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@monkeym24 I’m here to learn. At 1700 cal she was weighing daily and holding her weight stably for 2.5 months. My understanding is a reasonable diet is 0.5-1% bw loss/week for up to 10 weeks at a time. Aiming at 0.8% loss from that maintenance weight is a 550 cal deficit or 1150. What am I...

@olusanya800 Yeah fair - I think if we still are stuck after this week its back to maintenance. The bf estimates are my own (Shes about 5'3"), I've helped a few people mostly with strength training and for people in larger cities I'll have them get a DEXA, though that is not available where my...

@olusanya800 I’m not at all encouraging her to shrink. She came up with these goals and I was the one to encourage thinking about body composition. Her rep strength on her lifts hasn’t changed negatively yet. Where did you get 6 months? My understanding is a maintenance period should be 2/3-1x...

And ah I see that does make sense - ty friend!

@razel Lol ty on the vocab actually welcome, prescribed indeed!

@razel NEAT is mostly ambient steps though correct? Which are regulated by a proscribed step count

@totalfloor This one I know! Fluid retention can definitely go in the opposite direction - under stress of any kind (psychological, exercise, caloric restriction) your body retains extra water for some period. Its part of what makes scale loss so lumpy. Theres basically multiple sine wave...

@totalfloor No no creatine, I just know the big convoluting factor with tracking body fat loss through weight is water mostly - from stress, salt, for younger women period, and seemingly innumerable other things. However it feels like any body water shifts would have settled by 6 weeks in...

@totalfloor Yeah this may be it. Fluid retention stuff is the only confounding variable I can think of otherwise, but that’s a reach.

Hi r/fitness30plus. I'm a lifetime nerd for all things strength training, bodybuilding and self-experimentation. However I'm at a loss in programming through a fat loss plateau for my mom, who I believe is bumping up against too-low calories while still showing no scale weight movement after 6...