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Overall - great advice. Here are the changes I am making: 1. Switching to Warrior type diet (one meal a day - more for personal preference). 2. Adding about 40%-50% of calories burned exercising 3. Watching calorie creep a lot closer. 4. Going into maintenance calories for at least 1 month and then going back to cutting…
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Sounds like solid advice. The bike ride was the exception as usually I aim for 50% or so back but its entirely possible I may be overestimating. I thought that was the case a while ago so I actually changed my weight to 15 lbs less in Mapmyrun. :)
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Great advice - I have been focused on cutting and trying to get to lower body fat then bulking a little but maybe I should change it up and build some muscle before cutting. Could not hurt to have some muscle to burn a few more calories and although nobody likes to loose muscle - it would not be too big of a deal for me to…
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Thanks for your input. I will cut down on the calories I consume after intensive exercises and see if that helps - maybe I am overestimating calories burned working out. :)
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Thanks for the advice - there may be some calorie creep in there somewhere so I will check it. I am scanning barcodes off of what I am eating and measuring out the ML or Grams on my scale but Myfitnesspal then converts them to volume measurements. I am really not eye balling anything. I will be more vigilant though :).
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Thanks for the input - not what I wanted to hear but what I needed to hear. I will bump up calories in by 500 per day so that net calories are much closer to the suggested maximums.
