Lose body fat% but keep weight

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Magisoft
Magisoft Posts: 113
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Anyone able to direct me to information about maintaining weight but drive down body fat%? My body fat is at 28% I would love to see it at 20%.

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  • shining_light
    shining_light Posts: 384 Member
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    http://ca.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding_900/988_body-recomposition.html

    Peruse bodybuilding.com if you have time to read their articles. They have tons of expert advice on the subject. How much weight training do you do?
  • tziol
    tziol Posts: 206 Member
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    let me google that for you http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=losing+fat+without+losing+muscles
  • IcanIwill1
    IcanIwill1 Posts: 137 Member
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    http://ca.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding_900/988_body-recomposition.html

    Peruse bodybuilding.com if you have time to read their articles. They have tons of expert advice on the subject. How much weight training do you do?
    Thanks a lot for this great suggestion.
    I have lost quite a bit of weight and would love to pare down my body fat % too without losing any more weight, this is timely.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,811 Member
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    The basics are very simple:
    Eat at maintenance calories.
    Get adequate protein while having a balanced macro intake.
    Do a good weight training routine.
    Be patient.

    Your results will be very personal to you, if you are new or returning to weight training you may well make good progress at a decent rate for many months to a year.
    If you stall out you might want to consider cut/bulk cycles.

    (PS - How are you measuring body fat? It's easy to be miles out depending on method chosen and how it's applied.)
  • TiberiusClaudis
    TiberiusClaudis Posts: 423 Member
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    http://www.muscleforlife.com/the-best-way-to-gain-muscle-not-fat/

    This may be of interest to you.

    Enjoy the journey...if you have the right attitude...you are IN for the ride of your life.
  • BuildaBetterBody4
    BuildaBetterBody4 Posts: 89
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    Ty. I'll be reading this info as well. The body fat has to go but I want to gain lean muscle weight.
  • rsclause
    rsclause Posts: 3,103 Member
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    http://www.muscleforlife.com/the-best-way-to-gain-muscle-not-fat/

    This may be of interest to you.

    Enjoy the journey...if you have the right attitude...you are IN for the ride of your life.

    I really enjoyed the article and it provided meaningful information well beyond the worthless post "let me Google that for you". We all can search here but I am interested with what others have found works well. My desire is a little different then most. I carried a beer gut most of my adult life and after shedding 50 lbs I am just now starting to see abs. I want to lose fat, my Aria scale says I am 18% FWIW, but I don't want to "Bulk Up". After buying all new clothes several times I don't need to do it again. I want to cut some fat and be fit. I run, work abs almost daily and do a mild Nautilus routine three days a week. The lifting strategy is for fitness and hopefully a little tone. Also trying to get out of the gym fast because it is in the middle of my morning run. After reading it seems that getting "Big" and losing fat are not possible at the same time. Because getting big is not the goal, I plan on trying to continue my workouts and add a little more protein calories, reduce some wine (alcohol) calories and eat as clean as I can. I am into maintenance for one week now and doing well till I went nuts on hot wings and ribs last night.
  • Joseph236
    Joseph236 Posts: 11
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    Maintain weight for me is a difficult task i dont know what to do and how to stop my self from gaining weight

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