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Originally Posted by Aoife
My maintenance tends to be around 1400. When I cut, I wind up between 1000 and 1200. For that, which was some time ago, I wasn't aggressively training, and my average was about 800. ..... That was 8 months of hard dieting and moderate activity, and I lost 80 pounds. I don't recommend it, but I also wasn't working, in school, or had much else to do.  I'm just saying… wasn't hungry. |
Aoife, very interesting. The past 2 weeks on OPT I'm eating about 1400 cal average and I'm maintaining. Perhaps even though I have a 750cal deficit average / day, perhaps since I'm moving slow energy-wise, and my weights are still low, from surgery and injury recovery, perhaps I need to drop cal down to 1275.
I did want to do the OPT program as written, and start out eating more to see if I could lose on 1400cal.
But I too have lost best on 500-1000 cal/day and no activity (at least in my younger years)... ????