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Balancing Fat loss with muscle gain.

hifromeddie Posts: 1 Joined: 2007/06/23

2007/06/23, 03:31 AM By nature I am a skinny guy and I did not lose my skinny teenage body until I turned 37 or so. At that time I started working out and eventually went from 140 lbs (at 6 feet tall) to almost 190 lbs. I gained both fat and muscle at that time. I new the muscle was there because my bench improved by about 150 lbs, and i new the fat was there because my waist went from 30" to 34". And now I am 41 and after working out hard for 4 years I temporarily went on a vegetarian diet and have been eating low fat food, while still maintaining my weightlifting routine 3 days a week. In the process of cutting fat and meat out of my diet (but eating a lot of whey protein and other natural protein sources) my body weight went from 185 lbs to 170. But my strength stayed the same. The main areas that lost fat were: first my face (looks very skinny, sunken-in cheeks), my calves lost an inch (were 15" but are now 14") and my waist lost almost 2 inches (almost down to 32"). When I workout at the gym in a tank top I look very narrow and skinny compared to other guys. It is as though I am getting smaller just by eating healthy food and no meat. If I continue like this I will probably balance out around 165 - 170 lbs. I just don't want to go too far and lose too much weight. They say it is good to have some fat (I eat olive oil, flax seed, peanuts/cashews etc. for my fat source). But I am thinking I have gone far enough and should try to stay where I am at, or get bigger only if it is muscle weight not fat. Just something I have been thinking about. -------------- http://body-mind-soul.net