TOPIC: lose 100lbs before building muscle? Chris if you see this please help :)

From what I've read, you want to get to 10% body fat before trying to bulk up building muscle and switching to the carbs/protein diet. You don't stop doing weight/resistance training though. You keep doing it to give your body a reason to not burn muscle and I've also read resistance training is better for weight loss than cardio, but ideally do both. The BCAA protects your muscles while weight training. Ideally you want to keep your heart rate under 150 to also protect your muscles while working out on an empty stomach to make all calories burnt come directly from your fat.

Insanity workout will definitely burn your muscle. Shits intense lol What about light walking and light weights.

100 pounds is a lot. I'm guessing you are very overweight if you want to drop 100 pounds correct? If you want to lose weight fast and effectively, here is what you need to do:

1) Follow a strict nutrition plan --> there are many ways you can go about this. E.g. the Keto diet involves a diet based on 55-60% fat, 30-35% protein and 5% carbs. VERY effective for losing fat and maintain muscle. However, hard to keep up in the long run due to minimal carbs. This is the best option IMO. Or you can stick with a well balanced diet and just make sure your at calorie deficit.

2) WEIGHT TRAINING! --> depending on your fitness level, you want to be doing compound exercises, 3 sets for 8- 12 reps. Stick with the basics and make it challenging. Make sure your fully recovered before each workout.

3) Live an active lifestyle and move around. Walk, do the dishes, walk up stairs. All of this adds to burning energy

So your saying I should workout to maintain muscle and not build it until I am 10% body fat?

Does this mean I should weight train without to much carbs or protein? I am not sure how to just maintain muscle without building..

Would the BCAA not help?

I lost ~60 lbs with no excess skin leftover(check picture of my current chest in my thread).

First thing that you need to know is that this is going to take some time if you want to do it right. Where you are right now there is no point in removing any kind of carbs or whatever... Just eat less calories than you use and you will loss a shitload of weight pretty fast.

When you are fat you have surprisingly little muscle beneath so there is no point really in trying to preserve anything hence forget BCAAs lol... They will just raise your insulin and stall your weight loss, focus on losing fat for now.

Until I found IF I always struggled with hunger, if you are doing fasting properly I promise that you will pretty much never be hungry (research how much more efficiently body actually uses body fat as you are in fasted state)

http://www.leangains.com/ - probably best website on the subject, check before/after pictures.

Good luck