basically , in my opinion I would try and do something like:

1) find out how many calories you burn per day

if you don't know you can yuse this calculator:

http://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/

2) then use some sort of app like 'myfitnesspal' to keep a log of everything you eat and drink

3) try to shoot for about 500 less calories than you burn per day..so if you burn 2000 calories a day, cut to 1500


you will lose a pound a week and it is very sustainable this way (500 x7 = 3500 calories..... and it just so happens 3500 calories is one pound)

LETS DO THIS fellas

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I got inspired by this article. Based on his recommendations, I set my calorie level for 1800/day to start with. The thing is, though, is that I get diet fatigue really fast doing day in and day out low calorie and it seemed like one mistake dicked up the whole week.

I have done alternate day fasting before and found it easy once I got going. ADF has found to be as safe and effective as daily calorie restriction and it easier for me to stick with. What worked best for me was to "fast" Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday ("down days") and eat Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday ("up days").

With ADF, down days are actually 500 calories, though you can go zero if you want. I am currently doing the 500 calories. So a week's worth of calories is 1800 x 7 or 12600. Subtract out the three down days 12600 - 1500 for 11100 or 2775 a day for up days. I want to have one day where I don't have to really worry about calories so I actually do 2500 a day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, which leaves 3600 for Saturday. That leaves a lot of wiggle room for having pizza or something. I don't like a true "cheat day" as that usually means a "binge day".

If you've looked into things like refeed days and diet breaks, there are some mental and physical benefits to breaking up the long low calorie periods. Eating this way builds in those diet breaks. Having those higher calorie days also help with the diet fatigue.

I try to target protein on my down days so will do eggs or non-fat Greek yogurt and a piece of fruit. On up days, I usually do fruit and low fat dairy in the morning (cottage cheese or Greek yogurt) and for dinner, I tend towards low fat carbs and lean protein (I do a lot of stir fries or potatoes). The biggest challenge is fitting in with my wife's schedule as she does't need to diet.

I get it and thank you - But the immense calorie reduction is for short-term loss - & maybe you're correct - I'm certainly not an expert in this area. I'm open to these sort of posts. this WILL work for me in the short-term though and I will start losing soon, by default. May massage my method(s) over the next month.

this is all good stuff guys - we can do this together. I'm cool w/ PM's, DM's and BMs

Let's just stick together.

Want to report in and tell me? Fine.

Want me to spank you after you've inhaled a few cupcakes? that's fine too!

Accountability - maybe that's what we need to use the thread for.

I want in on this. I am here with you all , im cutting 500+ calories a day...losing a pound or maybe 1.5 pound per week. I want to be there for you all for this and i want you to be there for me. Lets do this together.

You all seem nice.

Interesting.

Your calories are too low. You are going to get too hungry and weak and end up cheating and failing. Don't cut so drastically. This is a long term thing.
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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Pawnmower again.

The majority of my wife's family are Vegan these days.

One of my brother in law's is athletic as **** now, after being a chub. He's cut, lean and makes playing pick up sports at the park unfair because he's clearly a cut above everyone else athletically, so his team always wins, even when we try to saddle him with the least athletic players. He attributes a lot of it to is switch to veganism.

My other bro in law was a fat ****. I mean like....obese. As in it was nearly impossible to find clothes that fit him. He's lost an insane amount of weight after going hardcore vegan.

He's down to 245lbs, and we have no idea how much he actually lost because he was too heavy for any of our scales to read properly. At only 5-7" in height.

My mother in law also lost a ton of weight going Vegan. My sister in law and her husband are also vegan.

I've been counting calories lately as well and my wife picked up a book called "Eat this, Not that", which i think is an awesome book.

Im not overweight by any means, but im aiming to get into that 10-12% body fat range and just clean up my eating habits in general, before i actually do get fat.

Also, what i've found from being around a bunch of Vegans is that Vegan food is good as long as you stick to natural ingredients.

When they start getting into the fake meats and fake cheeses, their egg substitutes....bleh. ****ing gross. Barf bag shit.

Interesting

You wanna lose weight, shove a squirrel up your ass.

I just came home for lunch and threw together a fresh spinach salad and threw two chicken strips in a skillet. I could do this every day unless I'm looking for miniblinds.