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Ratios are meaningless in and of themselves, what matters is getting adequate protein and dietary fat while being in a caloric deficit, after hitting your protein and fat minimums any calories you have left over can go to c/p/f of your choosing. E.g. An endurance athlete with a calorie goal of 3500 might have 80% of their…

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Weight x 12 works out to be about my BMR, so I'm supposed to take 500 from that? Even if I was sedentary this would be too low. This is some pretty terrible and irresponsible advice as a blanket statement for everybody.

I make sure I have an active lifestyle and high TDEE so I can still eat "rubbish food" if I want feelsgoodman.

I'd get a new doctor.

super overweight people need even less protein since they have so much fat stores to live off so the deficit will not cut into their muscle tissue, easy way is to just do 0.8-1 gram per lb goal weight.

No I'd rather eat real food.

WRONG, I find it very difficult to sleep when I'm hungry, I always have at least 300 cal within an hour before bed (usually carbs) which helps immensely.

Trainers hate him!

Only if you have celiac disease, lactose intolerance or some kind of allergy to them, otherwise no.

Mine is very accurate. I'm convinced people who say it's way off for them either aren't using it properly i.e. trying to use it to measure stuff like weight lifting, HIIT, cycing (things it's not designed for) etc, horribly inaccurate with their tracking or they just have a faulty unit.

Use a food scale and track ACCURATELY everything you eat because you're eating a lot more than 1200.

I always leave at least 300 calories for a pre bed snack because I *kitten* hate having to go to bed hungry, it's literally the worst.

Yes, many people recommend 1 gram per lb lbm when in a deficit, although it's a sliding scale based on multiple factors (size of deficit, level of leanness, training etc). The leaner you get the more important it becomes.

a) Tell that to a 4'11 sedentary female who would have to cut daily intake to something ridiculous like 800-1000 if she didn't eat any exercise calories back. b) Yes it absolutely does.

No it doesn't, 1200 is the bare minimum for women

Why do you think you need to limit to 1500 calories? That's the bare minimum for a male.

cycling

Yup, a potentially very useful feature ruined before it even got started due to a stupid choice of words. Critical thinking not even once.

I like this idea but "woo" is not a very good term for it since people evidently don't even know what it means and will click it for other reasons, something like "broscience" which is far less ambiguous and obvious would be much better.

You had a whoosh.

lol @ cucumber water

You're eating far more than 1200-1400, if you were you wouldn't have maintained 260 lbs for 2 months. Review your measuring and tracking methods.

I usually have some fruit and peanut butter right right before bed, satisfies my sweet tooth and helps me sleep.

You're eating at maintenance, eat less (or move more or both)

I'll pass thanks, eating dinner like a 'homeless person' sounds miserable, I prefer not to feel starving when I go to bed.

Set up your mfp profile input your stats and set it to lose 1 lb per week. Stop starving yourself during the day this is why you're bingeing in the evening, instead eat regular balanced meals at regular intervals made up of mostly healthy whole foods.

If you find it hard to hit 1200 calories then your tracking is probably off and you're eating more than you think because 1200 is barely anything.