Confused about Max Calorie Deficit

weightingtobloom
weightingtobloom Posts: 30 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I was looking around to see how much of a deficit I can have to lose as much fat as possible without going into starvation mode/losing lean body mass. One formula that seemed widely accepted was lbs of body fat times 31 = max deficit. The thing is, for me that is: 37.5 * 31 = 1162.5, and my total calorie need is 2018, so that means I can eat 855.5 calories a day and do great. That seems like it wouldn't work though. Any thoughts?

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  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    It would work. It's just hard to get adequate nutrition eating that little and most people would get hungry and end up binging.
  • AnjellaRose_GF_SillyYak
    AnjellaRose_GF_SillyYak Posts: 100 Member
    I would love help figuring out mine
  • weightingtobloom
    weightingtobloom Posts: 30 Member
    Well according to this model, you simply multiply the amount of body fat you have in lbs by 31. There are lots of body fat percentage calculators out there that you can use, and then you multiply the percent by your weight. So for example, someone who weights 150 lbs finds that she has a BF% of 30%, so 150 * .3 = 45 lbs of fat. Then they would multiply 45 by 31 to get a max deficit of 1395 calories.

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