The_evildead Member

Thanks @steveko89 that has been a massive help I will just keep eating at maintainance and lifting with progression and give it time

Thank you that makes a lot of sense so if I just eat at around maintainance and lift heavy I should lose the last few bodyfat % as I build muscle slowly ?

I’m still holding a little body fat around the mid section so still have a bit to lose hard to tell what is lose skin or the last few lbs

Just to add I’d say I’m about 15/17% body fat from visual indications

I have just taken measurements this morning and I have lost 5cm off my waist (can’t remember when I last measured maybe a month ago but my weight has stayed the same between 10st7 and 10st8 in that time. I don’t lift weights I walk a lot and obviously the exercise I get from my job

Think this might be the best approach mfp gives me 2790 for maintain at very active so will just eat at that all week and hopefully the days I work will balance out and make the small loss I need

That’s what I was wondering I work 9 hours a day lots of heavy lifting and pulling of pallets on pump trucks around 15000 -18000 steps a day

I should add I feel like I am losing weight just not showing on the scales

Thanks for all the reply’s I feel like I understand it a lot more now! I guess it’s the slight freak out of being in a deficit for so long eating more seems kind of scary somehow haha

Thank you I did read this but was still confused about how it actually works with no deficit and if i should still be eating back my excercise calories as I had been

I should add I have been dieting since September last year and working out recently started lifting heavier weights and eating at a 250 cal Deficit per day but I can’t seem to get below 161lbs for the last few weeks