I mistyped “you’re” in the first sentence, my apologies, it should have been your.

Also I forgot to say, be sure to take a free day once weekly, to give yourself a break. Eat whatever you like on this day and don’t exercise. This tells your body it’s not starving so that it burns unnecessary fat. It also helps psychologically.

On my free day I just eat larger portions than normal, this gets the same result but then I don’t feel like crap by days end.

Thanks again!

You’re doing a great job broseph! I think you’ll reach you’re goal no problem. One thing I’d like to say before I “weigh-in” on the food intake is that gaining weight from packing on muscle is a long process, and unless you’ve been stacking I don’t think you’ll see a noticeable amount of weight gain from muscle mass.

It’s something I hear a lot, and I think it’s important to realize it takes a lot of “hitting the weights” hard to make any real gains in mass and therefore weight.

Although you could be experience weight stabilization which is caused by replacing fat weight with muscle weight, which makes it appear you aren’t losing any weight, when in fact you are, you’re just replacing it with better weight.

Yikes, I digress, sorry for the ramble.

On food.

Ideally, you should replace all the foods in your cupboard/kitchen with Organic or All Natural equivalents, steer clear of any and all foods containing high fructose corn syrup or corn syrup, intake sugar, carbs and fat in moderate amounts, you need all three for rounded nutrition, but you only need to have small amounts daily. You should also drink 10 – 8oz glasses of water daily and 6 smaller meals about 2-3 hours apart during your waking hours, cut out soda all together and take a multi-vitamin twice daily.

Now the above is ideal, but it is also unrealistic for many people, so another more realistic and maintainable way to go would be to get the cook-books “Eating for Life” and “The Biggest Loser Cookbook” and only eat items that appear within the books. This gives you a guideline and eventually you’ll have the knowledge to combine and create your own super nutritious and healthy meals.

I think Arnold said it best; “Why give the body something it doesn’t need?”

I hope this helps and I wish you continued success on your diet.