Want to exercise but don’t want to gain weight

[Mommybunny]

I know weight loss and maintenance are much more to do with diet than exercise but that exercise has other health benefits diet alone can’t give - just off the top of my head, they include better sleep, stronger heart and lungs, longer stamina etc.

I can keep my weight at least neutral with pure cardio but I find every time I start weight training I actually gain weight. I’m not quite at the weight I’d like to be (a weight - 60kg - that should be realistic for my height - 62cm - and age - 54), so when I find week after week that my diet is staying the same (I know because I’m tracking it) but I’m not losing anymore and in fact have gained a bit it really puts me off and I just give up.

I know muscle weighs more than fat, so a small gain at first I could handle, but I would have expected that eventually my weight would start to go down. Does anyone else experience this and how do I get out of this rut?

I have been training since the age of 16 so 1 thing I would say is weight gain is natural when training especially if you are doing weights regularly..

We women will never get big and muscly as men do unless we take steroids as we do not have the testosterone for it.

Also a calorie deficit is sometimes good too... as via trial and error I have noticed we do not need 2000 calories that we have always been told we need. We just do not do enough manual labour 2 consume those numbers.

This is all through personal experience and trial and error (and consistency)

FFS. MUSCLE WEIGHS MORE THAN FAT

That's what "is denser" means. It means that 1cc of muscle weighs more than 1cc of fat.

Obviously 1kg of anything weighs 1kg. You're basically saying that lead weighs exactly the same as feathers.