Advice on cutting!

I thought you were asking about the OTHER kind of cutting. Sorry !

I was waiting for someone to write this :laugh:

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Intermittent Fasting worked for me . Try it out!

The following quote is from someone on another forum I am part of, in a thread on "Dieting for fat loss" (colorful language edited). The way he put it finally made IF make sense for me. Remember, about 3500 extra calories = 1 lb of fat, and a deficit of 3500 calories = 1 lb of fat loss:

"So how do we fix this? First, only use your BMR, don't add activity factors into it. Second, err on the side of lower calories. Just round all of your calorie counts up: So 22 calories is 30 to me. Realize you could sustain about a pound of fat loss a week, more if you are pretty overweight, less if your lean. I'm good with .5 pounds a week at my bodyfat. Now, what if I eat a maintainance, say 2200 calories every day. I don't gain fat, I don't lose fat. That's 733 calories a MEAL (assuming you eat 3 meals a day and don't snack). So for breakfast that would be: 4 eggs scrambled, 2 slices of bacon, 1 slice of toast, and butter! That's a pretty satisfying breakfast and should get you comfortably to lunch!!! Now 2 days a week only eat one meal per day. So for lunch and breakfast you don't eat and have a 700 calorie dinner. So, you will be in a 2800 calorie deficit per week; 11,200 calorie deficit per month (3.2 pounds a month fat loss), and a 134,400 calorie deficit per year. That would add up to 38 pounds in one year. That ain't too bad by any stretch of the imagination.

And this is worst case, just plug away, day in, day out.

You are smart though and realize you are going to overindulge on Saturday night so you eat a few 500 calorie meals the week prior (saving 400 calories), skip breakfast Saturday morning (700 calories), and eat a light lunch of 400 calories (saving 300 calories)...now for dinner Saturday night you have 2100 calories to eat and drink SATURDAY NIGHT and still be on track to lose weight that week. You could frigging eat and drink like a viking and still lose weight. You could scare little children and still lose weight. We're talking 5 wings, a porterhouse steak, a baked potato, a slice of apple pie, 2 martini's, 6 beers, an a Snickers bar when you get home (if you get home and assuming you don't vomit the contents of your stomach).

This stuff isn't straight up math, but it's close enough. That's why I like not eating Vs. eating special foods, or combination of foods, or eliminating macro-nutrients, etc. Not eating = 0 calories."