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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may be consuming too little calories, OP.  If you are only consuming 1000-1200 cals per day and doing all of the exercises like you claim, then your body is probably adapting to too few calories and is lowering your basal metabolic rate. Increase your calories to 1500-1800 per day. After exercising, your caloric intake will probably be around 1200-1500.  You will lose weight slowly. You are starving yourself too much and your body is adapting. If you consume more cals, you will also build more muscle with all of the weight lifting, which will also help to increase you basal metabolic rate.[/quote]

Can you cite reputable scientific support for the notion that eating at a calorie deficit prevents weight loss and increasing calories causes weight loss?  I’m aware of multiple studies — most famously the Minnesota starvation experiment — that demonstrated the exact opposite.  [/quote]

DP but I hear this from trainers who have very specific fitness goals. The people trying to lift heavy and gain muscle are eating way more calories and than they burn. BUT then they want to cut and they will drop below their burn amount to lose that weight/fat.

For a normal person interested in losing weight, being in somewhat of a calorie deficit is the way to go. But a huge deficit like a 1000 calories or more is probably messing with metabolism.

I am kind of stuck because I want to lift heavy and gain whatever muscle I can but also lose some fat at the same time. Haha [/quote]

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