How does my diet look? (Open Diary)
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I'm 5'10 and 85kg, aiming for 68kg. I still have a lot of abdominal fat to lose. When I pinch it, it literally feels like i have tons to lose.
These are my macros:
Protein: 140g
Carbs: 114g
Fats: 48g
Does my diet look okay?
These are my macros:
Protein: 140g
Carbs: 114g
Fats: 48g
Does my diet look okay?
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Looks like you set your goal at 1,700, but only seem to be eating 1,200. 1,200 calories per day is pretty low. Also, your macros in MFP don't seem to agree with what you posted above.
Are you male of female? 68kg (150 lbs) seems very light for someone who is 5'10. Are you following a workout program?2 -
How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.3 -
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How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.
I have no idea why it's saying I'm eating 1200 daily. I'm actually eating 1496 daily. Whilst my diet may look bland to some, I actually enjoy it. I'm male0 -
Not sure why it shows up differently when viewed, but 1,500 is much better than 1,200.
Are you male or female? Are you exercising/trying to put on muscle? I ask because you have set a high protein intake.0 -
How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.
I have no idea why it's saying I'm eating 1200 daily. I'm actually eating 1496 daily. Whilst my diet may look bland to some, I actually enjoy it. I'm male
1500 is really low for you bodyweight in any event. You need to check that again, what are you trying to lose per week? You can only go 2lbs per week at max on MFP AFAIK.0 -
Wheelhouse15 wrote: »
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That's definitely different than what we are seeing. I'm not sure if that's a bug.
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Not sure why it shows up differently when viewed, but 1,500 is much better than 1,200.
Are you male or female? Are you exercising/trying to put on muscle? I ask because you have set a high protein intake.
I'm male. I'm cutting down to 68kg/150lbs. I want to maintain whatever muscle I have hence why I have a high protein intake.0 -
I think your macro percentage allocations look fine in terms of % protein, carbs, and fat. 68kg seems low for your height, but a lot depends on body type. Maybe take stock when you get around 75kg and determine where you want to go from there. It will be difficult to put on muscle if you continue at a calorie deficit.0
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I think your macro percentage allocations look fine in terms of % protein, carbs, and fat. 68kg seems low for your height, but a lot depends on body type. Maybe take stock when you get around 75kg and determine where you want to go from there. It will be difficult to put on muscle if you continue at a calorie deficit.
Yeah in an ideal world, I'd like to cut until 170lbs but judging by how much fat I have on my stomach I feel I'm going to have to cut to 150.0 -
Wheelhouse15 wrote: »How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.
I have no idea why it's saying I'm eating 1200 daily. I'm actually eating 1496 daily. Whilst my diet may look bland to some, I actually enjoy it. I'm male
1500 is really low for you bodyweight in any event. You need to check that again, what are you trying to lose per week? You can only go 2lbs per week at max on MFP AFAIK.
I put weight loss at 1kg/2lbs a week and MFP allocated me 1500 a day.0 -
Wheelhouse15 wrote: »How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.
I have no idea why it's saying I'm eating 1200 daily. I'm actually eating 1496 daily. Whilst my diet may look bland to some, I actually enjoy it. I'm male
1500 is really low for you bodyweight in any event. You need to check that again, what are you trying to lose per week? You can only go 2lbs per week at max on MFP AFAIK.
I put weight loss at 1kg/2lbs a week and MFP allocated me 1500 a day.
With a sedentary activity level then?
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Wheelhouse15 wrote: »Wheelhouse15 wrote: »How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.
I have no idea why it's saying I'm eating 1200 daily. I'm actually eating 1496 daily. Whilst my diet may look bland to some, I actually enjoy it. I'm male
1500 is really low for you bodyweight in any event. You need to check that again, what are you trying to lose per week? You can only go 2lbs per week at max on MFP AFAIK.
I put weight loss at 1kg/2lbs a week and MFP allocated me 1500 a day.
With a sedentary activity level then?
Yeah.0 -
Wheelhouse15 wrote: »Wheelhouse15 wrote: »How much did you tell MFP you want to lose per week?
Are you male or female?
You're 500 calories under your calorie limit every day. If your limit is already a deficit, you're really undereating.
You are eating the same thing every day - egg, cereal, chicken breast, broccoli. You should eat a variety of foods you like so you learn habits for life.
I have no idea why it's saying I'm eating 1200 daily. I'm actually eating 1496 daily. Whilst my diet may look bland to some, I actually enjoy it. I'm male
1500 is really low for you bodyweight in any event. You need to check that again, what are you trying to lose per week? You can only go 2lbs per week at max on MFP AFAIK.
I put weight loss at 1kg/2lbs a week and MFP allocated me 1500 a day.
With a sedentary activity level then?
Yeah.
Ok, that still sounds low calories but with a 1k/day deficit that makes more sense. That's pretty aggressive and hard to maintain for too long. How long do you plan on a 2lb/week loss?0 -
2lbs is probably way too extreme a deficit with only 30lbs to go. Might want to drop it to 1lb a week.1
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Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!5 -
Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.0 -
1500 is the bare min for an adult male. Are you using a food scale? I'm a 5'4 125 lb woman and I eat 1700 cals every day and could easily eat another 500.
How long have you been eating 1500? What kind of weight loss have you seen so far?0 -
Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
Ok, if you are looking to get ripped you should make a post in the body building forum. You'll get a lot of good advice there. Just because you see guys with abs doesn't mean much for you. There are a lot of thin guys that don't have visible abs. Yes, lowering your BF% is crucial, but you want to do it right and you want to get the right advice. You are looking for a cut, not a diet, so you should start looking at ways to accomplish this rather than just cutting food.
Good luck to you.1 -
Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
To achieve your goals you really need to go back to 1 pound a week loss. At 2 pounds you will be losing muscle and fat, regardless of how much protein you eat. It is much easier to preserve as much muscle as you can now rather than trying to build it once you are at your goal weight.2 -
1500 is the bare min for an adult male. Are you using a food scale? I'm a 5'4 125 lb woman and I eat 1700 cals every day and could easily eat another 500.
How long have you been eating 1500? What kind of weight loss have you seen so far?
Yeah I literally weigh everything. I started at 230lbs and I'm now 185lbs. I find it hard to reach 1700 calories when I eat mainly healthy foods, they happen to be mostly low in calories. Anyway I have 265 calories spare, any ideas for food?0 -
Peanut butter or nuts
I'm eating ginger snap cookies right now
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Lillymoo01 wrote: »Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
To achieve your goals you really need to go back to 1 pound a week loss. At 2 pounds you will be losing muscle and fat, regardless of how much protein you eat. It is much easier to preserve as much muscle as you can now rather than trying to build it once you are at your goal weight.
The problem I have is that sure I could set my goal as lose 1lbs a week, which gives me 1700 calories. But then I exercise a lot. I do an hour daily on the treadmill and I lift three days a week. I then do a lot of core work and bodyweight exercises. Other than that, my life is pretty sedantary. I know some eat their exercise calories back but to me it seems pointless as how do you even know how much you have burned? Just imagine you overestimated your calories burned and you ate those back and it affected your weight loss, that would drive me crazy.0 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
To achieve your goals you really need to go back to 1 pound a week loss. At 2 pounds you will be losing muscle and fat, regardless of how much protein you eat. It is much easier to preserve as much muscle as you can now rather than trying to build it once you are at your goal weight.
The problem I have is that sure I could set my goal as lose 1lbs a week, which gives me 1700 calories. But then I exercise a lot. I do an hour daily on the treadmill and I lift three days a week. I then do a lot of core work and bodyweight exercises. Other than that, my life is pretty sedantary. I know some eat their exercise calories back but to me it seems pointless as how do you even know how much you have burned? Just imagine you overestimated your calories burned and you ate those back and it affected your weight loss, that would drive me crazy.
Often calorie burn is overestimated. I started eating back 50% of my estimated burn and when I saw I was losing quicker than I should over a period of time increased this to 75%. It really is a trial by error process.0 -
You eat back half, or a little less of your exercise calories and go from there. Intentional exercise is more activity you're asking your body to do on top of your day-to-day activity, you have to fuel that at least to some degree.0
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Lillymoo01 wrote: »Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
To achieve your goals you really need to go back to 1 pound a week loss. At 2 pounds you will be losing muscle and fat, regardless of how much protein you eat. It is much easier to preserve as much muscle as you can now rather than trying to build it once you are at your goal weight.
The problem I have is that sure I could set my goal as lose 1lbs a week, which gives me 1700 calories. But then I exercise a lot. I do an hour daily on the treadmill and I lift three days a week. I then do a lot of core work and bodyweight exercises. Other than that, my life is pretty sedantary. I know some eat their exercise calories back but to me it seems pointless as how do you even know how much you have burned? Just imagine you overestimated your calories burned and you ate those back and it affected your weight loss, that would drive me crazy.
If you are going to choose the most aggressive rate of loss AND not eat back exercise calories while trying to get to a really low weight, you are going to burn through a lot of muscle. You will not be ripped. You'll be skinny. It is way harder to build muscle you've lost then it is to lose at a more moderate pace and fuel your muscles so you don't lose as much while you're losing fat.10 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
To achieve your goals you really need to go back to 1 pound a week loss. At 2 pounds you will be losing muscle and fat, regardless of how much protein you eat. It is much easier to preserve as much muscle as you can now rather than trying to build it once you are at your goal weight.
The problem I have is that sure I could set my goal as lose 1lbs a week, which gives me 1700 calories. But then I exercise a lot. I do an hour daily on the treadmill and I lift three days a week. I then do a lot of core work and bodyweight exercises. Other than that, my life is pretty sedantary. I know some eat their exercise calories back but to me it seems pointless as how do you even know how much you have burned? Just imagine you overestimated your calories burned and you ate those back and it affected your weight loss, that would drive me crazy.
If you are going to choose the most aggressive rate of loss AND not eat back exercise calories while trying to get to a really low weight, you are going to burn through a lot of muscle. You will not be ripped. You'll be skinny. It is way harder to build muscle you've lost then it is to lose at a more moderate pace and fuel your muscles so you don't lose as much while you're losing fat.
So if I do an hour daily on the treadmill, I should add say another 200 calories?0 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »Your goal weight is low for your height. Even so, you should be set to lose 1 lb per week. 2 lbs per week is really only appropriate for someone with a lot of weight to lose. You are going to sacrifice a lot of muscle losing that fast with your stats.
Not sure what aesthetic you are going for, but I bet you'd be happier cutting your total weight loss goal in half and switching to recomp after you lose 15 lbs. Just something to think about!
I've seen some ripped dudes at my height at 150lbs. I have a lot of abdominal fat that I need to get rid of. My idea is to cut to 12 to 15% body fat and then bulk. I will change my goal to 1lbs a week it's just I feel full at 1500, I have no idea how I'm going to eat more food.
To achieve your goals you really need to go back to 1 pound a week loss. At 2 pounds you will be losing muscle and fat, regardless of how much protein you eat. It is much easier to preserve as much muscle as you can now rather than trying to build it once you are at your goal weight.
The problem I have is that sure I could set my goal as lose 1lbs a week, which gives me 1700 calories. But then I exercise a lot. I do an hour daily on the treadmill and I lift three days a week. I then do a lot of core work and bodyweight exercises. Other than that, my life is pretty sedantary. I know some eat their exercise calories back but to me it seems pointless as how do you even know how much you have burned? Just imagine you overestimated your calories burned and you ate those back and it affected your weight loss, that would drive me crazy.
If you are going to choose the most aggressive rate of loss AND not eat back exercise calories while trying to get to a really low weight, you are going to burn through a lot of muscle. You will not be ripped. You'll be skinny. It is way harder to build muscle you've lost then it is to lose at a more moderate pace and fuel your muscles so you don't lose as much while you're losing fat.
So if I do an hour daily on the treadmill, I should add say another 200 calories?
If running, more like 500.3
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