Hi everyone!
I am 65 kg female and I have been on a deficit for three months now and started weight lifting again 3x a week after retiring from the gym for two years.
Initially, I lost 2 kgs on just deficit in the first month, no training but once I began training, my weight flew back up to 65 kg. I’ve surpassed every PR by double or triple the weight despite having lifted for 10 years prior to my break from the gym, perhaps due to my new best friend Creatine - and I see visible definition on my arms, back and legs but my belly fat looks more prominent now (maybe relative to my limbs which lose fat quickly?)
So now I am extremely confused, how can my lifts improve so drastically despite a deficit and really, am I even on a deficit if my weight isn’t changing but my muscle size and strength are increasing? Example, my Dumbbell RDLs went from maxing out 20 lbs all my life to now easily using 60 lbs each arm. Hip thrust went from a low 110 lbs to 225 lbs in a month. Has anyone experienced the same thing? I have no access to body scans to figure out if I am actually losing fat or just happen to be eating at maintenance without realizing it (which I doubt because I track religiously and eat at sedentary calculations + was losing weight initially before working out but I know I cannot defy the law of thermodynamics so what is going on???).
TLDR; Weight has not changed since beginning resistance training again and yet strength and muscle gains seem to have increased drastically despite being on a deficit, belly fat still hanging on strong unfortunately. I understand the scale shouldn’t matter when muscle is involved, but thermodynamically it doesn’t make sense, or does it?
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