Hi. I know nutrition is important when training, and I've posted things relevant to this before, but I was wondering if I was doing something wrong and please let me know so I can change to get the best benefit. I'm training about 45 min/day on trainer, do 30min. of moderate weight training after that, I also try to jump rope and do about 200 crunches - which I've read mixed reviews about the crunches.
Anyways, I stick to the same basic diet and my goal is not to go over 1000-1200 cal/day. Tuna on wheat with mustard for dinner with an apple, a zone bar for a snack, some other fruit in there for snacking during the day, soy nuts, plain oatmeal for breakfast, granola, natural peanut butter on a whole wheat english muffin, Myoplex soy protein shake after ride, no alcohol...and I really don't stray away from that.
My question - I understand I may be gaining muscle, but my weight has actually gone up 3lbs. Should I bump up my cycling to lose the stomach fat? Everything else is where I want it to be, it just seems I can't get rid of the gut. Too much protein? What am I doing wrong?
Anyways, I stick to the same basic diet and my goal is not to go over 1000-1200 cal/day. Tuna on wheat with mustard for dinner with an apple, a zone bar for a snack, some other fruit in there for snacking during the day, soy nuts, plain oatmeal for breakfast, granola, natural peanut butter on a whole wheat english muffin, Myoplex soy protein shake after ride, no alcohol...and I really don't stray away from that.
My question - I understand I may be gaining muscle, but my weight has actually gone up 3lbs. Should I bump up my cycling to lose the stomach fat? Everything else is where I want it to be, it just seems I can't get rid of the gut. Too much protein? What am I doing wrong?