Lose fat while maintaining weight

How about a weight lifting regimen?

This week?!! Give it time.

You could try a low carb diet and up your protein and fat intake- going into ketosis can help your body to burn fat as a fuel instead of the carbs you eat on a daily basis :~) then weight training, like circuit training, should do the trick, you can add intervals of cardio eg 1 minute of jumping jacks or burpees in between sets to keep your metabolism burning the fat while building muscle. When lifting weights you should go for a low amount of reps with heavier weights, obviously take care if you're a beginner and take your time to perfect the form first to avoid injury. Take a look on http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/training.html they have loads of plans and forums for advice from pros.
You can change macro percentages on MFP to accomadate for the change and you should be aiming for the same net amount of calories to maintain weight, although muscle does weigh more than fat so you may find a slight increase... Good luck guys

Dreysander wrote: »

To do this does one maintain calories or do a cut in calories?

you can go to maintenance calories or a little above and lift heavy and change your body and lose fat as well. but it will be slow. its easier to lose fat in a deficit while still lifting.

babypeach97 wrote: »

You could try a low carb diet and up your protein and fat intake- going into ketosis can help your body to burn fat as a fuel instead of the carbs you eat on a daily basis :~) then weight training, like circuit training, should do the trick, you can add intervals of cardio eg 1 minute of jumping jacks or burpees in between sets to keep your metabolism burning the fat while building muscle. When lifting weights you should go for a low amount of reps with heavier weights, obviously take care if you're a beginner and take your time to perfect the form first to avoid injury. Take a look on http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/training.html they have loads of plans and forums for advice from pros.
You can change macro percentages on MFP to accomadate for the change and you should be aiming for the same net amount of calories to maintain weight, although muscle does weigh more than fat so you may find a slight increase... Good luck guys

No,you dont have to go into ketosis to do this, you can burn fat without it.when lifting your body needs carbs as well as the other macros for energy. you also dont need cardio intervals to keep your metabolism burning. your metabolism is always working no matter what, if its not you die.also when it comes to muscle weighing more than fat thats only true if its in volume. 5 lbs of fat and 5 lbs of muscle is still 5 lbs but the muscle takes up less space. the slight increase on the scale will most likely be water weight from starting a new routine and you retain water to repair muscles. you wont see a gain on the scale in a short time and if you do most likely its not going to be muscle. we dont have the testosterone to gain muscle quickly,so for most women its going to be slow going. its hard to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. when you gain muscle you gain fat as well. to the OP find a lifting program and eat at maintenance or a little above and do that for awhile and see how it goes.