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Why are you building muscle but not losing fat?

The simple answer is you’re rocking those strength workouts pushing hard in the gym but overeating and eating portions not in line with your goals.

We think calories surplus to build. So a bigger surplus should help things happen faster, right?

Nope. That’s not the case.

While a surplus is key if your main focus is on building muscle, just increasing your calories MORE past a point isn’t going to yield better muscle gains. And you’re going to gain fat as well.

You may even start to see your performance decline.

But eating too much isn’t the only reason we can struggle to lose fat while seeing ourselves build muscle.

You may be questioning what I just said, but yes I stated that overeating isn’t the only reason we can struggle to lose fat.

We can actually gain muscle while struggling to lose fat even in a technical calorie deficit after a period of extreme calorie restriction when we are finally trying to increase our calories.

Especially common during perimenopause and menopause when our hormones are in flux and we’ve experienced many failed dieting attempts where we’ve tried to slash our calories lower and lower.

With increasing your calories from your extreme deficit that has led to metabolic adaptations and hormonal imbalances, you are in a way creating a surplus over what your body has adapted to think it needs.

It’s downregulated processes to accommodate the lack of energy. But to restore balance, you need to increase calories. And as your body has the fuel it needs, it will seek to put on lean muscle over first losing fat.

Lean muscle is involved in so many important processes for our body so building it to restore metabolic health and balance is key. And ultimately, this WILL help us lose fat and look leaner.

It can just be frustrating in the process as we see the scale increase and even clothing feels tighter as we add muscle before we lose the fat.

But there are ways to help yourself see that recomp happen faster. And I want to talk through not only the nutritional changes you need first, but also two forms of cardio that may be key.