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aWildFlowere
aWildFlowere Posts: 76 Member
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Hi! What is wrong with me? I am so hungry today too!!! Maybe I am not getting enuf calories when I workout so hard. My goal is to only eat 1500 but bodybuilding.com said I should eat 1871 to lose fat but 2839 to gain muscle. I am so confused by feed the muscle when I am trying to lose fat. How do I do that simultaneously & effectively?

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  • sidlondon
    sidlondon Posts: 10 Member
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    Protein protein protein! :)
  • aWildFlowere
    aWildFlowere Posts: 76 Member
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    Thankfully I love protein!
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    aWildFlowere wrote: »
    Hi! What is wrong with me? I am so hungry today too!!! Maybe I am not getting enuf calories when I workout so hard. My goal is to only eat 1500 but bodybuilding.com said I should eat 1871 to lose fat but 2839 to gain muscle. I am so confused by feed the muscle when I am trying to lose fat. How do I do that simultaneously & effectively?

    what are your stats? did you get your calorie goal from MFP? if so, are you eating back exercise calories?
  • ByFaith4Life4Christ
    ByFaith4Life4Christ Posts: 69 Member
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    It all gets me so confused too! Feel like a hamster on a wheel!! Just want to reduce bf% but what is really my tdee?!! I've tried low cal/higher calorie but still feel the same. Lol! I'm not getting any younger. Ready for change!
  • mom23mangos
    mom23mangos Posts: 3,070 Member
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    Are you at your goal weight? Or a healthy BMI that you are comfortable with? If so, then instead of eating at 1871 or 2839, you will eat somewhere in the middle where your maintenance is. Then you kill it at the gym and over time you can gain some muscle and lost some fat.

    If not, continue eating in a deficit and as lifting and as you lose fat you will see your muscles more.
  • aWildFlowere
    aWildFlowere Posts: 76 Member
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    So far I think I am ok managing with MFP free as the paid version isn't going to give me a baseline for my lifting calories expended anyway. That is the frustrating part...tempted to just imput all my lifts custom into the cardio section and assign them base calorie burn rates from researching online. I need to manage calories on lift days as well.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    aWildFlowere wrote: »
    So far I think I am ok managing with MFP free as the paid version isn't going to give me a baseline for my lifting calories expended anyway. That is the frustrating part...tempted to just imput all my lifts custom into the cardio section and assign them base calorie burn rates from researching online. I need to manage calories on lift days as well.

    Strength training is in the cardio database so you can log it?

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