Body Recompisition

gemzgarcia90
gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
Body Recompisition explains a certain calorie deficit. Small , Moderate or Large. I am setting a small deficit which is 10-15% Below Maintanance,
total deficit is 270-405 calories,estimated fat loss 0.5 - 0.8 lbs per week. Does it work?

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  • ccsernica
    ccsernica Posts: 1,040 Member
    edited March 2017
    The idea with a recomp is that you're altering your body's proportion of lean vs. fat while maintaining your weight, not reducing. Get some exercise and you'll burn more fat than muscle and meet your goal, though, assuming that reducing is what you want to do.
  • gemzgarcia90
    gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
    My aim is to get lean burn fat at the same time. The only why to do that is through a calorie deficit.
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    edited March 2017
    Your definition of recomposition is different to that used by most on this site.

    As @ccsernica says - recomp is generally considered to be fat loss and lean body mass gain at same rate - total body weight remains static. What you seem to be talking about is straight forward fat loss.

    As to your original question - Will a 10-15% below maintenance calories diet = weight loss. Yes, it will.
  • gemzgarcia90
    gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
    I'm just telling it like it is from the website www.bodyrecomposition.com
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    edited March 2017
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    I'm just telling it like it is from the website www.bodyrecomposition.com

    I've spent hours and hours of my time on www.bodyrecomposition.com, I'm an infrequent but active poster on the discussion forums on that site and I own and have read, multiple times each, several of Lyle's books - I still don't agree with your interpretation of "recomp" and I doubt McDonald does either. But, that is of no consequence - whatever you call what you are attempting to do (which is lose fat), you will achieve (to some degree) by eating at 10-15% below maintenance.

    How much of that weight loss is fat and how much is LBM, depends upon a multitude of variables, which, as a user of www.bodyrecomposition.com you will be fully aware of ;)
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    StealthHealth wrote: »
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    I'm just telling it like it is from the website www.bodyrecomposition.com

    I've spent hours and hours of my time on www.bodyrecomposition.com, I'm an infrequent but active poster on the discussion forums on that site and I own and have read, multiple times each, several of Lyle's books - I still don't agree with your interpretation of "recomp" and I doubt McDonald does either. But, that is of no consequence - whatever you call what you are attempting to do (which is lose fat), you will achieve (to some degree) by eating at 10-15% below maintenance.

    How much of that weight loss is fat and how much is LBM, depends upon a multitude of variables, which, as a user of www.bodyrecomposition.com you will be fully aware of ;)

    Snap.

    OP I suggest reading it all again.
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