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A little googling for BMR

I am definitely in a major learning curve trying to balance weight loss specifically belly fat and building muscle(bulking up) which I have never really done.

I came up with the 1650 using the myfitness cal counting website suggested if I wanted to lose 1# a week and it spit that number out at me. I wasn't losing any additional weight at 1900 so I thought what the hell. At the same time I increased my gym time hoping that might help as well.

I'm not ready to do keto yet. Here's my post on that.
https://www.excelmale.com/forum/showthread.php?12490-The-KETO-Diet-(GOOD-OR-BAD)-just-when-I-was-almost-convinced

I have come to the conclusion and answered my original post question. NO YOU CAN'T.

I need to drop the limited cal diet.
Forget about the belly fat for now and just focus on the muscle improvement.
Hoping the belly fat will take care of itself.

I need to redesign my diet that is forsure but I am still not ready to do keto.

<blockquote data-quote="FeelingLost" data-source="post: 87708" data-attributes="member: 15131">A little googling for BMR<img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4555/37758879164_7e70ab3a05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4570/37758879214_099f9af825.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I am definitely in a major learning curve trying to balance weight loss specifically belly fat and building muscle(bulking up) which I have never really done. I came up with the 1650 using the myfitness cal counting website suggested if I wanted to lose 1# a week and it spit that number out at me. I wasn&#039;t losing any additional weight at 1900 so I thought what the hell. At the same time I increased my gym time hoping that might help as well. I&#039;m not ready to do keto yet. Here&#039;s my post on that. <a href="https://www.excelmale.com/forum/showthread.php?12490-The-%C2%93KETO%C2%94-Diet-%28GOOD-OR-BAD%29-just-when-I-was-almost-convinced" target="_blank">https://www.excelmale.com/forum/showthread.php?12490-The-KETO-Diet-(GOOD-OR-BAD)-just-when-I-was-almost-convinced</a>I have come to the conclusion and answered my original post question. NO YOU CAN&#039;T. I need to drop the limited cal diet. Forget about the belly fat for now and just focus on the muscle improvement. Hoping the belly fat will take care of itself. I need to redesign my diet that is forsure but I am still not ready to do keto.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FeelingLost, post: 87708, member: 15131"] A little googling for BMR [IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4555/37758879164_7e70ab3a05.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4570/37758879214_099f9af825.jpg[/IMG] I am definitely in a major learning curve trying to balance weight loss specifically belly fat and building muscle(bulking up) which I have never really done. I came up with the 1650 using the myfitness cal counting website suggested if I wanted to lose 1# a week and it spit that number out at me. I wasn't losing any additional weight at 1900 so I thought what the hell. At the same time I increased my gym time hoping that might help as well. I'm not ready to do keto yet. Here's my post on that. [URL]https://www.excelmale.com/forum/showthread.php?12490-The-%C2%93KETO%C2%94-Diet-%28GOOD-OR-BAD%29-just-when-I-was-almost-convinced[/URL] I have come to the conclusion and answered my original post question. NO YOU CAN'T. I need to drop the limited cal diet. Forget about the belly fat for now and just focus on the muscle improvement. Hoping the belly fat will take care of itself. I need to redesign my diet that is forsure but I am still not ready to do keto. [/QUOTE]

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DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-0102 | PMID: 20534765 | PMCID: PMC2913038