ok so my previous cutting plan was about 1500 calories a day and cardio 6 days a week and lifting 4 days a week. after posting that on this forum i was told i needed to eat more to have a better cut.... so i changed it to 2300 calories a day and cardio 2 times a week and lifting 3 days a week.... after week one i gained 4.5 lbs? ummm why?
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umm wtf?
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kyoun1e
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Broken scale?
At 198 lbs, 2300 should be in deficit land.
Something not adding up.
You sure you're counting calories right?
KY
At 198 lbs, 2300 should be in deficit land.
Something not adding up.
You sure you're counting calories right?
KY
Water weight.
pure and simple.
Think about it, do you think you could have gained that much fat? No.
pure and simple.
Think about it, do you think you could have gained that much fat? No.
Go by other ways to measure..
Use a tape to measure your waist and other areas.
Keep track of your strength gain, keep a journal.
Use a mirror
Go by how your clothes feel and look on you.
Bdy fat testing should be done 3-4 wks even 5.
Dont let the scale run your life
And most of all be patient
Use a tape to measure your waist and other areas.
Keep track of your strength gain, keep a journal.
Use a mirror
Go by how your clothes feel and look on you.
Bdy fat testing should be done 3-4 wks even 5.
Dont let the scale run your life
And most of all be patient
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my guess would be a gain in lean muscle mass, but as Tank said you don't want to use a scale to measure cutting progress, use the mirror, bodyfat measurements, etc. first.
I'm thinking you increased too fast and you have a suppressed metabolism. You can't jump from eating too little to an increase of almost 1K calories without expecting weight gain. It's mostly water but you may have gained a speck of fat and some muscle.
You didn't gain fat, and you didn't gain muscle, either.
You're eating more and you're exercising less - you didn't lose anything, and you reglycogenated.
About 1% of the muscle on your body is glycogen, and each gram of glycogen is bound up with almost 3 grams of water.
There's the five pounds.
You're eating more and you're exercising less - you didn't lose anything, and you reglycogenated.
About 1% of the muscle on your body is glycogen, and each gram of glycogen is bound up with almost 3 grams of water.
There's the five pounds.
Ngordyn
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no at almost 200 lbs 1500 calories is pretty low , stick with this for a few weeks and see , if u keep maintaining then cut to 2000, one week is not enough time to measure if a cut is going to be effective
so when im cutting massively like before the water is taken away from the glycogen and put out of wack?
When cutting massively, and overtraining as well, you'll deplete glycogen stores from your muscles. The glycogen is bound up with water, so you burn through the glycogen and pee out the bound up water that is liberated with the burning off of the glycogen.
You eat, the glycogen goes back into your muscles - which is a GOOD thing - and it holds water.
Deplete and carb-load and your weight can fluctuate 5-8 lbs in a matter of days. Anyone who does this regularly (I do this weekly) knows it's nothing to panic about.
You eat, the glycogen goes back into your muscles - which is a GOOD thing - and it holds water.
Deplete and carb-load and your weight can fluctuate 5-8 lbs in a matter of days. Anyone who does this regularly (I do this weekly) knows it's nothing to panic about.
What does reglycogenated mean? Is that a word?
glycogenate is to fortify with glycogen....Re means to do again. I think you can handle it from there.
Gotcha, these must be words you guys use, because either glycogenate, or reglycogenated are words, lol.
I'll just keep in mind to never say that out loud.
Did you mean "Neither" instead of either?
"Either" way, both are words. Glycogenate is also a noun.
But yes I wouldn't say it out loud, especially if you don't know what it means.
