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Originally Posted by CFD
I've been reading this thread and see a lot of useful info but also see a lot of for lack of a better word mistakes. It may seem odd but you should not be that concerned with weight loss but more so fat loss. Weight loss exspecially on very low calorie diets is more often muscle loss and water loss. The concern should be fat loss.It seems that a lot of you are "starving" yourselves. This will show fast weight loss(muscle and water) but will back fire. To properly loose weight you must eat, try to eat 5 or 6 meals a day, every 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Eat your "healthy" carbs earlier in the day and taper them off as you aproach evening. Cardio should be an important component of weight loss but so is weight lifting. Building muscle mass has many benefits, faster metabolism, increased fat burning are two important to your goals. If you are lifting weights and you should be feed your muscles with a fast absorbing post workout drink, something simple, dextrose or maltidextrose with protein powder and water, consume it within 20 min. of your workout. All meals should be balanced with protein, healthy carbs and healthy fats. If you follow these simple rules fat loss will be a little slower but permanent and you will look and feel much better but what do I know.
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Tmrow if I have time before work I will dig up some very useful info on how to find you maintenance calories so you can understand what you need to maintain, then drop 500 calories from that daily and that should lead to about a 3500 calorie deficit per week which should = about 1lb of fat loss. This is the safest and healthiest way to go about it imo.
For instance, if my maintenance is somewhere around 3k calories, I would eat 2500 per day to lose fat, or eat 3500 per day to try and gain muscle. Its not a race, its a long term process. those eating 500-800 calories a day are going to feel it real quick and its not fun. Your maintenence will vary on your weight, height, amount of activity per day.