Is it possible to get leaner, without any serious discomfort?

[Taps]

35 y/o with no cardio and I'm around 7-8% bf.

I eat a healthy diet and eat no complex carbs after 7:00 pm.

If I want a double quarter pounder, I have one. I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so no problem there.

Interesting. If there's one thing I've noticed as I get older, it's that I can't slack off too much diet-wise or I start getting chubby.

Do you have a fast metabolism? Have you always been fairly lean?

Shit, when I was 19 I could eat french fries all day, drink beer all night, sleep for 3 hours and still make gains in the gym. Now, just 7 years later my body just can't handle that kind of stuff like it used to.

 

[Big Johnson]

I can't get below %10 unless I eat no-carb and run five miles three times/week on an empty stomach.

 

[Burning_Inside]

basically because of this:
If 'doing something about it' equates to starving, you can definately count me out.

I'm looking for any possible other solution, heck it never hurts to try
but if I'm annoying you guys with my repeated searching for an easy way out...

then maybe I should keep on searching.

just to let you know, hunger pains don't have anything to do really with how much food your body needs. So depending on many facors, you MAY just end up being hungry. I mean if by eating at say 10x your bodyweight in calories to lose weight, you are always hungry, then...That's just life. Eventually (I imagine) your hormones will come into balance (like grehlin and such) and you won't feel hungry anymore on the lesser calorie intake. Just drink a shit ton of water and spinach if youre hungry.

 

[Burning_Inside]

On a second thought,

I am curious to hear if any of you guys have naturually been at a bodyfat like 12-15% even when you have been eating healthy and doing cardio and lifting. Because for me I have. Even back when I was eating cleaner and doing more cardio and lifting, I still wasnt getting any leaner,
its almost as if my body absolutely hates dropping below 12% unless I resort to some diet that makes me feel deprived and unhappy on a daily basis.

I guess what I'm wondering is, have any of you guys ever been in my boat, (where you were already doing the 3 days of cardio, 3 days of lifting, and pretty healthy eating) and yet still were floating at around 12% BF? And have you guys also found a temporary 'lean eating plan' that allowed you to permanently lower your BF in the 7% range? And when I say permanent I mean like you have been there for at least an entire year without much variance at all.

so in other words all you did was suffer on some diet for a few months, and now you are permanently hotter because of it, even though you have now switched back to what you were doing before.

lets hear some responses. forgive the longness of all my posts.

Yes.

I went from like 20% bf to like 12 or so that I am now over the course of a year. Just in the past few months, I completely stopped all fat loss. No matter what I did. I was contemplating hitting up the DNP again it was that bad. Morning cardio wasn't doing shit, eating mroe wasn't doing shit, eating less...nope, nothing. So I just took 2 weeks off of maintaining a proper diet and ate mass amounts of crap. I'm going to diet again for another 2-3 weeks and see what happens. Keto diet..No carbs...No carbups...Then it's bulk city for 2 months.

 

[c-sharp minor]

Interesting. If there's one thing I've noticed as I get older, it's that I can't slack off too much diet-wise or I start getting chubby.

Do you have a fast metabolism? Have you always been fairly lean?

Shit, when I was 19 I could eat french fries all day, drink beer all night, sleep for 3 hours and still make gains in the gym. Now, just 7 years later my body just can't handle that kind of stuff like it used to.

I can put on bf if I work at it. LOL

I bulk in the winter and give myelf a nice spare tire. Yeccchhhh.

I hear you about being 19 though. I could down an entire x-large pizza with no ill effect, other than indigestion. I first noticed that I was getting a little bf around age 25. Freaked me out, to say the least.

When I said I would eat a burger if I wanted, I should have mentioned that I may only eat one per month, if that.

I really don't care to put too crap in my body. Now suicide wings are a different story altogether.

If you want to get an idea of what I look like, look for some pics of sexualmustard. We have very similar looks, physique wise.

 

[Machiavellian Muscle]

But again, I will repeat, I am not cool with deprivation.

Stay cool at 13% b/c you will have to be deprived in some way shape or form when cutting to 7%.

 

[p60]

Re: Re: Is it possible to get leaner, without any serious discomfort?

Stay cool at 13% b/c you will have to be deprived in some way shape or form when cutting to 7%.

I can't explain why,

but for some reason, this was what I wanted to hear.

 

[Code]

Re: Re: Re: Is it possible to get leaner, without any serious discomfort?

I can't explain why,

but for some reason, this was what I wanted to hear.

I can explain it in one word:
Pussy.

 

[casavant]

casavant wouldn't steer you wrong despite stinking up his place with catfish

Indeed.


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