new, looking for help

[wynterskye]

i appreciate the advice, and i know everyones body is different. i am just looking for a good guideline to get started really. and there are many misconceptions about some foods that are good but really arent, so i am at least looking to make sure i am on the right track. i know for me at my bodyfat if im active and eat lower calories i should lose at least the first 5-10% pretty easily anyways. but im basically out of food, literally got nothing left in the fridge.. well not quite nothing but im getting rid of everything then probably thursday i will have to go buy all my groceries, and it will be along these lines. nothing else will even be in the house!

after the harris benedict equation -500 i am at 2200 cals. i am fine with doing 2000, my first go at a meal plan has me at 1900. i have also read that going below 1800 calories a day though is bad because below that is too little and your body will go into fat saving mode, is there truth to that. i will try my diet at 2000 cals, (700 below maintenance) up my activity even outside the gym and adjust from there i suppose

 

[wynterskye]

Well I bought all my groceries today. And every food i previously bought was gotten rid of. Pretty much how i wrote my diet plan. Eggs, lots of chicken and mixed veggies, lots of white fish. Oats and granola. Going to up my activity level, try and get an extra run in every day. Hopefully working out with an experienced partner will do really well too. So thank you for all your help everyone. Today is day 1 to being a skinnier me!

Wynter

 

[oxymoron]

i have also read that going below 1800 calories a day though is bad because below that is too little and your body will go into fat saving mode, is there truth to that.

yep it's a medical fact. you can go low for a little while but if you keep it up your body will just adjust and store more. a method to rememdy this is to have one moderate calorie day to trick your body into thinking it's not starving. maybe pick a really active day in your schedule and take in just above maintenance. everyone's different so you'll have play around with this.

 

[TheSVPdeal]

yep it's a medical fact. you can go low for a little while but if you keep it up your body will just adjust and store more. a method to rememdy this is to have one moderate calorie day to trick your body into thinking it's not starving. maybe pick a really active day in your schedule and take in just above maintenance. everyone's different so you'll have play around with this.

Actually, a moderate day wouldn't work. You would need to over feed once per week. That will keep leptin levels up.

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[wynterskye]

thanks guys, definitely good to know! So obviously on an active day would be best to help burn off the extra calories, but can you specify what you mean by overeat. How I am understanding this, is would be just eat like a normal person would?? but still clean!! If my fat loss diet is about 2000 calories, is there an approximate goal i should be looking for, say 3000? Or I am just over thinking this, and I should just enjoy a nice day of fulfilling clean eating?

Like for example currently wednesday is a bigger workout day, where i hit my cardio plus it is also my back workout day, so I am hitting some bigger compound movements. Wednesday is currently going to be my cheat day, and by cheat I mean instead of poultry or white fish, I have a small serving of steak and asparagus for dinner: with my breakfast, snacks and lunch remaining the same. So could i just have a nicer portion of steak and asparagus, and add in a nice vegetable filled chicken sandwich on a 12 grain bread as a hefty lunch?