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500 calories a day sounds miserable. Did you have similar success (or similar suffering) on an intermediate caloric number without cycling on/off?
by NegativeK 3y ago
500 calories a day sounds miserable.
Did you have similar success (or similar suffering) on an intermediate caloric number without cycling on/off?
- badpun 3y agoI think they meant eating 500 calories below their normal need. Eating 500 calories per day will loose you 4 pounds a week, not one (as they mentioned).
- simmerup 3y agoYes this exactly. Apologies for not being clear.
- simmerup 3y agoAs the other commenter said this was less than my necessary calories. So generally I needed 2800~ calories, and when cutting i’d eat 2200~ calories. Sometimes less when I wanted to step it up to 1.5~ or so lbs a week., but a lb a week was what I found maintainable without facing a binge eating session that I couldn’t stop myself from committing