janelleduah1

Discussions

TDEE deficit with heavy lifting
Does the optimal TDEE deficit depend on the type of exercise you are doing? I am mostly doing heavy lifting, and the worksheet suggests a 20% deficit, while when I was doing mostly HIIT workouts, it suggested a 10% deficit. My BMR is 1500 and the 20% deficit is suggesting 1640, is that ok? I don't want to eat away any…
Re-starting
So I'm back to where I was about a year ago (well, weight-wise, not BF%-wise so that's a NSV!). When I first started, I was 5'4", 137 lbs, and BF of 22%, using HeyBales's spreadsheet. I succeeded in getting down to 130.8 (juuuust 0.8 away from my goal) but then regained all the weight! I am currently still 5'4" lol,…