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any of you ladies or female prep coaches I hope you can help.
so a female I know who used to bodybuild, now no longer competing, but still diets every year is having some major diet issues. It seems like every year her body has begun to fight her more and more, this year is downright ridiculous.
she is currently 5'6@168lbs and 18% bodyfat. its not the lowest bodyfat, but by no means fat or even chubby. But she does still like to get her abs showing really well each year. This year it does not look like its going to happen.
After 10 weeks of dieting, she has not lost one pound. Her calories have ranged from a average of 1200/day to a average of 1500/day. We have tried cycling her calories, re-feeds, different macro profiles...and nothing.
her diet for the past 3 weeks has been 1400cal, 1300cal,1200cal,1700(refeed)...then repeat every 4 days.
her macro breakdown is 30%p , 40%carb, 30% healthy fats
every meal is weighed out to the gram
her cardio is 4x a week at 40min session
her weights are 5x a week
var @ 20mg/day t4@150mcg day
and still NOTHING.
Any ideas on what is causing this? every diet we have tried this year has worked for her in the past to get her BF down to 8-10% in previous years(bod pod testing). I don't want to drop her calories much lower, that can't be the case, she is a very muscular woman(benches 155 for 10 for example) I would understand if she was 110lbs, then of course I would say drop calories...but this cant be it.
I myself am getting frustrated, I can't imagine what she is going thru.
so a female I know who used to bodybuild, now no longer competing, but still diets every year is having some major diet issues. It seems like every year her body has begun to fight her more and more, this year is downright ridiculous.
she is currently 5'6@168lbs and 18% bodyfat. its not the lowest bodyfat, but by no means fat or even chubby. But she does still like to get her abs showing really well each year. This year it does not look like its going to happen.
After 10 weeks of dieting, she has not lost one pound. Her calories have ranged from a average of 1200/day to a average of 1500/day. We have tried cycling her calories, re-feeds, different macro profiles...and nothing.
her diet for the past 3 weeks has been 1400cal, 1300cal,1200cal,1700(refeed)...then repeat every 4 days.
her macro breakdown is 30%p , 40%carb, 30% healthy fats
every meal is weighed out to the gram
her cardio is 4x a week at 40min session
her weights are 5x a week
var @ 20mg/day t4@150mcg day
and still NOTHING.
Any ideas on what is causing this? every diet we have tried this year has worked for her in the past to get her BF down to 8-10% in previous years(bod pod testing). I don't want to drop her calories much lower, that can't be the case, she is a very muscular woman(benches 155 for 10 for example) I would understand if she was 110lbs, then of course I would say drop calories...but this cant be it.
I myself am getting frustrated, I can't imagine what she is going thru.