dmaxashman
Level 5 Valued Member
I am naturally a small person. I am 5 foot 8 inches and before I did strength training weighed 140 pounds. I got up to 160 pounds with I believe very little amounts of body fat and feel that is great weight for me. Lately as I focus my training on soccer and fitness and move away from weights I am slowly losing my muscle and it makes me very sad.
I am pretty ignorant as far as nutrition goes. My number 1 priority has always been to just consume as many calories as possible (assuming it is a real food). When I can I try to throw some vegetables and fruit in the mix. In any case, with my high training loads of soccer games, skill work, fitness, etc I seem to be slowly losing weight no matter how hard I try to eat a lot of food.
How can I stop losing my muscle? Would it be possible to even gain muscle?? It would be great to get back up to 160.
PS, I know that a lot of the time a weight drop is due to water loss but I see my weight trending downwards for a while now, I am probably at 154 now or even god forbid 153 so sad.
I am pretty ignorant as far as nutrition goes. My number 1 priority has always been to just consume as many calories as possible (assuming it is a real food). When I can I try to throw some vegetables and fruit in the mix. In any case, with my high training loads of soccer games, skill work, fitness, etc I seem to be slowly losing weight no matter how hard I try to eat a lot of food.
How can I stop losing my muscle? Would it be possible to even gain muscle?? It would be great to get back up to 160.
PS, I know that a lot of the time a weight drop is due to water loss but I see my weight trending downwards for a while now, I am probably at 154 now or even god forbid 153 so sad.