Sentences with phrase «calories over maintenance»

That would equal 1lb / week, or a total of 500 calories over maintenance calories each and every day for 150ish straight days.

I'll say this is probably 200 — 300 calories over their maintenance.

Simply put, gaining weight comes from eating an excess amount of calories over your maintenance.

Thus, if you ate 500 calories over your maintenance that day, then that hour of running was a waste of time.

That 1 lb likely wasn't all fat unless you ate 3500 calories over maintenance.

I'd note that this shouldn't take a huge number of calories over maintenance.

Not exact matches

The calorie reductions were calculated individually through the ratio of isotopes absorbed by the participants» molecules and tissues over 2 weeks, a technique that accurately pinpoints a weight - maintenance calorie level.

On the days when you're training, try increasing your caloric intake of up to 500 calories per day over the maintenance value.

Macronutrients are important, but it's useful to know that you'll always gain weight roughly in proportion to how many calories you eat over your maintenance needs — regardless of which macronutrient they come from.

You can tune the fats so that the daily calories are about 500 over maintenance.

He had participants consume 800 calories of protein over their maintenance needs and found, «consuming a hypercaloric high protein diet does not result in an increase in body fat».

However, it is important that over the weekends you increase your calories by 500 - 700 over the maintenance amount.

That means you would have to be eating 650 calories per day OVER your maintenance levels.

We may over - or under - consume calories at a given meal, but the daily total may pan out to be a maintenance intake.

When we say «weight maintenance» over «weight loss,» it is to emphasize the fact that these drugs help us to lose weight (along with a reduced - calorie diet and increased activity) and maintain the weight lost.

The diet basically works on a series of deficit and maintenance meal plans that focus on different protocols such as fat, carbs, calories and protein that you follow over the 12 week program.

Over a period of time, as you continue to lose weight, your maintenance level of calories will go down, and weight loss will slow down or come to a halt.

In regards to the calories surplus over maintenance.

For awhile, researchers thought that extremely low fat intakes were best for fat loss and weight loss maintenance because fat has over twice as many calories per gram than protein or carbohydrates, so it's technically easier to overeat.

To clarify: If you calculate your maintenance calories to be roughly 2000 calories / day, then in order to gain weight you'll need to end up with a caloric intake of over 2000 at the end of your day.

I would also recommend you count calories just to be sure you aren't eating over your maintenance cals.

Once you have figured out your maintenance number, the trick is to eat 200 - 300 calories OVER that amount of calories every day.

Average your calories together over the week and see if that number is below your maintenance levels.

That means you'll be eating slightly over maintenance calories on that day.

Putting this into perspective, a recent book aimed at women recommended 500 calories per day over maintenance, an intake guaranteed to result in excessive fat gain.

For that to happen you would have had to eat over 500 calories a day above your maintenance calories.