How aggressive is your deficit and how much do you want to lose?
inertiastrength
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Well not much to add. I am anywhere between 500-800 depending on how active I am. I've got 15lbs to lose.
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(Amazing progress OP, looking like a badass). I'm similar, between 500 and 800 is pretty close for me as well and over the last 9 weeks I've lost about 9 pounds so tracks pretty well. I've got 18 pounds left to lose.4
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I try for at least a 1000kcal/day deficit, because I still have ~130lbs to lose, after losing ~70lbs so far. But lately I'm fighting tooth and nail to not fall back into stress eating, so my deficit lately isn't large.
To be honest, if I make it through the next three months without gaining, I'll consider it a win.15 -
I have a 1000 cal deficit. I started with 120 lbs to lose and I have lost 32 lbs in the past 10.5 weeks. I still have 88 lbs to lose so I'll stick with this deficit until I lose another 15 lbs and then I'll switch to a 750 cal deficit.6
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Only want about .5 per week, running about a 500 cal/ day deficit gives me a little wiggle room to cheat and still achieve my goals. Only want 10 pounds off3
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I am aiming for 500 calories a day and to lose 2lbs a week w/about 58 lbs to lose.1
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I'm set to a 750 deficit with about 40lbs to go to my first goal. 60-65 for a BMI ideal weight. I'm losing at a rate of about 1000/day deficit but I've yet to get my fitbit added calories figured out. So I tend to eat within 100 or so calories of my base.2
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KurumiSophia wrote: »I am aiming for 500 calories a day and to lose 2lbs a week w/about 58 lbs to lose.
...but 500 calories a day deficit is 1 pound per week.7 -
About 500 per day. Sometimes a little more, usually a little less because after 18 months of losing I'm a little more, um, free with my goals! As long as I hit 0.5lbs per week on average at this point I can live with it and my health hasn't been brilliant this year so I have to make allowances for that. 50lbs lost so far, 20-30lbs to go. No real end goal, it's aesthetic for me so will know in the mirror not on the scale.2
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »KurumiSophia wrote: »I am aiming for 500 calories a day and to lose 2lbs a week w/about 58 lbs to lose.
...but 500 calories a day deficit is 1 pound per week.
Crap. I need to be more aggressive. Didn't realize I wasn't being aggressive enough.
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VintageFeline wrote: »About 500 per day. Sometimes a little more, usually a little less because after 18 months of losing I'm a little more, um, free with my goals! As long as I hit 0.5lbs per week on average at this point I can live with it and my health hasn't been brilliant this year so I have to make allowances for that. 50lbs lost so far, 20-30lbs to go. No real end goal, it's aesthetic for me so will know in the mirror not on the scale.
Yeah I don't have a goal weight per se I just know I need to lose fat and in order to do that I need to be in a deficit. Wondering how much of my lean mass I'm risking running higher deficits since 800 feels like I'm getting into dangerous ratio territory for each lb I lose. I'd obviously like to minimize my lean mass loss lol
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I'm aiming for .5 pounds a week. I'm about 3 pounds away from my first goal and 6 pounds away from my ultimate goal. I'm in no huge rush, I've already lost 29ish pounds and finally into the normal BMI category. It will happen when it happens.1
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Between 250-500....but mostly 250.3
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only 200 cals because I eat 1200 and only burn 1400. It's painfully slow. I have 5 more pounds to go.3
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VintageFeline wrote: »About 500 per day. Sometimes a little more, usually a little less because after 18 months of losing I'm a little more, um, free with my goals! As long as I hit 0.5lbs per week on average at this point I can live with it and my health hasn't been brilliant this year so I have to make allowances for that. 50lbs lost so far, 20-30lbs to go. No real end goal, it's aesthetic for me so will know in the mirror not on the scale.
Yeah I don't have a goal weight per se I just know I need to lose fat and in order to do that I need to be in a deficit. Wondering how much of my lean mass I'm risking running higher deficits since 800 feels like I'm getting into dangerous ratio territory for each lb I lose. I'd obviously like to minimize my lean mass loss lol
Honestly? I think it's way too aggressive with what you have left and looking how pretty lean you already are in your pictures. I'd be shooting more for 250 per day now, maybe a smidge more.2 -
I am competitive with myself and always tempted to get aggressive. When I only had a few pounds to lose in order to get lean enough to bulk I got aggressive...I looked like death.
I got aggressive after the bulk when I tried to bulk again and just failed.
I've also tried a moderate deficit and also failed.
The only time I did well was when I was still fat and relatively aggressive.3 -
arditarose wrote: »The only time I did well was when I was still fat and relatively aggressive.
I know that feeling.
Sometimes I wish I didn't care so much about maintaining muscle so I could cut really aggressively even now. I do wonder, realistically, how much muscle I'd lose if I dropped to 1200 for a couple of months.
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500-1k depending on how much activity.... I am tending toward macros at the moment.... Sometimes mfp doesn't like it though
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Cutting at 200-250, do have a goal weight but moreover a painfully lower BF% range..gosh darned maintaining muscle is hard.0
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KurumiSophia wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »KurumiSophia wrote: »I am aiming for 500 calories a day and to lose 2lbs a week w/about 58 lbs to lose.
...but 500 calories a day deficit is 1 pound per week.
Crap. I need to be more aggressive. Didn't realize I wasn't being aggressive enough.
In another thread someone said they saw you wanted to lose 58 pounds? Two pounds per week is an aggressive deficit with that amount to lose.1 -
Sorry to be a bit dim, but what do you mean by deficit ? How do I work mine out on here?0
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I have run deficits from 250 to over 3000 during stints of ERFL. One is comfortable but slow, the other extreme is certainly not!0
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Right now I'm in a 500 calorie deficiency. Before I was at 1000 calorie deficiency. I have lost 40 lbs in 9 months. 11 more to go!2
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Around 500 a day, but I usually end up with about 700 a day. I've lost about 17 lbs in 87 days.1
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Anything from 200-400 ish! Technically I'm aiming for a 0.5 a week but I'll take anything!
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Anywhere from 1 to 2000 (just because a 0 would not be called a deficit). It levels out at about 400 if averaged. I have about 60 pounds to lose give or take.1
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Around 350. Trying to be a bit more aggressive this week to see how it goes.0
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I yolo it0
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loulouowens wrote: »Sorry to be a bit dim, but what do you mean by deficit ? How do I work mine out on here?
Go to home page. Click on "Goals". Then choose either 0.5 pounds, 1.0 pounds, or 2 pounds a week to lose. 0.5 is 250 calorie deficit a day. 1.0 is 500 calorie deficit per day, and 2 pounds is 1000 calorie deficit a day. 2 pounds a week works better if you have a lot to lose. 1 pound a week for a moderate amount (say <50 pounds) and 0.5 is recommended for the last few pounds because by then the total calories needed per day will be lower since the body is so much smaller.2 -
VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »About 500 per day. Sometimes a little more, usually a little less because after 18 months of losing I'm a little more, um, free with my goals! As long as I hit 0.5lbs per week on average at this point I can live with it and my health hasn't been brilliant this year so I have to make allowances for that. 50lbs lost so far, 20-30lbs to go. No real end goal, it's aesthetic for me so will know in the mirror not on the scale.
Yeah I don't have a goal weight per se I just know I need to lose fat and in order to do that I need to be in a deficit. Wondering how much of my lean mass I'm risking running higher deficits since 800 feels like I'm getting into dangerous ratio territory for each lb I lose. I'd obviously like to minimize my lean mass loss lol
Honestly? I think it's way too aggressive with what you have left and looking how pretty lean you already are in your pictures. I'd be shooting more for 250 per day now, maybe a smidge more.
My profile pic was about 8lbs ago. I had a YOLO winter and need to now take THOSE 8 off plus the 8 I had "to go" from that pic. My problem was that I wasn't sticking to a cut because it's really easy to out eat a modest deficit of 250 with one bad day on the weekend or even miscalculating or eating out and having to guess etc. I stayed 160 (that pic) for most of 2015 and then I got tired of being mindful coupled with some crappy eating and well now I have 15 to lose LOL
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I tend to keep a deficit in the range of about 500-800 calories per day. I'm aiming for the 1 lb per week loss, but some days do have those extra couple hundred calories deficit as a cushion for days I want to eat more, and to protect a little against overestimating exercise calories or underestimating food.
I've lost about 85 pounds so far and have at least 55 more to go.0
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