Is it true that if you don't reach your recommended calories per day and you;'re in a big deficit that you will put your body into shock and hold onto fat?
i've been cutting about 4 weeks now and the fat is slowly coming off, starting to look better and better as the days go on.
I basically reduced my carbs by cutting my portions of pasta and rice from like 100g servings to like 50g (i did it slowly week by week 100, 90, 80, 60, 50)
My TDEE is 2600 calories but using myfitness pal app yesterday i found i'm only eating about 2000 calories a day.
I'm managing to meet my protein macros and i'm close to my fats but my carbs are really low. I don't feel like i need more carbs as i manage 6 heavy weight sessions a week with 4 or 5 intense cardio sessions a week. And i dont feel too drained
But my flatmate who is a training dietitian said that if I don't reach my TDEE of calories then I will send my body into shock and hold onto the fat that i'm trying to use?
Any ideas? Side Note: i'm aiming for below 10% bodyfat and u;m somewhere in the 15,16% body fat range at the moment
I know that if you don't get enough fat in your diet, leptin levels are expressed less causing ghrelin to override the system and reduce your metabolism so I would guess there is a similar mechanism for glucose
Aaron Cooper
>2000kcal a day >my body is in shock mode
lol
Try eating 500kcal for like a month and you might get into starvation mode.
Luis Moore
This chart is retarded. The first guy is nowhere near 5%. The second and third guys have similar amounts of bodyfat, just different amounts of muscle mass.
Sebastian Allen
interesting. Could you elaborate a bit please? i'm not saying i think i'm in shock mode. I feel fine, just asking if my body could be holding on to fat because it doesnt understand haha yeah i don't agree with these charts. Though body fat percentage varies hugely. There's a video where one guy looks like 3% and he's 7% body fat and another guys like 12/13% and he comes out at 5.6% its strange
Aaron Hill
>if I don't reach my TDEE of calories then I will send my body into shock and hold onto the fat that i'm trying to use?
Also what the fuck do they teach at the university? That is the most retarded thing I have ever read.
How the fuck do you think you are going to burn fat if you don't go under your TDEE?
Please tell me.
Jose Ross
This is exactly what i'm saying.
like surely the lower calories the better right?
Oliver Garcia
>Could you elaborate a bit please?
do you have a basic understanding of physiology?
Eli Davis
not really no.
i know leptin has something to do with fat but no idea what ghrelin is
Anthony Hughes
Starvation mode is blown out of proportion. -500 cals will make you lose weight.
If you legit STARVE yourself for a looong time, then yes your body will SLOW DOWN on burning fat.
It is really simple but people do not wanna learn either to act smart or to keep being fat.
Ryan Sanchez
I've put my body in starvation mode and in my view the body uses less calories to operate not because of some weird mechanism, but because you get tired, do less and sleep more.
Michael Rivera
TL;DR they work in opposition to each other based off concentration amounts, when you don't get enough fat leptin is in a deactivated state which lets the concentration of ghrelin override it and lower metabolism
David Clark
I see, thanks. So being in a like 600 calorie deficit is fine?
I do feel alot more tired but not so much that i can't work hard in the gym, just struggle getting up at 5am on 7 and a half hours sleep.
So not enough fat is bad? I know you need decent fats because of insulin but will medium fats be okay?
Julian Barnes
I seriously doubt that your TDEE is 2600 calories Also both you and your flatmate are dumb You're never gonna make it at this rate breh
Christopher Powell
you're right. I re calculated and it came out at 3413
Who made that fucking picture? They sure know a lot about bodyfat percentages
Luis Campbell
no you're fine.
i hit 15%-10% in 8 weeks and the first couple weeks i took out 300 cals each week until i was in a 500 calorie deficit.
i work on a sales floor so im moving a lot and i lift 4 days a week for an hour and cut out one set on all my lifts
in another week im finishing my cut so im gonna go up 250 cals to account for metabolic slowdown then another week at maintenance then start bulking again, most ppl just do maintenance for a couple weeks but lyle mcdonnny recommends this alternate way
Oliver Cruz
>2600 TDEE >15% bf >factoring exercise into the calculator Shiggy
Adrian Clark
No
Tyler King
>factoring exercise into the calculator this is something I want to know
If I want to gain muscle, doing SL, do I just calculate my TDEE with "no exercise" and add the 500?
Grayson Foster
WHAT THE FUCK I WAS TRYING TO BULK
Thomas White
If you're counting calories and are truly in a deficit, it could be water retention. I ate at a 1000kcal deficit for months, and at one point my weight loss stalled for 4 weeks straight. At the end of that 4 weeks, I lost 8lbs in 5 days.
Since then my weight loss has continued for a few weeks, and the trend line is perfectly back on track for 2lbs/week lost.
Asher Bailey
BMI is outdated anonette. It doesn't take muscle/fat ratio into account.
William Ramirez
>it could be water retention. This. aka the whoosh effect your body only enters starvation mode when you have very low bodyfat and eating under 1000kcal/day most people will never experience it
Blake Davis
Did you not even read the sticky? Your flatmate is retarded.
