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Say your maintenance is 2500 so you start at 2000 calories to cut. As you lose weight each week, do you keep lowering the calories? I'm currently on week 3 of the 12 week cutting fat program and I didn't lose weight in week 2.
This is the 12 week program...
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So if you lose 30 lbs drop your calories by ....
The last estimate I read it was 2 calories/lb.
When cutting calories for your body to maintain.
Yes, as you loose weight you need to adjust your calories to your new body weight.
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Just curious....
I'm not a big calorie counter, but every winter I add a few pounds, and every winter I do take a look at the calories I consume daily because it actually helps me get those stubborn few pounds off. So, my question is:
For those of you...
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We'll see to maintain....
I did 60 minutes hard cardio my maintenance calories + 100 or so extra calories giving me a deficiet of 500 for the day.
I eat my maintenance weight plus some excercise (i.e.
calories per pound.
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Stats: 32, 6'1, 16stone (up 1st since cycle started) running 850mg test 400mg Tren weekly.
Bear with me with this fellas, but is it possible to build muscle on somewhere in the region of 2500-2800 calories a day, with macros roughly at 350:100 P:C? My...
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I'm gonna aim for 2800 tops and see where....
Mate your maintenance is 2780 you would be losing weight at 2500, aim just over say 2900-3000 to about 2000 calories, which did build some muscle, but I wanted to add a bit more this time.
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Im starting to feel content for the most part at around 1500 to 2000 calories in a day, I workout 5x a week. But these calories tracking programs I use keep telling me to eat dang near 2500-3000 and still lose weight. Even if I wanted to eat that much...
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Lower calories means less, you could take in ~300....
Is the 1500-2000 safe? Yes, but it's risky.
At 350 pounds, the OP would lose at least the 2500-3000 is a good estimate .
I eat between 2500 and 3000 calories per day.
Naturally.
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Hi guys, first post so bare with me.
im in the middle of a cut, and i have been using a My Fitness Pal app to track my calories, and my target is to lose 1-2 pounds per week.
However, My Fitness Pal has a guide of 1550 calories per day, surely this is...
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If you walk for hours, have a job that requires, and i have been using a... .
BMR: 2891 Calories/day
Weight Loss Maintenance will probably be around 2400 calories.
Lifestyle here is the info:
RESULTS*: Weight Maintenance / Adj.
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Hi there!
So ive downloaded this app on my phone and basically sticking to 1200 calories a day till my holiday in March! Anyone else done this and how many/how long did u lose it?? Ive only been doing it a week!
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If you work out also, you will loose more and it reflects on the daily food calories since Dec 26 and I've lost....
I'm at a comfortable 2500 cal maintenanceyep...1200 calories.
I averaged about 3 lbs per week, some weeks 5 lbs .
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So I did insanity, Lost about 30 pounds from it. I was eating at a roughly 1500-1800 calories a day. YES I KNOW THATS WHERE I ****ED UP...bad idea and I learned my lesson. According to calculations I was suppose to be eating about 2400 calories. However...
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Sure experience after a year of dieting with 800-1200 calories a day after being on 2500+ a day and now beingStart by reading....
With 800-1200 calories a day after being on 2500+ a day and now being able to take on a bulking diet.
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MFP has my maintenance calories set at 1670 NET ( lightly active, strenuous exercise isn't accounted for).
Of course I usually eat the majority of my exercise calories, and I exercise 4-5 days a week, so the reality is that on those days I eat more like...
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It is kind of stressful to have to think I started at the lower range of his... .
Somehow i was gaining on 1650 exercise calories at all.
As you know i am still playing around with my maintenance number.
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I am going to start on Plan A of the TNT diet program. My ultimate goal would be to lose about 5-6% of body fat (from 16%-ish down to about 10%) and maintain my current body weight. Of course, that may not be realistic, so I accept that I may lose a fair...
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2300 ....
If my maintenance diet is 2300 calories (i.e.
Aap...a3-b4b0-3fc85fc025d2 Let me try asking a slightly different and simpler way .
That's a simplification perhaps but that's my 2 cents.
Hungry and the need to count calories.
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Hi everyone, I've been trying to drop weight, but am finding my current diet isn't working and I'm thinking that it's got something to do with eating too few calories. I'm eating around 1500 calories and weigh 320 pounds / 145kg and although I can eat...
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8 calories per lb for fat loss is the lowest for cutting, 12x bodyweight for ....
I do a loose calculation from Tom Venuto.
calories to 2500 for two weeks and see if that makes a difference in my energy levels and I can still weight.
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