Losing body fat & keeping muscle

Hi, i've been lifting for about two years, and i'm 16. i just got off a high-calorie muscle-building program. i gained muscle, but also fat. my abs are starting to fad under a layer of fat! how do i get rid of this fat w/o losing the muscle i just gained? i heard that if you cut your calories too much then you lose muscle. how can i avoid this? thanks so much.

simple. Just cut some fat & carbs out, not like an "atkins" diet, just so protein is more than fat or carbs, do more cardio, eat healthier, it should all work.

good luck

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You need to cut the calories just enough so you lose the fat and maintain the muscle.

You can do this 2 different ways.

Read thur the posts in the Nutrition forum. There's great stuff there (top posts) on how to calculate your calories.

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It's not impossible at all. You just need to create a calorie deficit small enough so that your body burns off the fat but not so great as to lose muscle and fake your body into a starvation mode. Figuring out what you need to do that.. what you intake now minus a small percentage is not very difficult. Djduhon made a great post in the Nutrition section on how to do that. You will find his post at the top of that forum.

Marc C. David - NGA CPT
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
www.nobullbodybuilding.com

oh yes, I run about five to seven miles a day on the track team, and I eat over 2000 calories. what bugs me is that i have sort of like an enlarged gut, in which I can see the thin outline of my abs but my stomach literally curves out farther than my chest at the belly button. then I flex and every little detail of my abs puff out. is this fat i need to lose (because it does roll up when i sit down). or do a just have an expanded stomach naturally?

I bust mine to beat yours.

Get a real fat test... it may be just genetics. And when you sit down.. the extra skin has to go somewhere right? If you flex and you can see the abs, I'm thinking that the relaxing and having it puff out is just that fact that you have ab muscle. And when it's relaxed, it puffs out.

I'd get tested because it sure doesn't sound like you are fat to me.

Marc C. David - NGA CPT
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
www.nobullbodybuilding.com

maybe you're right... could it be an enlarged diapharm (i play the saxophone an hour a day and am constantly pushing it outward)? because i take skinfold calipers and I definitely have two to four centimeters on some parts of my lower abdomen. in the past two days, also, I have reduced this reduced waistline by 1.5 centimeters from dieting.

I bust mine to beat yours.

Hey abs88.. i been lifiting for thre years off and on, and i been doin pretty good.. i weight 180 at 6'1 height and i bench press 255. so i think im doin pretty good.

wow, pretty impressive....

i was thinking, for anyone out there, I have noticed that after i eat a lot my stomach tends to bulge out (my friends call it a food baby). this is because your stomach wall expands with all the food i stuff in it, right?

I bust mine to beat yours.

Well sure.. but it should go down in about 45-60 minutes after you digest. But yes.. it will expand.. The food has to be stored somewhere before it digests. And sometimes if you have a lot of protein you get that bloated feeling as well. Tummy stays puffy for hours.

Marc C. David - NGA CPT
Author of NoBull Bodybuilding
www.nobullbodybuilding.com