trigden1991 Member

If your weight gain stalls, add more calories. If it remains constant then don’t increase them.

This.

Why? They may have 20lbs more muscle?

High protein is not a ketogenic diet. Protein is nearly 50% anti-ketogenic. What you are doing sounds like a terrible form of Protein Sparing Modified Fast.

Brilliant. Nothing in this statement is factual, or correct.

If you have calories left from “yesterday” then log them there. If not, log them in “today”.

I’d probably say untrained still unless your programming and diet has been 100% all year and you’ve maximised your noob gains.

It only works if you create a calorie deficit though. The same as all diets.

2) is clearly wrong. For the result to be optimal, all inputs need to be optimal.

This is the most generic answer ever. 1) What other macros are there to focus on? 2) percentages are not optimal

1)You look fine. 2)You probably have some form of body dyamorphia like a lot of gym goers. 3) if you’re not making the progress you think you should be then your training isn’t as great as you think

Your metabolism will “upregulate” to a point to account for an increase in calories but past this you will gain weight.

Not true. All that drugs do is affect the CO side of the equation (e.g.- increase calorie expenditure).

If you’re over 50% bodyfat, I doubt you have high levels of muscle mass. Set a sensible calorie deficit and be consistent.

What was your calorie intake like at this point? Hair loss can be caused by chronic underrating.

Speak to a specialist about what you can and should do.

If you’ve been in a massive deficit and exercising for nearly 11 months without a diet break, I would take one ASAP. Sounds like you’re experiencing some serious metabolic adaptations if you can’t lose weight on 1300 cals. The above assumes that you accurately weigh and track everything you eat or drink.

Calorie deficit for weight loss. Fibrous vegetables and salad are filling

Sounds like some level of body dysmorphia. I’ve been 25% bodyfat for a period of my life and dieted down to sub 12%. Although in the grand scheme of things, I went from obese to athlete lean, I never felt happy with how I looked.

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At 20% you’re still overweight and not in an ideal position to gain lean tissue. Diet down to 10-12% (which I assure you will take much much longer than you anticipate) then slowly increase calories until you are in a surplus. Hopefully you don’t take my advice as negative: I’m just being a realist for you. Congrats on the…

The irony is strong. Layne is a natural and aims his programmes at other natural athletes.

Of course. My comment reflected his statement that he did “very little cardio” but may have jumped the gun a bit. At 190lbs he would have to be extremely active to maintain anywhere near 4K cals

Read the threads above and be realistic. Gaining 10kg in a year is going to mean a lot of fat gain.

If you are eating 4k calories, as you claim, then you would be gaining weight (probably a high proportion of fat at that).

You want to lose 13lbs in 6 months? Yes this is more than doable. Take it slow, eat enough protein, lift weights and be consistent. Good luck.

Eat more plant based food.

I used to think that my FitBit was fairly accurate at predicting my TDEE however in the last few months I have found that the figure on the FitBit is hugely overestimated.

Draw a line and move on. Compensating for over eating with cardio is a move towards unhealthy habits.

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