Weight loss help!

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  • jeffpettis
    jeffpettis Posts: 865 Member
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    You just have to make sure you are in a deficit. I'm not going to tell you to eat more or less. I will tell you that you must make absolutely sure that you are accurate with the amounts you log, and that means measuring everything.

    Also, if you are using what MFP tells you to eat you must make sure that you are not logging and eating back calories that you didn't actually burn in the first place. Most calories burn estimate are just that, estimates. I have also learned not to fully trust the calories burned given by most heart rate monitors.

    Trial and error. Stick with a calorie goal for about two weeks. Make sure everything is accurate and see what happens. If you maintain your weight, lower your calories by about 20%. If you are gaining weight, still only lower them by 20% and see what happens. Once you find your true maintenance level you should be able to figure it out from there.

    Bottom line is, if you are not losing weight you are not in a calorie deficit.

    Good luck....
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    I saw a fat loss specialist, sorted out my nutrition and did PT sessions with them. Dropped 9.1% body fat in 8 weeks and gained around 7kg of lean muscle.

    it took you 8 weeks to gain 15 pounds of lean muscle?
    Not without lots of steroids. Physically impossible for a woman to gain that kind of muscle mass that quickly. That's pushing the limits of what a man can gain, with 10 times the testosterone.

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