lately i workout really hard for about 45 minutes every other day. no job and right now school is pending so really all i do is workout every other day and walk up and down stairs probably a little over 10 times a day since the kitchen is downstairs and I’m on the second floor. sometimes like today i go somewhere like the mall and walk around but i rarely do that.
so pretty much just workout and run up and down the stairs to eat and drink. fit watch calculator asks if I’m sedentary or lightly active and there like a 400 calorie maintenance difference. i don’t know my body fat or anything special like that but I’m about 240.
These calculators may be a good place to start, to get a rough estimate, but it’s still inexact. Maintenance is best determined by experience.
Pick a maintenance number that seems right using the calculator, and try it out for a few weeks. If you’re gaining/losing too fast/slow, adjust cals by 500 or so in whichever direction will remedy the problem and reassess in a few weeks. Keep in mind that what is maintenance will change as your body does.
These calculators may be a good place to start, to get a rough estimate, but it’s still inexact. Maintenance is best determined by experience.
Pick a maintenance number that seems right using the calculator, and try it out for a few weeks. If you’re gaining/losing too fast/slow, adjust cals by 500 or so in whichever direction will remedy the problem and reassess in a few weeks. Keep in mind that what is maintenance will change as your body does.[/quote]
thanks man. I’ve lost 15 pounds in 20 days. (maybe water weight?) thats from using the sedentary numbers.
These calculators may be a good place to start, to get a rough estimate, but it’s still inexact. Maintenance is best determined by experience.
Pick a maintenance number that seems right using the calculator, and try it out for a few weeks. If you’re gaining/losing too fast/slow, adjust cals by 500 or so in whichever direction will remedy the problem and reassess in a few weeks. Keep in mind that what is maintenance will change as your body does.[/quote]
thanks man. I’ve lost 15 pounds in 20 days. (maybe water weight?) thats from using the sedentary numbers.
These calculators may be a good place to start, to get a rough estimate, but it’s still inexact. Maintenance is best determined by experience.
Pick a maintenance number that seems right using the calculator, and try it out for a few weeks. If you’re gaining/losing too fast/slow, adjust cals by 500 or so in whichever direction will remedy the problem and reassess in a few weeks. Keep in mind that what is maintenance will change as your body does.[/quote]
thanks man. I’ve lost 15 pounds in 20 days. (maybe water weight?) thats from using the sedentary numbers. [/quote]
You will usually lose a lot of weight due to water in the first few weeks, so that’s nothing to be alarmed about. 15lbs in 20 days is quite a lot, though. But to be fair, I don’t know your height or approx BF so it’s hard to make a judgment of what a lot of weight loss is.
If you’re cutting, gauging strength is your friend. You shouldn’t be losing strength unless you’re already at a very low BF%. You should still be able to make progress in strength until you are moderately lean.
If you are losing strength and you aren’t really lean, slow the cut down.