Reducing caloric deficit

snowy0wl

I've been on a -1400 to -500 averaging out to -1100 daily caloric deficit and I don't seem to be loosing Lean muscle mass. It's pretty much constant. I've been warned this is too much for most bodies to handle but I've only been doing it for 10 days or so.

Because of the time period and possible water retention from weight I don't know if I should regard all the measurements (on day 12, I've lost 6.2lbs total, of that 5.25 of fat and ."gained" .05lbs (of muscle) I have but I have decided to pull back my deficit and was wondering what I should do.

I'm not tired, irritable, weak, not hungry can't concentrate the signs that indicate i'm overdoing it. I am not really in a rush to loose weight I just became very aware of what I was eating and stopped eating 'unconsciously'. I should also add that I've never calorically restrict or even watch what I eat in my life and I have roughly 16lbs left to loose if I want to reach 12%BF ( was on average 20.3% and now 18.6% now )

They say do it slowly but I do not know ramp it back down. My body seems to be pretty responsive. I added 100 calories and it showed up on the scale this morning in a negitive way but I realize how inaccurate they are. Trend wise I'm fine.

I am interested in building metabolic capacity but I'm sure you do the do the opposite when one is loosing. I don't know how long to watch over the period of lean muscle mass to perceive it as a problem.

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Sued0nim

You know what you think you know, I don't think you know that

You've lost weight on a scale, all weight loss is made up of water weight, fat and muscle.

Your bodyfat measurements I assume are from a scale (highly innaccurate) or calipers (somewhat innaccurate

You can bet that in the first couple of weeks of any diet you lose a lot of water weight

You do not put on muscle in a defecit (apart from newby gains)

snowy0wl

rabbtjb: I consider myself a newbie, I think the last time I did anything exercise was 6 years ago.

I'll keep that timeline of 2 weeks. I just want a proper perspective, that timeline is coming up in 3 days so whatever the numbers will be my more official data.

Fat scale is what I'm using and I realize how out they can be, however they do show a trend. it's not accurate on a daily basis but averaged over a days even a week they will give a relative number shouldn't they?

I will be getting a par of calipers to monitor parts of my body, I won't be using to measure fat content but I'm assuming that a consistent measurement at the same spot over time can indicate if visceral fat is leaving or gaining.

I am not trying to put muscle weight. I am hoping I have enough muscle, metabolism and added exercise to get that down before I start eating more + exercise to build muscle.