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Anonymous
I gained weight, /fit/. ):
Why?
I thought it was just a really bad plateau but now I'm going up.
June 12th, I weighed 136 and my measurements were 34-29-38. Now I weigh around 136 (been gaining and losing the same 4 lbs the past 10 weeks, fucking annoying) and now my measurements are 35-30-40.
I've been eating around 1300/1400/1500~ per day, (sometimes I'm just not hungry) and I do HIIT on the treadmill about 3 times a week.
I've been "dieting" since April. I guess it's not all calorie in vs calorie out?

I just started reading Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle and I'm going to try calorie cycling and doing cardio every day. According to the book, my calorie cycling will be like 1450~/day and then every three days I eat at maintenance so my body doesn't adapt. However, I'm concerned that my metabolism is damaged from restricting (my maintenance is about 2000, just to give you an idea about how much was restricted) and that eating at maintenance will cause me gain, so I'm going to do like, 1800 or so every three days?
I don't really know. I feel very demovitated and tired of being stuck like this.

Basically, will eating more help? How many calories (estimate) does HIIT burn? I log it as 100 and don't eat it back, but since it keeps the heart rate up so much yaknow, it sounds like it's more, and I could really be eating 1000 (net) calories a day and not know it?
>> Anonymous
Spin class,

learn to RAGE on a bike
>> Anonymous
Why is it possible to gain weight on a deficit?
>> Anonymous
First thing, HIIT isn't like regular cardio. If you read the descriptions about HIIT, the caloric burn and benefits happen 48 hours after the actual excercise. HIIT is diff. from regular cardio, more like lifting weights because the intensity and intervals break down your muscle like in weight lifting... so you're buring calories during muscle repair/recovery days after while you're resting. So you can't just figure 100 calories burnt during your HIIT session (its not steady state cardio).

It sounds like you're not consuming enough calories, that your caloric deficit is too high. Bottomline is that with all the cardio and HIIT you're doing, you're not eating enough and your body is going into starvation mode, eating muscle; which is why you're plateauing and even starting to go back up a little.

You need to eat more, provide the nutrients your body needs for the exercise and recovery. Whatever you're feeding your body is not enough. Up it a bit more. You're on the right track, you just need to adjust your nutrition.
>> Anonymous
bottomline: if you don't eat enough for your recovery. your body eats your muscle,. less muscle means your metabolism goes down. you start to gain.

most people recommend creating the deficit with excercise, not cutting back on food.

because your metabolism is damaged, you might want to consider trying to gain back your lost muscle.

try lifting weights. even bodyweight excercises, to try to regain the muscle you lost.
>> Anonymous
oh sweet shit I didn't even realize I could be burning my muscle. Fuckkkk. |:<