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It sounds like you are eating too little. How fast are you losing weight? If it's more than about 2-3kg per month, that's too fast and some of that may be muscle.

Yes, you need to increase...

I wouldn't do that... it may even be that you lost more muscle because the stimulus wasn't as good.

No, you just need to eat more food if your goal is to gain weight - and don't do unnecessary cardio.

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Re: the protein, it's not too much to absorb, it's just that it might not all get used for protein synthesis. Protein can be converted to glucose and burned as energy for example.

If you digest a...

As long as you don't train through pain and take your doctors advice, I can't see why not.

No it wouldn't, anyone who is severely under muscled can gain muscle really fast initially. And it's impossible to say anything about your genes until you've actually tried and done everything...

If you gained 20lbs of muscle you would look good at 150-160. A little bit of muscle goes a long way and has much more visual impact than low BF% for this scenario.

Leptin production can stop at this body weight - that's the issue.

Post a pic.

Post some pictures. I'm betting everyone says gain muscle/weight...

Sometimes you just have to accept that we all have distorted views of ourselves - some a lot more distorted than others.
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You don't have to diet all the way to a lean state you can zig zag.

It is true that most people would look too skinny if they do this without having built a good base of muscle first - but it's...

Plenty of people have done this in the past. It looks like the fat is only on your stomach but actually you still have it all over.

You will just be skinnier than you'd like if you get lean. Gain...

That's not really enough data to draw any conclusions. You could still be just retaining water.

It would pay to double check all your measurements and portion sizes are genuinely the same as they...

I think it's better to split squats and deadlifts to different days.

Last time I did 5 days, was FB every day:
1 Chest Legs Back Shoulders Posterior
2 Back Shoulders Posterior Chest Legs
3...

This isn't an evidence backed opinion by any means but I think you can do exactly what you say with "big" lifts like squat and deadlift. At least you can build a progression starting quite low in the...

From your avatar picture, it looks like you already have it figured out.

+1 for calorie deficit.

2002 thread.

No it doesn't matter if you control your calorie intake.

It *may* have an effect on appetite and make it harder to sustain a given calorie level - but this effect is most prononounced when looking...

OK, that sounds pretty reasonable. 2k might be quite a large deficit if your TDEE turns out to be much over 2500 but if you are only working out 3x and are otherwise fairly sedentary, it should be...

What are your total calories? Remember TDEE is an estimate which is easy to get wrong. We can tell you if a given calorie levels is realistic for a typical person of your size. So we also need your...