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hi, this may sound like a silly question but i'm a newbie so here goes...
i have a heard that in order to lose approx. 1lb of fat in a week, you need to create a deficit of 3500 calories (on average). is this true? if so, instead of cutting calories by 500 a day for 7 days, would i still achieve a similar affect by say eating without a deficit for two days and then spreading the 3500 calorie deficit over the remaining five days?
regardless of the amount of fat loss and the deficit needed, i'm just trying to understand if you can achieve the same loss by netting your deficit over the week vs. sticking to a daily deficit for 7 days.
I eat at varying deficits 6 days a week and maintenance level one day per week, with my overall weekly deficit aimed at at least 3500 cals (which IN THEORY is 1#). Your body won't lose in a linear fashion, so you'll need to watch trends over weeks (or even months) to see if it's working.
I eat at varying deficits 6 days a week and maintenance level one day per week, with my overall weekly deficit aimed at at least 3500 cals (which IN THEORY is 1#). Your body won't lose in a linear fashion, so you'll need to watch trends over weeks (or even months) to see if it's working.
oh goodie. now...what exactly do you mean by "linear fashion"?
A weekly deficit works fne. Just know that your body is always in either a deficit or surplus. If you binge one day, but make it up with a huge surplus the next you could still be back to square one.
Are you exercising in a way that promotes fat loss over lean? You want your low days to what you want them to do.
Are you exercising in a way that promotes lean gains over fat? Do you even want lean mass gains (e.g., bigger muscles)? Assuming want to minimize muscle growth, like many women do, try to make sure that your peak days are never in a surplus, but kept as close to maint as possible.
A weekly deficit works fne. Just know that your body is always in either a deficit or surplus. If you binge one day, but make it up with a huge surplus the next you could still be back to square one.
Are you exercising in a way that promotes fat loss over lean? You want your low days to what you want them to do.
Are you exercising in a way that promotes lean gains over fat? Do you even want lean mass gains (e.g., bigger muscles)? Assuming want to minimize muscle growth, like many women do, try to make sure that your peak days are never in a surplus, but kept as close to maint as possible.
oh goodie. now...what exactly do you mean by "linear fashion"?
Check out Anne's log (realcdn) - she posts her weight-charts pretty regularly. Her loss over time is AMAZING and consistent. But on any given week, weight goes up down up down up down... You may end a week higher than last week, but if you look at it over a month, you've lost weight...
You won't just lose 1#/week on a 3500 cal deficit. You'll lose an AVERAGE of 1#/week if you're lucky... that's non-linear loss.
Weekly deficit versus daily?
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