Something you guys may want to consider when creating your diet.
Calorie Calculators are bullshit.
You see a lot of ways to estimate caloric needs for weight gain or weight loss on the web, and they're not as useful as you'd think. They're a decent start, but really should just be used to create your rough draft.
The scale, mirror, bodyfat calipers and notepad should be your actual tools to figure out what is working and what is not.
You see, the whole 3500 calories equals a pound thing isnt true for everyone. Theres water storage, hormonal variations, glycogen loading, blah blah blah. Its a rough guideline. What you really need to do if you're serious about changing your physique via diet is actually write down what you eat, ACCURATELY, and keep an eye on how your weight moves and what the bodyfat calipers say. I don't use calipers and calculate bodyfat percentage, rather I just note if the measurement is getting bigger or smaller. Thats how you use it.
Different people will respond in different ways to different diets, I think that goes without saying but a lot of people look at the whole thing and think "Well if I just calculate my BMR and eat 200 calories under that I'll lose weight" and that might not be true for everyone. It might be true for him on one diet and not on another.
Based on what I'm eating I can grow on slowly on 4250 cals or actually lose weight on 4750 all based on food choices. Its the weirdest thing but it goes to show that the laws of thermodynamics don't really apply equally to everyone.
I have an obese female client who is 190 and won't lose any weight at all until her calories get down to the 900-1000 level. Using a basal metabolic rate calculator she should need quite a bit more than that just to maintain her weight, but thats just not the case. Her metabolism and thyroid shit is just that fucked up from years of abusing her body like its a fucking garbage dumpster. I've got another girl who's a powerlifter and at 160lbs she's pounding 4000 cals a day and has veins in her abs. I literally have to take her out to krispy kreme twice a week and pound chocolate milk and donuts just to keep her weight up or she starts missing lifts.
Anyway, long story short, keep track of your diet, the scale, the mirror and the calipers to make adjustments to your plan. If you're not making progress the way you want to, then SCREW WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW about diet, and start using self generated EVIDENCE to get where you want to go. The proof is in the pudding but half of you don't know what goes in the pudding and don't bother to taste it once its made.
Calorie Calculators are bullshit.
You see a lot of ways to estimate caloric needs for weight gain or weight loss on the web, and they're not as useful as you'd think. They're a decent start, but really should just be used to create your rough draft.
The scale, mirror, bodyfat calipers and notepad should be your actual tools to figure out what is working and what is not.
You see, the whole 3500 calories equals a pound thing isnt true for everyone. Theres water storage, hormonal variations, glycogen loading, blah blah blah. Its a rough guideline. What you really need to do if you're serious about changing your physique via diet is actually write down what you eat, ACCURATELY, and keep an eye on how your weight moves and what the bodyfat calipers say. I don't use calipers and calculate bodyfat percentage, rather I just note if the measurement is getting bigger or smaller. Thats how you use it.
Different people will respond in different ways to different diets, I think that goes without saying but a lot of people look at the whole thing and think "Well if I just calculate my BMR and eat 200 calories under that I'll lose weight" and that might not be true for everyone. It might be true for him on one diet and not on another.
Based on what I'm eating I can grow on slowly on 4250 cals or actually lose weight on 4750 all based on food choices. Its the weirdest thing but it goes to show that the laws of thermodynamics don't really apply equally to everyone.
I have an obese female client who is 190 and won't lose any weight at all until her calories get down to the 900-1000 level. Using a basal metabolic rate calculator she should need quite a bit more than that just to maintain her weight, but thats just not the case. Her metabolism and thyroid shit is just that fucked up from years of abusing her body like its a fucking garbage dumpster. I've got another girl who's a powerlifter and at 160lbs she's pounding 4000 cals a day and has veins in her abs. I literally have to take her out to krispy kreme twice a week and pound chocolate milk and donuts just to keep her weight up or she starts missing lifts.
Anyway, long story short, keep track of your diet, the scale, the mirror and the calipers to make adjustments to your plan. If you're not making progress the way you want to, then SCREW WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW about diet, and start using self generated EVIDENCE to get where you want to go. The proof is in the pudding but half of you don't know what goes in the pudding and don't bother to taste it once its made.
