How low to go, 1800?

[BradleyS]

I am a 5'11" 184lb male looking to lose some more weight, just want to verify a couple of things here...

I did a few online calculators to find my BMR which stands at about 2000 calories a day with no activity. I will be having surgery on Thursday which will put me in a sling until Nov. 1st.

I want to continue dropping weight during the six weeks in a sling.

At a 20% defect, I should be consuming 1600 calories daily, but I read the ACSM recommends no lower then 1800 for men. Is 1600 safe?

If we lived in a perfect world, 1800 (200 cal defect) calories daily over a 6 week time frame would be a total defect of 8400, or a little more then 2lb...sweet.

At 1600 (400 cal defect) is 16800...or 5lb. That's awesome...5lb in six weeks...almost too much for me there...

[The Director]

You can go as low as youd like, just have a refeed once a week.

[RTW2]

Im at 1825cals and its working fine for me.

[DJohnson]

Don't drop under 1800, that's already extremely low considering you won't be lifting weights. Ideally I wouldn't cut at all but it seems like you're pretty set on that. Especially since you're recovering from surgery, talk to your doctor before your diet after surgery.

[BradleyS]

Thanks for the info, anyone else has some input? Am I right with the 5lb in 6 weeks thing? Thanks

reps given to the first two, gotta spread it around some more to give to DJ

[Giorrgi]

Dude, cutting isn't always going to produce the results. I was cutting at 1800 last days because I couldn't snack [for various reasons]. And I didn't loose almost any weight... :\ I also did cardio and weights.

I think that I ate too little actually.

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[ibcritn1]

Yea idk I eat about 3500cal sometimes more and I am losing weight but i guess my BMR and everything is different. I just eat a lot of clean foods thats prob. what I would focus on is just eating healthy and not count cals too much