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eat a deficit or maintenance?

baldnavywife
baldnavywife Posts: 36 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
hey mfp fam! its nice to be back. about a week ago i deleted my last mfp account to see if i could manage counting calories without it & it didn't go so well. Anyhoooo my question is if my goal is to simply lean out a little or lose an inch or so off my waist should i eat a deficit or at maintenance ? i workout at least 5 days a week for about 90 minutes. also I'm 5'2 129.8 lbs my measurements are 34(breast)
28(waist)
39(hips)

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  • theCaityCat
    theCaityCat Posts: 84 Member
    You don't have much weight to lose, so you could create a deficit by eating your maintenance calories, working out, and not eating those burned calories back (or at least not eating all of them back, since you work out quite a bit). That's what I've been doing. I'm set to lose 1-1.5 lbs/wk and since I don't eat back most of my burned exercise calories, I'm losing 2 lbs/wk. Hope this helps!
  • baldnavywife
    baldnavywife Posts: 36 Member
    thanks:) it does help

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