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Originally Posted by jimyd77
My experience and understanding is to start with about 500 calories below maintenance. This allows for a weekly caloric deficit of 3,500 calories...which is equal to one pound of fat lost per week...which is recommended/healthy.
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But you'll also be adding a much harder work load than just maintenance, so you will have a deficit of more than 3500 cal/week. If you are at a 500/day cal deficit from maintenance and are doing one of the fat loss work outs, plus getting in more non-exercise activity, you could lose in excess of 2 lbs/week. The best way to know is to weigh yourself at the same time of day, the same day of the week and track it. After a while you will be able to make some adjustments based on the feedback you get.
I assume you are logging your food intake.