Agree completely!! Especially with the cutting carbs = water weight-loss and in my experience, I lose water weight right away and then hit a wall of weight loss, whereas NOT cutting carbs at all, the weight might come down slower but it’s more steady and feels easier vs after the initial “whoosh” of water weight with lower carb, it almost feels like my body has to struggle to rehydrate those cells without adequate carbs and THEN it can focus on losing the fat? It’s like why add another hindrance for your body in the fat-loss phase? Idk if that makes sense lol.
I think start with ~2 weeks of assessing what you are currently doing, and monitoring weight trends. you can compare to an online estimator, and then slowly work on increasing overtime to try to find the upper end of your maintenance calories :) By improving our metabolism, you can increase calories out and thus increase maintenance :)
Great video, makes sense these 3 phases. Oh when you pulled that bottle from under the table "this helped me", I don't know why I thought aha alcohol! 😂 Votka or something
Is a fat loss phase whilst breastfeeding recommended? Maintainence calories are high, I lift 3 x a week and have 13 pounds to lose. I'm 15 mths pp now and really just want to be able to fit all my clothes again 😄
Can one actually gain muscle and lose fat at the same time IF your calorie deficit is minimal? Or if we are at maintenance calories, can we build muscle and lose fat at the same time? I hesitate to cut calories much because really trying to build muscle FIRST at the gym and just walking a lot. But going through menopause and finding it easy to gain and hard to lose.
really depends on training status and level of body fat - the literature shows that a 'training newb' can lose fat and gain muscle. The literature also shows that someone that is very overweight can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. However, a more intermediate lifter in the middle doesn't see the same results - has to choose one of the other as a specific goal at the time.
Until we’re actually tracking food we won’t know for sure. Some foods are more palatable and less satiating. And sometimes eating only to hunger you can end up under eating
Loving this! Thank you all for being sane!🙏
thank you for appreciating being sane :)
Agree completely!! Especially with the cutting carbs = water weight-loss and in my experience, I lose water weight right away and then hit a wall of weight loss, whereas NOT cutting carbs at all, the weight might come down slower but it’s more steady and feels easier vs after the initial “whoosh” of water weight with lower carb, it almost feels like my body has to struggle to rehydrate those cells without adequate carbs and THEN it can focus on losing the fat? It’s like why add another hindrance for your body in the fat-loss phase? Idk if that makes sense lol.
Hi strong sistas! Enjoying your videos from California! Happy holidays and stay healthy and strong beautiful ladies!
Great episode, thank you for sharing 🙏 Question - any chance to elaborate how to establish your metabolic maintenance calories in phase 1?
I think start with ~2 weeks of assessing what you are currently doing, and monitoring weight trends. you can compare to an online estimator, and then slowly work on increasing overtime to try to find the upper end of your maintenance calories :) By improving our metabolism, you can increase calories out and thus increase maintenance :)
Awesome, thank you ❤
Really curious to know where your guys hrv sits at at the end of those cuts
Great video, makes sense these 3 phases. Oh when you pulled that bottle from under the table "this helped me", I don't know why I thought aha alcohol! 😂 Votka or something
HAHA!!! No no, the sparkling bubbly water!!
How much is the calorie defecit the first 3 weeks vs the last 3?
Is a fat loss phase whilst breastfeeding recommended? Maintainence calories are high, I lift 3 x a week and have 13 pounds to lose. I'm 15 mths pp now and really just want to be able to fit all my clothes again 😄
Can one actually gain muscle and lose fat at the same time IF your calorie deficit is minimal? Or if we are at maintenance calories, can we build muscle and lose fat at the same time?
I hesitate to cut calories much because really trying to build muscle FIRST at the gym and just walking a lot. But going through menopause and finding it easy to gain and hard to lose.
What about cutting some fat calories and replacing with carbs as opposed to cutting calories at all? Would this make a difference on body composition?
@ that’s what I’ve been doing, cutting fat down not carbs… 🤷♀️😊
@@bont7948 cutting fat and keeping carbs the same lowers calorie intake :)
@@terrac6694 yeh definitely! Will be a much slower change over time but I am a fan of that option, too!
really depends on training status and level of body fat - the literature shows that a 'training newb' can lose fat and gain muscle. The literature also shows that someone that is very overweight can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. However, a more intermediate lifter in the middle doesn't see the same results - has to choose one of the other as a specific goal at the time.
I've found eat when hungry and STOP when NO longer hungry the best advice....
Until we’re actually tracking food we won’t know for sure. Some foods are more palatable and less satiating. And sometimes eating only to hunger you can end up under eating
unfortunately a lot of people have lost hunger cues. If that works for you - thats GREAT!!
I never see their stories on Insta anymore wonder if its my issue or do they not post as much
we post on our insta every day :) But also, super busy building an alternative food system as well! @nourishfoodclub