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Interesting spreadsheet and congratulation on your dietary improvements!

Exercise doesn't really help you with losing weight, but it helps you with losing fat and/or gaining muscle.

In the last few months I've exercised a lot and ate a lot. I've gained around 7kg of mostly muscles.

I don't know whether losing weight is a useful goal at all. Aiming to lose body fat while keeping lean body weight (=muscles, bones, everything that isn't fat) seems much more sane to me.



Starting from a BMI of 40 there's no way I'd attempt to put on that much lean muscle. :-)


Yes. Have you considered also tracking your abdominal girth? I read about some studies showing that this (or the ratio of abdominal girth to hip circumference to make it work between different people) is a better indicator of health.




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