Success with only strength training

Terpnista84

I walk a lot to burn calories and find myself even hungrier. Even though I stay under my calorie goal it defeats the purpose of doing extra walking when I'll just eat the calories back.

So would it be better if I focused only on strength training and set my calories to 1,500? A typical session for me is 45 mins and I burn a fair amount of calories through walking on a normal day. Also my goal is to maintain my muscle and all the extra cardio is probably eating away at them.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

sijomial

Walking isn't fuelled by muscle!!

brianpperkins

Lifting is not a huge calorie burner ... the cardio you describe is not catabolic ... eating back your exercise calories to reach your MFP goal will not defeat the purpose since your goal has the deficit built in.