What am I doing wrong am I eating too much

[acrawlingchaos]

It's so hard to eat less, I'm starving throughout the day I just don't get it. No more McDonald's no more Harvey's I'm just trying to eat healthy food. I've been eating this way for a month now but I really haven't noticed any fat loss on my stomach. I only do the protein shake after the gym cuz it's a quick protein

What are you not getting? You said you eat about ~2400 calories a day and that you burn 2400 calories a day. If you want to lose fat, you have to drop weight. Which means you need to eat at a deficit.

If you burn 2400 calories a day and you want to lose fat, try closer to 2000.

[DirkLift]

everything I've heard says it's not just total calories for the day that matters, but when you eat it.

No. Just no.

Got any science to back up that very dismissive statement?

Here's one that suggests that IF makes a noticeable difference with similar caloric intake
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674160 (can't post links)

"We speculated that the reduced weight gain of IF animals might be due to the slight decrease in accumulated energy intake over 16 weeks of the diet program (Figure 1C). However, our pair-feeding experiments consistently showed that IF animals exhibited reduced weight gain, compared to mice pair-fed ad libitum with exactly the same amount of food as IF mice"

And that's not even one I'd seen before... There are many studies showing that time restricted eating has a definite advantage on the same total calories.

[hmmmm16417]

This is what I just calculated
Cal protein fats

Breakfast 1000 30 50
Snack 400 40 10
Lunch 870 78 40
Dinner 870 78 40
Shake/milk 290 33 11

Total 2430 260 104



My TDEE IS 2416

I never do cardio at the jump o work at a very busy tire shop lifting rims and tires all day no chance to sit down.I weight train 3 days a week.
Mon chest and back
Wed tri and biceps
Fri legs and shoulder

your math is wrong. that total is 3430, not 2430

unless i'm missing something?

[pius36]

Well I’m going to go in a totally different direction...at 5’7”, 150, and fairly lean (judging by the avitar) worrying about losing weight to get abs is just silly (and not even healthy) IMHO. I’m the same height and only 10 pounds heavier...but I look much different. It’s because I’m probably carrying about 15 more pounds of muscle than you at close to the same bodyfat...and with that much more muscle, I can see abs pretty well at a healthy 15%.

When I “cut” to about 10% to see defined abs, I had to get down to 150. I imagine for you to see really defined abs you’ll have to drop into the 130-140range...and at your height, that’s scrawny as all hell. Looks bad, feels bad, isn’t healthy. Forget this silly idea of losing weight, and try to GAIN another 10 pounds of muscle (you can do it by getting off that silly bro-split, and eating healthy and correctly to facilitate muscle growth). In the process, you will recomp a bit, and probably lose that microscopic bit of stomach fat, while your core and abs become more muscular...both leading to the look you want.

Just my opinion.

Great advice

[BillPhoto]

Watch out for hidden additional calories you may not have accounted for, such as what you use to cook your eggs or bacon with, any sauces you may add to your food, the milk that you add to coffee's, etc. These can add up very quickly.