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Lose Fat/Gain Muscle - Stuck

miliani8
miliani8 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been on my fitness journey since the beginning of April. Looking to lose body fat and gain muscle. For the first month, I focused on my diet and was doing home cardio workouts a few days a week. My beginning weight was about 169 ~31% BF. I didn't have much success with losing weight, so after about a month, I started the gym and hired a personal trainer. I was with my PT 2x a week, and then I would workout 2-3x a week by myself. He had me training until failure. Definitely noticed changes in strength my clothe started fitting a bit looser. Weighed in at 165 towards the end. Switched trainers beginning of July. Noticing some mroe muscle definition when flexing. Scale flucatues between 163-167. Still training 2x/week with trainer, and doing 3x a week by myself. All strength training and really trying to focus on progressive overload. Noticing difference in strength. My measurements haven't changed much, specifically around my arms and stomach. Those are my two biggest areas. Those haven't changed for about 2 months.

I used an online TDEE Calculator. I'm Female 5'7 @ 165 lbs. I input moderate exercise. Maintenance calories are at 2,319/day, so I'm aiming for 1,819 per day with a 500 caloric deficit. I've been doing the old (listed below) for about 2 months and I'm still not seeing the results I'm looking for. My goal weight is 150-155.

It is difficult for me to eat 1,800 calories. I'm noticing I'm usually at around 1,600. But I feel like I cannot eat anymore food without forcing myself, or if I can eat more, I'm noticing I'm over my macros on Fats. I tried to recalculate today (new listed below) and looking for some feedback for my goals:

New:
1819 calories
159 g Carbs (35%)
159 g Protein (35%)
61 g Fat (30%)

Old:
1875 Calories
188 g Carbs
188 g Protein
42 g Fat

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,113 Member
    I input your info except your age (defaulted it to 25 years old) and came up with a BMR of 1526. I'll bet dollars to donuts if you at that daily, you'll see changes.


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