Weight loss, 1lb, 2lb, or percent?
Pretty straight forward question here. I have heard so often about losing weight "you gotta lose 1-2lbs a week, anymore and it's bad". Personally it does not make much sense, a person who weighs 200lbs and someone like me at 350, 2 lbs for them is a lot more percent of total body weight than for me (1% v .57%.
Been reading a lot about this, and it seams 1-1.5% is acceptable. What is the consensus in here? If my TDEE is about 3,500 calories daily and I wanted to lose 1% a week.
I made an excel sheet that I can plug my body weight & body fat into to give me the calories I need and it puts me around 1900-2200 depending how active I am. I can still feel fine on that many calories (today I only had about 1,700).
What macros would you use at this deficit?
Eating back calories burned in exercise? (got differing opinions on my post about that, but which such a high calorie cut, I think eating back a decent portion would be optimal)
Thoughts?