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is 1,200 calories too low?
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100% of my eating is healthy lean protein,veggies & fruit
Nothing else, i also workout 5 days a week 1 hour of cardio& 45 mins of strenght
Training so i highly doubt it's muscle loss.
Yeah, thats how I feel. I eat a low-calorie high-protein diet and I still have plenty of energy to exercise everyday. I can't imagine it's muscle loss when I'm significantly stronger and faster than I was before, lol. Proof's in the pudding. I like what this guy said:... but (I) see nothing unhealthy about 1200! Hardly starving yourself as some have posted. If your works outs start to lag up the protein a little but you sound on track!0 -
100% of my eating is healthy lean protein,veggies & fruit
Nothing else, i also workout 5 days a week 1 hour of cardio& 45 mins of strenght
Training so i highly doubt it's muscle loss.
Yeah, thats how I feel. I eat a low-calorie high-protein diet and I still have plenty of energy to exercise everyday. I can't imagine it's muscle loss when I'm significantly stronger and faster than I was before, lol. Proof's in the pudding. I like what this guy said:... but (I) see nothing unhealthy about 1200! Hardly starving yourself as some have posted. If your works outs start to lag up the protein a little but you sound on track!0 -
People make the claims about muscle loss but the numbers usually don't add up. A pound of fat supplies 3500 calories; a pound of muscle only 600. When you plug in the numbers and see what your deficit for a week was versus how much you lost, it would be really obvious if a lot of it came from muscle because the loss would be really high. I have run my numbers and they make sense for burning mostly fat. Yes, I probably lost a little muscle also that I may have to put back on, but only a little.0
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