I started lifting now the scale won't budge?
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Find a good personal trainer who knows nutrition. I'm currently doing contest prep for a fitness model comp and my trainer has increased my calories to 1800 per day (I was inadvertently around 1600) with 40% protein, 30% carbs & 30% fat. I'm 5'9 and 64kg (approx 141lb) and I'm losing fat measurements on this diet. If you're lifting and only eating 1200 your body is probably in starvation mode and storing fat as protection. Good luck.
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Hi there, it's a combination of exercise, nutrition and rest. Work out your TDEE which should certainly be more than 1200 cals if lifting weights. Increase your water intake to flush water out and do cardio between your lifting days. You need 1-2g protein a day per 1lb and will need to increase carbs to 1g per lb on weightlifting days.
Are your fats coming from good fats like coconut oil, avocado, salmon?
Do you have rest days so your muscles can recover and grow stronger?
Also remember that muscle weighs more than fat so maybe invest in a Bodyweight scale that tells you your fat percentage, muscle, bone and water which will help you make the right choices to address the issue. Hope this helps.0 -
Hi there, it's a combination of exercise, nutrition and rest. Work out your TDEE which should certainly be more than 1200 cals if lifting weights. Increase your water intake to flush water out and do cardio between your lifting days. You need 1-2g protein a day per 1lb and will need to increase carbs to 1g per lb on weightlifting days.
Are your fats coming from good fats like coconut oil, avocado, salmon?
Do you have rest days so your muscles can recover and grow stronger?
Also remember that muscle weighs more than fat so maybe invest in a Bodyweight scale that tells you your fat percentage, muscle, bone and water which will help you make the right choices to address the issue. Hope this helps.
nope.
you should get 0.8 grams of protein for each lb of bodyweight...more is redundant
you should get 0.35 grams of fat for each lb of bodyweight...
muscle takes up less space than fat and she is not building muscle eating 1200 calories....it is hard for women in general to build muscle let alone at a deficit.
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I know everyone hates cardio but if you add in about 3 days a week of cardio (maybe 15 minutes HIIT) you'll start seeing not only fat loss but the scale will start to budge and you can keep lifting to increase muscle mass.1
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I currently weigh 192lbs. I have been lifting heavy (SL5x5) on 1500-1700 calories but also doing some HIIT on treadmill and crosstrainer for 20-30 minutes 3 times a week depending on how I feel. I have been losing a lb a week still. I do the cardio to help with my deficit.
I would have another look at that 1200 cal diet of yours. Something must be amiss. I don't see how you wouldn't lose weight (or not feel drained and rubbish) eating so little.0 -
Dr1nkbleachndye wrote: »ArmyofAdrian wrote: »Eat less. Your current TDEE is not the same as it was when you were 235.
The body can go into homeostasis when it adapts to how much you feed it versus how much you burn. Many times people who eat such low calories will find they stall alot even when exercise is added.
Try eating 1400 and see what happens.
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This. Sometimes the answer is to just eat a bit more. Eating 1,200 calories and exercising isn't really getting 1,200 calories. You have to subtract off whatever you're burning through exercise to come up with your Net Calories. It's your Net Calories that should never be under 1,200 (for most people a good bit higher too).
Also, if you just started lifting, you're probably retaining some additional water (your muscles will retain more water as part of the repair process) so that's going to add some weight to the scale. It's good weight, but weight none the less.0 -
I stalled for a month the last time I started weight lifting (all the expected loss for the month came off in a few days at the end of that time).1
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