>Your food consumption should provide 500 to 1,000 calories less than your total weight-maintenance calories
>First, multiply your current weight by 15 — that's roughly the number of calories per pound of body weight needed to maintain your current weight if you are moderately active.
Ok, dope. I weigh 140lbs. 140 x 15 = 2100. 2100 - 1000 is 1100.
>However, calorie intake should not fall below 1,200 a day in women or 1,500 a day in men
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You don't actually need 1500 calories a day, it's just an arbitrary value where you should still be able to meet your nutrient needs.
You'd probably feel better off if you did stick to 1500 but then just burn an extra 400 or more.
All of these numbers are guessing at best and you need to figure out your TDEE manually. Lose weight by being more active not reducing calories massively to nothing.
Define "manually". Does using the calculator at http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html like from the sticky count as manually?
this. i started out cutting at like 1800 to lose weight, got down to 145 lbs before i decided to stop. turns out that was massive overkill, i’ve been eating like 2500 for the last month plus and haven’t gained back a single pound
If you only weigh 140lbs why are you trying to lose weight?
It doesnt make sense unless you're 4ft tall
im a manlet and skinny fat
Ok so turn the fat into muscle by lifting. If you lose your body fat without doing that you will look like a israelite in auschwitz.
>just convert one type of tissue to another type of tissue
is that not how it works? lifting reduces your body fat %
???
Explain
more body with same fat means bf% is lower.
I love how it took 3 responses for anyone to say this.
Black person, i'm 175cm and 15%bf at 62kg
That's awful. You should lift.
this is moronic and im not reading all that
you shouldn't just eat an arbitrary amount
what if its your day off and you dont do shit that day? take a net loss? 3-5 times a month?
LARD
I don’t count calories, I just eat until it hurts once a day
Has done wonders for gains and bf%
Yeah? Are you fricking moronic or what? It said 500 TO 1000 calories. If you weigh 140lbs, you probably should not / don't need to go for the extreme upper limit 1000 calorie deficit fricking Black person. It's for people who weigh 300lbs,
The leaner and smaller you are, the slower and smaller your deficit should be. It's just not realistic to keep losing 2% of bodyfat every month once you get into that 10-12% territory. But when you are 30% bf frick yeah you can drop 2% every month.
One day they'll perma your b***hass and all will be right with the world.
>doesn't know metabolism can adjust to preserve calories
Just fast
No amount of metabolism adjustment will overcome a 1000kcal deficit dipshit. Keep exercising.
should i eat less or exercise more to get rid my skinnyfat belly
Eat less. You might want to build some core muscle first, but the fat layer is unrelated to that.
skinnyfat is tricky because fat is not that metabolically demanding especially if you have no muscle mass, you need to lift at maintenance calories
>However, calorie intake should not fall below 1,200 a day in women or 1,500 a day in men
>What
Legal ass covering. Get a better estimate of your TDEE first, though.
Everyone should figure out their actual TDEE manually. At 5'5" 123lbs my maintenance cals were 2300 without even being that active.
I'm 5'7 and 130lbs so my TDEE is apparently 1,815. So I only need 2k too gain weight
>If only it were that simple!
>proceeds to needlessly complicate the matter
Do you not know what the word "to" means, you fricking brainlet?
>First, multiply your current weight by 15 — that's roughly the number of calories per pound of body weight needed to maintain your current weight if you are moderately active.
Ok well this is wrong. Im 210 lbs and that would be 3150 calories. My maintenance is around 2500-2600. I eat 2k to cut and 3k to bulk.
>if you are moderately active
Never to listen to anybody in medicine and journalism if you lift weights. What they know does not apply to you. You have to eat more because you're growing muscle and it can't turn into fat because you're using it to grow muscle.