I just used a website to calculate my daily calories. According to it, I burn 2800calories /day. I am 22 ,178cm /5'10 and 104Kg/ 229pounds.
I use "Yazio" on my phone and I chose "-1kg /2.20pounds per week" and it calculated 1976calories because due to university, I do not have too much time, I have a cardio-bike at home, which I try t use 4x a week.
I also like to eat "****ty food" and even though, most of the time, I stay in my deficit, I do not see much of a difference.
Is 800calories deficit too much for my metabolism and could it cause the yoyo-effect?
I appreciate the answers in advance!
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01-22-2022, 05:49 PM #1
Is this deficit good or too much?
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01-22-2022, 05:53 PM #2
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01-22-2022, 05:54 PM #3
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01-22-2022, 06:58 PM #4
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01-22-2022, 07:15 PM #5
It is where you eat nothing but lettuce and burn muscle till your hunger overpowers you and makes you eat 2 gallons of iceream, back to your original weight, then repeat.
Op, the max deficit you can have without losing muscle is 1100 calories. So 2800-1100=1700. But I advise eating more than that since your body might be different than the average especially if you are stressed about school and staying up late doing homework.
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01-23-2022, 08:22 AM #6
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01-23-2022, 08:28 AM #7
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01-23-2022, 09:15 AM #8
I scoop peanut butter that is hard to weigh. I also squirt a little flaxseed oil at some meals. And I pinch some sunflower seeds that I can weigh. Also need to weigh my berries again. I'm aiming for 1600 calories but likely am at 1800 or more.
I also don't know how much of my recent weight gain was from starting creatine.
Yep. Lots of unknowns. Got to measure what you can.
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01-23-2022, 09:29 AM #9
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01-23-2022, 10:29 PM #10
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01-24-2022, 10:48 AM #11
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01-24-2022, 10:55 AM #12
If you are shorter, you have a smaller mouth and smaller stomach. You are no less lucky than the taller people.
Food stamps should be at least proportional to height, actually height cubed, but I know some would say that is sexist. Current amounts make short people fat and tall people hungry.
I'm 5'8". I feel a bit hungry at the calories I'm eating, which I assume is 1600. I'm regularly stopping myself from reaching for food. But I have energy to do light cardio and can think clearly. I do look forward to my next meal. My maintainance is 2000.
I'll soon know for sure what I'm eating. I've not been counting my plain broccoli, but I only eat a handful.
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01-24-2022, 12:07 PM #13
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01-26-2022, 10:43 AM #14
This is a real problem for overweight people. They go on highly restrictive deprivation diets. Then get temptation, fail and go back to their old habits. 0 to 100 with no in between. This creates a mentality for people that they're on a diet rather than a lifestyle.
When I lost a lot of weight, I still ate junk food (i.e. pizza, pringles, etc) for 1/3 of my diet. But the other 2/3 was fruits, veggies, high protein, etc. Is this 100% optimal, maybe not. But I never had the temptation to go out and binge eat.
For example, someone who used to be obese, and then eats nothing but chicken breasts/broccoli/brown rice would be seriously tempted to order a whole pizza at some point. But I just had 2 slices of pizza yesterday, so I don't feel deprived of pizza.
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01-26-2022, 10:45 AM #15
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