How To Cut Calories and Avoid Bingeing on the Neighbor's Cat

Many of you have seen those calorie charts that give you a specific calorie amount for your target weight. I'm gonna show you a way to create the deficit you need to lose body fat, while keeping the primal instincts locked down. Not that I do that myself, I personally LOVE eating the way every other animal does. But I also practice the fasting that those animals aren't likely to avoid. Okay... Let's say you're a man weighing 275lbs, and want to be a healthy lean 200lbs. No small feat, but entirely doable. The problem arises from a couple of different variables. One is that to maintain a 275lb body weight, you need to be eating some serious grub. Sometimes I wonder how these people afford all the food it takes to stay so fat!! The chart I have in front of me says that to reach a goal weight of 200lbs, eat 2,144 calories daily. Coming down from 4,000 or 5,000 calories a day, you're gonna feel that!! The good thing is that the more you weigh the faster your metabolism, so you're pretty lucky in the beginning. As you get lighter and metabolism slows down, weight loss plateaus are inevitable as your prior deficit becomes your new maintenance. Here's a trick. In order to get to 200lbs, I have to hit 265 first. My chart says that if my goal weight is 265lbs, then eat 2,840 calories until you reach the goal weight!! 2,840 calories is a whole lot more satisfying that 2,144 when you're that heavy, with all kinds of leptin and insulin resistance issues. When you get to 265lbs, your new goal weight is 255lbs. I bring the calories down to 2,735 until I reach 255lbs. So on and so on. What you're doing is tapering the calories as your weight comes down to stave off any relapse. Appetite, like sex drive, is there for a reason... If you don't respond to it... it will respond to you!! Work with it, if you want your efforts to be fruitful. If you drop your calories right down to rock bottom, where do you go from there once your pituitary puts the brakes on? You're already at the bottom calorie level. What, aerobics? Ha! Good luck trying to recover from your strength training with all the cortisol floating around. Try this, and let me know how you feel with it. I personally use this exact method to get to about 10% body fat from whatever weight I'm starting at. Getting to single digit body fat levels takes a little different strategy, but is not as difficult as some make it out to be. Get to your ideal weight first (shoot for 10-12% BF if you're a man). You can even do this in 5lb increments, but keep in mind that fat loss will take longer. Good luck!!