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jojo1371
jojo1371 Posts: 33 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
Hi there!

After lots of reading and research I have joined EM2WL.
After many months of being on a calorie deficit and losing/gaining the same 3 lbs over and over again, I needed to switch things up.

I have a fitbit, and my average daily burn (TDEE) is 1920. My BMR is 1266 and my TDEE-20% is 1536, at 5'0 and 142 lbs.

I've recently started back at the gym, and although I have a sedentary lifestyle at work, I have a very active 2 year old when I get home, so I average about 8000-10000 steps per day.

I'm looking to start the New Rules of Weight Lifting next week. I welcome any friends who are doing this.

My questions:
1. Are my numbers calculated above accurate?
2. When I start lifting, will I see a gain?
3. I know that muscle weighs more than fat and it's all about inches off, but the number on the scale right now just makes me uncomfortable. Sticking to everything, how fast before one starts to see results.

I've finally got the right mindset, and I'd hate to quit premature because I just can't see the results I'm hoping for.

Thanks so much for all the support, this group is wonderful and so insightful!

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    You will have to manually log the strength training in Fitbit as Weights for the TDEE it comes up with to be decently accurate.
    So remember that.

    With only 30-40 to lose perhaps, 15% would be more reasonable at this point.

    And just so you know, if you have been at the same weight for several months within 3 lb fluctuations, whatever amount you WERE eating on average - is your TDEE.
    You were NOT eating at a deficit.
    Or you would have lost weight, right?
    Now, your accuracy could be bad, and actually you ate more then you logged.

    So increase calories slowly, to give your body a chance to speed up, because it's obviously already slowed down and suppressed your potential TDEE.

    You'll also have to unsync Fitbit and make those workout adjustments on Fitbit. Watch their reports for changes to TDEE, and redo the math as it changes enough to matter.

    If you haven't done any strength training, or this is true of any exercise really - weight gain is the result of starting it. Water weight gain.
    You'll never have the ability to gain muscle fast enough to offset fat loss. It's hard to. You first have to tap out using existing muscle to the max, and that can take awhile.

    Weight gains from exercise is only about 1-2 weeks, while inches are lost.
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