Is egg yolk good or bad?

[SpeedKing9]

When trying to gain muscle and lose the fat? Also, are fruits/vegetables a good thing or a bad thing to eat while trying to lose the fat? I understand it has a lot of carbohydrates?? Thanks.

PS...what kind of calorie count should I have? 2000? I'm trying to lose the fat and get a slight 6 pack in about 4 months...is that even possible?

[Rock Ape]

You know what is healthy already. If I need to explain, let me know.

Eat more smaller "healthier" meals than fewer large meals. Get the metabolism working faster.

Not sure what you look like now but if you provide your details, I can add more advise. (Apologies if you have already done this in a previous thread. I haven't been here for a while).

Whatever the case it will mean time and commitment....not so much hard work !

[Rock Ape]

Just to expand on that...your current specs (ie; height, weight, body fat guesstimate etc) will alllow for some more detailed advise.

[SweepEm]

http://www.menshealth.com/

subscribe to the magazine, lots of good tips

[duchman]

What is sweepem doing when reading such a pretty boy magazine???

[SpeedKing9]

I'm 5'8, I'm 19 years old, and I weigh about 180 lbs (the last time I checked). I'm not super overweight, but I would like to get rid of my gut and get a six pack going. Keep in mind, I'm in a college dorm where healthy food is somewhat of a rarity!

[mister_rogers]

DRINK LOTS OF WATER !!!

fruits and vegtables are great

chicken with no skin is great

tuna packed in water is great

egg yolks are ok, good protien, bad cholestoral

try an omellete of two egg whites and one whole egg 3 or 4 times a week

bread, pasta, and rice are bad if you want to lose weight quickly

You will get extremely hungry without the bread and stuff ifyou are exercising alot, but just eat fruit, protien and vegtables, occasionally nuts, and maybe a slice of bread or 4 or 5 crackers or a half bowl of rice a day

candy, soda, and even sports drinks are evil

a great buy is a small george foreman grill.

you can grill chicken and vegtables on it with no oil,

you MUST exercise,
jog 1 1/2 - 2 1/4 miles 3 times a week

you must also lift weights

walk into a gym, try a 60 pound barbell,
lay it on the floor, bend your knees and squat down, grab the barbell, straighten your knees and back until you are standing straight and the barbell is against your thighs. Hold on tightly and in one motion, swing the barbell up to your chest so that the bar is sort of level with the front your shoulders
press the bar over your head, lower the bar back to the front of your shoulders, stop,
now, while keeping the bar across the front of your chest/shoulders, bend the knees and squat down as if you're going to sit on a chair, as you squat, don't let your knees go more forward than your toes, squat till your thighs are almost parrellel to the floor.
now straighten your legs and stand back up. Now in a controlled motion lower the weight from the front of your shoulders back to the front of your thighs. Bend the knees, bend over and lower the weight back to the floor

that is one repititon

do 10 reps with 60 pounds
rest 1 1/ 5 minutes
do 8 reps with 70 pounds
rest 1 1/ 5 minutes
do 6 reps with 80 pounds
rest 3 or 4 minutes

if that is too hard try 50, 60, 70
if too easy, then increase the reps, 12, 10, 8

don't rest too long between sets becasue you want to keep the heart pumping hard

then do pullups
step up to the bar and do 1 pullup
step back away from the bar,
step up to the bar and do 2 more,
step back away from the bar,
step up to the bar and do 3 more,
step back away from the bar,
step up to the bar and do 2 more,
step back away from the bar,
step up to the bar and do 1 more,

that may be all you can do, you may try pyramiding up to 4 or 5, depending on how strong you are

try pushups
start at one end of the room
do 1
walk to the other end
do 2 more
walk back to your starting point
do 3 more
walk to the other end
do 4 more
etc...
pyramid up to 7 and then back down

finish off with 3 sets of 15 or 20 reps of bicycle crunches
head and shoulders off the floor, hands crossed on chest, legs pumping like pedaling a bicycle, each time your left knee comes to your chest, count a rep, keep the shoulders going the opposite way of the legs

do that 2 or 3 times a week

you will drop weight, become stronger, work all the muscle groups and the supporting muscles and ligaments

you will also work the most muscles in the least amount of time

[Oberleutnant]

Yolks are good to go except for the saturated fat content(concerning longevity of health), but it wont negatively affect your training goals IMO. The cholesterol content isn't a concern, dietary cholesterol has pretty much zero impact on blood lipid profiles, it's the saturated fat that jacks up blood lipid profile cholesterol.

[fanman.]

If your main goal is to lose weight or lose bodyfat, then it is most important to eat little or no sugar and do lots of aerobic exercise.

[koto_ryu]

A good diet my old wrestling coach taught me: we would cut out all starches out of our diets, including breads, pastas, potatoes, rice, and the like. You'd be surprised how much of a difference eliminating preprocessed starch products out of your diet will do. That was probably the most ripped I ever was in my life was when I was on that diet. We ate plenty of protein, fruits, and veggies during the day and my abdominals were so well-defined I remember having to clean them out with a Q-tip because my hooded sweatshirts would always get lint in them. It's still decent to this day but never to where it was back then. Worth a shot

[shirase]

"my abdominals were so well-defined I remember having to clean them out with a Q-tip because my hooded sweatshirts would always get lint in them."

[HtTKar]

This should be under the fitness and nutrition section. There's a thread there right now about eating eggs for protein. 5'8" 180 is not bad. Its the bodyfat percentage.

[kengar]

The protien is in the whites so if you don't want the yoke then toss it. Though, they now have the eggs with Omeg-3 Fatty Acids in them from chickens being fed flaxseed. Get them, their just about 50 cents more than the regular.

[EmptyneSs]

egg yolkes contain an obsene amount of colestoral in them.