How do you combine Intermittent Fasting with a Calorie Deficit?

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How do you combine Eat Stop Eat Intermittent Fasting with the recommended program's calorie deficit range?

I wrote this post for Danell a new Venus who follows me on Facebook and she asked it regarding the Venus calorie deficit but it's also within the range here on MFP so it's basically the same thing.

Yes I do the Venus workouts sometimes still, but I do a lot of other workouts too. What workout you do doesn't matter so much on this topic other than whatever stress it causes your body.

Brad recommends ESE fasting not more than twice a week and not necessarily "dieting" with ESE. By dieting he means "calorie deficit".

But that is mainly for maintaining.

And remember Brad is a GUY.

Most of us females are going to have to have some deficit days even while maintaining.

It's a fine line. Almost an art.

There is no right or wrong answer.

There IS what WORKS for you.

Always remember your own body is the end game, not the theory, chart, calculator, guru, or what anyone says or does.

So the Venus calculator gives you a RANGE: A lowest deficit number and a Maintenance number (I'm pretty sure MFP also give you this range).

Anything under maintenance is a deficit.

So you can experiment with ANY number under maintenance.

And you can add in 1-2 ESE days.

But most likely you won't be able to sustain the LOWEST deficit number combined with ESE.

Every day does not have to be the same deficit. You can have as many maintenance days as you need.

It's an art to listen to your body at the same time and make adjustments.

The biggest factors are life stress, body fat level, intensity of workouts (stress), amount of deficit over time (stress), and your own health.

There is no calculator that can measure that (well except body fat).

The calculators are highly accurate. Then you have to use the ranges, experiment, and tweak according to how you feel over time.

Everything that matters is a rolling daily average over time; workouts, deficits, ESE, macros, nutrients. Not necessarily any given day.

You can be higher in protein some days and lower on other days, the same with everything else.

Pay attention to what you are doing over time in all these things as they add up.

Usually when you are not feeling well or it's not working, you can look at the last couple of weeks and realize too many things are causing too much stress.

And to top it off it's a moving target. You gotta stay on your toes with this process.

Too bad we aren't like a car, just put in the right amount of gas and step on the gas. But no, we are human, and FEMALE at that!!

LOL sorry if you are MALE and reading this. It may apply to you too, but our hormones are different and that's just how it is. I mostly work with females and I mainly write for females. But much of this will apply to males too

I hope that helps Danell

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