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I’m not a complete newbie, nope, I got a variety of equipment at home (bench, long bar + various weights, dumbells) and a gym membership, where I’m currently doing cardio and yoga only to get some endurance back I lost). I’m in a ca. 500calories deficite daily and trying (but not constantly achieving) to eat my bodyweight…

I drink approx. a gallon of water every day as per usual, starting every day with a 16 floz of water before touching anything else and keeping it up through the day, so I‘m very well hydrated. Maybe there is a general misunderstanding with my calories intake, so let‘s talk numbers for clarification. But I surely don‘t need…

as I said, I‘m re-feeding regularly and it‘s also not about the food I‘m eating cause my food hadn‘t change in the past year. It‘s also not the exercising per se which causes digestion problems, it‘s probably the stress which gets my prolactin to rise and shutting down everything cause by exercise.

- My eating plan is as it always has been: eating everything as long as it’s within my calories budget but I make sure I eat my bodyweight equivalent in g in protein. It stresses me out to count my macros and I‘m not gonna do it since I don‘t see any benefits from eating all lean and clean at this point. (I know it…

Thank you! That all sounds plausible and you are right - there is no sense in trying to squeeze in the cardio portion into strength training! So what I already did is making an appointment with a trainer at my gym for the upcoming Monday. until then I will read into the thread you suggested, so I can tell exactly what I…

THANKS!!!

Oh boy, so much to catch up on! Thanks a lot to everyone taking their time to reply - really appreciate this! So as a general conclusion I figured that my deficit was lower than I always thought it was. Well if you come to think about it - sure thing: the less you weigh, the less calories you need. But I kept thinking that…

I‘d rather do extra rounds at the gym than eating less. Food is bae 😂 But yeah I get your point, you‘re probably right, I just need to find the perfect balance between being gazillion hours a day at the gym and starvation. Thanks a lot, appreciate you took the time for me :) I‘m on the right way again, just needed a kind…

Thanks! My last bloodwork was on thyroid, came back pretty much great, but I should probably give it another go, especially checking iron and stuff!

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Would love to lose another 50lbs, but I‘m not rushing. I‘ve been overweight (even obese) my whole life so one-two extra years of being chubby won‘t kill me :) I‘m wearing an apple watch from pretty much the beginning of my journey, which AFAIK is pretty much of an exact fitness tracking tool, besides a…