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Originally Posted by Chris Correia
I again refer you to that topic I noted earlier; Leigh has some additional posts that speak to this issue, very convincingly IMO.
Work hard. Eat more. Lose weight.  |
What does "work hard" mean?
I lift three times a week. I work hard when I am in the gym. A workout usually burns 450 calories, plus the EPOC effect I get from the fat loss workout I do. I can't work any harder. I can only work more, and I'm not willing to do that.
I have a wife and two boys. I'm just not going to spend more time in the gym to drop weight faster. I'm going to cut calories, carb cycle and take a week to two week break from dieting every three to four months.
"Work hard" sounds like lofty rhetoric to many people with busy lives who still want to lean out and get muscular.
It's doing a disservice to those people to imply that they aren't working hard enough, and that they need to eat more and spend even more time at the gym. Someone who doesn't know better is going to read that and shrug and give up at their goals because they think they're unattainable.
Obviously there's a limit to how low one should cut calories but I see no problem with letting at least half of one's caloric deficit come from diet.
If someone stops losing fat there are many things they can try if spending still more time in the gym isn't an option. Most folks will do fine just returning to maintenance eating for a few weeks before dieting again.