Zodger
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Hello,
I am a bit confused about some of the information I came across regarding the rate at which I should be losing weight, I'd be really grateful for some insight.
Here's some info about my current state:
I'm 31 male
79 kg
174 cm
25% body fat
Currently, I'm eating as much protein as I can while trying to remain in a caloric deficit.
I'm eating a lot of chicken, pork, and fish at least once a week. Most of the dishes are with vegetables that are low carb (no rice or potato)
Fruits at least once a day, and 8g of sugar with my coffee each day(I really dislike other sweeteners)
As far as macros go my targets are 156g of protein, 54g of fat and the rest is carbs, around 50g. I got the calculations for these from a book.
That being said, I rarely eat that much protein, I'm around 120g/day and I overshoot the fat and carbs by the remaining amount of calories missing from protein.
However, I'm really paying attention to the total calories in, and rarely eat more than I should, and even if I do it's by a small margin. I weigh everything I eat.
I'm exercising 3-4 times a week, bodyweight + dumbbell exercises in a push/pull/legs split.
I'm trying to increase volume each time and go to failure in the last set.
And recently I incorporated some cardio as well.
I have an hourglass shape which would be super nice if I were female. most of my excess weight is in love handles.
According to my research losing, 1% of body weight/week should be reasonable, but I can't reach that marker.
First I tried lowering my calorie intake which worked fine for a while but now I reached around 1100 calories/day with barely any weight loss.
It wouldn't be a problem to further decrease my calorie intake but I'm afraid that I might mess up my metabolism (more than it already is)
To increase the calories I burn daily I started doing more low-intensity cardio, like cycling for 45-60 minutes at 60%-70% HRMAX.
So far this seemingly did the trick, as I started losing weight again.
I don't know how to reach that loss of 1%/week.
I thought the next step would be turning to pharmacology, with something reasonable like l-carnitine, and rauwolscine. I don't know if I should reserve this step for later, when I reach a lower-bodyfat percentage, or should try to boost the weight loss process now since it isn't going as fast.
Any thoughts?
I am a bit confused about some of the information I came across regarding the rate at which I should be losing weight, I'd be really grateful for some insight.
Here's some info about my current state:
I'm 31 male
79 kg
174 cm
25% body fat
Currently, I'm eating as much protein as I can while trying to remain in a caloric deficit.
I'm eating a lot of chicken, pork, and fish at least once a week. Most of the dishes are with vegetables that are low carb (no rice or potato)
Fruits at least once a day, and 8g of sugar with my coffee each day(I really dislike other sweeteners)
As far as macros go my targets are 156g of protein, 54g of fat and the rest is carbs, around 50g. I got the calculations for these from a book.
That being said, I rarely eat that much protein, I'm around 120g/day and I overshoot the fat and carbs by the remaining amount of calories missing from protein.
However, I'm really paying attention to the total calories in, and rarely eat more than I should, and even if I do it's by a small margin. I weigh everything I eat.
I'm exercising 3-4 times a week, bodyweight + dumbbell exercises in a push/pull/legs split.
I'm trying to increase volume each time and go to failure in the last set.
And recently I incorporated some cardio as well.
I have an hourglass shape which would be super nice if I were female. most of my excess weight is in love handles.
According to my research losing, 1% of body weight/week should be reasonable, but I can't reach that marker.
First I tried lowering my calorie intake which worked fine for a while but now I reached around 1100 calories/day with barely any weight loss.
It wouldn't be a problem to further decrease my calorie intake but I'm afraid that I might mess up my metabolism (more than it already is)
To increase the calories I burn daily I started doing more low-intensity cardio, like cycling for 45-60 minutes at 60%-70% HRMAX.
So far this seemingly did the trick, as I started losing weight again.
I don't know how to reach that loss of 1%/week.
I thought the next step would be turning to pharmacology, with something reasonable like l-carnitine, and rauwolscine. I don't know if I should reserve this step for later, when I reach a lower-bodyfat percentage, or should try to boost the weight loss process now since it isn't going as fast.
Any thoughts?