Weight โTraining & Appetite: A cyclical โStruggleโ with Body Composition
A 24-year-old is seeking strategies to reconcile aโฃ love of weightโ training with a renewed desire to lose weight, โhighlighting โa common challenge for fitness enthusiasts.
For years, maintaining โฃa healthy weight felt straightforward. As aโค child, the individual maintained a normal weight, โขbut teenage years brought aโ significant shift in eating habits. Describing a tendencyโข to finish everything onโฃ their plate, they developed a โpattern of overeating that led to weight gain.
By age โค21, they reached aโฃ peak weight of 120 kilograms.A dedicated effort to reduce caloric intake followed, resultingโค in a 37-kilogram weight โคloss overโ ten months, bringing their weight down to 63 kilograms by โage 22. Feeling physically and mentally improved,โฃ they then transitioned to โweight training, โshifting focus from weight loss to building strength and muscle.
Thisโข transition involved increasing food intake, especially protein, under the assumptionโ that weight training would prevent fat gain by โคefficiently converting calories into muscle. However,this proved inaccurate. Currently weighing 75โ kilograms, the individual acknowledges gaining both muscle and โfat.
The core issue now is managing increased appetite โคstimulated byโค weight training while concurrently aiming to create aโ caloricโฃ deficit for โfat loss. Despiteโ successfully achieving a significant weight loss previously, they are seeking guidanceโ onโฃ how toโค repeat thatโฃ success โฃwhile continuing to prioritize their fitness routine. The challenge liesโ in balancing theโ demands of exercise withโ the need forโฃ appetite control to โachieveโข desired body composition goals.
