Muscles Gained but body fats remained

blacknight1711
blacknight1711 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I do weight training 3 times and run 2 times a week. I see physical transformation; more muscles and looked lean. However, body fats not coming down. I started with 82kg and 22% body fats. My height is 1.82m.

In the last 6 months my weight is moving up or down by 1 kg and body fats by 1% points.

Any thoughts on why?

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    you're not in a calorie deficit?
  • blacknight1711
    blacknight1711 Posts: 3 Member
    I want to gain muscles. I am on 40% protein, 40% carbs and 20% fats. Calories set at 2,600. I am concern in body fats instead of weight.
  • nightlings
    nightlings Posts: 1 Member
    Are you tracking your sugar intake?
  • blacknight1711
    blacknight1711 Posts: 3 Member
    Yes. It's kept at 120g a day.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    blacknight1711 wrote: »
    I want to gain muscles. I am on 40% protein, 40% carbs and 20% fats. Calories set at 2,600. I am concern in body fats instead of weight.

    if you want to gain muscle you also have to gain some fat, unless you do recomp, which is what it seems like you're doing now.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    As @TavistockToad says, you are in recomp (eating at or close to maintenance and, due to your exercise slowly gaining muscle and losing fat).

    What I would question is how you are measuring that fat %. Most methods (and all domestic methods) are very inaccurate. I would say that a 1% BF change over 6 months was basically "stayed-the-same".
  • Gun4a
    Gun4a Posts: 68 Member
    Also, might want to look at where those calories come from. "If it fits my macros" approach might not work for everyone. I personally am completely against it.
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    Gun4a wrote: »
    Also, might want to look at where those calories come from. "If it fits my macros" approach might not work for everyone. I personally am completely against it.

    Unless there is a medical condition at play, a calorie is a calorie and it doesn't much matter where it comes from for weight loss.
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    This seems like a pretty good result to me if you are trying to bulk. Do you like the way you are looking now? Bodyfat of 22% is not bad for a lady.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    How are you getting your bf%? If it's by a BIA scale, I wouldn't really count on it being accurate.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    How are you getting your bf%? If it's by a BIA scale, I wouldn't really count on it being accurate.

    This.

    Unless you're paying for a bodpod scan or something, your numbers are not accurate. Go by measurements instead.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Gun4a wrote: »
    Also, might want to look at where those calories come from. "If it fits my macros" approach might not work for everyone. I personally am completely against it.

    what does where the calories come from have to do with it?
  • FletcherLoder
    FletcherLoder Posts: 21 Member
    It is a very very slow process of recomp (years in some cases)...

    If you want to lose fat you'll need to drop your calories to create a larger deficit.

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