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Question about eating, losing weight and muscle gain?

SterekGoals
SterekGoals Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello, I'm Keiran, I've been on fitness pal before but started a new account.

I wasnt sure where to post this, so hopefully here is okay?

I've started to work out at a gym and slowly seeing changes but I've also been eating way more than normal and it's difficult to lose weight? And I'm not sure if I'm gaining fat or muscle and it's confusing? Does anyone have any tips on how to control the huge need for food that the work outs are giving me or how to diet better? And what's going on with the weight/muscle gain? Cause I was 60 kilos before I started working out four or five months ago and wanted to get muscle and now I'm 62/63....and don't know if it's muscle or fat...

Thank you
Keiran

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  • Luna3386
    Luna3386 Posts: 888 Member
    It's probably both. You can't gain 100% muscle.

    To gain muscle, eat in a surplus and lift with a progressive overload. Fill out mfp with 1/2-1 pound gained, eat at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. Choose a program and lift heavy.

    To lose weight, eat in a caloric deficit. Fill out mfp at 1/2-1 pounds lost per week, eat half your exercise calories.

    It's extremely hard to do both. You basically need to choose one or the other.

    You could recomp, which is eating about maintenance and lifting. This takes a long time and lots of patience.

    Which one is more important to you?
  • SterekGoals
    SterekGoals Posts: 3 Member
    Luna3386 wrote: »
    It's probably both. You can't gain 100% muscle.

    To gain muscle, eat in a surplus and lift with a progressive overload. Fill out mfp with 1/2-1 pound gained, eat at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. Choose a program and lift heavy.

    To lose weight, eat in a caloric deficit. Fill out mfp at 1/2-1 pounds lost per week, eat half your exercise calories.

    It's extremely hard to do both. You basically need to choose one or the other.

    You could recomp, which is eating about maintenance and lifting. This takes a long time and lots of patience.

    Which one is more important to you?

    I'm not sure what's more important? I think I'd rather weight loss for now but muscles are good too?

    When I joined the gym, the trainer there said that doing the recomp was better to do, but also said to have a deficit as well? That's why I've been eating a bit more than normal and lifting but still being in a deficit because of the fitness and weight? And it worked, but lately I've been eating way more, like unbelievably?
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Weight loss? You want to lose weight as a 60kg male? Are you 5ft?

    Unless you're incredibly short, recomp or bulk is something I'd consider. Your weight gain over 4 to 5 months is minimal. If it is real weight gain... I can fluctuate that much in a day...
  • deviousme7
    deviousme7 Posts: 61 Member
    edited May 2017
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  • SterekGoals
    SterekGoals Posts: 3 Member
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Weight loss? You want to lose weight as a 60kg male? Are you 5ft?

    Unless you're incredibly short, recomp or bulk is something I'd consider. Your weight gain over 4 to 5 months is minimal. If it is real weight gain... I can fluctuate that much in a day...

    I've gone up from 60kg to 62kg in like four/five months and I'm 5 foot 3...

    Okay, so it may just be a fluctuation? The weight on the scales went up more when I went to the gym six days in a row...then went right back down after a break...then went up again hugely?
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    SterekGoals wrote: »
    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    Weight loss? You want to lose weight as a 60kg male? Are you 5ft?

    Unless you're incredibly short, recomp or bulk is something I'd consider. Your weight gain over 4 to 5 months is minimal. If it is real weight gain... I can fluctuate that much in a day...

    I've gone up from 60kg to 62kg in like four/five months and I'm 5 foot 3...

    Okay, so it may just be a fluctuation? The weight on the scales went up more when I went to the gym six days in a row...then went right back down after a break...then went up again hugely?

    A 2-3kg gain is not a huge gain. That's a normal fluctuation. Most people keep a maintenance "range". Sounds like water retention from training.
  • Luna3386
    Luna3386 Posts: 888 Member
    Eating at maintenance or a very small deficit (250) and lifting is recomping. You can do this. It takes longer so you need to have patience!!

    Since you are a male and not very overweight I would bulk first.
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