Muscle growth vs calories

marcuszmikly17 · January 2020

Currently I'm eating around 900-1000 calories a day and roughly 100 grams of protein. My goal is to lose weight and gain muscle, is this possible doing what I'm doing? I also make sure to get a good amount of protein in directly after working out.

psychod787 · January 2020

marcuszmikly17 wrote: »

Currently I'm eating around 900-1000 calories a day and roughly 100 grams of protein. My goal is to lose weight and gain muscle, is this possible doing what I'm doing? I also make sure to get a good amount of protein in directly after working out.

Not enough data to make an assessment.

jenncornelsen · January 2020

900-1000 calories is too low. The bare minimum is 1200, and few people can get by on that. So it's not healthy for your body, nevermind muscle building.

COGypsy · January 2020

What are your current stats? Are you under medical supervision?

Generally speaking, if you’re eating 1000 calories or less a day, especially as a male, you’re basically only eating enough to keep your heart beating and lungs inflating. You’re almost certainly burning muscle faster than you could hope to replace it, regardless of how much protein you eat or when you eat it.

AnnPT77 · January 2020

You're a male, according to your profile. That makes the bare minimum 1500. And that would be 1500 before intentional exercise.

Unless you are a very small, very inactive person (outside of the workouts), and maybe pretty old on top of that, what you're doing is not a good formula for your goals. Seiously counterproductive, possibly, even.

We would need more information (current weight, height, age at minimum; ideally also some idea of what your workout routine and non-exercise activity (job, etc.) might be, in order to be more specific.

I'm a 5'5" li'l ol' lady of about 135 pounds, and I need to eat more than that to avoid keeling over into a ditch in fairly short order, let alone in order to build muscle. I'd lose weight like a house afire while I got sick and weak at 900-1000 calories, though.

Rethink, maybe? Give us more info to work with?

I just wanna see you succeed!

Darkpheonix30 · January 2020

If you are looking to lose weight, but gain muscle mass it’s going to be a steady and gradual process. You have to have at least 1300-1500 calories on a non exercise day. The days you’re strength training/exercising it would be recommended to add another 300 calories AFTER you workout.

MikePTY · January 2020

Eating that few calories you are almost certain to lose more muscle, because your body is going to turn to it for fuel.

lynn_glenmont · January 2020

Darkpheonix30 wrote: »

If you are looking to lose weight, but gain muscle mass it’s going to be a steady and gradual process. You have to have at least 1300-1500 calories on a non exercise day. The days you’re strength training/exercising it would be recommended to add another 300 calories AFTER you workout.

OP is male. 1500 is the minimum for (a shorter, less active, perhaps elderly) male. Not 1300.

cupcakesandproteinshakes · January 2020

Nope.

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