tomcustombuilder Member

It’s all personal preference whether you eat before working out or not. Look more at overall daily nutrition.

There is no backdoor shortcut into burning stored fat it’s gonna come down to your calories so unless keto causes you to eat fewer calories there’s no sense in doing that plus most people have a very hard time with energy levels doing those diets and if your contest prepping you need energy for your training so I would…

Overall weekly calories is the number to look at. Meal timing is irrelevant. Being miserable when dieting down is a recipe for failure

If you were obese it would be potentially doable however at your stats it wont happen from a fat loss standpoint. No carbs. Sweat suit and diuretics will lose 10 lbs of water however that accomplishes nothing except stressing the body in a very negative way. Take it slower and in a sensible way.

The only way to know how a certain amount of weekly calories will affect you is to sit there for 4-6 weeks and review then and adjust as necessary. The calculator is a starting point however real world results are what matters.

Bottom line is you can structure your daily calories to suit your preferences however at the end of the week you’ll need to be accountable to yourself with the numbers.

Add weekly calories and divide by 7. If this is your targeted daily calorie budget then it's ok. If the maintenance day puts you over then yes it will slow progress. It's all about weekly calories.

lol, Dr. Mike and Alan Aragon are the only 2 I actually follow. Memmo Henselman (sp) is also good.

If you’re diabetic it matters, if you're not, not so much.

im guessing in the carbophobia circles

Greek yogurt before bed gives you a nice protein bump to help with rebuilding during sleep with around 90 calories.

There was a well known fitness trainer/fitness model named Greg Plitt awhile back. When he was dieting down for a shoot he wouldn’t eat at night because he said if I’m gonna be hungry I wanna be hungry when I’m asleep.

No. It’s fine. Overall weekly calories are what matters plus your body rebuilds when you sleep so feed it accordingly

That’s too much. If you’re overweight figure protein in relation to your goal weight and not current body weight What is your current weight?

Yes.

Apps suggestions for calories is a starting point only. Couple that with inaccurate weekly calorie counting and tracking and you have a recipe for being way off. No loss in 4 weeks means you’re eating at maintenance and need to drop weekly calories. At your stats you can run a big deficit of 750-1,000 per day. Start at 500…

Water retention varies from day to day so look at the long term trends

I’m guessing by what you’re saying that you’re taking in more than 1,000 calls a day every day consistently.

If your weight has been stable just get on a good proven beginner weightlifting program and cut out treats as much as possible every week. The lifting will build muscle and losing the treats will help to lose that little bit of fat. Your weight is fine so you just need to change your body composition a bit.

Ditch it and eat sensibly.

4 weeks. You had a rapid loss so i doubt youll really need to drop cals. Your homeostatic system may very well be making you retain water. Sometimes adding calories up to maintenance for a few day may give you the whoosh of water loss.

IF is not really a fast it’s just specifies a specific eating window. If you’re trying to lose fat your overall weekly calories will determine the outcome and not whether you took in calories at certain times of the day

Warm-up wise before lifting weights cardio might get the blood flowing however, it’s really important that you actually warm up each body part with a set of lighter weight with full range of motion. It’s more about getting the muscle itself prepped for the actual working sets.

Cardio is more important with a sedentary lifestyle as it helps compensate for the lack of daily movement, however as mentioned above most of your fatloss will come from limiting overall weekly calories via diet.

I used it for a short time and it was terrible and really didn’t work that well and definitely not well enough to justify its use for fatloss.

Don’t even think about it

If you're still losing at the previous amount don't change anything don't rely on this app or any other app to be accurate all the time, adding calories will not cause more fat loss

Protein is .7- 1 gram per pound of body weight if you’re not overweight by much. More overweight and base protein on your goal weight. Carbs are a personal decision. There is no real rule however the fewer highly processed ones the better.

adding calories won’t cause further weightloss, if anything you may need to lower. That’s a good rate of loss so more than likely you needed to leave the calorie amount alone if you were still losing.

scale is a 100% must