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Body fat

whatsuphack
whatsuphack Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I want to go from 25%body fat to 15 % to 18%body fat ,and still weigh around 178 pounds ,I'm 5foot 7 inches . I lift weights 4 to 5 times a week .What should I do ? Thanks

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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Some really good tips here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177803/recomposition-maintaining-weight-while-losing-fat
  • HutchA12
    HutchA12 Posts: 279 Member
    In 5'7 male 155 atm at around 18-17% right now. Still a little fat on the sides then some upper but mostly lower abdominals. I'm still cutting down while lifting. If your female these #s will be pretty different. For male ~159 gets you out of the overweight catagory.

    If you want to recomp and remain at 178 it's going to be a very long transition most likely as that is a lot of muscle. I don't know how long you've been lifting but you might want to lift and cut a bit lower then try some bulk cut cycles.

    If you really want to stay 178 for whatever reason Dianne linked a good resource.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    That's an increase of 12.5-17.8 lbs of lean mass and loss of the same amount of fat.

    Are you a man or a woman?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    whatsuphack wrote: »
    I want to go from 25%body fat to 15 % to 18%body fat ,and still weigh around 178 pounds ,I'm 5foot 7 inches . I lift weights 4 to 5 times a week .What should I do ? Thanks

    You are currently overweight so you need to drop the fat which would be more manageable if you went on cut and bulk so cut down to 12-15% BF ...watch your protein and follow a decent structured and progressive lifting plan ...then build back up

    Your scale weight will and probably should drop
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