The scale is the devil!
sduenas4
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When building muscle and losing fat stay away from the scale!!!
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What?
Ok it is extremely difficult to build muscle and lose fat at the same time, apart from some weird magic around noob lifters and teen boys.
It takes dedication, determination and a whole heap of time to build muscle whilst in a defecit ...particularly for a woman. Hypertrophy is simply not easy. If you are following a decent progressive resistance programme and are really careful with managing your macro intake it may be possible
If water weight fluctuations due to hormones, change-up in exercise or sodium in your diet have a tendency to freak you out, then yes avoid weighing too regularly. But otherwise the scale is a useful tool in measurement, particularly in association with a trendline app, not an enemy
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I think you're fine unless the scale says 666 when you step on it.0
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Weight yourself once a week. Weight yourself in the morning upon waking. This will give you a more true weight. If your looking to add muscle and lose weight it is possible but does depend on your current BMI.
Look into a local Crossfit box . Our community is supportive and very knowledgeable. I have seen a lot of people reach their goal weight in as little as 6 months. Strength comes but has to have a solid progressive structure to be successful.
Work hard and remember your mind will quit way before your body.0 -
You burn fat when weightlifting cause you are building muscle so the more "gains" you get the more fat you lose. Muscle weighs more then fat so I would recommend not weighing yourself everyday. Measuring yourself would be the ideal approach cause you will be losing lots of inches not so much weight and if you are losing lots of weight it's probably just water weight. Slowly but surely is the best way.0
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