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Originally Posted by getmovin78
thanks LD, sorry about that, I copied and posted another post from another site (Lyle McDonald's) to get his take on this.
I had written a post there asking about force feeding. Basically, I have a particular calorie and protein goal to meet, but there are just some days I am not hungry, and would prefer to skip a meal, but this would change my macros big time. So lets say I am supposed to have 1600 calories and 140g protein, I will end up with 1200 calories and 100g protein.....and my first instinct tells me that its OK as long as I am creating a deficit.
But then I get nervous about going below my protein requirement. Sometimes too much meat and protein just grosses me out and I find I am forcing myself to eat it.........does it make sense? Basically I would prefer to skip it or just eat a piece of fruit on those days.
Back in the day before I knew so much about nutrition and training, I lost weight just by eating less. Lately its been getting so complicated with macros and all that other fancy stuff.
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What is your main goal? Are you trying to lose weight/fat or build muscle? Like LD said, if weight loss is goal than worry more about the calories. I totally agree on the macros complicating things. In the past I would just cut back on total intake. Once I learned about macros I found myself getting too caught up with hitting certain macros and eating foods that might not really satisfy (like your example with the meat vs fruit) which would then lead me to eat more oftentimes. I have found a happy medium where I am in the general macro ball park but keeping calories to a certain limit is the main focus.