Don’t stress too much
@Raymond Lin. Your progress has been phenomenal and you must be approaching your goal (if you haven’t already surpassed it). If your posts in the now eating thread are anything to go by you’re eating extremely well the majority of the time so a treat now and again is the right thing to do. Also you’ve started incorporating more strength training into your routine, so weight loss will slow or even reverse. Depends on your goals now - what are you looking to achieve at this point?
I’m probably looking at continuing strength training for the next 2-4 weeks before switching to more cardio to try to drive a better calorie deficit. Currently running a net average calorie intake of 2300 a day over the week. MFP gives you all your “active” calories back which isn’t quite right, but this level is ok for maintenance. I know I need to reduce this to 2000 or less average over the week to see the scales really start to shift.
Still can’t decide on whether to buy more creatine after my supply runs out.
My thoughts are…
1 - I like to lose more fat, I am not against losing more "weight" but I do want more muscles. I think my weight is fine. I am lighter than most women my height lol If I am purely losing more fat then I like to be 65kg. However, the ideal scenario is to maintain the weight but have more muscles instead.
I can see my rib cage now for example and if I can fill those up with a bit of muscles would be good. I am doing 2 days of push a week and 3 days of pull, legs and core in alternating in those. While I can see my ribs I do still have a belly, so losing those fat is my immediate goal and to do that is difficult since despite all these abs exercise, you can't target fat loss for a specific spot.
For the lolz and to I think a good test to see I am getting stronger I did 3 pull up last night before my sets, just to see. I think I can do more, probably 5 at least. But I need to work on my grip strength as that is my failing more than strength. I can feel my fingers slipping.
2 - I am also thinking if I need a reset or not, I need to eat in a calorie surplus (not by much) for a week, to send signal to my body that I am not starving and doesn't need to conserve. I know if the body is in a calorie deficit for a while it hits that wall. I wonder if this is that.
3 - The other things is that I am consciously eating more protein in every meal. As you can see I basically eat Greek Yoghurt everyday, sardines almost every lunchtime, often with cottage cheese. A few times this month I've also topped up the sardines with a Burrata. Last few weeks I went from 1 coffee to 3 and each one I add in 2/3rd scoop of protein powder (so a total of extra 200 cal per day). So those days I am 100% not in a calorie deficit, or not by much. A Burrata has like 300 calories, and I add Extra Virgin Olive oil on top. May be I have been out of calorie deficit for the past week hence the weight being stuck at 68.5kg.
Which makes me think it is more point 3 is happening than point 2. I guess the immediate step is to try a week of going back to 1 scoop of protein powder a day, I will probably spread it over 2 cups as I like the chocolate flavour it gives.
Side note, I found like 4 pair of jeans I forgot I had when i was thinner, and a denim jacket too...back before I bought a house, shooting more weddings, clearly more careless with my money because it's all designer stuff, DKNY, G-Raw, Levi's. Distressed stuff that usually cost extra. I can get into all of them with room to spare as they are all 32" waist but nothing a belt won't fix.
p.s. I can do 5 pull-ups when I am "fresh", first thing going into the gym.
