8 weeks in...

Lythy89
Lythy89 Posts: 57 Member
edited November 14 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey everyone....

Half way through my 8th week of "lifestyle" change and to sum up... I am on 2000calories or below a day, training 5 - 6 times a week and have been seeing on average 2 - 2.5lbs weight loss every week. Everythings going great there!

Question i have is has anybody reached 7th - 8th week of a plan like mine with a decent amount of cals (2000 is great if still losing weight huh?) and experienced mad food cravings? im having a re-feed day or "cheat day" whatever you wanna call it once every two weeks.

Just wondered if anyone is in the same boat as me, has experienced this sortof weird outta nowhere cravings and was there anything you did to help stop them? :)

Thanks x

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  • TCO76
    TCO76 Posts: 242 Member
    Loosing that much a week is pretty damn agressive. Hope you don't think your building any muscle. Probably losing muscle. Not hating at all. I recall I did something similar 3 years ago. But you might not be trying to build muscle. Lot of variables.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Increase your calories.
  • Lythy89
    Lythy89 Posts: 57 Member
    Yeah see ive got a high protein diet going on at the minute and i can physically see muscle gain :) imagine its a combo of fat loss revealing more muscle but im getting stronger as time goes on. Been sloppy logging on here and just been note padding it all lol. Thank you though! i was always sure to get lots of protein as i felt the same as you did when i started losing that much.
  • TCO76
    TCO76 Posts: 242 Member
    If your in a deficit your not building muscle.... what you see is a pump. Your body is stripping fat. But at that low of cals, unfortunately muscle too. Like the other poster said, bump up your cals a bit.
    Deficit=lose fat
    Surplus= build muscle

    I didn't invent the wheel.

  • _riddikulus_
    _riddikulus_ Posts: 59 Member
    with 9 more lbs left to lose I would suggest increasing your calories to aim for a loss of .5-1lb per week. it will take longer to get to your desired number on the scale but strength training and eating enough to help you retain muscle will mean you're happier with the visible results at the end as well. as has been said already it's physiologically impossible to gain muscle at a caloric deficit, what you're seeing is fat loss.
  • Lythy89
    Lythy89 Posts: 57 Member
    Ah wow I really didn't think around 1800 cals would make me lose muscle aswell! hmmm ok ill try upping my cals. Thank you.
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