Still losing, but not trying!

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SteveO390
SteveO390 Posts: 18 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Ok, this might sound like I'm trying to brag or something but that is NOT the case AT ALL! Allow me to explain, I am a 36yr old man 5'10" tall and back in February I weighed 180lbs, not fat but not where I believed my ideal weight was so I started a modest training program using an Xbox Kinect game 30 minutes a day, three days a week and lost about 10lbs. Then I discovered the myfitnesspal app for my Android phone and started keeping track of what I ate religiously (my diary is public BTW in case you want to glance at it) and lost another 10lbs, so by June/July I was where I wanted to be, floating between 156 and 159 depending on the day.

I might be getting a little paranoid and jumping the gun here but in the last three days I've made a couple of changes to my daily "diet" (I used that word only to define what I eat during the day, not because I consider myself ON a diet) which amounted to ADDING more calories in the form of a lean protein shake with my toast and peanut butter with my morning snack and another one with my almonds and raisins with my afternoon snack and I have dropped TWO MORE POUNDS and as of this morning I now weigh 154.5.

If I am to gain weight at this point I want it to be muscle, I don't want to stop working out and eating more or eating less healthy just to add fat to my body. I'm hoping there's a trainer or nutritionist reading this who might be able to point me in the right direction here. Should I just up my workouts? Will that cause my body to start growing muscle weight? Is my metabolism so fast now that I have to add even MORE calories in order to allow my muscles to grow or will my body start to store it as fat because it'll be too much excess?

Someone please give me a little guidance.

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  • whouwannab
    whouwannab Posts: 350 Member
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    bump
  • engineman312
    engineman312 Posts: 3,450 Member
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    losing weight while playing video games. a man after my own heart.


    i'm gonna turn on gears of war 3. go chainsaw bayonet!
  • wildcatlizzie
    wildcatlizzie Posts: 13
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    I'm not a nutritionist or a trainer, but what I've learned in my physiology and pathophysiology classes is that you need to use the muscle repeatedly to build the muscle. My suggestion would be to do a target muscle group with weights and alternate your muscle groups each time you work out.

    But as I said, I'm not a nutritionist or a trainer, so I may be completely wrong here.
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
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    I was having the same problem. Its hard to go up in calories after you have been on the losing side for so long. You have to add a little at a time.

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