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I am 33 yrs old woman with height 5ft 2 inches and weight 132 lbs. Post pregnancy, I have lost almost 33 lbs but it being very difficult to loose inches after that. there is no changes in last 6 months.Got my fitbit hr ,a week back and hope it will help me to keep things on track.
I workout 4-5 days in week which includes strength training-3 days and cardio/hiit- 2 days.
Average calorie intake is 1400-1600 (sometimes more on wkends 
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Desparately trying to lose last 2 inches but I am unable to. Not really looking to lose weight rather focusing on losing inches and building strenth.
So my question is that does anyone face the same problem while losing the last few inches ? Am I not eating enough to booste up my BMR ? Do think i need to increase my workout intensity ?
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@Sangha wrote:I am 33 yrs old woman with height 5ft 2 inches and weight 132 lbs. Post pregnancy, I have lost almost 33 lbs but it being very difficult to loose inches after that. there is no changes in last 6 months.Got my fitbit hr ,a week back and hope it will help me to keep things on track.
I workout 4-5 days in week which includes strength training-3 days and cardio/hiit- 2 days.
Average calorie intake is 1400-1600 (sometimes more on wkends
Desparately trying to lose last 2 inches but I am unable to. Not really looking to lose weight rather focusing on losing inches and building strenth.
So my question is that does anyone face the same problem while losing the last few inches ? Am I not eating enough to booste up my BMR ? Do think i need to increase my workout intensity ?
So if weight is in the healthy zone already, and you have ended up skinny fat (meaing higher % of fat than desired), then you likely had too great a deficit for most of your weight loss, and lost the normal decent amount of muscle mass.
Now the fun of getting that back while you lose the fat you still have on.
You'll need to eat at maintenance - no weight loss, no deficit in other words, on your account profile.
That should improve your workouts.
The only way to lose fat while maintaining weight is for the body to have a need to build up muscle while using the fat as extra energy source.
Only workouts that will do that are resistance training, so your strength training is great.
Confirm they are full-body 3 x weekly, using compound moves biggest muscles first.
Since you are willing to lift - skip the HIIT, which is merely the cardio only response to get close to lifting response in a workout, including fat burn - which I'm betting is partly reason for doing it.
But if you have that much time, do an upper / lower body or push / pull split routine 6 x weekly.
That makes it shorter time, but still gives each muscle 3 x weekly.
Any cardio you desire for heart health and to increase your calorie burn so you can eat more - can be done with time available after the lifting.
And you'll need to manually log your lifting - as it'll be incorrect calorie estimate by Fitbit based on steps or HR. Database has it as Weights for what you need to be doing - 2-5 sets, with 5-15 reps, with 2-4 min rests.
And it will take awhile. Much easier to lose a pound of muscle than gain it.
As woman eating at maintenance, if you do a progressive overload routine - could expect about 1 lb monthly gain in muscle, meaning loss in fat.
But that will be noticable at least too, so good that you are not hung up on scale.
And you really need to hit your eating goal of what you burn daily, so you get the best workouts and body improvements, and recovery possible.
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@Sangha wrote:I am 33 yrs old woman with height 5ft 2 inches and weight 132 lbs. Post pregnancy, I have lost almost 33 lbs but it being very difficult to loose inches after that. there is no changes in last 6 months.Got my fitbit hr ,a week back and hope it will help me to keep things on track.
I workout 4-5 days in week which includes strength training-3 days and cardio/hiit- 2 days.
Average calorie intake is 1400-1600 (sometimes more on wkends
Desparately trying to lose last 2 inches but I am unable to. Not really looking to lose weight rather focusing on losing inches and building strenth.
So my question is that does anyone face the same problem while losing the last few inches ? Am I not eating enough to booste up my BMR ? Do think i need to increase my workout intensity ?
So if weight is in the healthy zone already, and you have ended up skinny fat (meaing higher % of fat than desired), then you likely had too great a deficit for most of your weight loss, and lost the normal decent amount of muscle mass.
Now the fun of getting that back while you lose the fat you still have on.
You'll need to eat at maintenance - no weight loss, no deficit in other words, on your account profile.
That should improve your workouts.
The only way to lose fat while maintaining weight is for the body to have a need to build up muscle while using the fat as extra energy source.
Only workouts that will do that are resistance training, so your strength training is great.
Confirm they are full-body 3 x weekly, using compound moves biggest muscles first.
Since you are willing to lift - skip the HIIT, which is merely the cardio only response to get close to lifting response in a workout, including fat burn - which I'm betting is partly reason for doing it.
But if you have that much time, do an upper / lower body or push / pull split routine 6 x weekly.
That makes it shorter time, but still gives each muscle 3 x weekly.
Any cardio you desire for heart health and to increase your calorie burn so you can eat more - can be done with time available after the lifting.
And you'll need to manually log your lifting - as it'll be incorrect calorie estimate by Fitbit based on steps or HR. Database has it as Weights for what you need to be doing - 2-5 sets, with 5-15 reps, with 2-4 min rests.
And it will take awhile. Much easier to lose a pound of muscle than gain it.
As woman eating at maintenance, if you do a progressive overload routine - could expect about 1 lb monthly gain in muscle, meaning loss in fat.
But that will be noticable at least too, so good that you are not hung up on scale.
And you really need to hit your eating goal of what you burn daily, so you get the best workouts and body improvements, and recovery possible.
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