I used to use calorie cycling and thought it worked great. I would cycle between 2,500cal, 2,000cal, and 1,500cal. I would eat the most calorie days on workout days and the less on rest days. A good way to shock your body. Something I always used was cheat days to help spike the metabolism. I would eat 6 days strict and go all out one day a week and eat whatever I wanted. Your body can get used to a certain calorie intake and will slow down metabolic wise. It's our survival mechanism for starvation periods when we would have to go without food for long periods back in the stone ages. Shocking it can be enough to jump start that metabolism again. I never dieted hard core (for me around 1500 cal or less) for more than 4-6 weeks at a time. I would jump my calories up to say maintenance (caloric intake to maintain weight) which was around 2250-2500 for me for a week or two and then go back to dieting hard core. Just something that can help you get over that hump.

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Posted by CAD703X

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Member since Jul 2008

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Posted on 9/29/10 at 10:26 am to JasonL79

ok mr. know-it-all again here.

for me..having a desk job..the worst thing was lunch. that was my BIG TICKET calorie-wise..would go out like 3-4 days a week with co-workers..and ALWAYS came back from lunch feeling like crap.

*if* you can do it..swap lunch out entirely for protein powder or something. yeah i know..this is a bit of a stretch for alot of people but honestly, it only took me about a month to get used to the fact i was no longer eating a big lunch and now this isn't a problem for me.

that way you can splurge a bit at dinner and not go to bed feeling hungry...for me..sitting in front of the tv at night watching sports is my "munch time" and now that i'm able to have a pretty big dinner, i'm not tempted as much to do that.

also, swap nuts for chips. chips are bad bad BAD. nuts have alot of fat, but they're 100x better for you than cheetoes and the fat makes you feel full before you go through an entire can. ..of course those wasabi almonds also contain crack, so watch out.