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You burn calories breastfeeding, so remember to eat those calories back.

Abs are made in the gym and revealed in the kitchen. You have to lose fat not weight to see abs.

Dont act like the amount of muscle you have wont effect your bodyfat percentage.

Yea but if you keep that in mind, it might inspire you to eat. :flowerforyou:

Muscles need calories. If you dont have enough muscle, you will end up looking flabby.

15-16%

If I were you, I would change my goal to lose 1lb a week. At 5'7, 1200 calories a day might be to little for you. Exercise calories are meant to be eaten, so if you exercise you can eat more and still be in a deficit.

You are right, just make sure your calories burned is accurate.

squats

1lb of muscle takes up less space than 1lb of fat. Most likey your friend has a lower bodyfat percentage.

^ This, activate your glutes when deadlifting to prevent lower back injuries!

Did you have a transition phase from going from a cut to a bulk, by slowly upping your calories? or did you just jump from your cutting calories right into you bulking calories? If you just jumped into bulking calories from cutting calories, thats a good way to gain fat.

If you want to be at 15% from 28%, you need to lose 13% of your bodyfat. 125 x 0.13 = 16.25lbs, so you need to lose 16.25lbs of pure fat to get down to 15%. If you lose 16.25lbs of pure fat and then gain that weight back in the form of pure muscle, your bodyfat percentage will be even lower, around 7%.

If you are truly burning 1800 calories a day through exercise and eating less than 1200, your deficit is way larger than 500 calories. If you got 1200 calories from plugging your number into myfitnesspal, that number already has a deficit in it before exercise. You minus 500 calories from your maintenance calories to lose…

^ What she said.

small deficit + strength training = reduced bodyfat percentage. Small deficit because you dont seam to have much to lose, and the less you have to lose the more it is likely to lose muscle on a higher deficit.

^ I agree with this, you should change your activity level which should give you a little more calories to eat.

^ This

Whole eggs and liver.

Everything you need to know about low bar squats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmrKmJMQnw

If you just started weight training, your muscle might be retaining water. So you might have already lost fat but the scale isnt moving because of the water retention.

What method was used to get your bodyfat percentage?

If you're eating 1350 calories and burning 2050 calories, you are netting -700 calories. Your goal should to be netting 1350 calories Meaning if you burn 300 calories from working out, you have to eat 1650 calories to net 1350 calories. The number MFP gives you already has a deficit in it before exercise. If you put your…

You can concentrate on weekly calories, eat less some days and make up for it on the weekend.

^ This. Losing weight does not get rid of belly fat and love handles, reducing your bodyfat percenatge does. Lifting heavy while eating a deficit will help you retain muscle while loing weight, thus lowering your bodyfat percentage.

Lifting heavy does not make you buff or bulky, eating more calories does. Heres a good video to watch, this guy is a nautural bodybuilder and in the video are the women he trains. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn5yIqFeGlU

^ This, having muscle will make you more tone and tight.

Your TDEE should acount for exercise, so you can subtract at most 20% from your TDEE and eat that amount everyday and do not eat back your exercise calories doing the TDEE method.

My TDEE is just over 3100 calories and im 5'9 165-170lbs. So 3200 is probably around what you need to lose 1lb a week since you weigh more than me and you are taller.

You're fairly active, which means you calorie needs are probably much higher than 1200 even if you are trying to lose weight. 1200 net is the minimum more a female and is more directed to short females who lives sedentary life style. In your case you are not even netting 1200 calories because the amount of physical…