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How Long to Reset at TDEE?

Feed_the_Bears
Feed_the_Bears Posts: 275 Member
edited February 3 in Social Groups
I've been doing EM2WL for about a year, but fear kept me from ever really getting up to TDEE. I thought I could just up to cut and work out harder. While I've gained muscle and strength and significantly increased intake with a minor size gain, I have not lost. I suspect it's because I never did a reset and haven't eaten TDEE in 15 years of trying to eat around my BMR (could no longer lose weight like this past a certain point). So I've been eating TDEE for 10 days now (fulllll) around 3000 cal with weight training hard, but I am wondering how long I should stay at TDEE? A month?

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Was your deficit on paper only 15%?

    Then a month should be plenty, since you had over a year at a reasonable deficit is great.

    Do you do any long cardio sessions too besides lifting? What frequency and time?

    Is resting HR low, what is it?
  • Feed_the_Bears
    Feed_the_Bears Posts: 275 Member
    Yeah I'd have to say that slowing upping throughout the year must help the refeed process, I'm hoping.

    For years I used to do 1 h cardio some abs. Then four years ago it was 1 h cardio 1.5 hour strength (that was over training!! not eating enough) Three years ago it began 30 min cardio 1 hour strength (still eating around 1700, binging). For the past year I"ve been creeping up calories. For the past month I've only done 15 min cardio (sprints/HIIT/Plyo) and 1 h heavier pushing it strength at the advice of Lucia. This feels good to me. I skip the cardio sometimes. But then I'll find myself taking a 5k walk yesterday for fun. It was suposed to be a rest day.

    I am really feeling strength gains now that I've cut down on cardio, am eating TDEE, and am pushing my limits. It's coming up on week 2 of TDEE, feeling kinda fat. I'll stick it out for a month. I hope that's enough.
  • Noor13
    Noor13 Posts: 964 Member
    A month should help.
    Are you tracking body fat?
    Sometimes the losses on the scale are minor but underneath great things are happening. They will reveal themselves as the fat starts to melt off.
    Enjoy the lifting while on TDEE-it makes such a difference and even more if you do a bulk. I never believed it until I felt the difference myself :)
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