Anonymous #2 9w

I’m 4 11 so since February I’ve been eating 1200 calories with a couple cheat meals from time to time like once In a while type not every week. Then I started while I college so I’d do 45 min on the elliptical and 45 on the treadmill every single day and get like 7-10k more steps just on campus it was something crazy like that. But when i graduated and was at home I did 1 hr on each machine. For the elliptical i started the resistance on like 5-6 now im at 10-12 then for the treadmill the…

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Anonymous OP 9w

Incline was at 5 when i started now im at 12 and it’s 2.5 speed. Then for elliptical in college i had an incline of 3 then when i got back home my gym didnt have incline for the elliptical so i didnt ofc but they replaced the machines (its planet fitness) and i do incline of 25%.

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Anonymous OP 9w

This is so helpful and informative thank you🫶🏼 do you think cutting calories did it or mostly increasing your steps?

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Anonymous #2 9w

So it’s a mix of both because tbh I never knew definitively how many calories I ate, I just took a pic of my food and asked chatgbt then my maintenance is low cuz I’m short, so if I just cut cals I’d have a small deficit of calories. For reference there are 3500 calories in one lb. So cutting calories would maybe give me 300-500 cal deficit per day if I’m lucky most likely even 200-300 which for me is nothing. That would mean I’d lose a pound a week if even. All of my steps give me more of a…

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Anonymous OP 9w

Deficit but that’s like 500-700 without diet so if you put in all that effort again maybe 1-1.5lbs a week without diet. Then ur body loves to get used to what u do in terms of exercise so eventually u will lose less and need to increase intensity which is why i increased incline gradually

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Anonymous OP 9w

I just keep it at a 1000 cal deficit each day and ask chatgbt to figure that out based on what I eat. 1000 cals deficit per day is 2 lbs a week and that means I should’ve lost 56 lbs in 7 months but I have cheat meals and my body gets used to the exercise I do so it’s 50lbs which I think is pretty fair

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