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I'd recommend most people in a deficit eat more than the protein goal mfp suggests - maintaining muscle requires more help in a deficit, eating sufficient protein will help.
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If you take your weekly calorie goal in to consideration, are you in a deficit or at maintenance?
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Protein shakes don't generally have sugar - look for a WPI, the nutrition info should show minimal carbs and fat (if any). They are usually sweetened with artificial sweetener, so no contribution to your sugar intake but an easy way to bump up protein. I like adding powder to natural yoghurt for flavour and sweetness -…
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It has nothing to do with water and everything to do with the bolded. If by "competing" you mean in a bodybuilding comp, you need to understand that gaining weight and fat is normal and healthy.
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I've found the opposite.... First place on, last place off. (urgh)
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Sounds like perfectly normal places for a woman to accumulate fat... Yes, it sucks! My thighs (especially saddlebags) are the first place to store fat, and the most stubborn to lose.
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The caloric value of fibre is difficult to determine - I think its often 2cals per gram, compared to 4 cals per gram for "carbohydrates" Is the information correct in the entry you're using - do the numbers match the food label?
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Yes you can just focus on calories. Macros will matter for satiety - protein makes a lot of people feel full (and it's good to help maintain muscle as you diet), some people are satisfied with higher fat lower carb, others will prefer higher carb lower fat (but I'd suggest aiming for at least the recommended fat for your…
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Have you increased your salts/electrolytes? Reducing carbs will mean you lose a lot of water and your electrolytes will be unbalanced causing you to feel like poo....
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2 weeks isn't a lot of time, and losses may be masked by water weight fluctuations due to exercise, hormones, stress etc. How are you determining your intake? If you're accurately logging by using a food scale for everything and using database entries youve double/triple checked are correct, some patience may be all that's…
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I'd trust the scale over your eyes.
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A random concoction of vegies with chickpeas/lentils and canned tomatoes? Flavoured with herbs and spices (from the pantry?)
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If you search the forum for "intermittent fasting" you'll find gazillions of threads and many other people doing the same thing. I do it because it fits my lifestyle and how I naturally like to eat. I'm not pedantic about it though. I've done it when losing weight, maintaining and gaining though... Not just in an attempt…
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You could just eat proper meals - I find drinking my calories is not satiating at all! If you're determined to drink calories, how about adding protein powder? Protein would be low in the drinks you've described
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Because thats how they choose to eat. Many people maintaining or gaining weight also limit carbs. Why are you worried about how other people eat?
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Are you planning on doing a recomp? I personally like to get most of my protein from food, and hate protein shakes. I do use a bit of protein powder to mix in to yoghurt or blend into coffee though - I use both WPI and collagen protein (collagen mainly for hot coffee as it doesn't clump like whey)
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So you lost 8.5kg in a month.... Not a day. What was your calorie intake?
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My skin improved when I stopped being overly restrictive with my food choices (clean eating to the point of orthorexia)....I started an IIFYM approach and stressed less. I started incorporating collagen protein in to my diet around the same time, not sure if that's in any way related to the skin improvement.
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Meat is protein. It will have varying levels of fat. No carbs. I love vegies and have to restrict my intake of even non starchy vegies to limit myself to keto levels of carbs. I can't fit in fruit or dairy like yoghurt or milk (probably could if I didn't like vegetables so much).