warren_1987

hey guys

as some of you will know im trying to gain some lean mass, im eating alot training hard and resting alo and i mean alot lol but i got weighed today after week 1 of my new diet and i have lost weight (very demoralising)

i was not expecting a gain of like 5 lbs lol but i was certainly not expeting to drop weight i was 165.** lbs last sunday now i am 165lbs but at one point they were fluxating down to 164.8lbs

my diet and workout is on the page called

''my diet and workout log wit pics''

if anyone can help it is very demoralising as im trying to get my weight up to around 175 - 180 asap i start american football in august sept time, so i need more muscle mass.

cheers guys

Adampski

Be patient, it'll come, see what next weeks results are and let us know, can't really take the 1st week into account that much.

What point in the day did you get weighed?

warren_1987

hi mate i always get weighed on sun morn first thing after morn wee lol

but i have been training since mid jan and i was doing 4 weeks of 2x20 to get my joints and ligaments use to lifting and i lost alot of fat but now i have upped my food alot and im still not gaining

how much will i be ble to gain per month as a newbie lifter

s.g

i wouldn't worry to much , your body is just getting use to the new training etc you will soon see more mass coming. since i started training with new diet , better routine and cardio my weight has stayed the same but i am getting more toner by the day (even bigger) plus lifting more and more each week. it just a matter of your body adjusting

chrisj22

It'll be water mate. I bet you either drank more or less than you did last week around the same time - don't expect to put on 5lbs naturally in a month or so, it won't be quality gains.

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Bulldozer

Weight gain is not always linear.

Just keep training hard and eat plenty of quality food.

YOU WILL gain weight as long as your eating a calorific surplus.

Give it time mate

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warren_1987

cheers guys i think i will try work out how much i have been eating kcal wise each day and see but how do i know my normal calorie count?

ie say a surlus of 500 nbut 500 on top of what lol

Bulldozer

Work your calories out and then keep adding 300 calories a day until you see the scales go up. But do this gradually, leaving each increment approxiamtely a week to see any changes.

If you have no clue where to start try this......

bodyweight * 15 = approx daily maintenance.

So... if you weigh 200 lbs, multipy this by 15 , which gives you 3000 calories a day.

Its just a rough guide and depends on many factors, but gives you a starting point, then add 300/500 calories a day and see how you go.

Hope that makes sense

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warren_1987

cheers bud well if you would all like to keep an eye on my training log and at the end of each wee ill add the calories up and we can see how much iv eaten lol

also any comments on the week much appreiciated.

thanks

JawD

If you have just started training, its common to loose weight pretty quick to start off. As mentioned, can be down to water etc. When I was trying to loose weight, I was checking each week and noticed it would be up and down but over like 8 weeks it would be down overall. Thats what counts, not day to day or even one week to the next, but over a long period of time.

Dont go mad and start eating like 5000 cals a day But do eat what you are now and train hard. Give it a couple of weeks and see what effect (if any) it has had on your weight. Then add a few more hundred cals and leave it alone again for a few weeks and so on.

You want slow gains in weight, try and do too much and you will gain faster, but it wont be lean muscle ;)

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warren_1987

thanks for the responces, i done some rough calculations on last weeks food and all except 1 day i was under 2000kcals i have put it up on my training lod for people to see.

although weight is decreasing i feel my overall condition is worse ie looking flabbier althoug i will only really tell next sun when the 2nd round of pics go up.

i have had a look into my diet and with no shakes inc till they arrive i have upped the food a little bit mainly just on quantities ie

75g oats is now 100g and a boiled egg

but have another look on my log to see exactly

cheers

warren_1987

hey good news people, its the end of week 2 and im up 2.5lbs so this is like 1.25lbs per week. i hink that is good as im a newbie???

ave a look of my log got the new pics up althought no change really as its been only 2 weeks lol. still im appy