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Welp! This girl fell below the 112 lb mark and ya know what that means? We get to increase cals by another 2% - Yayeeeeee! Following the reverse diet method since hitting goal at the original 150 lb. mark
- This will be the 7th 2% calorie increase.
I stood at 1686/day cals for quite a bit, but as many of you know "ad nauseaum" LOL - I don't allow this body to go below the 112 lb. mark as I risk losing the muscle mass I worked sooooooo very hard to create.
If some are wondering why this body might consume muscle mass if I'm too low in weight?
Fun Fact!
As it stands, at 113 lb. average - I'm a lean gal that doesn't actually have a lot of body fat. Anything below 20% bf on a female is considered VERY LEAN. My calipers call it at 19%, some say I look 17%. But, even if I were 20% - That is very lean.
So, I work hard to maintain the weight range I set at 112-114 lbs at this point in the body recomposition and strength training journey because, the body will literally start to either consume muscle for energy if it doesn't have enough fat to pull from, or get rid of it because it figures it doesn't need this amount of muscle for such a low weight.
And, like most body builders - I want to avoid that at all costs. This is a tricky game when one gets this lean and has this amount of muscle mass.
Another fun fact!
On average the body can burn up to 6 cals/hour more per pound of increased muscle mass. It doesn't seem a lot, but it adds up. Because, I have more muscle mass - I'm literally burning more cals at rest than I used too.
Okay, enough education for the day! :-)
Here are the new calorie targets starting tomorrow
On Average 1965 cals/day (Reverse diet increase by 2%). This accounts for maintenance cals and activity level for age 47.
Monday - 1936 --> 1974
Tuesday - 1956 --> 1994
Wednesday - 2213 --> 2251
Thursday - 1936 --> 1974
Friday - 1759 --> 1797
Saturday - 1722 ---> 1797
Sunday - 1936 ---> 1974
with the once a month surplus day, this will put me over the 2000 cal/day average.
Have a beautifully, delicious, wonderfully blessed day everyone!
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111.8 lb
Lost so far: 98.2 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 8.4 lb a week
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freaking awesome!! I love everything about this post. great fun facts. great hard work. great woman. I appreciate you. thank you for sharing.
13 Mar 21 by member: HeBrewZ
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Awww, thank you my dear! I think these bi-ceps just blushed...well, that and the burpees might have just blown out my arms, LOL ;-) But, for reals - I try to slide some "fun facts" in there now & then with regards to the whole body recomp process, because I realize we re-compers as a whole must seem like strange aliens to folks with our macro counts, surplus days, bulks & cuts, obsession with "new veins", and desire for increased definition not to mention strength capacity. The common phrase "consult your doctor or nutritionist" doesn't always apply to us, because a lot of the approaches we use are completely counter-intuitive to what any Health Professional or nutritionist might advise regarding weight loss or even weight maintenance - UNLESS, they were part of the lifting community as well. I figure a few "fun facts" about why these approaches are used with regards to increase in muscle mass, weight maintenance, and or working to limit the amount of decrease in muscle may help shed a little light for the curious at heart. And, hopefully make these approaches seem a little less strange.
13 Mar 21 by member: Egull1
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