Seems I’ve hit a fat loss plateau and can’t get past it. Can anyone help?
I’m hoping to reach under 10% and hit maybe an 8% mark. To be realistic I plan on spending 1 or 2 more months doing what I can to lower my body fat some more. After that I’m going to put on muscle and eat more.
But I think I’ve hit a strong plateau here. As these recent photos of 12th November show me looking virtually the same as ones I took in August 11th.
I’ve been Intermittent Fasting on a Calorie Deficit of about 600 calories. Weight lifting twice a week. Sometimes 3 or 4 times on a rare amount of weeks (including when I was did one Maintenance dieting for 2 weeks in October).
I do 10k steps a day, but as I do 20-30 minutes cardio Monday to Friday most days, I would lower my steps to around 8k a day. My Fitbit shows my 10k steps to be around 800 cals burned, and my cardio workouts to be 150-200 cals.
Body fat and muscle maintenance has been great since starting this from April.
April I started whole body weight around 81-83 kgs, BF around 21-23%. Muscle Mass around 61kgs.
Right now my Tanita scale has me at around 71 kgs, BF around 7%, Muscle Mass around 61kgs. There is give and take of the weight and I don’t believe my Body Fat is that low at all. Visually I don’t think I have dropped body fat.
If I can’t push past this wall I seem to be in, then I wonder if what’s stopping me getting lower body fat is because my muscle mass isn’t higher? I wonder if my muscle mass is too low to lose more fat and my body is hanging onto the body fat as it feels I need it to keep going as my muscles are not large enough?
Not sure what else I can add to what I’m doing to break this apparent plateau. So any advice on this would be welcome. Much appreciation.
I’m hoping to reach under 10% and hit maybe an 8% mark. To be realistic I plan on spending 1 or 2 more months doing what I can to lower my body fat some more. After that I’m going to put on muscle and eat more.
But I think I’ve hit a strong plateau here. As these recent photos of 12th November show me looking virtually the same as ones I took in August 11th.
I’ve been Intermittent Fasting on a Calorie Deficit of about 600 calories. Weight lifting twice a week. Sometimes 3 or 4 times on a rare amount of weeks (including when I was did one Maintenance dieting for 2 weeks in October).
I do 10k steps a day, but as I do 20-30 minutes cardio Monday to Friday most days, I would lower my steps to around 8k a day. My Fitbit shows my 10k steps to be around 800 cals burned, and my cardio workouts to be 150-200 cals.
Body fat and muscle maintenance has been great since starting this from April.
April I started whole body weight around 81-83 kgs, BF around 21-23%. Muscle Mass around 61kgs.
Right now my Tanita scale has me at around 71 kgs, BF around 7%, Muscle Mass around 61kgs. There is give and take of the weight and I don’t believe my Body Fat is that low at all. Visually I don’t think I have dropped body fat.
If I can’t push past this wall I seem to be in, then I wonder if what’s stopping me getting lower body fat is because my muscle mass isn’t higher? I wonder if my muscle mass is too low to lose more fat and my body is hanging onto the body fat as it feels I need it to keep going as my muscles are not large enough?
Not sure what else I can add to what I’m doing to break this apparent plateau. So any advice on this would be welcome. Much appreciation.