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scales are not that great a gauge, but if you are going to weigh yourself, do it in the morning, after you go to the bathroom, but before you eat or drink anything. And don't weigh your self every day.
weight loss halted =(
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scales are not that great a gauge, but if you are going to weigh yourself, do it in the morning, after you go to the bathroom, but before you eat or drink anything. And don't weigh your self every day.
RADAR
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Everything you Drink and eat is weighed by the scale,not only in your stomach ,but in the small & large intestines also.
Which is why scales are of very limited utility at best. At worse they are actually counterproductive.
Two to three days of bowel irregularity and/or water retention can easily add 3-6 pounds even though you might possible have lost a bit of fat during that same time.
But OMG the scale....the scale.
Throw the damn scales out, ladies. Please.
tape measures are ok, (certainly superior to bw scales) but better for men.
Women can have significant variations in the amount of water we hold under the skin from one week making garment tapes less accurate, particularly the midsection.
paintballproam
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ok so i took some time to pack on more muscle, worked well and my lifts shot up, but i still cant drop weight. still at like 167lbs, still doing 1700cals a day, same macros. i lift m/w/f and do cardio tues/thurs. with my new job it makes it difficult. the gym opens at 5am and i have 2 be done by 6 so i can get ready to go to work, and then i dont get out till late and have things i need to take care of. what if i dropped my cals?
few ideas. Are you consuming 1700 every day? Also, when do you consume your carbs and are they low GI?
Bit of info. Body recomposition reflects the body's attempt to adapt to demands we place on it by our activities and by our diet. However, there are plenty of other ways our body can adapt without changing it's shape in any visible way. If we continue to consume the same total calorie deficit every day our body can actually find ways to adapt to it without having to dig into it's energy resources (our body fat) for fuel. That's why changing the total caloric deficit a little bit each day can keep the fat loss coming. Mon-Tues you might go 400 below maintenance needs, Wed-Thurs 150 below, Friday-Saturday 250 below. Like that. Vary it around.
Another thing is you definitely want to try to consume the vast majority of your carbs immediately after cardio, since that is when your liver and skeletal muscle reserves of glycogen are exhausted. If you've spun, jogged, or rowed an hour at pretty good intensity, then you can consume up to 100g carbs right afterward and have all that shuttled directly into the liver and muscles and none into the body fat stores. It won't have any negative effect at all on your rate of fat loss. Carbs at breakfast are ok provided that are low GI. Any other meal you really should aim for zero carbs. Make sure you still meet your caloric goal for the day though. Going too low on total cals will just drag down your metabolic rate.
paintballproam
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main sources of carbs are 1/2 cup oats at breakfast, 1/2cup brown rice around 9am. and a little 1% milk with a couple meals. most of my meals are chicken or turkey with a veggie. and yes 1700cals
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