Hello everyone, On november 29th i weighed in at 193. Now this morning i weigh in at 183. How is this possible. Over the past 6 days i have been on a 1800 calories diet with 200 grams of protein and 70 grams of fat, and i have been lifting using the GST training method (microcycle 4, using 90% of my 1rm) and all of my lifts have gone up, so i dont think i lost much muscle. I was 17% bf at 193, now i dont know what i am at now but i notice that my pouch has gotten smaller. I plan on staying on this diet until i reach 175 or around 9% bf, so can anyone help me determine my maintenance calories based on the information i just gave you? and can anyone explain to me how i have lost so much weight in such a short amount of time.
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Thread: 8 lbs in 6 days??
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12-05-2012, 09:42 AM #1
8 lbs in 6 days??
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Drinking more water helps with water weight because you're flushing it through your system. Also you may want to increase calories. Try 2000 for a week and see where you're at.
To determine your calories/macros go into the Losing fat sub forum and there is a sticky that says "Calculating Calories and Macros" or something like that. Read though it and use the calculation that it gives (gives 3 but choose the second or third depending on the information you know) and just follow that. Pretty straightforward. If you are working out your caloric intake should be above 2000cals. More like 2300-2500 to lose weight. Mine is 3000 to lose weight.American Patriot
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You can't make any predictions the from the first week of dieting, as the weight loss is almost always disproportionate to what you will see in following weeks. As stated above, the initial hit of water/glycogen/food in gut weight is predominant, actual tissue loss much less. I can often lose 4-6 lbs in a week by simply by cutting way back on the carbs, yet remain unchanged from a fat mass perspective.
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pretty sure 193 to 183 is 10 lbs?
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12-05-2012, 12:10 PM #14
Yes please read and follow the instruction from that post that KyleMQuinn mentioned. It will save you from any costly mistake. From 193 pounds, unless you have a very high body fat percentage, 1800 cal is nowhere near a level to maintain your current amount of muscle. If you haven't figured out how much body fat you have, then it will be tricky calculating the amount of cal to eat everyday. And IMHO, trying to lose fat without knowing the right amount of cal to eat is very risky since you'll end up losing the hard-earned muscle.
Forum»Specifically For You»Female Bodybuilding»Nutrition and Supplements» Calculating Calorie and Macronutrient Needs
(sorry I can post link on here yet, but the above should get you to that article)
Also, I'd recommend leangains.com as a good source of information. You should be able to read through the blog in a few days. Martin Berkhan is not a joke, and you can see how popular his method is from doing a quick search on this forum. I'm not saying you have to follow his method, but I'm suggesting you read through his articles, because you will still learn a lot from that.
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The same thing happened to me on my first week of cutting. I went from 209 to 202. Then I gained 2 lbs back the next week. This 3rd week I am 203. It was weird, every morning when I weighed, I was down another pound the first week. I was like, this losing weight stuff is easy, LOL. All I know is, I better be 202 Monday morning.
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