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    How to lose body fat?

    Posts: 25 Member
    edited February 14 in Health and Weight Loss
    Hi I'm trying to lower my body fat down to 15-20% I workout at least 5x a week: 3 days of strength training (35 minutes or more) 2 days of cardio (no more than 45 minutes). I eat 1300 calories a day. Can you guys give me any advice to lower my body fat? I'm at a 26% currently.

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    • Posts: 2
      exactly what your doing! just stay consistent. I noticed when i cut down on cardio and lift heavy i've seen a bigger difference in my body fat percentage. Eat clean, lean, and make sure your getting enough protein
    • Posts: 88 Member
      Might wanna up those calories on cardio day. Anyway, seems like youre doing it right, its just all about patience.
    • Posts: 448 Member
      Sounds like you've got it under control...
    • Posts: 34,415 Member
      Adherence, adjustments, and time.
    • Posts: 2
      I agree with Denise 100%.
    • Posts: 9,026 Member
      strength train and strength train hard. strength training for 35 minutes means nothing to me. what kind of strength training are you doing??

      also, as far as cardio goes, same question. what kind of cardio are you doing?
    • Posts: 25 Member
      I'm doing Hiit for cardio since its too cold to run right now. I'm using dumbbells in my strength training. I do total body strength training.
    • Posts: 29,136 Member
      do you have access to a gym or are you working out from home?
    • Posts: 25 Member
      I workout at home. I got my own equipment of weights and bench.
    • Posts: 1,487 Member
      exactly what your doing! just stay consistent. I noticed when i cut down on cardio and lift heavy i've seen a bigger difference in my body fat percentage. Eat clean, lean, and make sure your getting enough protein
    • Posts: 5,413 Member
      Adherence, adjustments, and time.

      ^^This. Also, are you netting or grossing 1300?
    • Posts: 25 Member
      I eat 1300 calories I hardly ever eat my workout calories I usually net around 800 or more calories on food depending on how much I workout.
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      That doesn't sound like enough calories to me.
    • Posts: 342 Member
      More time, and I wouldn't eat back those cardio days. For me, I gained by carb cycling.
    • Posts: 34,415 Member
      I eat 1300 calories I hardly ever eat my workout calories I usually net around 800 or more calories on food depending on how much I workout.

      This sounds like a recipe for losing a lot of body *weight*, but not necessarily body *fat*. It's also very likely that your adherence will be sketchy.

      I highly recommend that you reconsider this approach.

      ETA: To clarify, I'm not saying OP won't lose body fat also...its just she may lose more muscle mass than she would like to lose in the process. 800 net is a pretty significant deficit.
    • Posts: 10,529 Member
      exactly what your doing! just stay consistent. I noticed when i cut down on cardio and lift heavy i've seen a bigger difference in my body fat percentage. Eat clean, lean, and make sure your getting enough protein
      Pretty much.
    • Posts: 2,835 Member
      I would up your eating by 200-300 cals, but other than that everything looks great!
    • Posts: 484 Member
      Hi I'm trying to lower my body fat down to 15-20% I workout at least 5x a week: 3 days of strength training (35 minutes or more) 2 days of cardio (no more than 45 minutes). I eat 1300 calories a day. Can you guys give me any advice to lower my body fat? I'm at a 26% currently.

      If you're doing that I bet you are.

      Certainly if you're losing weight while doing that you definitely are. If you're roughly maintaining your current weight while doing that you probably are.
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