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that looks ok. If you’re eating quite a bit more than that right now you may want to go down to 1500 cal over the course of a few weeks because dropping calories too fast can make things hard to stick to

yes 500 is always a good number to shoot for just in case you’re off a little bit on your accounting on the negative side just keep an eye on your fat gain around your waist if that starts growing too much you just cut your calories back a little bit but the only way muscle goes on is if food goes in the mouth. The right…

when you’re cutting you need quite a bit of protein and low calories so that can be difficult combo as a vegetarian. Especially for a man because they carry more muscle that needs to be maintained. Just do your homework on foods that have high protein and low calories

at your weight and height I would be a little more aggressive with a deficit than 250 a day. You have enough fat on you and it will be able to make up for a lot of the energy that you’re going to need. I wouldn’t really try to be adding any muscle right now, but you should be lifting weights because that will keep the…

You need to add muscle you want to eat slightly over your maintenance calories and get on a good beginners lifting program that specializes in compound movements. you are not a candidate for fat loss right now. When you add some muscle you may be a little bit more in line to do that when you add muscle in a calorie…

Small women such as yourself shouldn’t really have a 500 cal a day deficit I would shoot for more like 250. You just don’t have a lot of body weight to work with. You didn’t specify what your weight was so that would be a big factor.

There is also water and food, cucumbers, watermelon, etc. that’s why trying to track Water is really kind of a waste of time.

90-100 Lbs. doubtful you need to lose fat

Use your “around” 1,400 number as this number is already supplying you with actual data. Tighten up that number by getting more accurate with your counting every day so that you’re establishing a weekly amount. You’ll most likely find that you’re taking any more calories than you think. Plan on maybe lowering those a…

After a month of being on a plateau, you’re eating at maintenance calories every week. Week is the operative word people as can say they're taking in that amount of calories every day but is that every day or is that cherry picked a day or two a week when they’re actually eating that low? you need to figure calories Weekly…

A week is not long enough and your friend did not lose 30 lbs in a month

Is that under 1200 cal every single day consistently For six weeks or is that cherry picking a few days here and there where the calories are that low. you want to count seven days worth of calories and divide by seven that is your actual daily amount. If in fact, you actually were on 1200 consistently and you stop losing…

Protein powder

How long have you been at 1850? if it’s been less than a month you need to give it a little more time. If still no loss then your weekly calories are not allowing you to lose fat.

Some people have great luck with it. The bottom line with any diet is you need to take in fewer calories every week consistently than you burn if you want to lose fat, the carnivore diet is no different. It really comes down to eating in a way that you can stick to permanently. I know friends that love carnivore.

Any reported calorie amount is dependent on counting and tracking accuracy

Volume, intensity and programming will dictate whether 6 days is excessive.

Regardless of age, fat loss will be a product of a consistent weekly calorie deficit over time. You need to research where your calorie amount needs to be for your current situation. Start there and after a month review your progress or lack of it and adjust your weekly calorie amount at that time if necessary.

Abs are like any other exercise they’re gonna be difficult to build unless you’re in a caloric surplus. If you simply want to expose your abdominals, provided they’re already fairly developed then you just diet down, when you diet down, you can’t really lose fat just at your abs, you’re gonna lose it wherever your body…

A month and no loss means your weekly calories are keeping you at what is called maintenance. In order to lose fat you’re gonna need to lower your calories every week, there is about 3500 cal in 1 pound so that means every day of the week you need to lower your calories by 500, if you want to lose slower, just don’t drop…

Going back to the argument of whether fasting while you sleep is good or not I will say the one benefit I did find of that when I’m trying to lose fat is that if you’re gonna be hungry, be hungry when you’re asleep, I learned that from the late Greg Plitt.

no.

someone that heavy would probably have a TDEE of over 3000 cal a day so 1200 cal deficit would still keep them consuming over 1200 cal every day

That’s a calorie deficit of almost 1200 cal every day for a month which unless you were extremely overweight or obese that’s probably not going to be realistic. You may lose a decent amount of water weight if you cut out a lot of processed carbs.

Your overall weekly calories determine what your weight will do not meal timing. It’s perfectly fine to eat late at night if your overall calories for the week are where they need to be. Your body rebuilds itself while you sleep so having food before you go to sleep is not really a bad thing.

if the loss stopped all of a sudden it may just be holding water but if you’ve been that way for a month or more, you’re at maintenance calories now you’re gonna need to lower them. After losing weight, especially close to 40 pounds your maintenance calories are going to be lower. An easy way to illustrate that is to put…

Regardless of how you try to calculate things with any app, those are gonna be strictly starting points. You need to stick with those calories for a month and review the progress or lack of progress at that time and make any necessary adjustments. Anecdotal experience from other people is basically useless because…

if there’s no loss in four weeks, it’s not a matter of eating too few calories. It’s a matter of eating too many calories.

fasting only works if it causes you to have a weekly calorie deficit, fasting itself doesn’t really cause fat loss

One of the biggest reasons people don’t lose weight with this app is because they eat back their exercise calories and use those calories that they’re telling you were burned and those are going to be potentially inaccurate. You can eat back calories do whatever you want then after about 4 to 6 weeks of doing that you’re…