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Stick with the 1200 calories and the swimming 3x per week. Do that for four weeks. If you stick to that and haven't lost 5 lbs at least then add more exercise. 1200 cal is challenging enough to maintain. Adherence to your calories is the most important piece right now. Just focus on getting that part right for now.

If you want to call it "an awareness of the amount of food you are eating", instead of calling it "counting calories", you are free to do so. But they're the same thing.

Lookup us navy body fat calculator. If it's good enough for them it's good enough for me. And it's free.

You should not do both. Strong Lifts is a lot for your body to take and will require significant recovery.

Im pretty close to that.

Ask 10 people you'll get 10 different answers. I prefer higher protein and fat

2-3 vodkas twice a week won't be a problem.

Or google: tim ferris kettlebell swings and cheap alternatives. It's a workout you can do at home 3x per week for 15 min instead of the bathroom thing. A one time investment of $10 for equipment from the hardware store.

Same here exactly

I always take my ring off before deadlifts.

Stayed up til 1 30 am last night playing Mad Max :)

Whatever works for you is best. For me I find it too easy to procrastinate or get distracted at home. Going to the gym makes me focus on exercising while I'm there. I don't socialize at all at the gym; I'm there to train.

I'd alternate days. M/TH Squats every break. W JumpingJacks every break. T/F Wall Pushups every break. Something like that. 1 set each time. As many reps as you can.

Stick to it for four weeks before making any changes. Then adjust your calories and/or macros based on your results compared to your primary goal.

I'm in the USA. I only do resistance training so cant speak to cardio. I currently use SciVation Xtend BCAA's. They give me an energy boost in the gym. It mixes easily and tastes pretty good actually. I used to use L-Argenine 3,000 mg thee times per day for a total of 9,000 mg per day. I had better workouts and felt more…

Are you losing weight at the rate you expect? If so don't change anything. If not then make adjust up or down based on your results. TDEE is only an estimation to give you a starting point. Once you've started then let your results dictate.

It's probably because cardio sucks.

Flex your glutes and quads as you press. This will allow you to press more weight. Also experiment with different grips. Check out alan thrall on YouTube how to overhead press. Also athlean x on YouTube.

Not to belabor the point but I believe weak glutes were my problem. I avoided squats for years but did other quad exercises. As a result, when I started to do squats, my glutes seemed proportionally weaker than the other muscles involved, so the muscles were firing in not quite the right sequence which in turn put my hips…

I 2nd that

Yep stonglifts all the way

Weight needs to be over the middle of the foot. Your glutes might not be strong enough might have to strengthen them up first. Goblet squats are a great idea somebody else mentioned. Squeeze your glutes at the top of the squat to put your hips in a line with your feet automatically a lot of people forget that.

Go to college full time far away start over. If you're going to be broke either way might as well get a degree. Beats a dead end job. You can live on financial aid and student loans. Major in a science, technology, engineering or math. Do not go to any for profit schools they will rip you off. (Or just keep making excuses,…

CICO isn't working for the OP.

Tweak your macros. Probably need more fat. Too little screws with your hormones.

No worries I didn't even see it.

This is the internet; everything everyone says is wrong including the statement I'm making right now. :smile:

The fact that you do not see the relevance does not mean that the relevance does not exist.

Classy Rob. (And yet still obtuse)