[quote]Professor X wrote:
dhuge67 wrote:
Everyone here seems to just scream, “eat more!” at all of the posters who comment about wanting to
a) lose fat
b) gain weight/muscle
Now, I don’t know about YOU but it seems to me that all of this eating will just make people FAT. Sure, you can lift and run and you can get away with a couple hundred more calories, but all this nonsense about 500-1,000 calories over maintenance?
According to CW, you should be eating your LBMx16 to gain, x14 to maintain, x12 to lose.
If you’re 160 lbs (I’m a lean 165), that would be approx, 1900 to lose, 2200 to maintian, 2500 to gain.
Eating 2,500 calories is pretty damn simple.
If people are having trouble doing that to gain weight, especially in the face of intense exercise, then they have an eating disorder.
If I wanted to, I could eat 4,000 calories a day without thinking about it. Hell, I probably wouldn’t even be full…but I would be fat.
Where have you seen someone tell a poster who claims they want to lose weight that they should just “eat more”? I realize some of you consider CW to be the savior reborn, but that equation doesn’t work for everyone because of genetic differences in metabolism. When I weighed 160lbs when I was first getting started, it took a lot more calories than that for me to make signficant progress. If you are gaining weight on only 2,500cals a day, you have it easy…or maybe your metabolism is simply extremely average…one of the two. [/quote]
LOL Im gonna actually totally agree with you. Im about 162, around the size of the original poster talking about CW’s recomendations…I eat 2600 calories a day just to maintain that. Any less and I start losing weight.
Metabolism and activity level play such a HUGE HUGE part in it that I think its plain IMPOSSIBLE to have a general calorie amount that applies to all people of individual bodyweights on how to gain/maintain/lose weight.
I feel like its something you need to experiement for YOURSELF. Keep a food log and find out your own calorie needs rather than having people guess for you.