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Originally Posted by Playmaker7
I only 15, I lost 40 pounds in 2 years, something clicked when I hit the summer after 7th grade. I was always active though but still pretty big. I play hockey all the time. Once of the reason I was so big was probably because of the muscle mass underneath the fat. So said my doctor. While I was losing weight I lifted a lot turning some fat into muscle. Now I seemed to leveled out around 160. I want to lose more weight, but it will probably be more healthy to just continue to bulk up and turn as much remaining fat as possible into muscle. I'm mainly trying to tight end the lose skin that I have from losing the weight. I'm actually eating to little, not getting enough caleries to match my active life style. If you want to lose weight, you still have to eat in order to maintain energy to work out.
If you eat doritoes, stop. I probably lost all that weight from not eating doritoes.
PS. I wish I was 5'9 when I was 13, I'm 5'8 at 15.
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correct, if you are restricting calories too much (in an attempt to lose weight) you can slow down your thyroid output (which in turn makes losing fat HARDER) or you cause your body to canabolize musclemass (less muscle mass means a greater portion of the mass you DO have is fat... ie if you lose muslce mass and keep the wieght the same your trading muscle for fat which means your BF% is going UP UP UP) ALSO, muscle takes a lot more calories to fuel during the day than fat. take 2 guys, both weigh 250lbs. one is solid muscle, ripped to the core... the 2nd is a butterball. the guy that is ripped is burning a TON more calories than the guy that is just fat. why? b/c muscle requires energy, fat is the body's preferred storage system and requires very very little energy to maintain. this all goes back to diet... your body does not want to be 200+lbs of ripped muscle mass. the energy expenditure required to maintain that is very inefficient. to achieve a build like that you have to eat a LOT (of the right things) and FORCE your body to build that muscle at the expense of fat. diet/excercise are where its at... you can't have the body of your dreams without eating & excercising properly