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Originally Posted by Aoife
Eat less than you burn, lose weight.
NR4W isn't MEANT as a fatloss program… that'd be what diet is for.
Some people can't manage a meaningful deficit on the program because of the intensity, and therefore they don't lose weight, although if they don't overeat they see results like smaller measurements.
Some people do just fine in a deficit on the program and do lose weight.
It's ALL about your diet. ALL. Your program, when it comes to whether you gain or lose, is irrelevant, mostly. Lifting will help you retain muscle on a deficit so that you lose mainly fat. Lifting will help you gain muscle rather than fat when you are at a surplus.
It's all about what you eat and what you burn.
Eat less than you burn. Don't be a lazy butt when you're not working out (keep up your activity). Whatever exercise you do… make it whatever you enjoy and will stick to. Make it something that meshes with what you can accomplish with your energy levels on a deficit. Otherwise, it really doesn't matter.
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Aoife, this reply is great. It really boils down the essentials I have been wondering about relating to gaining muscle/losing fat, deficits vs. surpluses. When I first read NROLFW I thought it was a fatloss program, to a certain extent, because body recomp involves gaining muscle while losing fat. But this is only for those who don't have a huge amount of fat to lose, and don't want to gain huge amounts of muscle, I think.