Cutting

[Big_J]

I'm really impressed at how strict you're being with the diet,

yea but when im strict with my diet i like it to work.. so basically your mentally getting stronger :pfft: but as for getting cut hmm i wonder

[SamWelly]

Why are you trying to drop weight?

Why dont you stay at the same weight and just try and add a coupla KGs of muscle. Much better way than stripping the fat off rapidly, losing muscle and strength. Plus you will have more muscle to add to the cut look.

[Flex]

I don't take any additional fats; I used to take E.V olive oil, but then dropped it as I'm getting around 50g fat through my diet anyway - just from the rolled oats, wpc and skin/boneless chook breast!

You've got it a bit wrong there. Those aren't good fats and there's no way you're getting 50g of fat from two chicken breasts and whey protein shakes. Add the olive oil backin and some flaxseed oil.

And you've also added up you carbs wrong - you're eating 235g a day not 163g.

Personally I think the main problem you're having is that you wrote your diet yourself. I don't think you have enough experience to really be able to write a successful diet. Reading BB mags and BB forums tends to just make it worse as you get a thousand different opinions on what is best (as you would have noticed with this post), and then end up picking and choosing what you think would work. Writing your own diet plans, as well as your own training plans, before you actually have any actual knowledge about how it all works is a disaster. You wouldn't bake a cake and decide that you should drop out the flour, and add some salt just because you think that might work better - how are you going to know what works best.

Until you have a bit more experience you're better off paying a nutritionist to write a plan, or buying a good book (yes a book), or ebook if you must, about nutrition, and then following that plan for at least 12 weeks or more. And what ever you do don't take a really good diet that has worked for other people and try and tweak it. Maybe after you're been training for 5 or 10 years you could but it's easier and much more successful just to stick to a proven plan. The good thing about reading a book or using a proper plan is that you don't have to waste hours or days of your time trying to sift through bb forums trying to unearth that elusive magic bullet.

Some of the books and diets I've used are Body Opus by Dan Duchaine, Precision Nutrition by John Berardi, and Body For Life by Bill Phillips, plus the T-Nation diets - Velocity Diet and Fat Fast Diet. They all work, and in no way did I need to make any changes to them.

[Flex]

Scratch what I said about the carbs - I translated 40g oats as 40g carbs. I guess you're only getting 30g or so carbs per 40g.

[Pseudonym]

Actually, I think it's probably closer to 20g carbs. From memory, Flemings rolled oats are just over 50% carb by weight.

[Laver]

To curb all confusion, I use 'Home Brand' Rolled oats, they are 56.2% Carbs.

[Construction Soldier]

250g salmon/chicken has about 50g protien

so your 80g has like less than fcuk all.

Eat more protien its thermogenic

because you feel full does not mean you got everything you needed

and remember different foods have different cals, its about composition

for your cardio do interval training ie- one min fast one min slow, can burn more fat. 35-45 min

search this site there are tons of links to sites, even people here take advantage of other peoples expirience.

some links to food contents, sorry cant find the really good sites i had but you should be able to google it

http://www.ntwrks.com/~mikev/chart3a.htm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m ... i_n6002944

http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/Tricepsman/

check his diet. he obviously has different needs to you....but have a look at this guy

out of intrest does anyone think hes on the gear? or not?

stunning body an impressive goal