help muscle cut fat

reduce your body fat by having a calorie deficit, meaning burn more calories each day than you eat. Add muscle by doing weight lifting exercises rather than just cardio. Keep your carbs down to 100g a day. Try to make them carbs from veggies, not grains. Whole grains if you have to have grains. No potatoes, no matter how cooked. sweet potatoes are ok, though. And very tasty.
Fiber and protein with each meal.

You cannot cut fat and gain muscle since cutting fat means you need to be in a calorie deficit whilst gaining muscle means you need to be in a calories surplus (think of your body like a house, to extend it you need bricks (which is food) and without enough food you can only maintain the house).

Best thing IMO is to get lean (as it will always increase confidence based on the way you look) and then rebound into a muscle gain cycle for a few months but keep things lean. I could always knock you these diets together if you like and will follow a diet...

I lost weight first through circuit training (Jillan Michaels etc) & cardio. I'm now doing more strength training and seem to be managing to build muscle on a vegetarian diet - lots of Greek yoghurt amongst other things (I also eat vegan protein bars and drink hemp protein powder shakes). I'm doing lots of strength training now and am eating about 25% protein, but in grams it is now about 1.5 for each pound of body weight. My carbs are mainly through fruit & veg. I was going to stay at my maintenance calories, which for my height and weight are about 1650, but my body is screaming out for more food - I'm ravenously hungry all the time! So I'm listening to those messages and going with it by eating plenty and not worrying about sticking to a limit. I think I've gained just one or two pounds, but my body fat percentage has stayed the same at around 23%, so hopefully the extra weight is muscle. It certainly looks like I'm building muscle, although it could just be that I'm getting leaner. I really don't want to give up cardio though, as IMO it is good for the heart and lungs amongst other things. I've been advised to go up to 30% protein, but as a vegetarian I think I would really struggle with that. Anyway, it is all a balance, and at least some of it depends on your own body's needs. One thing I'm not sure of is whether it is better to go with the perentage of protein (percentage of your total intake) or grams in relation to body weight, and I'm kind of watching them both at the moment.

You cannot cut fat and gain muscle since cutting fat means you need to be in a calorie deficit whilst gaining muscle means you need to be in a calories surplus (think of your body like a house, to extend it you need bricks (which is food) and without enough food you can only maintain the house).

Best thing IMO is to get lean (as it will always increase confidence based on the way you look) and then rebound into a muscle gain cycle for a few months but keep things lean. I could always knock you these diets together if you like and will follow a diet...

That's really interesting, and quite different to my own personal experience. What studies are you basing that on?

That's really interesting, and quite different to my own personal experience. What studies are you basing that on?

The picture in the profile picture is me. I'm 265lb. I body build for a living as a sponsored athlete for Gaspari Nutrition. The above is strictly correct (from AlwaysWandere) but I was keeping things simple.

Most people aren't any of them and beginners gains only last for 2-3 months. There is also a line of thought that once muscle cells have grown to a certain size that the muscle has memory of growing to said size (either that or they're stretched from oversized growth) and one can regain lost size much quicker than having to make fresh muscle.

Ps - I don't mean to come across as a smart *kitten*, sorry if I do.

what are some good food choices when it comes to gaining muscle and cutting the fat i know its good to lessen the carbs and up the protein but what are some specifics?

you can't gain muscle and cut fat at the same time unfortunately
if you mean "seeing the muscle" well then train hard and keep going on your diet and eventually your muscle will be revealed but only what you always had or what was buried under the fat

You cannot cut fat and gain muscle since cutting fat means you need to be in a calorie deficit whilst gaining muscle means you need to be in a calories surplus (think of your body like a house, to extend it you need bricks (which is food) and without enough food you can only maintain the house).

Best thing IMO is to get lean (as it will always increase confidence based on the way you look) and then rebound into a muscle gain cycle for a few months but keep things lean. I could always knock you these diets together if you like and will follow a diet...

That's really interesting, and quite different to my own personal experience. What studies are you basing that on?

Read this

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/adding-muscle-while-losing-fat-qa.html

You cannot cut fat and gain muscle since cutting fat means you need to be in a calorie deficit whilst gaining muscle means you need to be in a calories surplus (think of your body like a house, to extend it you need bricks (which is food) and without enough food you can only maintain the house).

Best thing IMO is to get lean (as it will always increase confidence based on the way you look) and then rebound into a muscle gain cycle for a few months but keep things lean. I could always knock you these diets together if you like and will follow a diet...

That's really interesting, and quite different to my own personal experience. What studies are you basing that on?

Read this

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/adding-muscle-while-losing-fat-qa.html

Came in to post this ^^^^

turkey, chicken, fish.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/adding-muscle-while-losing-fat-qa.html

I don't believe those figures in that link for one second. 0.5lb a week? 26lb of muscle over a year? That would be impressive for a geared up athlete, let alone someone cutting fat. It logically doesn't make any sense.

If that guy is Lyle McDonald, he talks a lot of interesting info but some of the info he gives out is weak at best.

I did a structured program for 10 weeks. They used a machine called "InBody" which used ultrasound to (according to them, my doctor and other supposed experts) give extremely accurate measure of pounds of fat tissue, pounds of muscle tissue, water weight, etc. In 10 weeks of diet and exercise, I increased my muscle tissue weight by 5 pounds and lost 18 pounds overall.

I can't swear in court that the InBody machine is 100% accurate but it seemed reasonable to me.

reduce your body fat by having a calorie deficit, meaning burn more calories each day than you eat. Add muscle by doing weight lifting exercises rather than just cardio. Keep your carbs down to 100g a day. Try to make them carbs from veggies, not grains. Whole grains if you have to have grains. No potatoes, no matter how cooked. sweet potatoes are ok, though. And very tasty.
Fiber and protein with each meal.

since when were potatoes bad?
potatoes and sweet potatoes are starchy root vegetables. there's no "one is good" and "one is bad"

That's exactly what I was going to say. I don't really think that post is credible in the least.

Nevermind, misread the quote.

You cannot cut fat and gain muscle since cutting fat means you need to be in a calorie deficit whilst gaining muscle means you need to be in a calories surplus (think of your body like a house, to extend it you need bricks (which is food) and without enough food you can only maintain the house).

Best thing IMO is to get lean (as it will always increase confidence based on the way you look) and then rebound into a muscle gain cycle for a few months but keep things lean. I could always knock you these diets together if you like and will follow a diet...

That's really interesting, and quite different to my own personal experience. What studies are you basing that on?

Your "personal experience" is going to confuse people. It's not common unless certain circumstances which were listed right under your original post. Not to mention means of doing so, aren't always the safest. Or the easiest to stick to. Or ....I could go on.

Bump for later.