@mayzing wrote:
Im 19 weigh about 194 and im 5'5. My goal weight right now is really 175 but the more the better. I eat salads often and also some fruits and veggies, although I usually have grilled chicken for dinner. Also I go running and do situps, crunches, push ups and other various things.
Merely eating less than you burn will cause weight loss.
Diet is for weight loss, if done right just fat loss, if done wrong includes muscle mass loss.
Exercise is for body improvements - done right supports fat loss, done wrong helps muscle loss. Most improvements are actually weight gain, not loss.
The only thing exercise does for weight loss is make you burn more daily, so that when you eat less, you hopefully can still sustain it.
It too little though - say goodbye to muscle and freak your body out and stress it and have a fight on your hands.
Based on several references to eating healthy/better and what you are eating, I'm betting you think less eating the better. Very untrue. Reasonable deficit is best, don't freak the body out.
With only 20-25 lbs to lose, you should hopefully be doing 1 lb weekly until to 10 lbs left, and then 1/2 lb weekly.
Let Fitbit tell you how much you burn (though you need to manually correct the calesthentics workouts because Fitbit is way too low on calorie burn there), then with your weight loss plan set to 500 cal deficit, eat the goal given daily.
A goal is something to hit too, not miss. You willing to miss goal weight by 20% and say that's close enough? Then don't miss your eating goal by 20%. 50 over is better than 100 below.
Keep those restistance training exercises, only thing that will tell your body to keep muscle.
And probably more protein, 145 grams daily is good goal while in weight loss mode.
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