Gym again
ohobwani95
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Hey guys, I recently got back to the gym after stopping for about two months, had been on it for a month and a half. I want to aim for at least five days a week but my real question is about my diet.
I am 5'8 75kgs and I'd like to get to 65kgs. Is it recommended that I alternate between fasting and restricting my calories to about 900 or one meal a day.
Any and all advice is appreciated. Thank you.
I am 5'8 75kgs and I'd like to get to 65kgs. Is it recommended that I alternate between fasting and restricting my calories to about 900 or one meal a day.
Any and all advice is appreciated. Thank you.
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1) You shouldn't eat only 900 calories per day.
2) Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss.1 -
Are you saying you want to alternate between fasting on one day and only eating 900 on the other? That's a terrible plan. If you're doing something like eating 900 on one day and closer to maintenance on the other then that's fine if that works for you but isn't required.
One meal a day or 10 meals a day - makes no difference - do what works for you.2 -
No0
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^ What all of them said. Bad idea.
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Who recommended this?0
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yeah that doesn't sound healthy. and you need energy to work out and help fuel your body, literally. At that rate you are going to be starving yourself.0
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It is recommended that you set up MFP to lose 0.5 pounds/0.25kg per week, get a caslorie level recommendation, and eat that many calories daily, plus eat back most or all of your exercise calories, too. After a month, if you're losing faster than that target rate, eat a little more; if slower, eat a little less.
That is, do that if you want to be healthy, and look your best, throughout and after the weight loss.
Granny sez.
Seriously, at age 59-60, I lost handily on twice the calories you're proposing. Patience! (Also health.)0 -
Leaving aside the fact that you really need to eat a lot more calories than you're proposing, the only person who can tell you what meal timing works best for you is you. Meal timing doesn't effect weight loss except as a tool for managing satiety - i.e. how full we feel. Some people find fasting or eating a single large meal keeps them feeling full. Other people (myself included) prefer many smaller meals/snacks throughout the day. So long as you keep to a deficit, you'll lose weight. But you need to put in the work yourself to figure out what works best for you.1
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