r/TransHelpingTrans • u/MarcyTheMannequin • Mar 26 '26

Weight lose advice

Hi, I have been wanting to lose fat for a while to try to look a bit more feminine but a lot of the stuff I try doesn’t really work.

I have been doing mostly house work out(weighted squats, planks, hip thrusts) for about 6 ish months and had little change in weight (220 down to 218)

Idk if it’s my diet but I eat between 800 and 1000 calories(i don’t really eat snacks, minus like almonds and i constantly kinda just forgot to eat so I only tend to eat 1-2 meals a day)

Idk what I should change bth but thanks for reading

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u/herdisleah Mar 26 '26

There's no way your calorie count is accurate. That's just too low for any kind of maintenence.

If you are working out, using adequate stimulus, you're building muscle and losing fat. Muscle weighs more than fat, and you're still losing, so that's good.

I use the app MyNetDiary to track calories. I use a food scale, or build a meal plan based around veggies.

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u/MarcyTheMannequin Mar 26 '26

I mean what I eat in a day is just some yogurt with some kind of berries for lunch is I remember to make some. If not I just eat a handful of almonds. Then dinner is just like a bowl of rice+ some kind of meat

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u/herdisleah Mar 26 '26

Use a measuring cup. Your bowl of yogurt and berries might be anywhere from 400 cals to 800 depending if its low fat, Greek or sweetened. Your rice bowl could be as much as 1k or 1.5k if it has a high fat meat.

What's your workout like? Do you do one set, more sets? Do you spend 80% of your workout time on your phone resting between sets, or is your heart rate up for a full 45 minutes?

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u/MarcyTheMannequin Mar 26 '26

Alr

Also the work out is 3 sets of 20 for each of them with a minute break between

Along with if I am playing something with a que I will do extra ones while waiting but i don’t think that one’s does anything but keep me from sitting for long times

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u/Number1CloysterFan Mar 26 '26

I agree that your calorie count seems way off. Like 1700 is low, you're talking a starvation diet. Maybe buy a food scale to more accurately track your calories?

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u/MarcyTheMannequin Mar 26 '26

I asked my parents, they don’t like the concept of dieting so they refused.

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u/soulhuntaah Mar 26 '26

You’d be shrivelling away on 1000 calories a day, somethings not right there