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Exactly.... and CICO seems to apply better to weight loss than it does to fat loss. I don't think anyone here is looking to lose any lean mass.

Damn. You figured it out....

Wow - you look incredible! Great work!

Great reply. Thank you.

Good insights and thank you for the reply but I have tracked every single detail of my food and training for many years. There is no mistake in there which explains why CICO was right all along.

How clever you are. Sounds like you have it all figured out. After almost 22 years in the fitness game I still have a lot to learn. Hopefully, one day I can catch up with you.

Thanks for all the replies. There are some great points being made in here. Let me make some additional points too: 1) the studies are almost all short term. The CICO idea (which I generally agree with - a lot of people missed that I said that) seems to break down over longer periods of time 2) a bit of background about…

Sounds like you have an open mind which is very cool. Some of us are forced to open our minds when our experience cannot be explained by what the studies say. This is how I reached my current beliefs on this subject. Do you have a link to your post? Would love to help if I can.

WOW!!! Looking amazing

The irony wasn't lost on me when I posted it haha

Some good points here.... and a lot of snarkiness (to be expected). Not going to argue the points because everyone is entitled to their opinion and we are, of course, all at different stages on this journey. Would certainly be interesting to see photos of the bodies on threads like this though. Not that having a great…

Excellent post.

This is absolutely wrong. I also get much leaner at higher calories. I've been tracking macros almost every week since 2012 and have repeatedly found that I am leaner when cals aren't too low. There is a sweet spot about 200-500 below TDEE which seems to work best for everyone. You have to experiment but I have seen many…

Fat Gripz all the way. Really surprised me that something so simple works so well. Biceps and forearms really became noticeably bigger after using them for about 3 months.

I agree; push-ups are king. Try adding pull-ups / chin-ups too if you can do them and have a bar to hang from. Between those two exercises they will strengthen pretty much all of the upper body.

33/33/33 is good as is 40P/40C/20F

Wow. Okay. You are a big guy. 5'10" and 95kgs is solid. 1400 cals is waaaaaaaay too low. You should almost certainly be able to jump to 1800 and then 2000 and then 2200 with not one ounce of fat. Trust me on this. Personally, if I were you, I would gradually (over a few weeks) increase cals up to 3000 per day (making a bet…

How tall are you? Any reasonably-sized man shouldn't be consuming 1400 calories per day. I have made this mistake in the past myself and I think your trainer is 100% right. Even 2000 calories is low for an active man. You could probably increase to 2500 calories gradually over a few weeks and still not gain an ounce of…

Do you mean the laws of physics? What is a law of nature? Hormonal responses are PART of our nature aren't they?

Joined very recently thinking I could help some folks

Looking amazing! Great work!

Wow - amazing progress!

Upping calories actually can work for people who: a) have been using too large a deficit b) been dieting a long time It was one of the big revelations of my training career that my body was a lot leaner at higher calories but this is probably because my calories had been so low for so long and certain hormone levels had…

You have nailed it. They are almost certainly wrong. Fat can be lost very quickly. Muscle is built very slowly. If your weight isn't going down, you probably aren't losing any fat. You CAN gain muscle in a deficit but: a) it won't be very much b) you would probably need to be relatively untrained and now training very…

4, 5, 6 and 7 will be revealed to you when you have been helping people with this for more than 20 years as I have ;)

You're getting too hung up on numbers which are being estimated by a machine - the machines work for us remember? lol BMR, TDEE are all pretty pointless. They are places to start and absolutely nothing else. Start with the recommended amount and then experiment from there - 2 weeks of higher calories, 2 weeks of lower…

Something isn't adding up here. Some points: 1) you almost definitely aren't burning 2500-2800 calories per day as an active 5'7" woman. Its more likely to be 1800-2200 maximum 2) you are most likely under-recording calories through no fault of your own. I see this time and time again. I had lunch with a friend recently we…

Calories keep you alive :)

Some studies have shown that overweight people actually enjoy food a lot less than slim people. The conclusion was that they were eating mindlessly, almost robotically. Try staying in the moment and enjoying every bite. You might find that a lot of the mindless eating stops and food intake reduces significantly,

Sleep is very important for many reasons which could impact weight loss/gain. Make it a priority to sleep better if you can - there are hundreds of articles online about how to reduce your chance of sleeping badly e.g. reduce caffeine, stop using "screens" (phones, TVs, computers) in the evening, exercise, get some…