do I need to eat more?

Kymmu

I have been advised by more than one helpful nutrition guru that I need to eat more because I'm 'skinny fat'
This would enable me to put on lean muscle and drop some fat it seems. I need less cardio and more weights I'm advised.
I now know that the number on the scale has nothing to do with the picture in the mirror. This was a new lesson for me.
You can look smaller and shapelier and weigh MORE than you did at skinny fat.
So I'm just a little nervous to up my calories when I've worked so hard to drop 5-7 kilos this year.
Can anyone give me moral support or offer their opinion/photos etc
I'm really on a learning curve.

Kymmy81

I read this article which was posted on a discussion here before and found it really interesting -

http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2011/07/21/meet-staci-your-new-powerlifting-super-hero/

She eats an incredible amount of food (protein rich, clean food) and lifts heavy and the changes in her body are incredible.

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NoAdditives

If multiple nutritionists are telling you to eat more, you should eat more.

Lyadeia

I am currently fighting...and winning...the battle against skinny fat.

What is working for me is a moderate calorie diet between my BMR and TDEE (about 1500ish calories per day), and a decent mixture of cardio and weight lifting.

I do cardio about 5-6 times a week...mainly because I am purely endomorphic and my body type has the most difficult time of all body types losing body fat. I keep it varied and do lots of different things that are fun.

I do weight lifting 3 times a week. I personally do 3 separate full body routines, each once per week, where I use the same muscles groups in the same order, just change the exercises around. I like to work in supersets for both time and an added cardio benefit. I lift as heavy as I possibly can for 8-12 reps in 3 sets.

I got skinny fat in the first place by doing just diet and cardio. Diet and cardio without decent weight lifting, note...I am not talking about little Barbie weights or "cardio sculpting"...got me down to a size 10 with 34% body fat. It was not until I started listening to everyone who told me to lift heavy and starting ignoring the ones that claim you don't need to lift heavy that my stats began to change. Right now I am wearing a size 8 with 28% body fat.

I measure my inches every single week and lose every week. I've lost an inch around my waist in the past 2 weeks. When I wasn't lifting weights, I would measure once a month and see pounds lost, but very little inches lost. Now, I am seeing both.

Rachiepie6

Why not listen to the experts?

And what Lyadeia said.

Kymmu

thanks for the imput everyone,
Lyadia I'm going to re read and friend you!
Kymmi81 that website is teriffic I'm on the mailing list.
I've done half what she's done, dropped weight lots of cardio, gone Paleo, now the hard stuff is left!
I have some humble pie to eat.