Help please!

fatimaelmustafa

Iam on week 6 of stronglifts, 5'2 my starting weight was 124lbs, my goal was to gain strength lose fat and hopefully gain some newbie muscles!
I knew getting results was not going to be easy hence my goals maybe mutually exclusive as some would say, BUT I didn't know i'll end up 8 pounds heavier!!
On the first 2 weeks i kept my calorie intake around 1650 but i was miserably hungery all the TIME!! And i was still gaining weight, the lifts where so hard to pull although i was just beginning with bar weights!
I got frustrated of being tired and hungry so I started adding calories, too bad i wasn't counting just estimating. Maybe i ended up eating 2000 calories a day. Which was supposed to be my TDEE mantainace according to an online calculator.
So what do you guys think? should i let go the recomp idea and start Cut/bulk cycles.. if i cut my lifts will suffer and iam just beginning, if i bulk i'll get way heavier than I could mentally handle
Regarding lifts I started with bar weights my results currently are:
Squat: 48 kg (105 lbs)
Deadlifts: 63 kg (138 lbs)
Bench and OHP: 23 kg (50 lbs)
Row 30 kg: (65lbs)

canadianlbs

first off, wow weights. obviously what you're doing is making you strong

about the rest of it, i don't know. the super-hungry i do relate to, but i'm very casual about how i deal with it. if i'm more interested in trying to make the scale drop, i eat less and lift less aggressively. if i'm feeling fat and sassy (hah) and willing to risk a little more on the scale in exchange for feeling badass on the weights, then i eat.

sorry not to be more helpful. it's really a pretty personal call, and for myself i just monitor how my body's feeling/reacting and then wing it from there according to what's most important to me at the time.

mzbek24

I think I kind of know what you're going through. I was wanting to bulk and for a while I was not counting cals, just eating well and plenty and now im on my 7th week. Then my family were like "Are you putting on weight?" I felt terrible about myself, given I was working pretty hard! and I felt tempted to start cutting even though in my heart I really felt it would make my lifting suffer and I was feeling strong and had plenty of energy. So I pretty much now am just eating at maintenance and I have told my family what my goals are so they back off, and I'm like okay, this is what I need to do for now to gain strength and muscles on my body and then further down the track I will cut very small deficit at a time You just need to I think get past the mental feeling of "OMG I'M FAT" and accept that no your body isnt where you want it RIGHT now, but you can't look at a nice slab of marble and say Oh hey that's a crappy looking temple, can you? Have patience with yourself, because it's not finished. So you keep on working on your temple and it will be even more amazing.

fatimaelmustafa

Thanks for the great replays, they definitely inspired me to wait and see .. 6 month from now I'll reasses the situation and see if i'll cut or maybe i'll be happy with what i have regardless of the scale weight ..