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Calorie surplus for muscle gain?
I guess this is the right place to post this. Okay, so I've been doing around 1320 give or take a hundred calories at 20% carbs, 30% protein and 50% fat a day for the most part for months now for fat loss and have done a halfway decent job of it as long as I stay on track. This represents an 11% calorie restriction. I've…
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Will what I'm doing get me where I want to be?
I may be about to take the prize for stupidest question ever asked in the exercise section of this forum, but here goes anyway. At the beginning of this year my weight was 136. My body fat percentage was 29%. My lean tissue was about 97 lbs and my fat was about 39 lbs. Right now, I am at 135 lbs. My body fat percentage has…
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Height/weight ratios
Okay, this may be a really ridiculous question but I'm truly curious. I have both scoliosis and degenerative disc disease. I should be 5' 8" tall. Because I have two 15 point curves from scoliosis, I lost one inch in height. Later because of degenerative disc disease, I've lost two more inches so now I am 5' 5" tall. I'm…
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Getting enough calories while low carbing
I started a low carb diet not too long ago. I'm not very low carb but I do try to keep my carbs around 75 grams a day. I eat 4 times a day but I'm still consistently under the 1200 calories; I mean like pretty much every day. I'm not hungry. And I'm wondering if this is fairly common when you're low carbing.
