Body Composition Help

Thanks for the comments. I’m not after any specialized diet or workouts for free . Just trying to get feed back but I think I have a grasp on what I need to do. Thank you all. Ill get it figured out.

[quote]blue9steel wrote:
Sounds like you’re all over the map without much results. My recommendation:

  1. Pick a single diet, doesn’t even matter which
  2. Start logging your food every day, what you ate, when, calories & macros
  3. Start weighing yourself daily, take tape measurements weekly, write both down
  4. Pick a single workout program, doesn’t even matter which
  5. Start keeping a gym log every time you work out, exercises, sets, reps and any notes on how you felt.
  6. Stop changing things then come back in three months with your detailed notes and we’ll solve the problem for you.
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[quote]EyeDentist wrote:
At a bodyweight of 193#, and with that exercise regimen, your daily caloric requirement should be well north of 3000. I can think of only two reasons why you would not be able to lose fat when your daily intake drops significantly below this level for a sustained period:

  1. You have a medical condition that impairs your metabolism (eg, hypothyroidism; low T); or
  2. you significantly underestimate your caloric intake; ie, you in fact have NOT sustained a significant caloric deficit for an extended period of time.

While everyone should discuss with their MD whether #1 is worth checking out, in my experience, #2 is vastly more common.

I would also add that I think you’re approaching re-comp from the wrong direction. Dropping fat is a function of diet, not exercise. Unless you expend calories at Tour-de-France-competitor levels, you cannot out-train a calorically-generous diet. In fact, increasing exercise often sabotages weight-loss efforts by making the individual hungrier, and thus more likely to overeat.

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