Questions about helping my girlfriend

[LCBUTLER]

My girlfriend is 28, 5' 0", lean and muscular.

She is comforatble with her weight being around 100-102 lbs.

She maintains a pretty clean diet, I would estimate around 125-150 gms of protien per day from lean red meat and or chicken, 40-50 gms of carbs per day from oatmeal, and brown rice, she takes flax and fish oil with each meal, as well as glucorell r (100mg) with each carb meal. For someone her size do you think this is too much food?

Right now she is weighing a whopping 107lbs and she is a bit distressed.

First of all she is on her period now but I don't know how much that can make your weight flucuate.

She has been training with me for that last month, I train like a lot of BBers...1 body part per day, fully exhaust the muscle, sheused to do more of circuit training routine, and not near as intense. It appears to me that she has put on muscle but she is not happy with her weight.

She is doing cardio 1st thing in the AM 3 days per week, and she likes spin classes in the afternoon, she probably averages 1 per week.

She has been on clen 3 20mcg tabs per day since May 11.

Based on this information can anyone give me information on how to help her maintain her weight in the "happy zone"....around 100lbs?

 

[FitFossil]

I've never tried Clen, but I'll try to answer the other questions. Women can hold @5 lbs of water around their period. It's doubtful she's put on 5 lbs of muscle in a month. Any kind of change, like in diet or even more strenuous training, can make the body hold water, especially not drinking enough water. Staying hydrated will help the body flush it out.

If she really wants the best body possible, she needs to abandon the idea of a "happy zone" for her weight, unless she's a jockey and has to weigh a certain amount. Muscle is denser than fat, meaning that 1 pound of muscle will take up less space than a pound of fat. Muscle burns fat even at rest, so each pound of muscle will help her body burn more calories. For women, weight training is like magic. You can eat more and be smaller than before you started training - the only tradeoff is your scale weight will be higher. For me, I've gained 10 pounds but dropped 2 pant sizes. I think it's a darn good tradeoff! (and being a former anorexic, I was always serious about my scale weight)

Your training program will give her much better results than circuit training, but she'll have to be patient. She'll also have to realize that muscle gain and fat loss don't necessarily happen at the same rate. There'll be times she feels "bulky" and want to eat less or lift lighter, but don't let her fall into this trap. As long as she avoids steroids, there's a 99.9% chance she'll never get "too big".

 

[Sassy69]

I would agree w/ FF. Any major change in general lifestyle will probably reflect itself somehow in your body. Ask her is she has had weight changes in the past during her period - the water retention can sometimes be miserable. Have her check her weight in the next week & see if its changed. Otherwise, the change in weight can be due to increased muscle mass or at least a transient different while her body adjusts to the new weight training. Personally I'd put the weight gain to greater muscle & also her period. She can get a better sense of what is water weight & what is muscle mass by having her get her bodyfat measured to determine lean body mass.

 

[LCBUTLER]

I would agree w/ FF. Any major change in general lifestyle will probably reflect itself somehow in your body. Ask her is she has had weight changes in the past during her period - the water retention can sometimes be miserable. Have her check her weight in the next week & see if its changed. Otherwise, the change in weight can be due to increased muscle mass or at least a transient different while her body adjusts to the new weight training. Personally I'd put the weight gain to greater muscle & also her period. She can get a better sense of what is water weight & what is muscle mass by having her get her bodyfat measured to determine lean body mass.

What is a good protien/carb ratio for a female, 1 gm of protein per lb. of body weight?

 

[jenscats5]

I know for me, I can gain 5 pounds or more during my period time -- few days before to a few days after it starts.....it can be distressing, but she just needs to realize it's a temporary weight gain....

Also, women can gain up to 5 lbs per DAY from morning to evening just by retaining water....that's why she should weigh herself no more than 1x per week always under the same conditions...

And like the other ladies said, by putting on muscle her scale weight may go up and her size can go down.....she needs to stop paying attn. to the scale & more to how her body looks & her clothes fit....

I get 1 to 1.5 gm of protein per body weight per day.....