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The Dragonfly Warrior

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Anonymous asked:

is losing weight while building muscle possible? if so, it's probably something that requires nutritious precision, huh?

First of all, that nutritional precision thing? It doesn’t actually exist. You have literally no possible way of calculating exactly how many calories your body uses/needs. It’s different every day and is influenced by an infinite variety of factors. And, you have literally no possible way of calculating exactly how many calories are in food, because the nutritional content between things is never exactly uniform. The living world cannot be calculated to precision. Even with heart rate monitors and food scales, the closest thing we have is still an educated estimate.

To build muscle, your body needs to be receiving enough material (food) to be able to construct new tissue. When losing weight, you are receiving less than maintenance amounts of food, therefore deliberately putting your body in a state of existence where adding new mass is not possible. “Something” (muscle) can’t be created out of “nothing” (negative net calories). That is literally a law of physics.

Generally, the only people who experience fat loss while gaining muscle are people who are new to gaining/muscle building. This is usually a result of their body having no choice but to burn fat, to keep up with their newly elevated metabolisms (which is achieved by gaining muscle). However, this is a change in body fat, not a loss of “weight”. Muscle is gained and fat is lost.

After the initial gain, usually a body won’t respond that way anymore. This is why people go through bulk and cut cycles. You commit to building muscle and gaining a little fat, then you commit to slowly losing the fat while retaining the muscle. Attempting to do both at once is a whole lot of effort for substandard results.

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I can't believe I'm losing weight on 2600 calories a day.

Down to 148 this morning. JEEzus FUCK.

Not only have I lost weight when I'm literally making every effort to maintain or gain, but I've lost a pant size since New Year's Eve. It is fascinating to learn what proper weight lifting does to the female body when it is fueled correctly (something the majority of "fitness"-minded women don't seem to know nor care about, unfortunately).

On the absolute bright side, my muscles are definitely not being eaten away. I've been able to increase weight every time, all six sessions I've done this year, and they are very firm/shaped even when I'm not flexing them. I am also losing the "jiggle" and the "puff" in my arms, stomach, and back. I even saw legit abs today... for a second, lol.

tl;dr LIFT MORE WEIGHTS AND EAT MORE FOOD IT IS AWESOME

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Question for weight lifters?

I'm no stranger to strength training - heavy lifting definitely gets the major credit for helping me lose over 100 lbs of fat. But, I am new to the world of actual muscle building and that's what I'm focused on right now. I just started New Rules of Lifting for Women and I'm having trouble creating an actual caloric/protein surplus on lifting days. Am I missing out on creating muscle mass because I'm eating at maintenance, or does it not matter much until later?

Advice would be really appreciated. If you have some, please feel free to either respond to the post itself or go to my ask box. Thanks in advance!

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