I drop about 10% of my total calories, increase cardio, and maintain my regular lifting days/weights.

I definitely eat cleaner too when I'm cutting. I don't eat too bad when gaining...but I definitely do change it a bit.

Just thought I'd share a quick picture update.

Feb 23:


April 21st:

Originally Posted by seanr1221 When it comes to cutting, do you guys just eat less, but not a huge drop in calories, eat clean, and maintain the same weights at the gym so you don't lose strength?

No, there is no real "such" thing as clean eating, a carb is a carb regardless whether it comes from Oatmeal or Ice cream, both will get broken down into glucose at some point or time

Check out IIFYM:
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=136691851

I rarely eat carbs as it is. Most of my carbs comes from vegetables and nuts. To me clean eating is lean meats, eggs, lots of vegetables, moderate amount of nuts and fruit, etc. I don't eat cereal, bread, pasta, rice (unless I'm having a weekend cheat meal).

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You guys should check out the app Body Shot. It's pretty cool.

Weighed in today at 284.6, down 52.4lbs. from 337

Pants are down from 54 to 48...luckily Amazon had that nice 50 dollars off 200 with the rewards card to get some new pants...had an awesome hobo cinch going on with my belt in the 54's.

Still doing my intervals on the bike 6 days a week but moved the resistance up to 8/15 and its kicking my ass again. Diet wise I've been sticking to my smoothie for lunch (15 blueberries, 1 banana, 5 strawberries, 8oz orange juice, 1 Chobani vanilla Greek Yogurt, ice/water), then a small meal around 2:30-3 and then dinner at 5. (usually some brown rice/veggie/meat concoction).

Cheating has been going on but I'm not letting it drag me completely back into old shitty eating habits.

Nice work there Diddy! Whats the goal?

Losing 100 sounds like a nice number - but I have no idea what I would look like losing that much so I'm just going by how I feel/look as I go to judge. My short term goal was 275 by my friend's wedding in June which it looks like I will reach.

Sounds good...keep up the good work!

I'm about to prune juice it. Haven't pooped much the past week (just little tiny bouncy ball looking turds in case you were wondering lol) so we will see how this goes.

Originally Posted by perdition(troy I'm about to prune juice it. Haven't pooped much the past week (just little tiny bouncy ball looking turds in case you were wondering lol) so we will see how this goes.

Hmm...come to think about it, neither have I. I was just assuming my body was using everything I was putting into it for energy, so there was no waste.

Has to be 4-5 days now.

Eat more veggies guys, you should be going daily.

Hmm...come to think about it, neither have I. I was just assuming my body was using everything I was putting into it for energy, so there was no waste.Has to be 4-5 days now.

Ya, that's what I was thinking at first too, but I was scratching my head trying to figure out when my last "good" day was and it was roughly 2 weeks ago (saturday the 14th, three big ones lol). I know I've been at 1500~2000 calories a day, and have been using well over and was just assuming that my body was using everything I put in it.

I eat veggies just about every time I have a meal throughout the day blindinglights. Heck, for a few days in that I was eating veggie soup (tomatoe, corn, carrots, potatoes and something else my wife put in it) lol. We'll see how this works out today.

New weight yesterday, I'm at 192. Feels good (will hopefully feel even better in a few hours).

The corn and potatoes aren't full of fiber like leafy greens. I eat a lot of broccoli, green beans and coffee every day. Needless to say I'm pretty consistent.

That was what I was forgetting. There were green beans and peas in it.

I am at 195.3 as of this morning (dropped to 193 over the weekend, but I knew it was a fluke, lol). Anyway, my diet lately is great. I am losing weight and eating food I like, while watching my carb intake and eating higher proteins. For breakfast I have a protein shake (just the whey protein and soy or almond milk in my shaker...tastes like a slim fast, it's good..lol). Then at around 10, I'll have a yogurt or low sodium cottage cheese. For lunch, I will have a few different things depending on the day. A tuna sandwich w/ very little mayo and sugar free relish on wheat, or a salad, or a can of low sodium soup. For my lunchtime snack I usually have an apple, orange, or banana, or celery w/ peanut butter or hummus. For my 3:00 snack I have a Pure Protein bar (high protein, low calories, and they taste awesome). And finally, for dinner I usually have a piece grilled, plain chicken w/ a little salt and pepper, and one of several veggies (edamame, brussel sprouts, broccoli). I also have a lot of white fish (swai, flounder, tilapia, etc.) cooked in a frying pan w/ a little olive oil and some adobo for seasoning. Depending on my carb/calorie intake for the day, I sometimes put the fish on wheat wraps and make healthy fish tacos, which taste amazing, lol. That's usually around 7:00. Then at around 9, when I finish exercising, I have another protein shake. That's pretty much it, and I usually top off at around 1200-1300 calories. It's working well for me so far.

I wish I could stick to something that good for a diet. My average meal is smart start or chex for breakfast, pb sandwich and carrots (real carrots, not the little sugar ones), and for dinner whatever I made for the next few days (taco soup, veggie soup, turkey hamburger soup, stroganoff, chicken broccoli noodle stuff, eggs and toast). Throw in a couple cookies/popcorn/graham crackers and thats the average food intake of Troy. Also about a gazillion oz of water/juice (mostly strawberrykiwi or cranberry/cranberry pomegranate...or I just mix a few bottles of juice together in a cup).

Btw, my journey with prune juice has began. Though no one wants to read this, I will be giving updates on here so others have to suffer with me :(

This stuff looks like iced tea btw, and tastes awful. It smells like you left veggies in your garbage disposal for an extended period of time.

After I stopped eating fast food I noticed I was getting nowhere near the suggested protein amount on a daily basis. Most of it was coming from burger and burrito meat. I bought the big jug of vanilla flavored whey protein and its better tasting than I thought it would be. In the morning I use 1 cup of diet v8 splash (10 calories!), 1 cup of frozen fruit(70 calories), half of a low-fat yogurt cup that I freeze(40 calories), and a few ice cubes. I throw the Whey protein into the smoothie and I get an orange Julius tasting drink that's 240 calories and half of my daily protein. Been drinking these for about a month now and my workouts and weight loss are going great.

Just ordered a digital camera because the one in my phone broke. Going to start taking some progress pics since I am 40 lbs lighter than when I started.

Progress pics are awesome, there is nothing better than seeing other people losing weight at the same time

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