1 Week In
danimalkeys
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Today starts the beginning of my 2nd week. So far, so good. It's been an adjustment getting up to 2700 calories from 1700. I'm full all the time, and when I'm finally not feeling full, it's time to eat again. I'm definitely recovering better from my workouts. Lifting was almost easy yesterday even though the weights were the heaviest yet.
I added maybe a lb or so of BW by last Thursday, up to 231 from 230. Friday I had a band gig and even though I drank a half gallon of water at the gig along with the water I'd had during the day, I was down to 227.7 on Saturday morning. Today I'm at 229.7, which is where I was yesterday and Sunday, so 3 days at the same weight.
I'm about 600 calories under TDEE of 3300 which is a 20% deficit. I don't know if I should bump up more or if I really didn't need as much of a reset. I was eating back all of my exercise calories before so even at 1700, I was going up to 2300 on cardio days.
I added maybe a lb or so of BW by last Thursday, up to 231 from 230. Friday I had a band gig and even though I drank a half gallon of water at the gig along with the water I'd had during the day, I was down to 227.7 on Saturday morning. Today I'm at 229.7, which is where I was yesterday and Sunday, so 3 days at the same weight.
I'm about 600 calories under TDEE of 3300 which is a 20% deficit. I don't know if I should bump up more or if I really didn't need as much of a reset. I was eating back all of my exercise calories before so even at 1700, I was going up to 2300 on cardio days.
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The question is 3300 YOUR true TDEE? Remember these are only estimates. You may well have found your TDEE or are close to it. But I would say bump it up to 2950 which is 250 calories above your current 2700 level. If you gain 0.5 pound a week from that (which is what 250 calories above TDEE would do) then you have found your TDEE. If you level out with still no gain after another week at 2950 you still have not reached your TDEE.0
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The question is 3300 YOUR true TDEE? Remember these are only estimates. You may well have found your TDEE or are close to it. But I would say bump it up to 2950 which is 250 calories above your current 2700 level. If you gain 0.5 pound a week from that (which is what 250 calories above TDEE would do) then you have found your TDEE. If you level out with still no gain after another week at 2950 you still have not reached your TDEE.
That's the approach that you would take.. However with you being in your second week I wouldn't do anything... You gotta give this about 2 months before you make any changes0
