It's a balancing act. I noticed that if I do cardio for 45 minutes per day and dip below 800kcal/day, my muscles get sore. Like the body is struggling to sustain them on top of the exercise. The pain isn't typical cardio pain from pushing yourself. It doesn't exist at 1000kcal/day doing the same exercise.
Point being, you'll have to find that point of how low you can go in kcal/day before your muscles start getting pissy. I'm sure everyone is different.
mad how far down the thread you need to get to find the only person who gets it
not all 'soft' meat is fat, not all muscles are fully tensed all the time to produce the hard firm feel
just tense up your biceps and then relax them to instantly see what im saying with your own arms right now OP
Don't be silly. It maintains that tension regardless of your flexibility. Otherwise highly flexible people would have trouble not falling into a heap of bones and hyperextended joints every time they chill out.
Try eating more protein and doing squats. >i'm down to 1300 calories
Calorie content of foods has a 20% margin of error. Assume that the food has 120% of the calories reported. There's a very good chance you're actually at 1600 calories/day. Likewise, it is best to assume that the food you eat only has about 80% of the protein reported. If you think you're eating say 100g of protein; you're actually only eating 80.
Also don't worry about "calories" from protein. Technically you can burn them in a bomb calorimeter and it generates heat. However, the vast majority of excess protein is expelled from your body while only a small fraction of that excess is converted to glucose and fat (it's a very expensive metabolic pathway and it's only used if necessary). Your body does not use amino acids in the same way it does sugar and fat.
>could be either way
If you were a food company, grocery store, etc. would you want to overestimate desirable things and underestimate undesirable things or are you just going to blindly post the average? You'd be stupid to post the average. As business men you would best post average * 1.20 for desirable thing and average * 0.8 for undesirable things to make the food more desirable. >so it will average out to be equivalent to what it actually says over the foods you eat.
No way to support this conclusion unless you completely ignore the human element in business and government. It is very common for people to over-exaggerate benefits and diminish negatives for any particular subject. Likewise, if someone wants to deter you from doing something, they'll tend to exaggerate the negatives. Food labels are no different. In the case of food, there certainly is a profit motive. The orange growers want you to buy oranges.
>he thinks corporations don't intentionally game the system to actively take advantage of margin of error in their favor
Do you really think that margin of error is as random as rolling dice? It exists to prevent people from being wrongly accused of tampering if measurements come out different when a governing body checks it, but in practice the businesses know they can get away with fricking around in the margin of error and if it saves them money or improves the appearance of their product you can be damn sure they're going to take full advantage of that.
I'm not the anon who cited a paper, so no I didn't read it. I thought I made that clear by replying to both your posts instead of just the most recent one.
Because you're not active enough. Leaning out is a lot easier with activity and basically stops happening if you go sedentary under 15% bodyfat.
Are you a woman? And NOT a balding man in cat ear with fishnets on his forearms and a 5 o’clock shadow? If so don’t sweat it
Weight loss takes time; Even at a 1k deficit, you will loose only 2 to 5 lbs per week. If you want to make it faster, exercise.
It's a balancing act. I noticed that if I do cardio for 45 minutes per day and dip below 800kcal/day, my muscles get sore. Like the body is struggling to sustain them on top of the exercise. The pain isn't typical cardio pain from pushing yourself. It doesn't exist at 1000kcal/day doing the same exercise.
Point being, you'll have to find that point of how low you can go in kcal/day before your muscles start getting pissy. I'm sure everyone is different.
Threads with vague language asking for help are useless.
Post stats now.
You can literally just squat for 6 months straight to replace it with muscle. Quit trying to just caloric deficit and not gain muscle.
It's relaxed muscle
mad how far down the thread you need to get to find the only person who gets it
not all 'soft' meat is fat, not all muscles are fully tensed all the time to produce the hard firm feel
just tense up your biceps and then relax them to instantly see what im saying with your own arms right now OP
Why aren't I strong? I'm eating like a weak person.
Dyel, trained muscles are tensed harder than untrained muscles while you're relaxed.
>trained muscles are tensed harder than untrained muscles while you're relaxed
You need to stretch more.
Don't be silly. It maintains that tension regardless of your flexibility. Otherwise highly flexible people would have trouble not falling into a heap of bones and hyperextended joints every time they chill out.
eat more move less. your body is actively fighting fat loss at this point
Try eating more protein and doing squats.
>i'm down to 1300 calories
Calorie content of foods has a 20% margin of error. Assume that the food has 120% of the calories reported. There's a very good chance you're actually at 1600 calories/day. Likewise, it is best to assume that the food you eat only has about 80% of the protein reported. If you think you're eating say 100g of protein; you're actually only eating 80.
Also don't worry about "calories" from protein. Technically you can burn them in a bomb calorimeter and it generates heat. However, the vast majority of excess protein is expelled from your body while only a small fraction of that excess is converted to glucose and fat (it's a very expensive metabolic pathway and it's only used if necessary). Your body does not use amino acids in the same way it does sugar and fat.
20% margin could be either way, so it will average out to be equivalent to what it actually says over the foods you eat.
>could be either way
If you were a food company, grocery store, etc. would you want to overestimate desirable things and underestimate undesirable things or are you just going to blindly post the average? You'd be stupid to post the average. As business men you would best post average * 1.20 for desirable thing and average * 0.8 for undesirable things to make the food more desirable.
>so it will average out to be equivalent to what it actually says over the foods you eat.
No way to support this conclusion unless you completely ignore the human element in business and government. It is very common for people to over-exaggerate benefits and diminish negatives for any particular subject. Likewise, if someone wants to deter you from doing something, they'll tend to exaggerate the negatives. Food labels are no different. In the case of food, there certainly is a profit motive. The orange growers want you to buy oranges.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838242/
That's not how statistics work
>he thinks corporations don't intentionally game the system to actively take advantage of margin of error in their favor
Do you really think that margin of error is as random as rolling dice? It exists to prevent people from being wrongly accused of tampering if measurements come out different when a governing body checks it, but in practice the businesses know they can get away with fricking around in the margin of error and if it saves them money or improves the appearance of their product you can be damn sure they're going to take full advantage of that.
> Do you really think that margin of error is as random as rolling dice?
Confirmed for not understanding what that even means.
Also I can tell you didn't even read that paper you cited.
I'm not the anon who cited a paper, so no I didn't read it. I thought I made that clear by replying to both your posts instead of just the most recent one.
Well, then the same applies
Do exercises.