Hello! I ask you in advance to forgive my broken english, since I am from Italy :)

I am new to the forums, so I am posting here my situation and goals... just because basically, Fat Loss is my main target.
I am currently twenty six, 1.78 m x 63kg
As you can guess from such stats, I am quite slim. Despite this, because of a very stationary life and a junk food diet, I grew up a little stomach - which really doesn't fit my overall structure.

To get rid of it, since a month or so I regulamented my diet and began some physical activity. Right now, this is - roughly - what I eat daily.

On weight training days
Morning: 250g yogurt, a fruit, a toast with marmelade
Lunch: Meat or fish, a little bread
Before training: 120g Whey protein
Dinner: Meat or Fish

On aerobic training days
Morning: 250g yogurt, a fruit
Lunch: Salad with some tuna or other fish
Before training: 90g Whey protein
Dinner: Vegetables and/or legumes

I won't enter the details of my training for now, I think I am boring all of you enough :) Let me just add that I achieved some results, as I burned out some stomach successfully, yet, my problems are two:

1) There's some more stomach which really won't go away. Also, in the evening, it seems to be quite larger than in the morning, although I've got no intestinal problems at all

2) My weight training isn't very hard, yet I often feel totally exhausted during it. Not a "burning" exhaustion or muscular pain, but a total lack of energy, like falling asleep.

Said this, I'll thank anyone who will lend me a helping hand! Thanks in advance for any suggestion, which I'll try to follow as strictly as I can.

A.

ps: if anyone would suggest a training schedule, this is the structure I've got at my disposal

http://www.escaped.it/gym1.jpg

http://www.escaped.it/gym2.jpg

Try eating 5-6 times a day to help you stay fueled.
I don't know what your caloric intake is, but that might be your fatigue problem.
You might also need...big gasp...more carbs. If you post your intake goals, and actual intake numbers, we can help you a bit more.
J

*EDIT* Is that your home gym?

Thats some nice looking equipment.... Welcome to the forums!!!

Hello again :)
Could you please explain what "intake" numbers are? I am an absolute newbie...

As for the gym, it's a private gym to which I've access to and... practically I am the one and only user! :) (along with a sauna, too - which I rarely use because of my very low blood pressure and high heart rate)

Could you please explain what "intake" numbers are? I am an absolute newbie...
This is probably just an English problem, nothing more :)

"intake" = "how much you take in" or "how much you eat" in this case. So "caloric intake" means "how many calories you eat".

Cool?

Could you please explain what "intake" numbers are? I am an absolute newbie...

"Intake" simply means the calories or food you eat in a day. How many calories are you consuming? What percentage of your calories come from protein, carbohydrates, and fats? :eat:

Try to check whether your stomach is larger the nights you've had more vegetables, fruits or other fibers. These products causes gas, and therefore a "larger" tummy. On the other hand, in the evenings, the tummy might be fuller than it is in the mornings.

Have you thought of that your low blood pressure might fatigue you? I don't know, but check with your doctor. (What is your BP anyway?)

Hope you got some kind of help from this.

I envy you "your" gym!! Looks great! :tu:

Ok! Thanks everyone for the further explanations.

Being the newbie I am to the fitness world, I haven't really any idea of how much my body fat is or how many calories I eat any day, but I can say that for sure ine is a very low calories diet. Almost totally sugar free (except for a teaspoon of sugar in my daily coffee). Practically carb free except for the days when I weight train (carbs coming from a couple pieces of bread and 100-200g of legumes).

What's weird is this "feeling" that the fat I grew on my stomach is not that soft fat I could quickly drop with a couple weeks of run&diet, only some months ago - but something *thicker*, compact. I don't know how to explain... :\

any hint?

Your gym is like the Ping clubs in my golf bag.

I really suck at golf.

(Don't take that offensively please. :p)

The "thicker fat" you describe sounds like visceral fat that surrounds your organs. The fat that seems to be on the surface is subcutaneous (under the skin). I think there are different types of cardio you can do to reduce the two kinds of fat, but I can't remember what they are. Does anyone else remember?

Hm, visceral fat you say. It's nothing I ever heard of, so I am totally clueless. Just as a visual note: two years ago I grew a little stomach. My tummy was rather large, and for the first time I was suggested "Do not go for weight training for now, just run. Run and run and run, you'll see some nice results"

And that's what I did. In 3 weeks, this is the result I achieved:
http://www.escaped.it/nostomach.jpg

So I went to such a routine again (only, trying to put some mass on too, this time), but it seems that all that fat won't go away this time...