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Well at the moment I am lifting really light for most of the compounds because I fell out of my routine for a while...so mostly just trying go get my body adjusted to the movements again.

For sure going to try this! Thanks

Good to know I was eating closer to 200g when I had more fat to lose when I first started, but that felt unsustainable to me honestly.

Okay, that makes more sense, thank you! Also my strategy is to eat at maintenance to build muscle, but NOT eat back calories from working out to try and burn fat simultaneously, will that work or should I stay more aggressive with my weight loss and calorie deficit?

It was called a Styku, it says I am at 22% BF which to me does sound more believable than my scale, but that is a HUGE difference! It also says my BMR is 1775 calories but MFP says my maintenance calories are 2390....I thought BMR and maintenance were synonyms?

Don't know what it's called but you stand in place and turn a few times? It's just at my gym not a doctor's office or anything.... I really don't want to be much heavier than 170 to 180 in the end, I'm just tired of looking like a scrawny twig all the time. So I think gradually getting there would be okay.

Just a scale, but I set an appointment on Monday to do an actual scan... I actually think I am just going to eat at maintenance for a bit, I think I am just burned out from dieting so extreme for so long....Since I have only 4 months of lifting under my belt I think I should still see some progress from that?

Kind of, I'm not seeing any real growth at all but I think it's because I am at too much of a deficit.

Should I hold off on switching from Strong Lifts then until I am at a better place to start a hypertrophy program?

Yes, but I keep hovering around here without much change and would like to start seeing them gains...which is my ultimate overall goal. While dieting I was at 1.2 to 1.5 grams per lbs on average, so should I lower it?

Also I am down to 170lbs and 5'9....my goal is to get back to 180 with muscle, now that I trimmed all but 18% off my BF.

Well I was doing SL5x5 for about 4 months but looking to switch to P.H.U.L for the next 4 months if not longer.

I should say I wanted to binge....

I wanted pasta so bad the other day do I just spent a bit more time doing cardio to earn it. Worked okay but I thought replacing then sometimes would be good too

I would suggest seeing if they have an area with a circuit of machines around for you to go from one to the next to get a well rounded workout, I know PF and crunch fitness have these sort of areas...My first few weeks I wore a hoodie and kept the hood up so I wouldn't be able to see people out of the corner of my eye and…

Thank you everyone for your input!

Better late than never, thank you for your input!!

Thanks everyone!

If I start taking a preworkout with caffeine on workout days do you think that would be enough caffeine to hold me over if it IS caffeine withdrawal that is the problem. I went to $5 below and bought a couple reusable water bottles to keep full at work....Working beside a mall food court makes it too easy to just go buy a…

You look amazing in both tbh, but great progress!

I still get the headaches with diet soda, but to a lesser extent...Maybe that would work as a halfway point to quitting soda completely though.

So far nothing, all the trainers seem to subscribe to the same theory. Apparently it’s. 12 month contract with a trainer so I HAVE to keep paying, I think I may just have to put an old card with no lance on the account so they have nothing to charge.

So I decided to not work with the trainer anymore after I discussed my concerns with him. Also telling him that a workout I could fit in maybe 3 times a week, like a full body may fit my needs and level of time that I am able to commit to the gym. He told me to just do the workouts on the days that I can, which to me…

Meal prepped some homemade chicken burrito bowls and some frozen veggies, some brussel sprouts and the others are sugar snap peas!

Thanks guys, I’m going to stick to it and see how it goes.

I have actually started planning meals for the next day by entering different items into each meal and seeing how it turns out and then just deleting them and reentering when I actually eat those things.

Most importantly, don’t get discouraged!!

If the app could somehow use my phone’ NFC frequencies to just melt the fat away l would pay for that...

Okay, I will try various forms of cardio to see what I like, other than just jogging on the treadmill.