If you have been on the diet train for a while,as far as “off season” and cutting and you have continued to do this for many seasons you should be fine, you are defintley goin to be feeling flat and may be even a little sluggish. But your body will fight to maintain homeostasis, it will start eating any extra body fat you are storing.
Unfortunately the midsection fat will b the last to go. Just make sure u keep that protien intake high and carbs and calories low. I’m goin through the same thing right now! Getting ready for a show. And my calories and carbs dropped drastically just like yours did. I shedded all my water within the first week and cut down to 4% and now weigh a solid 180. don’t let that water weight discourage you. Stay strong!
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
I think you want to be more accurate with your daily intake.
Obviously cutting down from 4500-5000 calies a day it doesn’t seem like a problem now. But later on if you plan to hit X cals a day you need to hit that caloric intake within a few macros every day, a 200 calorie window is too big unless that is your plan with low/highcarb/low/highcal days.
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I disagree. Throughout my entire cut with Shelby my daily caloric intake has had a window of about 300 calories, and I’m 8 weeks out now. For someone just starting to cut I think it’s fine. My 2cents. [/quote]
I don’t know your strategy and how you guys cut together. But in my method of making the smallest incremental changes of 50 cals in some circumstances I feel like a 200-300 calorie window would completely throw that off.
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Do you have any kind of background in math and/or statistics? (I’m asking because I intend to make a point with it if you do…if not, I’ll have to go outside of my comfort zone to present an argument =)…)
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haha nah I don’t
There’s no reason you should be eating 2g of protein/lb of body weight on a cut. Complete overkill.
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
I think you want to be more accurate with your daily intake.
Obviously cutting down from 4500-5000 calies a day it doesn’t seem like a problem now. But later on if you plan to hit X cals a day you need to hit that caloric intake within a few macros every day, a 200 calorie window is too big unless that is your plan with low/highcarb/low/highcal days.
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I disagree. Throughout my entire cut with Shelby my daily caloric intake has had a window of about 300 calories, and I’m 8 weeks out now. For someone just starting to cut I think it’s fine. My 2cents. [/quote]
I don’t know your strategy and how you guys cut together. But in my method of making the smallest incremental changes of 50 cals in some circumstances I feel like a 200-300 calorie window would completely throw that off.
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Do you have any kind of background in math and/or statistics? (I’m asking because I intend to make a point with it if you do…if not, I’ll have to go outside of my comfort zone to present an argument =)…)
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haha nah I don’t[/quote]
K. I’ll be back in a few days w/ my best non-mathy counter point…lol.
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
I think you want to be more accurate with your daily intake.
Obviously cutting down from 4500-5000 calies a day it doesn’t seem like a problem now. But later on if you plan to hit X cals a day you need to hit that caloric intake within a few macros every day, a 200 calorie window is too big unless that is your plan with low/highcarb/low/highcal days.
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I disagree. Throughout my entire cut with Shelby my daily caloric intake has had a window of about 300 calories, and I’m 8 weeks out now. For someone just starting to cut I think it’s fine. My 2cents. [/quote]
I don’t know your strategy and how you guys cut together. But in my method of making the smallest incremental changes of 50 cals in some circumstances I feel like a 200-300 calorie window would completely throw that off.
[/quote]
Do you have any kind of background in math and/or statistics? (I’m asking because I intend to make a point with it if you do…if not, I’ll have to go outside of my comfort zone to present an argument =)…)
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haha nah I don’t[/quote]
K. I’ll be back in a few days w/ my best non-mathy counter point…lol. [/quote]
ha, awesome I’m excited.
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
[quote]jskrabac wrote:
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
I think you want to be more accurate with your daily intake.
Obviously cutting down from 4500-5000 calies a day it doesn’t seem like a problem now. But later on if you plan to hit X cals a day you need to hit that caloric intake within a few macros every day, a 200 calorie window is too big unless that is your plan with low/highcarb/low/highcal days.
[/quote]
I disagree. Throughout my entire cut with Shelby my daily caloric intake has had a window of about 300 calories, and I’m 8 weeks out now. For someone just starting to cut I think it’s fine. My 2cents. [/quote]
I don’t know your strategy and how you guys cut together. But in my method of making the smallest incremental changes of 50 cals in some circumstances I feel like a 200-300 calorie window would completely throw that off.
[/quote]
Do you have any kind of background in math and/or statistics? (I’m asking because I intend to make a point with it if you do…if not, I’ll have to go outside of my comfort zone to present an argument =)…)
[/quote]
haha nah I don’t[/quote]
K. I’ll be back in a few days w/ my best non-mathy counter point…lol. [/quote]
ha, awesome I’m excited.
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So basically it comes down to expenditure = cals out - cals in. You want that to on average be bigger than zero to cut fat. Cals out is the most unpredictable variable in that equation. Did you sleep fewer hours than usual? Walk around alot during the day? Have sex? Add some drop sets to your leg workout? That variation FAR exceeds the variation we’re talking about w/ our cals in if we stick to a 200-300 cal window. You gain nothing by being strictly accurate with one, when the other one fluctuates like crazy anyway. When you look at the process as averaged over a week or weeks, those small variations “wash out” relative to the variations in caloric expenditure…which we can’t really control and have no means of measuring!
It’s like if someone wanted you to pay them rounded to the nearest $100 based off of what you THINK an item is worth. You wouldn’t waste your time figuring this out down to the dollars and cents.