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You need to eat 1200 plus intentional exercise calories

Overhead presses actually have a much lower accident risk than say, benchpress or squats.

Cut first and then bulk. Its recommended that you fall below 15% body fat at the least to start bulking. Dont cut more than 1lb a week given you are close to goal now. If you cut too fast, you lose muscle mass along with fat. So cutting fast to 170 and bulking makes no sense imo. You would rather lift heavy at maintenance.…

I would actually increase my intake as i reach closer to maintenance so I can ease into it and so that i reduce chances of losing muscle mass. I have less than 10 lbs to lose now, and i have reduced deficit to 250kcal from 500kcal.

I would give 1600-2000 kcal a day a shot for 3-4 weeks. Track your weight loss and then reassess. You can include some foods which you like but deem 'unhealthy' to reach that goal. That would help make your weight loss efforts sustainable for the long haul. No food is unhealthy if you are within calorie goals and the food…

When i was a kid i couldnt gain weight because of the amount of sports that i played even though I ate like crazy. I have a brother 4 yrs elder to me. Our parents put us both into a tennis academy. I would train very hard just be able to beat him someday. Siblings have a strong competitive rapport imo and sport is a…

Cut some bf% beforr bulking imo

Protein powder of your choice will be needed to hit your protein goal, especially if youre trying to lose weight.

that would have sucked for the guy too. and i do believe that a significant % (ie. a non single digit %) of men are this way. what % - that I have no idea. i also believe that this % is higher for men than for women. also, i have no data to prove these beliefs.

if a straight guy is very close with you, he is either into you, or some of your girlfriends.

Star with a 20kg bar on a raised platform. You can use a squat rack and safety bar to raise the minimum height of the bar.

this part is very satisfying to read. reminded me of one of those exorcism movies lol. good job OP. Indian here, and same.

Add more vegetable oil to everything. Thats all i got.

Follow this advice OP

Thats more than what i lost in 3 months. Try to not lose more than 1-2lbs a week.

Here we go again Exactly why i blew my fuse last time OP made a new post.

Correct. I would say 1450cals NET is a better terminology than 1450 'all together' but you got the idea. The goal mfp gives you is for NET calories not GROSS. In your example Gross calories were 1600+150 = 1750 (all the food that you ate in total). If you subtrct 300 exercise from this, you get 1450NET. You can also eat…

Ok. I plugged in your stats into mfp and it gave me net 1610kcal a day for a 1lb a week loss. So you can eat 1610+(at least 50pc of intentional exercise calories) and still lose weight healthily. This should curb your cravings. You could also eat 1850 (plus intentional exercise calories) and lose at 0.5lbs a week if it…

Dont restrict carbs, up your calorie intake for a .5-1lb per week loss goal. Occasionally eat pizza, chocolate, etc whatever you like but stay in a weekly deficit. Be patient. After 2-3 months, eat a week at maintenance to reset your body then continue. Also since noone has asked, whats your height, weight, activity level…

Second this. Lift heavy and maintain at 160.

Nope. Blatantly untrue.

If you have to spend money on protein supplements to get to 225gm i would say you could reduce your cost and eat at about 200gm, otherwise seems fine to me. Anything above 170gm should be fine imo.

You do not need to hit those numbers exactly my friend. You seem to be doing alright.

I know my calorie stats very well because i tracked my weight loss with my calorie intake/calorie burn since 3 months on an excel sheet i have made for this purpose. I tried to solve my issue for 2 days and could not get it to work (even mfp technical staff couldnt help). I knew the sync was not working because to confirm…

If meats are a problem for you why not go vegetarian instead of vegan? Plus fish. So Fruits, veggies, fish, dairy, grains, maybe eggs.

That is not the case with OP. The tracker says she took 3000steps that day and she says there was no workout that day. She should not be getting an adjustment of 240kcal at 'sedentary' on top of the kcal mfp already adds on top of BMR for 'sedentary'. I had the same issue when i synced google fit steps. My bmr is 1750. Mfp…

I third this

What have you set activity level in mfp as and do you manually log your exercise? To answer your question, i have increased my calorie allowance from 1600 for month 1 of mfp to 2200 after that and still lost weight although slower. After month 1, i figured out my maintenance calories and decided i could eat more and still…

Your definition of healthy is just that - 'your' definition. Every food is healthy in moderation. I ate 3 slices of pizza today. Im loving life, and will still lose weight and be healthy by medical definition (blood work, blood pressure, etc). I would suggest not labeling foods which are your weakness as unhealthy and…

Even with activity level setting of 'sedentary' that no of 240 for 3000 steps seems very wrong. I had a similar issue when i synced google fit steps with mfp. So i removed the sync. Clearly, your activity is just being logged as exercise without taking activity level into account at all. To confirm this, change mfp…