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Flip your mindset. What you just told me is: "I'm motivated so much that I workout 6 days a week with a solid routine and I'm making gains in the weightroom. Here's where I started and I have improved my strength in just 3-4 months." To me that's a huge win. Congrats on getting in the gym and starting your journey.
Fitness is a journey for everyone and you're at the beginning. Keep going, you're doing great!
What are your goals?
I weight 76,7 kg.
My goal is actually 74 kg but with a bit more muscles and less fat. Like maybe 15% body fat?
Right Now I guess I am at 18% fat and no muscles. I am skinny fat.
So I actually have no idea if I should lose weight or gain muscles first or how much to eat or not eat. I just try to get my protein in, work out hard and try not to eat to less and too much.
If the goal is to lose body fat, you can focus on that. DO make sure you get your nutrients, as you eat less you don't want to also end up losing out on any vitamins or minerals that you need for function.
Whether you build muscle or lose fat, first, doesn't matter too much, as long as you don't push for super low body fat percentages in ways that come with problems.
Building muscle and losing fat at the same time, is possible, it's just slow.
You obviously have some muscles. How visible they are, is relative. Some people just have bodies where they show up more, others store fat in ways where a high percentage still allows muscle to be seen. Or a low one still makes you look "unmuscled".
If you don't know your muscle mass, you could find out. And tracking it in relation to water weight, bone mass, and fat, can give you a better idea of what works and what doesn't.
The fastest way to gain muscle is to eat a lot and gain a lot of weight. You’ll put on both fat and muscle as long as you’re lifting weights.
It’s why body builders spend a lot of time putting on weight followed by a “cut”.
The problem people have is they try to do both and it’s almost contradictory. Like you said it’s slow. It’s really difficult to pack on muscle weight while at the same time lose fat weight.
Do one or the other and you’ll see a lot more success.
I know.
And OP already mentions they aren't sure whether to build muscle or lose fat, first, so I assumed they knew, too.
I mention it, because it sounds like OP might have landed into essentially trying tl do both at the same time. So my point is that while what they are doing will eventually get them where they want to be, it'll be slow, and that it doesn't really matter if they start with losing fat or gaining muscle. As long as they pick one, and commit to eventually switch to doing the other, they'll be on their way.
(Sure, it CAN matter, but usually whichever feels more immediately important to the person, comes with the most motivation)