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Originally Posted by Speedy1975
To clarify, I don't expect to gain muscle during cutting. I just want to prevent as much loss as possible. I focus on gaining as much muscle as I can in the fall/winter when I eat like a horse.
I use an Omron BF monitor to check my BF % once a week on Monday. The place I get my physicals turned me on to it. They said it was within .1% accurate of their body scan machine that cost thousands based on the patients they'd compared it on. Even if it's not exact as long as it's moving in the right direction I don't sweat it too bad. I set it to my height and weight and to "athlete" since I'm not typical couch potato.
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This is exactly the problem, in the winter you try to bulk by eating like a horse and I am quite sure your food choices are not ideal so you put on fat then go to the other extreme when trying to cut as you are now, I'm am still confident that if you eat balanced meals and adjust cal intake accordingly you will bulk gainning more muscle less fat, and cut retaining more muscle and loosing more fat. Things like the keto diet you keep mentioning are not for normal cutting, they are almost exclusively used by body builders and onle for 3-4 weeks running pre contest.