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Georgia422016
Georgia422016 Posts: 38 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
if my maintanence is 1590, and i eat at 1090 a day for a few weeks to lose the fat over my middle ( which isnt much) will i lose lots of muscle? im 112ibs, 5"5 21%bf ish. do you think i can get ab definition in a month?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited March 2016
    That's way too high of a deficit for your weight and for your goals.

    You are at the very low end of your healthy weight. Instead of losing weight, you should focus on body recomposition (which I think people have told you previously).
  • Georgia422016
    Georgia422016 Posts: 38 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    That's way too high of a deficit for your weight and for your goals.

    You are at the very low end of your healthy weight. Instead of losing weight, you should focus on body recomposition (which I think people have told you previously).

    in all honesty im confused as to how to aproach that?
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Georgia422016 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    That's way too high of a deficit for your weight and for your goals.

    You are at the very low end of your healthy weight. Instead of losing weight, you should focus on body recomposition (which I think people have told you previously).

    in all honesty im confused as to how to aproach that?

    You're confused on how to approach my response? Or you're confused about how to do a recomposition?
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    edited March 2016
    No you wouldn't lose much muscle, but a % of your loss will be from muscle. With so little to lose I would suggest a smaller deficit 0.5lbs/week goal, also taking part in a progressive lifting program, and getting adequate protein will limit the amount of muscle lost.

    Or you could just recomp (eat maintenance, lift heavy, get enough protein, slowly lose fat and gain a little muscle.
  • Georgia422016
    Georgia422016 Posts: 38 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    Georgia422016 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    That's way too high of a deficit for your weight and for your goals.

    You are at the very low end of your healthy weight. Instead of losing weight, you should focus on body recomposition (which I think people have told you previously).

    in all honesty im confused as to how to aproach that?

    You're confused on how to approach my response? Or you're confused about how to do a recomposition?

    recomp
  • Georgia422016
    Georgia422016 Posts: 38 Member
    erickirb wrote: »
    No you wouldn't lose much muscle, but a % of your loss will be from muscle. With so little to lose I would suggest a smaller deficit 0.5lbs/week goal, also taking part in a progressive lifting program, and getting adequate protein will limit the amount of muscle lost.

    Or you could just recomp (eat maintenance, lift heavy, get enough protein, slowly lose fat and gain a little muscle.



    can i recomp at slightly under my maintainence, say 1350? and will recomp still work if i dont have access to really heavy weights?
    @erickirb
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    If you don't have ab definition at 112 lbs and 5'5" tall, it's because you are lacking muscle mass. No amount of cutting is going to give you good looking ab definition at this point. I think you'd do better trying to add mass and not messing around with a recomp. (I'm not a recomp hater but I think they work better when one has more to work with and isn't at the bare bottom of a healthy weight range.)
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    At 5'5" and 112 lbs, losing weight is not what you need to get ab definition.
    If they're not showing at this weight, they're just not built enough to show. You need to add muscle.
  • brb_2013
    brb_2013 Posts: 1,197 Member
    I'd also guess on your frame that your body fat isn't as high as you think. Look into eating above maintenance and building muscle.
  • mkakids
    mkakids Posts: 1,913 Member
    Georgia422016 wrote: »
    erickirb wrote: »
    No you wouldn't lose much muscle, but a % of your loss will be from muscle. With so little to lose I would suggest a smaller deficit 0.5lbs/week goal, also taking part in a progressive lifting program, and getting adequate protein will limit the amount of muscle lost.

    Or you could just recomp (eat maintenance, lift heavy, get enough protein, slowly lose fat and gain a little muscle.



    can i recomp at slightly under my maintainence, say 1350? and will recomp still work if i dont have access to really heavy weights?
    @erickirb

    1350 is still too low for a recomp.
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