Weight loss 50 pounds: UPDATE: Consuming 3000-3200 calories/day the last 10 weeks Page 6

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Weight loss: 23 pounds in 5 weeks

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I'm right there with you. I'm down 20-25 in 6 weeks. The last 2 weeks, I have not kept the hammer down. Beer is so good.

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16/8
But I have put creamer in my coffee or sweat and low

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Then you aren't fasting.

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2 meals a day, 500 cals each, with either a piece of fruit or boiled eggs as snack.

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Are you sure you are really eating 2 meals at 500 calories every day? At 1,100 calories a day you should be losing a lot of weight. Something is off here.

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May increase to 1 more 500 cal meal during my eating time

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Adding another 500 calories to your diet will not make you lose weight quicker. What are you eating?

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1. how many days in the row is this recommended?
2. If you mess up, do you restart the next day?

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How many days is what recommended? You should aim for a solid diet every day. It's not a one or two day thing, and the weight is gone like magic.

Of course, if you have one bad day you should keep going. I do a 24 hour fast once a week. The rest of the week I try to stay under 1,800 calories (most days I'm around 1,200, but sometimes I have a bad day). My diet is as low in carbs as possible, without making myself miserable. I've lost 20 pounds in 2 months doing this. There is something you are leaving off.

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16/8
But I have put creamer in my coffee or sweat and low
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Then you aren't fasting.

Agree that is what I just found out.


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2 meals a day, 500 cals each, with either a piece of fruit or boiled eggs as snack.
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Are you sure you are really eating 2 meals at 500 calories every day? At 1,100 calories a day you should be losing a lot of weight. Something is off here.

I am using a meal prep company and that and the meals, average 450 to 495 each. So add in a piece of fruit or egg, drink water and coffee. I feel pretty confident that I am under 1200 a day.
this is why I posted.


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May increase to 1 more 500 cal meal during my eating time
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Adding another 500 calories to your diet will not make you lose weight quicker. What are you eating?
Eating from a meal prep company
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average
(Cals:495.2 P:65.8g C:38.2g F:8.8g)

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1. how many days in the row is this recommended?
2. If you mess up, do you restart the next day?
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How many days is what recommended? You should aim for a solid diet every day. It's not a one or two day thing, and the weight is gone like magic.

Of course, if you have one bad day you should keep going. I do a 24 hour fast once a week. The rest of the week I try to stay under 1,800 calories (most days I'm around 1,200, but sometimes I have a bad day). My diet is as low in carbs as possible, without making myself miserable. I've lost 20 pounds in 2 months doing this. There is something you are leaving off.

thanks for your input

Of you aren't losing on that regiment, you have some form of metabolic disorder in my experience. Stick with 16/8 and switch to keto....yes I said keto. It tends to work well with people that have fricked up metabolism.

Use the guidelines below
Calories- bodyweight x 10
Fat-60-65%
Protein-30%
Carbs-5-10% in the form of green veggies for volume.

If you start having gut distress, look at the foods in the vertical diet that can get you to the above macro break down. (Usually not an issue with keto)

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Well you started too low. Now where you gonna go when you stall. It's fine now, just ride it out and you can slowly reverse when you stall.

You always want to start at the highest you can to lose weight.

For most people that work an office job TDEE is right at 12.7*BW. Almost everyone is between 12.5-14. figure that number out, subtract 500 and that is about where you need to start daily. We don't include exercise calories in tdee.

Especially in keto, people tend to be able to have less metabolic slow down in my experience (just my experience as studies don't bare this out completely), so we are able to start calories higher. When you stall, lower by 200/day or increase neat or Conditioning. Do that everyone you stall for two weeks until you get down to 1500 Cal's. A male shouldn't be taking in less than that unless they are really small especially if lifting like they should be. At that point when you stall again, you reverse out of it, adding 200 Cal's every couple of weeks.

I'm in a bit of a stall right now, but I am not being diligent about what I am eating. I just can't eat that many calories without eating crap. I'm just full. I may go back to eating breakfast.

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I'm in a bit of a stall right now, but I am not being diligent about what I am eating. I just can't eat that many calories without eating crap. I'm just full. I may go back to eating breakfast

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Then choose fattier foods.

It's pretty simple

Meal 1- (6-8 eggs)large omelet with some veggies, meat and a lil cheese, can even do half an avocado. 800-1000 cals

Meal 2- large steak with butter on top, green veggies, avocado. Grass fed cheese if needed.
1200-1600 cals

bullshite. If you are you have a metabolic disorder. Ever person thinks they will gain until they are strict on it. Especially with the keto macros I laid out.

Go look at any tdee calculator. Go look at any keto calc, gonna tell you about the same thing. Olewarskull doesn't count calories but he will prolly tell you he is about at that.

It's not that much food, look at the post above. It's two meals. You aren't eating things like fatty cuts of steak, eggs, hard cheese, butter and avocadoes if you think it's a lot.

If you are stalled give my way a shot. You might gain, first 2 weeks, after that you will start looking consistently.

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Are you lifting?

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Yes, still doing greyskull aesthetics. I am loving it.

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Are you doing morning walks?

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I don't have time. I am up at 5:45 and out the door for 6:45. This summer, I will do the fasted walks.

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Don't worry about the walks. Just keep lifting and hit the Conditioning hard and eat a little more and you will be fine.

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I'm on week 5 of C25K and walking or HIIT on the off days. Lifting is on track. Homework is probably doing the most good.

I need to buckle down on the eating part. For lent, I plan to give up all alcohol until I hit my next goal of 230. So, 6 weeks to lose 10lbs.