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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop going to the gym. Eat less calories. Do this for a couple months.

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When I was hanging out with a (slender, beautiful) new friend, she showed me a video of a grossly obese woman. She said "That was me last year !" I couldn't believe it. She did not work out - all she did was portion control. She went from over 200 pounds to 130.[/quote]

Was she 4'5?  One does not go from "grossly obese" to slender in seventy pounds...

If you lose weight exclusively through portion control, you will lose more of your lean muscle mass.  If you work out and maintain your muscle mass as much as possible you will be able to maintain your new, lower weight with higher calorie intake.  I'd rather just not lose weight at all than have to eat 1400 calories a day to maintain the lower weight.  It's also difficult to do, which is why people keep gaining and losing.

I'm doing a body recomposition at about 2200 calories a day (I'm about 30 lbs overweight and weightlifting, and tall), losing fat and adding muscle.

OP, throw in metabolic training circuits.  Lift heavy 2-3 times a week, and do 1-2 metabolic workouts.  Eat lots of protein.  Packing on five pounds of muscle will burn off 25 lbs of fat in a year.  [/quote]

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