I am looking for friends who are into loosing weight and building muscle

Do you want to build muscle or just make them more defined?

Building muscle and losing weight are generally conflicting goals - building muscle requires a surplus of calories, losing weight requires a deficit.

Eating at a deficit (with sufficient protein) whilst following a lifting program will enable you to lose fat, maintain muscle mass, and look more defined as you lose the fat over the muscles you have

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tigerblood6 wrote: »

I am fine in whatever units. Are you from the US ? @SomebodyWakeUpHIcks

@OutOfUserName Yes - I would love toned legs

@livingleanlivingclean I want both, I wanna be lean and at the same time muscular. I dont really want to gain weight because I have a small feet size.
I had protein on dinner and cut off carbs 3 days a week only. Most of the time I had chicken breasts. Can I add you?

Perhaps focus on losing first, whilst lifting to maintain the muscle you have. When you're a bit leaner, either recomp or bulk with a small surplus.

Losing weight doesn't require a restrictive diet. You can eat enjoyable food. You need protein, sure, but fats are required for health and carbs taste good, whilst providing good energy for lifting and recovery...

My food diary is full of acquired tastes. Tuna spaghetti marinara parmesan and asparagus

tigerblood6 wrote: »

I am fine in whatever units. Are you from the US ? @SomebodyWakeUpHIcks

@OutOfUserName Yes - I would love toned legs

@livingleanlivingclean I want both, I wanna be lean and at the same time muscular. I dont really want to gain weight because I have a small feet size.
I had protein on dinner and cut off carbs 3 days a week only. Most of the time I had chicken breasts. Can I add you?

I tried to do this "lose fat,gain muscle" my logic was -why can't they meet in the middle- and before I say what Im gonna say, let me say this-everyone's experiences are different, as are their bodies, what didn't work for me, may work for you;

My experience 'back in the day', I was working with a trainer daily (expensive) started at 5am with cardio, then went back at 9am for 1.5 hours of weight training, then back at 6pm for more cardio. I wanted to lose fat (cardio) and gain muscle (lifting). I ate a deficit in calories and lifted weights. I was dizzy, tired, sluggish, I was losing fat, but I couldn't keep on the muscle. When I ate for fuel (calorie surplus) to lift I gained weight -not just muscle weight-. Its like that saying, you can't serve two masters. I ended up extremely ill and had to limit my workouts to just walking per doctors orders.

I ended up giving up in self defeat all together, and gained the 80lbs I lost, ON TOP of an additional 50lbs. Now I'm starting over. After learning a major lesson Im starting out with losing fat (slow gradual calorie deficits, cardio). As I lose, I see my own natural muscle that is already there from just carrying around my 350lb body (170lbs lean body mass). Once I drop a mass amount of fat Ill start working on building muscle and hopefully maintain at least 150lbs of that lean mass.

-currently Im also starting to add some minor body weight exercises. leg lifts, modified pushups, plank. That way when I hit the free weights I won't injure myself. My back is too weak right now.

This time around is different for me, I am energetic, excited and happy. Im positive and am enjoying what I am doing.

*feel free to add me. I won't add anyone, who doesn't have a profile pic.

Im doing IIFYM, TDEE 20%

You need to do resistance training.... Push-ups and situps (especially only once a week) don't really cut it.

Eat proper, balanced meals. With fats.

tigerblood6 wrote: »

what is a resistence training ?

Weights.