re: PuttaDaForkDown

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How do you know what it is supposed to be?

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protein is the most important macro, and should be targeted based on your lean body mass. the carbs/fat is totally different depending on what type of diet/lifestyle you try to follow.

When people want to lose weight, they usually mean they want to lose fat, unless they trying to some magic number to win a contest or bet.

Person A: 240 lbs: loses 40lbs to get to 200lbs. 20lbs of it fat, 20lbs of it is lean body mass (muscle)

Person B: 240 lbs: loses 30 lbs to get to 210lbs. 20lbs of it fat, 10 lbs lean body mass.

I'd much rather be Person B, even though 10lbs heavier

All diets based around creating a calorie/energy deficit for your body. The idea is to retain as much lean body mass during the cut/diet.


This could be debated, but I think the bare minimum number to shoot for while running a calorie deficit is 0.8 grams of protein per pound of lean body mass. For example, 200 lb person, 20% body fat; that means that person has 160g of lean body mass. Therefore, I'd target ~128g of protein daily.