thinking i might hit my calories, fat, and protein on a bi-daily basis. i've read that it shouldn't harm you, muscle wise.
assuming a regular schedule (school, work which includes walking around for like 5 hours), on average, how long until your body starts breaking down dry muscle (muscle fibers i think)?
Meaning, if i ate 1,800 calories today, and made up the rest tomorrow, how much of an issue would it be, just estimating? I won't be in that large of a deficit at one point or another regardless. My deficit currently isn't that large, maybe like 250-500 under maintenance.
also, does macros make that much of a difference how much per day at this point, as long as i hit them within one of those days altogether? This really sounds like a lot easier way to live, lol.
Thanks.
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09-17-2016, 03:45 AM #1
how long until body starts getting rid of muscle?
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09-17-2016, 05:14 AM #2
When you're in the odd calorie deficit, usually a lot of the weight you lose is from water and muscle. Your body cannot burn fat without the presence of carbohydrate which is supposed to be 50% of your diet in most cases. If you've done weight training before you might have noticed that if your eating is in a surplus for a few days and then you stoop into a deficit for a few days you lose a lot of strength and weight - tends to be muscle.
Try to eat at least at maintenance as much as you can. And if you can't do it, find a way. Would never recommend or tell anyone to hit their macros every other day. There's nothing easy about managing your weight.
I'd say about 8 hours without food until you need to break your fast otherwise I'd say your gonna start to break down muscle, but maybe have a look at some research. That's just an estimate. I could be totally wrong, it could depend on how many kcals your last meal was and it's GI (high/low)
Best of luck.
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I don't get it. What did I say that is so bad?
You're telling me after 8 hours you don't feel like you're gonna start going catabolic?!
In reference to the 50% carbs comment, I'm of course referring to UK government guidelines as I'm not sure you're aware but if you instruct people to otherwise in the UK as a PT you can get into bother for it as we aren't meant to be so prescriptive with diets. And as such if I'm found telling anybody who's doesn't know any better to eat in a way that is far from what is suggested to the general community it ain't good
I'm sat here justifying everything I said because I genuinely have no idea what you're getting at.
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James as your only 18 and you have very little experience as a PT will cut you a little slack. But I assume you work at one of the large franchised gym chains in the UK and they trained you to peddle this rubbish, if this is the case and you really want to respect your clients leave and get some decent training and experience as your not really helping anyone.
Still striving to meet my goals even though someone keeps moving the goalposts
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Fixed your post for you.
You don't need ANY carbs. I don't know where you came up with the idea that you need to eat carbs to burn fat, but it's completely and totally false. If you were right, Keto or PSMF and a host of other low-carb diets wouldn't work, but they clearly do work for a lot of people.
8 hours without food is also bogus; lots of people have had a great deal of success using intermittent fasting.
To the OP: missing your targets sometimes isn't going to hurt you too bad, but you should work on developing consistent eating habits because it makes things a lot easier in the long run.
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