Petite Women’s Challenges
Megan shares her journey with fitness and nutrition, highlighting the struggles of building muscle and managing body image as a petite woman. Despite working with trainers and increasing her calorie intake, she finds it difficult to shed stubborn areas like love handles. The discussion uncovers the misconceptions about calorie needs for smaller individuals and offers insights into effective strategies for petite women looking to achieve their fitness goals.In this clip
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How much muscle can women build as discussed in the episode "How To Lose Weight, Gain Muscle & Feel Your Best w/ Sal Di Stefano of Mind Pump" and the clip "Embracing Strength Training"?
My next question is about macros. I’ve counted macros for a while, and I feel like I’m eating enough. How would I know the difference between eating too much, which would explain the weight plateau/gain, versus still overtraining/under eating? How long should I give my body from stopping all the hybrid training/running and returning back to weight lifting, with very minimal high-intensity work, to let my body adapt and trust the increased calories/less “intense” movement?
I'm considering an 800-calorie diet like David Goggins. Currently, I am at 1400 calories, but after losing my first 30 lbs, I wasn't seeing any more progress, so I went down to a 1200-calorie diet and maintained it for about 6 months, doing 45 minutes of Burn Boot Camp 5 days per week. However, there was no weight loss on the scale at all—just fluctuations of ±6 lbs from day to day. I've kept the 30 lbs off for a little over a year, but I'm not moving and have not been for the past 6 months. I have PCOS, or what health professionals refer to as a form of PCOS, so I have had no luck losing weight. I was hoping to find insight or recommendations to step it up.