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09-09-2009, 04:10 PM

kk - 2 things stand out, one, I believe you are eating too often, mostly 2.5 hours between meals sometimes only 2. You can put bodyfat on (or not lose bodyfat) by either eating too many kcalories form junk food or too many kcalories per meal, or which I think may be you, too many kcalories even though they are clean food which you could be doing as you are eating too often.

Or you are not having enough vitamins and minerals (fruit and veg). Vitamins and minerals are chemicals derived from food that are responsible for all metabolic reactions in the human body. If you are deficient in vitamins and minerals, your metabolic rate (the speed in which you use energy) will not be as efficient. The government tell us we need 5 fruit and veg a day, but that is for a sedate human being. you are by no means sedate, you are training so my argument is that you need more.

As you are trying to lose weight, have more veg than fruit as veg has got less kcalories in it, as fruit is high in fructose. About 100 grams of mixed veg will only give you 38kcals.

Or if you don't feel you can eat all that fruit and veg, take the Pro Vital.

The other thing I would say is are you drinking enough water as water is the solvent that all metabolic reactions take place in.

Here is a another answer that I gave to someone regarding metabolism:-

Thanks for your post, you train a lot yet your words "I need to lose some weight", "difficulty losing weight" and "not seeing any noticable difference" and "little chubby". This means that you are obviously eating too many kcalories. Kcalories are not nutrients they are units of energy of nutrients. Protein and Carbs contain 4 kcalories per gram (units of energy) fat contain 9 kcalories per gram and alcohol 7 kcalories per gram. Although we would not call alcohol a nutrient, the kcalories from alcohol we call empty kcalories.

Your metabolism (how many kcalories you need) is not how many kcalories you can metabolise per day, it it how many kcalories you can metabolise per meal, often people who are overweight and train, normally eat too many kcalories per not, not per day.

Imagine if you had a jug of perfect nutrition for your metabolism, and you had some glasses on a table. These glasses represent your meals (how many kcalories you can fit in a glass). You only have 2 or 3 glasses on the table and you pour this perfect jug of nutrition into those glasses, it doesn't all fit in, and the overflow is 1) Nutrients you have wasted (as they've not fitted into the glass, you've not metabolised them) but as your body will not waste anything it converts those nutrients to body fat.

Do the same, but put 5 or 6 glasses on the table (representing 5 or 6 small meals every 3 hours), all that perfect jug of nutrition now fits in, you have metabolised it all, more nutrients and no body fat.

A lady once came into Betta Bodies, she told me she wanted to lose weight but I realised that she did not want to train or count her kcalories. She told me she did not eat all day and cooked a big meal for herself and her husband when he came home from work. I told her to carry on, once she had put her food on her plate, I asked her to get an extra 3 plates, cut her meal into 4 quarters, eat the first quarter with her husband, the second quarter 9pm, third quarter early next day and the fourth quarter in the afternoon. She came to my gym 2 or 3 weeks later and she had lost about half a stone, yet she was eating the same amount of food but she was now pouring it into 4 glasses as opposed to one.

I have posted numerous times about fat loss, so have a look here
http://www.cnpprofessional.co.uk/forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26893"

Any athlete, you can split fitness into 2 catagories, the first, Cardio Vascular, which is the bodies ability to recover from the oxygen debt of the workout. In other words, if an athlete is breathing extremely heavily from a small workout, he is not fit, if an athlete is not breathing heavily from a big workout, he is fit and most athletes are cardio vascularly fit.

The second catagory is muscular fitness, how many times have you seen a boxer going back to his corner and he is not breathing heavily which means he is cardio vascularly fit but his muscle are heavy (he can't keep his arms up, what they call dropping his arms) which means he is not muscularly fit.

When you train and use your muscles, especially when you over load them, you do that for a reason and that reason is to send a signal to those muscles that they are inadequate for the workload you are putting on them. You do this so that they will compensate and get bigger, stronger or faster. Lets call the training number 1, and lets call the body getting fitter, stronger, faster, number 3. In between is recuperation and recover from the trauma of number 1, we will call that number 2. The more you pay attention to you nutrition, the shorter number 2 is so that you can get to number 3 quicker making you a more efficient athlete. The less attention you pay to your nutrition, you will make number 2 a lot longer, and then if you carry on training, say the next day or 2 you may not even get to number 3 which we would call over training. One of the signs of this is lack of sleep (which you say in your original post) and the most important nutrient for number 2 (and of course number 3) is protein especially bio available protein (Pro Peptide, Pro MR, Pro MS).

When you use your muscles (number 1) your body is designed to compensate by using protein to make those muscles more efficient and as you have used those muscles (especially if you train) you have overloaded them, sometimes you end up with micro tears (this is the soreness the next day), you also need protein to repair those micro tears. if you don't eat enough protein, how can your body get the building blocks for numbers 2 and 3. You must eat protein and pay attention to it as much as carbohydrates.

You can split your nutrition into 2 catagories, macro nutrients (carbs, fats and protein) and micro nutrients (vitamins, minerals, fibre, water) they are both equally important. The vitamins and minerals are chemicals derived from your fruit and veg and the solvent to make all metabolic reactions in the body work is water and obviously the fibre makes your digestive system work properly and help undulate the food through your digestive system. Most people don't pay enough attention to micro nutrients and if you don't your body does not metabolise macro nutrients (protein, carbs, fat) as efficiently as it could, in other words micro nutrients are like the key the switches the ignition (your metabolism) on.

Macro nutrients - Most people don't get enough protein for the repair from the trauma of training and not enough protein for the body to make itself fitter stronger faster and more importantly, bio available protein, you can read more about our proteins here http://www.cnpprofessional.co.uk/forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=26359

Also, have a check back and search through my posts regarding fast walking as an exercise for those who are very overweight