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insaiyan93

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So I'm trying to shed a little weight while minimizing muscle loss. I was playing around with an app that deals with caloric intake how many calories I'm consuming etc.

now what it said concerned me because it said I consumed like 2000 calories yesterday but burned almost 1800 so that doesn't make sense because I would have been starving all day right?

I'm 22 6'3 bout 315 lbs

What I ate yesterday is as follows.

Breakfast: 3 large eggs 2 pieces of whole grain roast

Lunch:2 tilapia fillet's and 1 sweet potatoes

Snack:3 hardboiled eggs and 1 apple

Dinner: 12.5 ounces canned black beans and 12.5 ounces canned chicken breast

Between after work and when I went to bed: 2 hard boiled eggs.

So that's what I ate for the day, did a two hour arm workout between breakfast and lunch. Does this add up at all????
 
315 lbs? Typo?

2k is a pretty solid deficit at 215. Assuming you're relatively active on top of your workout, and so on. Which app are you using?
 
Noooo not a typo, 315, I'm a big dude, man. I've put on a lot of muscle in the past 6 months but I'm trying to get down to about 280.

the app is called my net diary, just one of the ones with the best rating that popped up first on the appstore.
I checked it out mostly just out of curiosity as to what my new daily meals are looking like calorie wise. I've been leaning out slowly and surely already so now that I'm really cracking down on my diet I just wanted to get an idea of what would be happening
 
insaiyan93 said:
Noooo not a typo, 315, I'm a big dude, man. I've put on a lot of muscle in the past 6 months but I'm trying to get down to about 280.

the app is called my net diary, just one of the ones with the best rating that popped up first on the appstore.
I checked it out mostly just out of curiosity as to what my new daily meals are looking like calorie wise. I've been leaning out slowly and surely already so now that I'm really cracking down on my diet I just wanted to get an idea of what would be happening
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Big dude indeed. That's one Hell of a frame. Nice work.

You are definitely in a deficit at 2k bro. You could probably up that by a lot. But your results will obviously be best dictated by your personal experience.

I don't have any experience with the app. If you don't trust it or like it, I usually recommend myfitnesspal top everyone.

But, using the usual tdee calculators, just your BMR is around 2500. Careful going too low, don't want to drop too fast and lose muscle.
 
You aren't half dead eating 2k at that weight? Hell, I cut at around 2400, and you've got a hundred pounds on me. And that's a hungry, 2 lb per week deficit for me.
 
That app sounds way off man. @D-Ballin is right about my fitness pal. Id recommend it to anyone trying to monitor caloric intake. But I actually dont care for the suggested calorie intake it gives me either I just like how customizable it is. Look around online and check out some basal metabolic weight ( BMR ) calculators. Once you fill in the blanks you'll get a good idea of what your BMR is and then you can figure out the macros you want to work with. Another option is a fitbit with heart monitor. They seem to be very accurate and they track more than just calories.
 
D-Ballin said:
315 lbs? Typo?

2k is a pretty solid deficit at 215. Assuming you're relatively active on top of your workout, and so on. Which app are you using?
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D-Ballin said:
You aren't half dead eating 2k at that weight? Hell, I cut at around 2400, and you've got a hundred pounds on me. And that's a hungry, 2 lb per week deficit for me.
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Haha thank you, but unfortunately over the last 4 years I spent too much time sitting around feeling sorry for myself and drinking and eating like shit so More of it is fat than I would like, but I've been kicking ass and takin gains the last 6 months, getting strong as fuck is my primary goal but looking and feeling better is a close second.

I'll check out the my fitness pal app for sure. And yeah I check and saw my bmr was right around that area and that's my main concern is minimizing muscle loss while I cut some of this fat off haha.


I just started yesterday and yeah I mean I was a little hungrier than usual but I figured that was normal, I didn't realize how big of a deficit I was at until I checked it today and that's what concerned me lol
 
Eman said:
The Ultimate Cutting Diet - Devised By Pro Natural Bodybuilder Layne Norton | SimplyShredded.com

Check this article out. It helped me construct how I want my macros laid out and it covers carb timing very well so you are preserving muscle as best as possible. Keto is another option but I don't believe personally that it's the best option for muscle preservation and I think it is mentioned in that article as well.
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Cool thank you man, I will check that out for sure, as well as the app you guys suggested.
I was just curious, like I said I've been losing fat slowly but steadily and still maintaining my weight and that was on a pretty loose kind of shitty diet but now I'm really focusing on the diet part as well as busting ass on the weights and I want to try and be sure I'm not being counter productive to growing stronger.
 
Well I tried that app, got about the same answer, so my analysis is that I'm just going to have to eat a little bit more so I downed a little more food which got me to about a 900 calorie deficit, exceeding protein requirements and a little low on carbs and fats but not by too much. Says if I keep this rate up I can be losing 2-3 pounds a week which sounds acceptable to me so I guess I'm just gonna play it out for a couple weeks, see how it goes, and adjust as needed.
 
2-3 pounds a week is most likely going to lead to muscle loss IMO. 500-600 deficit is a good rule of thumb. Keep in mind your going to stall out fat loss eventually and lower calories further.. Might be nice to take advantage of the recomp effect you seem to be experiencing from recently starting back to the gym and go into just a slight deficit. Just my .02
 
Eman said:
2-3 pounds a week is most likely going to lead to muscle loss IMO. 500-600 deficit is a good rule of thumb. Keep in mind your going to stall out fat loss eventually and lower calories further.. Might be nice to take advantage of the recomp effect you seem to be experiencing from recently starting back to the gym and go into just a slight deficit. Just my .02
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Crap you know what I just read that article after I posted and now I have to agree. I think I'm just gonna eat a little bit more for breakfast and lunch and get up into that 500-600 range.
 
From what I've read you're definitely a meso. See if I got his right, you gain weight very quickly but also gain muscle very quickly no matter what your diet looks like. Eat too much and you gain, eat too little and you gain a little less. It's tough to plot out what will work for you but I would keep your carbs as low as you can without hurting your workouts and put your protein intake through the roof to make up for it. It'll be very tough for you to lose but you can do it. Throw in 20-30 minutes of cardio at the END of all your workouts and drink as much cold water a day as you can. It's a start and you can find tune your diet the more you get to know what works and what doesn't. Good luck and more importantly...You Got This :)
 
DedLift said:
From what I've read you're definitely a meso. See if I got his right, you gain weight very quickly but also gain muscle very quickly no matter what your diet looks like. Eat too much and you gain, eat too little and you gain a little less. It's tough to plot out what will work for you but I would keep your carbs as low as you can without hurting your workouts and put your protein intake through the roof to make up for it. It'll be very tough for you to lose but you can do it. Throw in 20-30 minutes of cardio at the END of all your workouts and drink as much cold water a day as you can. It's a start and you can find tune your diet the more you get to know what works and what doesn't. Good luck and more importantly...You Got This :)
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Haha yeah you pretty Much nailed it.although, I have been losing fat, just slowly, so I'm hoping watching my diet is gonna Kickstart that. I definitely put on muscle pretty damn well, and if I'm not careful I will put on unwanted weight haha. I will definitely try and apply your advice, I try and keep most of my carb intake to my pre and post workout meals, I'm drinking between 1 and 1.5 gallons of water a day, not counting what I drink during my workout because I sweat a lot of that out. Now that I'm really taking care to make sure I have good stuff to eat for every meal protein is pretty high I would think as most of my diet consists of fish chicken and eggs. I haven't been doing shit for cardio though, I wont lie I'm lazy when it comes to sitting on those crazy walking machines haha, but I will definitely do my best to get some in least a couple times a week just to get n a start.
Thanks for the advice and encouraging words man! I know I can do this, 6 months ago I never would have thought I would even be where I am now, but I'm sticking to it and getting better and better so I know in another 6 months I'll be even closer to where I wanna be, that's all the motivation I need haha
 
Will do,I plan on sticking around this forum, lots of good information, and with the exception of a few bad apples everyone seems to be pretty decent folk.
 
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