Putting on muscle on LOW calorie diet

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  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    psuLemon wrote: »
    Yes I think! You're being too hard on yourself. Don't worry about the scale number. Eat at maintenance cals and lift heavy things :smiley:

    I think my maintenance is around 1400 from what I can work out??? I'm going to try and research how I should be splitting my calories like protein/carbs/fat wise

    It would be very doubtful for a young person who works out to have such a low TEE.

    Have you done any logging in the past?

    Agreed especially as my maintenance/TDEE is almost 2000 cals and I'm older (48) and shorter 5ft 2)
  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    StrongCurves is a pretty popular strength training program among women I'm friends with here.
  • Nikki_Cherry
    Nikki_Cherry Posts: 31 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    I agree you have some fat to lose (think people are being confused by your non-current profile pic!) and also note that 9st 4lbs is actually 130lbs not the 128lbs you stated which might be adding to push back on your plan to lose weight.

    Why not nibble it off in a series of steps of losing and then reassessing rather than set what might be an unrealistic end goal?

    Your protein goal is good but if you want a chance of adding a small amount of muscle while in a deficit that deficit must be very small and your training must be very effective.
    Go for a big deficit and kick any hope of adding muscle into the long grass! :)

    Thank you for your honesty
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