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It's true that if you maintain your net deficit you will lose weight. However, more junk food and less healthy food may mean: - you lose more muscle and retain more fat than the same calories with a higher proportion of protein and lower proportion of carb / fat. - you find it harder to eat 3 satisfying meals a day if one…
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Getting your total daily calories within + or - 10% of your daily target matter much more than micro decisions about one snack on one day.
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Your goals are sensible - you're not trying to be an olympic athlete or bodybuilder... Presuming you will maintain nutrition / calorie control through myfitnesspal (factoring in calories burned from exercise too) I suggest the following things: - You ensure you are eating at least the recommended protein if not more - You…
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I agree with the comments that most important is to lose weight slowly. This way you can realistically try to retaining more of your existing muscle through strength training and protein. How? Losing weight slowly is simply about keeping the net calorie deficit (calorie intake minus daily requirement without activity minus…
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One more thing: if you eat "bad stuff" it's often less likely to make you feel full e.g. a pack of doritos hardly fills you up at all. The calorie equivalent of steamed rice fills you up a lot more. Definitely agree that the amount of calories is the first thing to worry about but I have found that keeping the amount down…
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If you are really interested in pure fat loss as opposed to weight loss there are somethings you can do that make you lose more fat and lose less muscle. A caloric deficit will make the body lose both fat and muscle. Sad but true about half the weight lost is likely to be muscle. How do you minimize muscle loss? By doing…
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I think there is significant calorie burn in Bikram (but ignore the immediate body weight effects because the fluid loss and replenishment can easily subtract or add a couple of pounds). I would say taking a conservative end HRM estimate for this would be fine (to compensate for the heat effect on HR which alone doesn't…
