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IMHO, bad idea. It's exponentially harder to build muscle than retain it. Why would you want to do 2x the work? Eat at a modist deficit, weight train, do cardio, and maintain that muscle. What happens when you get to goal weight and need to bulk to put that muscle back on. I'd rather see my BF% drop faster than the scale,…

OP, please ignore this....this is the 2nd or 3rd thread that this poster has shown they don't understand how MFP works. MFP give you a calorie goal based on the information that you enter in (personal stats, daily activity, etc), and assumes you do no exercise. Let's take a hypothetical person who enters their stats with a…

I just looked it up. I wouldn't consider it a progressive overload program, more of a boot camp style where, IMHO, would still be more cardio based. My opinion. Either way.....we're getting off the subject. Are you weighing at the same time on the same day with the same scale? Are you consistently upping the intensity of…

How long have you been stuck (have you been stuck at 207 for 3 months)? Honest answer, with how little you eat (1200 calories) and basically all of your exercise coming from cardio (bodypump, if I remember correctly, is basically a cardio based program) you're not gaining muscle....especially enough to stall the scale.…

Agreed and Agreed.

Agreed with everything, and it would be nice to know the bolded. Just a guestamate from what's listed for food, if you're doing any exercise at all you might be cutting at a pretty steep deficit.

1200 calories or TDEE - about 60% is far from "playing it safe" for a 24 year old male. An accurately logged 1200 calories would be a daily deficit of 1600 calories which is just over a 3lb per week loss. A 24 year old male would be pretty hard pressed to get in the proper nutrition they need at 1200 calories.

Yes, diet is the key to losing, meaning that the OP needs a deficit to lose weight and yes....it is all about the calories. If you eat more in nutrient dense food you'll lose slower than if you ate less in food that was less nutrient dense....Now, I'm not saying that the OP should make their entire diet of twinkies and…

All solid advice, on top of that: You're just a hair over a normal weight BMI. What do you tape? I never in 8 years made weight (including entry at MEPS).

This is wrong on so many levels..........just.....the last half of the sentence doesn't even make sense. When you enter your stats into MFP, it spits out a calorie number to meet the goal you entered assuming that you are doing no exercise. Let's take a hypothetical person who maintains on 2000 cals per day. The entered in…

Yes....this x1000. And since the train has already left the station, I just want to reiderate. People that say CICO is what matters for weight loss mean just that...., not nutrition but purely weight loss. In the end how many calories you've had will dictate your weight loss, but not your level of nutrition. Your nutrition…

100% this, you're dead center in the middle of a healthy BMI. To meet your goals, it's not weight loss that you're actually after, but lowering BF%

This...a quick throw of your stats into a TDEE calculator I get a TDEE of almost 1700 (BMR of abut 1400). How are you estimating your calories to feel full on 500 and overeating on 1200?

Are you saying you only eat 500 cals a day?

First off....the only think "burn 60" is doing is burning a hole in your pocket. Yes, you're supposed to eat back your exercise calories, that is how MFP is designed. You put in your goal, stats and activity level, then MFP spits out a number that puts you in a deficit to meet your goal assuming you do no exercise. Let's…

This, at your age and with how much you say you exercise is a recipe for a crash and burn (if you actually are eating that low). Can you answer how you got to a 1000-1300 calorie goal? Is that gross or net. I would imagine that goal is somewhere around TDEE -60% for you with your exercise. That's not a good idea and not…

I also think she's one of those that when people prove here wrong and how dumb her advice is, she just insults them and calls them haterz.

Yes, you should be eating back your exercise calories. What you explained as your goal (lose the last bit of fat/gain muscle) is called a recomp. In order to recomp, you need to put in a ton of work within a progressive lifting program, and you need your calories to be as close to TDEE as accurately possible (usually a cut…

Yes, you should be eating back your exercise calories especially that you're trying to do a recomp (cut fat & add muscle). Basically, your trainer doesn't know how NEAT (what MFP uses) works. In order to lose fat and build muscle at the same time, you need to put in a ton of work and your diet needs to be on point. Part of…

Tell me about it, arguing with science and just using IMO to disprove it....tsk.

Um...., actually yes.....yes it is, especially when you're saying that you're eating at enough of a deficit to lose 30 lbs of fat. Also, you say you're not at a deficit, but are only eating 1800-2000 cals a day. Surely if you're doing the work to put on 20lbs of muscle, 1800-2000 cals has to be a deficit?

Ya...that's pretty much not true. Bulking and cutting has 98% to do with your calorie intake, not the exercise you do. Op. You may gain a little muscle early on, but when at a deficit we all lose fat, water, and muscle. In that deficit we can work to keep that muscle loss to a minimum. This is normally done though a…

Can you please clarify something as to better help. Are you saying that you aim for 1700 gross calories and try to burn off 1000 cals, for a daily net of 700 cals. Oh, and please ignore the hilarious "lose 15 in 20 days" post above.

He meant that if your "boxes" look anything like today's does, the entire plan isn't a sustainable solution. From what I'm seeing, it's not. "Today's box" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.

I just want to reiterate the bold... If that's really your whole day, this is a bad idea and the recipe to a quick burn out.

He said it on the show last night. Shawn asked him how many calories he was eating....guy guessed 800-1100. At first I'm like yep, total underestimate, but then he said that the day before weigh in he only had a couple bites of a hot dog and 2 shrimp, but was totally full and he's not starving himself because it's all…

It's an inside joke from a thread probably a year ago where someone wouldn't eat the chicken from KFC because of toxinz. Once we coached the toxin they were avoiding out of them it was the dreaded.......sodium bicarbonate.

They use that stuff in a process called "soda blasting" definitely stay away. I heard they use that stuff in chicken from KFC too, so I never touch it.......that has nothing to do with all of our KFC's closing and are now Popeye's, but that's beside the point B)

^^^This, and there's no reason to give up Diet Coke...unless you're drinking like a case a day, then I'd cut back.

My 24/7 has now decided it's a good idea to have "classes". There is no private area for this, but they act like there is. If I'm in the cross training area utilizing plyo boxes, ropes (that I can't just move) etc... I'm in "their area" and they feel the need to workout right on top of whomever was there first... Good…