[kbak]

pardon the noob in me...but i'm reading all i can get my hands on..and they have these 5 page glossy ads about all these supplements for weight loss...I mean there's Hydroxycut, Lipo-6, Fizogen Lean tabs (30% off at GNC!) Triple H advertises THIS stack, short stack...should I do anything...if so ...what?

some of you know i'm trying to get down from the 280s..an i'm STILL stuck at 240 but that's my bad..cardio has fallen off bad the past two weeks because i'm in the middle of rewriting and defending my thesis against a panel of stuff'd shirted PH.d's (come on April 27) so...upping my cardio starting today....

....and my diet i think is in check. small portion sizes...i'm still only avg. 1400 calories ( and i feel i'm eating all the time) with 40% protein, 30% carbs and 30% fats (of which only 3% are saturated)

typical:
5am cardio/1 pt of water (unless a weight day)
7am 4 egg whites, 1 whole egg, 1 cup of oatmeal with 1 tsp of honey
10a shake with whey, sometimes flaxseed, fat free milk, 2 tblspoons of non-fat yogart, tspon of natural pb
1230p either salad with spinich, lettuce, cucumber, 2 tbspns of vinegar dressing and grilled chicken breast or
chicken breast, turkey breast and a veg such as asparagus, green beans
330 can of tuna with some cucumber or celery
6pmish more chicken breast, with side salad of greens and 2 tbspons vinegar dressing

weights are 3 days a week, an hour after the 330 meal. full body circuits, mod weights and pushing to failure by the 4th set to try and get some cardio/fat burn benefit. i don't have the gear here at home till june 1 to do proper heavy weights (joining one of the gyms here on June 1 because no summer classes WOOHOO)
i'm trying not to eat at least past 7pm, and thats hard with working on this damned paper till midnight most nights


so long noobed post cut short...should i supplment one fo the 'fat burners" i keep reading about...?

critique, slam, burn, trash...any suggestions on anything more beneficial than me muddled mind says now

thanks kb

[mindstar]

a fat burner can be a viable option, but it sounds to me like you're not eating enough...counter intuitive, yes, but if you limit calories too severely, your body will think it is starving and hang on to fat as a solution against this.

You're on the right track with several small meals though. What I would do first, if I were you, is to figure out my BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) that is to say the calories I need for survival. I posted a great article by Yellowjacket in another thread, search "yellowjacket' and you should find it easily. If you know your BF% you can work out your lean bodymass BMR and not have to adjust your calories afterwards to lose weight, at least initially. You can also track your daily calories at www.fitday.com


After you've done all of that and tried it out for a bit, you could start a fat burner programme, but be advised, that without the nutrition and the cardio, all they'll help you with is feeling anxious and jittery. In order to save money, I buy my components seperately and combine them into my own stack. For this I like Ephedrine, Caffeine, Yohimbe as a stack....search ECY arround and you should find some dosage reccomendations. Start off small with them until you can gauge your tollerance.

Good luck with the thesis, I am so happy I am finished with that stuff...

[Flex]

Appears to me that that you have officially encountered a plateau.

Our thyroid Gland produces a hormone T-4 which can be turned into reverse thyroxine or T-3. Reverse thyroxine blocks out the production of T-3, which is bad because T-3 is responsible for the controlling of your metabolism. The way this happends is by shocking your body a great deal putting your body into large amounts of stress. Your only option would be to raise the calories and slowly decrease them again.