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Caloric deficit while weightlifting

aleahbia
aleahbia Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello all I've been working out for a while now. I've always been in a caloric deficit of about 25%. My TDEE is around 2100 cal and my BMR is around 1300-1400 calories. According to IIFYM. Now I work out five days a week strictly weightlifting while in a caloric deficit. I eat around 1585 to 1600 cal a day. And I mainly hit or under eat my macros. I never go over. I'm just wondering why I am so slow to lose weight and it's been about three months of steady training. And the scale seems to to be increasing each week.

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    How are you measuring your intake?
  • ALLENFLO
    ALLENFLO Posts: 61 Member
    Use a tape measure and not a scale to measure your progress. That will give you a better idea of whether or not you are losing fat which is probably your real goal.

  • aleahbia
    aleahbia Posts: 3 Member
    @malibu927 I measure everything on MFP. And I weigh everything and measure everything pretty exactly I don't Eyeball.

    @ALLENFLO measurements are actually decreasing probably just not at the rate I'm expecting after three months of consistent workouts
  • ronjsteele1
    ronjsteele1 Posts: 1,064 Member
    I lift and do cardio 5 days a week. There have been a few weeks where I missed all but one day. On those weeks the weight literally dumps off of me. As soon as I go back the next week I slow to almost a stop again. For me, it seems like about every 6-7 weeks I take a 5-6lb weight drop. But in between that time? Forget it. The scale doesn't hardly move. I have no idea why this is, but that's how it is constantly for me.
  • ALLENFLO
    ALLENFLO Posts: 61 Member
    If your tape measurements are going the right direction like you said, I would just keep doing what you're doing and not over think it. You'll be getting stronger and losing the RIGHT kind of weight. Not the stuff you want to keep.
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