I just hit my major weight loss goal of 25 pounds and can finally fit back into all my old favorite clothes! I am so excited!
I have decided I want to start weight lifting to tone and strengthen my muscles, but I am very afraid of it making me gain/grow and losing my milestone 😅
Does anyone have any advice for starting adding in weightlifting after doing IF for a while?
Do it!! Do NOT sacrifice muscle and fitness gains to over focus on a weight number. If you like having some metrics to focus on switch over to leg, hip, waist, arm circumference… Consider this your light muscle baseline and don’t worry if you add muscle weight as long as you’re building muscle and dropping fat.
You only going to gain fat from calories…when you start weight training you may gain “weight” by putting on muscle. But your body is also going to want more food from the stress of weight training. Staying in a calorie deficit while weight training can be kind of hard to do and take longer to build muscle but can be done.
Don’t lift weight that’s super heavy. Find a weight that can easily be done 15-20x in a row (reps) repeated 3-5x (sets).
Doing high reps with lower amounts of weight, through several sets will make you stronger without getting “bigger”, and produce endurance.