Is this realistical goal?

[Honey16]

Within three weeks I was wondering is just strength training and cardio will I be able to:
lose 2 inches off my arms
lose 4 inches of my love handles
and lose 2 inches of my hips
I want to lose 9 pounds

Is this possible?? Its really important to me and I can't eat all that much because Im currently fasting (ramadan). So I was wondering if its possible?? Ive already started but is it possible or do I need a diet

[BikerGoddess]

Re: Is this realistical goal?

I'm absolutely not making any comments on religion and I'm not going to tell you to change what you're doing, but know that when you don't consume enough calories (fasting) your body starts canniballizing itself. Muscles and internal organs go first, so the work you're doing to increase muscle mass by strength training won't go as well as if you were fueling your body appropriately.

However, even following Induction, you probably wouldn't accomplish that in 3 weeks.

Definitely keep working out, because you will see improvements in not only your appearance but in the way you feel. You continue experiencing the benefits of working out after you've stopped, but if you overdo it at the start, you won't make it as far as if you've progressed steadily.

By that I mean if you go from being a couch potato to 3 hours in the gym, you're going to spend the next few days in bed and your muscles will be too busy repairing themselves to grow at the same rate as if you'd worked them just beyond their capacity. (Muscles grow when they're slightly damaged through use and given time to recover, along with protein to rebuild.)

It's kinda like spinning your tires at the beginning of a race - you expend a lot of energy but don't move very far. If you only throttle to the point right before the wheels break loose, all of your energy goes into moving the car.

I'd get a trainer to help with proper form and to evaluate where you should be weight and rep wise. And as tempting as it is to not eat anything, that's going to backfire. Your body needs to count on being fed before it starts releasing its back up stores. Otherwise, if it thinks the next meal isn't coming, it's going to hang on to everything it can in an effort to save you from death. Handy before McDonald's, but less so now..

Good luck and remember any progress is still progress.

Laura

[2big4mysize]

Re: Is this realistical goal?

you will be adding muscle mass to your frame with exercise and under duress you will be superhydrating those muscles too which will add water weight. to lose inches of fat you are going to have to make sure your cals in is less then your cals burned from all sources. that will force you to burn body stores of fat for part of your fuel.
Not knowing how big you are how out of shape you are or anything else it would be impossible to even guestimate your changes you are going to get.

Since you can't eat nor drink from sun up to sun down you are going tohave a hard time working out and being propperly hydrated let alone as Biker pointed out fueled. Several NBA players who fast during Ramadon lose weight during the season to the extent the coaching and training staff were very concerned about it.

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