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Hey Lane and other fellow BBD folk I haven't seen in a while.

Haven't posted here in a while, been busy but I had a question regarding diet and noticed the new Natural Lane section and figured you'd be the perfect person to ask.

Alright I switch every now and then between full body and split training. Currently I have been on a cutting cycle, and I've lost a lot of fat.. too much fat. My problem is I used to always be a skinny kid, I gained a good amount of muscle constantly bulking(99% clean) over the course of 2 1/2 years. When I cut the muscle definition etc is great, but with the diet I have been following I constantly keep losing weight.

I started the cut at about 180 and now I am at 150lbs. I mostly lost strength on my deadlifts/squats.

Now my question is, I currently am doing Full body work outs every other day with HIIT Sprint/Stairs inbetween. I am eating abot 1g of protein per lb of body weight and same goes for carbs. My fat is usually about 50-60g.

I think I need to cut some of my cardio out and maybe limit it to 1-2 a week. What my goals for now are since I have gotten to the cut stage I want to be, is gain weight but VERY slowly trying to maintain low BF. I know I will put on some fat, but I think Full body workouts coupled with a clean diet should limit/make the fat non existent.

My question is what should I do in terms of diet? Up my protein/carbs to about 200g of each a day? I just want to stop losing the weight and gain it slowly, I love doing the HIIT but I will limit it as with my fast metabolism it makes the weight drop even faster.

Thanks.

[str8flexed]

slowly add in carbs until you start slowly gaining weight... around 1/4 to 1/2 lb per week

FYI... it's spelled Layne, not Lane :)

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Sorry about the mis-spell, Layne.

Gotya, so just slowly add carbs until weight starts to rise again.

Also for carbs I pretty much stick to mixed nuts (get good fat out of them also), whole wheat bread, wheat pasta, and sometimes brown rice.

That should be sufficent for carbs correct?

Thanks.

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Also, What I did before for my full bodies when I thought I got pretty good gaines was 4-5days a week M-F I'd train fullbody workouts every day then take the weekends off.

I want to limit my HIIT cardio days just because I think they take too much weight off too fast.

So what I was thinking is M, T, Th, F I'll train full body, take Wednesday and Saturday off then just put in one day of HIIT on Sunday to keep my cardiovascular endurance/stamina up.

Do you think I could get away w/ more of the HIIT? Similar to what I do now w/ Train, HIIT, Train, HIIT, etc?

[aefx2387]

You shouldn't rely too heavily on mixed nuts for carbs.
Nuts are a great source of efa's but to get even 20-25 grams of carbs you would be taking in anywhere from 42 to 48 grams of fat. Use nuts for fat source.
Stick to brown rice, oatmeal, yams/sweet potatos, whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, and green veggies for carb sources.

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Originally Posted by aefx2387

You shouldn't rely too heavily on mixed nuts for carbs.
Nuts are a great source of efa's but to get even 20-25 grams of carbs you would be taking in anywhere from 42 to 48 grams of fat. Use nuts for fat source.
Stick to brown rice, oatmeal, yams/sweet potatos, whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, and green veggies for carb sources.

Ya I don't eat the mixed nuts as a carb source, like you said I'd have to eat a large amount of fat in order to get a small amount of carbs.

I use the nuts and peanut butter strictly for my fat source.