How to begin cutting?

RaggedyAnnazon

Hello!
So I've been gaining muscle for about 9 weeks now, but having seen a significant weight change. I have a good family friend who is a body builder and she showed kind of a sample diet that would cut my body. When i did the math of how much it would cost though, I was having some difficultly affording it. But I am thinking cutting might help me lose some of the far, if I understand correctly.

So how do I begin the cutting process? Is it really just a focus on the diet or does it involve doing something different in the gym too.

Thank you!

Galatea_Stone

You need to keep up the lifting to preserve the muscle during the cut. If you can continue to progressively load (increase strength), then do so. Otherwise, keep the protein up, eat at a deficit, and the fat will come off.

RaggedyAnnazon

You need to keep up the lifting to preserve the muscle during the cut. If you can continue to progressively load (increase strength), then do so. Otherwise, keep the protein up, eat at a deficit, and the fat will come off.

Is that really all it is? Increasing the calorie deficit? o.O The plan my friend showed me had very little fat in it (like 1 egg yoke or 1/2 avacado a day). Is that part of it?

Galatea_Stone

You need to keep up the lifting to preserve the muscle during the cut. If you can continue to progressively load (increase strength), then do so. Otherwise, keep the protein up, eat at a deficit, and the fat will come off.

Is that really all it is? Increasing the calorie deficit? o.O The plan my friend showed me had very little fat in it (like 1 egg yoke or 1/2 avacado a day). Is that part of it?

DON'T cut your fats that much. That's a bad idea. IIFYM.com might be a good place for you to look, as well as the Eat, Train, Progress group here.

JojoEffeckt164

Well I´m not a builder but I try to do sports every day... I don´t eat super healthy either... All I do is to try to stay under my calorie limit but eat more than 1200kcal. Than I do sport every day and either eat only the half of it back or i don´t eat them back at all... No special diet... If you eat within your calories you kind of automatically eat the healthier stuff in order to get full.

TonyStark30

Basically Cutting is just Doing what everyone else is doing on MFP but upping the Protein % higher than it defaults to, and Keeping up your weight lifting. Nothing more to it, you can make it as cheap as you want it to be.

ell_v131

You need to keep up the lifting to preserve the muscle during the cut. If you can continue to progressively load (increase strength), then do so. Otherwise, keep the protein up, eat at a deficit, and the fat will come off.

Is that really all it is? Increasing the calorie deficit? o.O The plan my friend showed me had very little fat in it (like 1 egg yoke or 1/2 avacado a day). Is that part of it?

really, nothing more to it. Fats are good for women. Your friend may be a professional bodybuilder, but unless that's the way you want to go, for us mere humans this is it

Good luck and enjoy the simple way to a great body

cingle87

Cutting is just body building term for dieting, eat a modest deficit hit your protein goal and keep the same lifting pattern simples.