Recalculating deficit
anask4
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Hey everyone. I am 19/male/5'7" and weigh about 139-140 lbs. I have estimated my body fat to be around 16.5% (using a caliper). Since May 2013, I have lost about 50 lbs, but I still have a high body fat percentage because at the start of my journey I had no idea what I was doing and I suspect that I had lost a lot of LBM. Currently my goal is to lower my body fat to about 10-12%. I am a college student, so during the school year I can only go to the gym 2 days a week. I run for 20 minutes and do resistance training for about an hour each time I go to the gym. I am on the SL 5x5 program but I do other lifting in addition to that, using dumbells and cables mainly. On days where I cant go the gym, I try to do 80-100 pushups at home, just to get my activity levels up.
I am trying to figure out how large my calorie deficit should be in order to cut my body fat down to 10-12% in the next 5-6 months, if possible. According to calorie calculators that take my body fat into account my TDEE is 2090 (using Heybale's spreadsheet and IIFYM calculator). Other calculators, such as Scooby tell me my TDEE is closer to about 2300.
What is the deficit I should be eating at, currently I am at 20%, and sometimes eat even lower than that. Should I stay at a 20% deficit, or maybe go down to 15% or 10% (Keep in mind that my goal is drop body fat). Also does my TDEE of 2090 seem accurate? By the way, I feel like I am stalling at the gym.
I am trying to figure out how large my calorie deficit should be in order to cut my body fat down to 10-12% in the next 5-6 months, if possible. According to calorie calculators that take my body fat into account my TDEE is 2090 (using Heybale's spreadsheet and IIFYM calculator). Other calculators, such as Scooby tell me my TDEE is closer to about 2300.
What is the deficit I should be eating at, currently I am at 20%, and sometimes eat even lower than that. Should I stay at a 20% deficit, or maybe go down to 15% or 10% (Keep in mind that my goal is drop body fat). Also does my TDEE of 2090 seem accurate? By the way, I feel like I am stalling at the gym.
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Just out of curiosity what method are you using to obtain your bodyfat%?0
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I used the Jackson Pollock 7 site skin fold test.
(www.free-online-calculator-use.com/skin-fold-test.html)0
