Help With Weight Loss

You're correct, Brian's post has disappeared. Whether he deleted his post or left the forum, I'm not entirely sure.

It's great to hear that you've embarked upon introducing harder intervals into your workout, WeightMaintainer, since they will make a considerable difference to your level of fat loss. However, taking into consideration that you also performed resistance afterwards demonstrates that you didn't fully exhaust your glycogen reserves during the harder intervals.

When performed correctly, HIIT should leave you completely exhausted and even nauseous by the end, without the energy to even consider lifting weights afterwards.

Given that today was the first occasion you'd possibly executed harder intervals, it'll take a few attempts to find the correct level, so don't feel too disheartened, since your level of effort will have considerably increased the uptake of glucose and fat as you exercised close to aerobic/anaerobic threshold.

As for the consumption of different food sources, it's largely a case of figuring what works best for you, adjusting and implementing where necessary along the way, so don't close your mind to one particular ideology.
 
Well done doing the HIIT, great effort.

Not everybody works well having something pre workout, personally I work better without food immediately beforehand and refuel afterwards but others must have something before training, this is again one of those things that we need to work out for ourselves as we are all different.

The area of weight loss is very difficult to study because there are so many variables, often it is a case of trying one method and making sure to give it enough time to work, swapping and changing every few weeks to a different method is certainly counter productive. While still being observant enough to recognise changes needed to suit the individual.
 
Truslyver, thank you for the support. I know its difficult for each induvidual to establish their own means to wait loss , so I am trying my best to figure out my own variables; and I value your input. As far as pre workout, I have found I really cant take anything without feeling like total crap in the middle of my workout, especially creatine/protein. I just feel like I get bloated/jittery and it brings me down.

MrNiceGuy, I will definitely try harder as my HIIT workouts go on. Honestly, I didnt know the workouts were supposed to be that intense, I just followed some of the basic aerobic HIIT excercises I found online. Maybe I'm in better shape than I thought ;) lol. I defintitely put up a sweat this time around, hopefully next time will be better, and soon I will start seeing real results!

When I weight trained after HIIT I mainly focused on arms, since my legs\core were pretty sore. Do you think this is ok, or should I be totally exhausted like you originally said (mrniceguy)? I think I will go for longer periods of full on aerobic HIIT along the way, maybe I'm just getting used to it.

As of right now, Im not to worried about muscle mass. I feel that my muscles have been growing over the last few months; and my strength has definitely increased. Im not looking to be a body builder here, but just be in good physical shape. If I slim down Im really not worried about it, Ive always been naturally strong, even at a smaller size.. Its just the way im built, strong foundation. Its mainly been the fatter stomach/love handles Ive struggled getting rid of.
 
The key to making the most from HIIT is to ensure that it's performed anaerobically. During anaerobic exercise, since the body is unable to deliver oxygen as quickly as working muscles require it, to compensate for the lack of oxygen, the body turns to burning glycogen and then fat to fuel the intense intervals.

As such, the excess energy, stored in existing levels of body fat, is utilised during your anaerobic endeavour, leading to increased levels of fat loss over a shorter period of time, compared to that of steady state cardio (SSC).

In all honesty, following HIIT of 20-25 minutes, due to severely depleted glycogen in the muscles, I wouldn't advise trying to lift weights afterwards since you're more likely to create greater harm than good, as the body will utilise existing muscle mass, to fuel the repeated contraction and extension of the exercised fibres.
 
That sounds like a great workout plan. I would also try a calorie calculator and minus about 500 from what you need to maintain your weight, this will help weight loss over a sensible amount of time.
 
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