would also highly recommend body weight exercises (squats, pushups from knees if needed google others...) as they are probably the best thing for building muscle that will never get bigger than a sexy athletic physic.
Also have a healthy sleep cycle. Its really hard to loose weight if you are not sleeping enough because the body reacts to that like stress.
Yooo abs are made in the kitchen if you want to lose fat you gotta quit the bs you eat. Don't gotta lie to any of us, just acknowledge it and change.
>avoiding lifting as I didnt want to get big
There it is again
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It takes years of serious training for a woman to get big
Right ones still look bad
I would say bump it up if possible but that's a good start. I'll share my experience and hopefully it might help. I was doing about an hour of cardio a day on various machines and burning off 500 calories, and eating around 1900 (about 500 under my TDEE). I would say on the treadmill alone I was doing 3 km on an incline in addition to an hour walking a day. I was losing about 2 pounds a week and doing well, but I felt as if I might be losing muscle so I switched to SS ( don't do GOMAD whatever you do). Since then I've been stalling and it's because I'm not doing the same cardio.
So I guess my advice is if you do end up doing some kind of weights (which would be good to try maintain muscle while losing weight) make sure to keep up the same kind of cardio. I've done HIIT a bit but it hasn't had the same effect at all and I'm going to go back to doing traditional cardio on off days and calorie counting more rigorously.
Also, stealing that rare Pepe
P.S. women have a much harder time putting on muscle than men, I think it's 0.25lb a week max naturally, so don't worry about getting big. Make sure you get enough protein so you don't lose muscle as well as fat while cutting, as happened to me
>cardio pace
don't eat less if you're going to workout, made that mistake for over a year and i did not lose any fat just muscle, it was the worst experience of my life