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Originally Posted by ladida
Let's hear your opinion. If that's you in the picture.
My wife works out each day. 1h treadmill, does around 6 miles in that time frame. If she's not running she's doing various workouts in the gym for 1h at least. She's eating very little but healthy. Like 1 big meal a day (lunch/dinner) that i'd say is normal for her, and various daily snacks of fruit/vegetables/yoghurt etc (at least 4 times). She's not taking any supplements and please don't recommend those. She's at around 5.5'' and 122lbs. She's not losing any weight really (which is really strange to me considering how much she works out and how little she eats), and still has small cellulite patches on thighs eventho there's not much fat in there. Her goal is to get more muscular in the leg area, as the upper frame is good. I can't tell you the calory intake as i dont know.
Any diet recommendations, or what to change? I feel she's eating way little, but on the same side it's strange to me she's not losing weight.
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If she's not losing weight, its because she's eating too much and also probably needs to tweak the types of foods she's eating.
First and foremost, its about calories in vs. calories out.
5'5"/122#'s - just set a target daily caloric intake of say 1400.
40% from carbs
40% from protein
20% from fat.
track everything, count everything.
do that for a period of time - like 4 weeks. be diligent. if she doesn't lose 3-4 pounds, look at dialing back calories a little bit more and keep dialing it in.
1 pound = 3500 calories
you need to have a 3500 calorie deficit to lose 1 pound of fat
at the end of the day, its no more complicated than that... but tracking it and dialing things in and getting results, often requires a great deal of diligence.
Even when it seems someone isn't "really eating that much" - they are still getting the calories to maintain their weight, otherwise they would be losing weight.