Should I be losing more weight?

Question

Here is my weekly routine:

Breakfast: 2 eggwhites and 1 egg

Snack1 : yogurt at 10 am

Lunch: Turkey sandwich on wheat bread, handful of dry roasted unsalted peanuts and a banana, water to drink

Snack 2: handful of almonds and an apple

dinner: Brown rice and 2 chicken b*****s with corn

I've eaten this about every day for 2 weeks now and have lost 4 pounds. However I've been working out for 4 weeks now and have only lost 4 lbs. I'm currenltly 6'2'' 240 lbs.

M,W,F Workouts: Cardio 3 days a week, run/jog sprint 3 miles

then: circuit training: Benchpress 4 sets of 10, bicep curls: 3x10, bent over rows, triceps 3x10, ab crunches 50 reps 3x10, add lunges on Fridays 3x10, mountain climbers 3 x10

I'm ready for results any thoughts here?

Answer 1

This is actually a fairly decent diet, though you could maybe stand a bit more protein, even if it's just in powder form.  You and I are almost the exact same dimensions (same weight, I'm about an inch taller), but I'm presuming our goals are different because I want to lose 70-80 lbs.  

Something to consider...while two pounds is perfectly decent, you may have lost more pounds of fat yet gained some muscle from your weight lifting.  I probably don't have to tell you that the muscle will help you in the long run...will up your metabolism.

I know a great website (don't run away just yet...it's not selling anything) with a lot of great info.  If you're curious, try www.hussmanfitness.com.

Answer 2

yes you should

Answer 3

ditch the corn

only eat eggwhites

make sure the bread is low cal plus u eat a lot of nuts which is rly igh in cals eat less nuts, do not drink mlk, get rid of yogurt replace with some sort of fiber bar

replace nuts with a peach or apricot and only eat nuts 2x a week

and ur circuit training looks like its adding muscles which weigh a lot so ur body fat percentage is less even though u didn't lose much weight

more cardio

tats about it reduce circuit training replace with cardio and lots of stretching play sports too

the running alone is supposed to make u lose one lb a week

drink more water

Answer 4

No- 2 pounds a week is perfect for you. More people should be posting questions on yahoo answers asking "Should I be losing less weight?", because 2 pounds a week is all you can healthily lose. If you are losing more than that you are either lying, weighing yourself poorly, or are being unhealthy. 2 pounds a week is the maximum healthy amount you should lose. Any more than that is either just water, or water and muscle, neither of which is healthy to lose. I think you are on a great track towards fitness and health.  

Answer 5

Normal and safe weight loss should be 1-2 pounds per week. If you are retaining a lot of water you may lose more.

You are on target.

Remember in order to drop 20lbs of fat you must burn 70,000 calories

One pound of fat is 3500 calories. So in order to drop one pound of fat a week you must have a caloric deficit at the end of the week of 3500 calories.

Another thing that helps is to do your cardio after your strength training. This decreases your chance of injury and also increases the percentage of fat you burn doing cardio due to the glycogen (carbs) being used in your resistance program.

If you do your cardio prior to your resistance workout you will use up most of your glycogen which is necessary for a resistance program to be effective. For cardio you can use carbs or fat for resistance training you need carbs.

As egyptian girl said ditch the corn.

There is a reason they give cattle corn and that is because it fattens them up.