Am I skinny fat? What do I do now?
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DazzaGainz
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Hi All
Been getting comments that I may be skinny fat!
Enclosed pictures of me in November 2016 and pictures taken earlier this week.
Weighed 61KG in November where now at 52KG.
TDEE is currently taken as 1850 based on 3 seasons a week of one hour Cardio on excerise bike and 4 Days Weights.
Currently averaging 1250 calories a day.
I'm not sure if I continue what I'm doing or do I need to increase my calories to build muscle given my status as skinny fat.
Any help would be appreciated!!! :-)
Been getting comments that I may be skinny fat!
Enclosed pictures of me in November 2016 and pictures taken earlier this week.
Weighed 61KG in November where now at 52KG.
TDEE is currently taken as 1850 based on 3 seasons a week of one hour Cardio on excerise bike and 4 Days Weights.
Currently averaging 1250 calories a day.
I'm not sure if I continue what I'm doing or do I need to increase my calories to build muscle given my status as skinny fat.
Any help would be appreciated!!! :-)
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How tall are you? Because 52kg might be very light for a male.1
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You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?2 -
I don't see skinny.1
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The question is, what do YOU think. If you want to add a little more tone, then you'll want to start in on lifting weights more seriously (as you didn't elucidate on what you meant by weights can't determine if more/less/progressive/etc), but that will definitely mean increasing your food more than you may already want to considering your TDEE is calculating exercise and you're still eating 600 under and less than what a 'average' male should ('average' women at base is 1200, men generally near more for larger frames).3
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52 kg is really light--114.4 lbs. How tall are you?
How much protein do you eat?4 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have no comment on your physique but 1250 is under eating for a male in general.
^^This, that's part of your problem. If you indeed are only eating 1250 calories you deficit is way too steep so when you did/are/were losing weight you were sacrificing muscle as well. This means you're losing weight, but your BF% isn't changing as optimally as it could. Now you're going to be looking to do either a recomp, or a bulk/cut cycle.
How tall are you......??? To get a TDEE of 1800-1900 cals for a 114lb, 25yr old male that works out 3-5 times a week I had you at 4'2" (127cm).
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TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
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DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
So are you happy with how you look? Are you still trying to lose, maintain, or?2 -
TavistockToad wrote: »DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
So are you happy with how you look? Are you still trying to lose, maintain, or?
Not happy where not sure what I need to do now as what I'm doing seems to work but others saying I should increase my calories...
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If you want to know your body fat VS LBM Lean Body Mass you can get a hydrostatic body fat test or the gold standard DXA/DEXA scan. A skinny fat person would be a smallish/skinnyish person with not very much LBM and plenty of body fat, rather subjective without the data.
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DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
So are you happy with how you look? Are you still trying to lose, maintain, or?
Not happy where not sure what I need to do now as what I'm doing seems to work but others saying I should increase my calories...
What sort of look are you going for?
For me I would suggest eat at maintenance and lift some heavy stuff, see what happens!6 -
DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
OK, you need to adjust your intake. From what I've found, someone your ht/wt/age and exercise activity level has a TDEE closer to 2200. You're cutting at nearly TDEE -50%, which is way...way to steep and sacrificing muscle.7 -
TavistockToad wrote: »DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
So are you happy with how you look? Are you still trying to lose, maintain, or?
I feel I have a lot of fat on my back so I want to lose!
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BMI of 21.... First i would consider trying to find my current maintenance level. Then I would consider my exercise regime.2
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DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
OK, you need to adjust your intake. From what I've found, someone your ht/wt/age and exercise activity level has a TDEE closer to 2200. You're cutting at nearly TDEE -50%, which is way...way to steep and sacrificing muscle.
Should I increase my calories won't I gain weight given I've been eating at 1250 on average?
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DazzaGainz wrote: »DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
OK, you need to adjust your intake. From what I've found, someone your ht/wt/age and exercise activity level has a TDEE closer to 2200. You're cutting at nearly TDEE -50%, which is way...way to steep and sacrificing muscle.
Should I increase my calories won't I gain weight given I've been eating at 1250 on average?
Earlier, you said you estimated your TDEE at 1850. Try that for a month or so. That will, if your estimation is accurate, keep you at your current weight.
Oh, and strength train, to help build some muscle.3 -
DazzaGainz wrote: »DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
OK, you need to adjust your intake. From what I've found, someone your ht/wt/age and exercise activity level has a TDEE closer to 2200. You're cutting at nearly TDEE -50%, which is way...way to steep and sacrificing muscle.
Should I increase my calories won't I gain weight given I've been eating at 1250 on average?
Earlier, you said you estimated your TDEE at 1850. Try that for a month or so. That will, if your estimation is accurate, keep you at your current weight.
Oh, and strength train, to help build some muscle.
He says he's lifting 4x/week, which makes me wonder--OP, what is your lifting program?0 -
DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »DazzaGainz wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »You need to eat more. I don't think you're skinny fat though.
How tall are you?
5ft 2
So are you happy with how you look? Are you still trying to lose, maintain, or?
I feel I have a lot of fat on my back so I want to lose!
You don't!2
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