2 weeks in and hoping to stay

nopillowfights

Hello! I joined as the Coronavirus lock down started - I never managed to take calorie counting well, felt it’s very limiting and putting me under pressure.
But now it’s going well. I am adding things honestly and even when I overeat i just try to take it as a fact and not punish myself later.
I am 174cm, 64kg currently, wishing to go to 57kg.
Nice to meet you all and good luck achieving your goals!
Inna

ThomasBWE

How comes you ended up in the German wing of the big mfp community?! Did that happen intentionally?! Or per mistake?! 😉🤔 First of all it seems important to me to point out that you are by no means overweight. You should reconsider your goals a bit. You should be thinking less about the mere weight of your body but somewhat more about body composition. Counting calories is just one side of the leverage. But a good training and to build up solid muscle muscle mass in that course should be the other point. You would be able to increase your basic metabolic rate that way which would lead to the possibility of a higher consumption of calories without adding further body fat... And muscles do a better shaping job than the mere loss of body fat. And as another problem you should consider that the mere calorie restriction leads to the loss of precious muscle mass if you do nothing to prevent it... 🤔😬