). The links page, Tom's I believe, had a lot of very usefull information on it. Now I know where to look for some of the answers to my questions.
 
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