I stuck to a plan of 1.2 x
maintenance calories on training days and 0.8 x
maintenance calories on rest days.
That means you'll be eating slightly over
maintenance calories on that day.
If I do as you suggest and eat
maintenance calories on lifting days, I'd have to eat around 1000 - 1100 on cardio days.
Eat
maintenance calories on the high days and you'll be good to go.
Not exact matches
Those
on the 5:2 diet ate normally for five days and for their two fasting days consumed 600
calories, using LighterLife Fast Foodpacks, whilst those
on the daily diet were advised to eat 600
calories less per day than their estimated requirements for weight
maintenance (in the study women ate approx. 1400
calories, men ate approx. 1900
calories / day).
Nevertheless, if you want to put
on more muscle, you have to eat more
calories than the amount needed for
maintenance.
You will need to calculate your daily caloric
maintenance number and then add 400
calories to that if you want to put
on more muscle.
On the days when you're training, try increasing your caloric intake of up to 500
calories per day over the
maintenance value.
They had each participant lose about 10 to 15 percent of their body weight, then put them
on three different
maintenance diets — low - fat (with about 60 percent of daily
calories coming from carbs); low - glycemic - index (with about 40 percent of daily intake from carbs that cause only moderate spikes in blood sugar, such as legumes and vegetables); and a very low - carb approach, with just 10 percent of daily
calories from carbs.
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On the higher
calorie day, take your
calories to
maintenance or even 10, 15, 20 % above
maintenance and add the extra
calories in the form of carbs (carb cycling).
To ensure you eat the perfect amount of
calories for your body, choose a weight
maintenance program in Lifesum's app, available for free
on the App Store & Google play.
If you eat at a
calorie deficit for a few days, then at
maintenance for a few days, then you pig out for two days
on the weekend, you will not be in a weekly
calorie deficit and you will either maintain or gain weight, depending
on how much food you have eaten.
You'll hear many different recommendations across the board
on this, but a safe bet when it comes to effective clean bulking is to consume around 200 - 300
calories above your
maintenance level.
During the
maintenance period, when
calories are aplenty, the body relaxes; stress hormones drop and with it the water it's been holding
on to.
Don't worry about being labeled high
maintenance, always order your dressings and sauces
on the side — that way you control how many extra
calories to add to your dish.
Once you have your
maintenance, reduce your
calories by 200 - 400cals depending
on how fast you want to lose.
Just a few hundred
calories above your
maintenance needs, combined with strength training, can allow your body to put
on more muscle mass than eating to
maintenance alone.
I don't have a study
on losing weight while eating LCHF at
maintenance calories.
If you're working toward losing weight or you're trying to bulk up, your
maintenance calories could change
on a weekly basis.
That's because everybody has different
calorie maintenance requirements that depend
on their size and activity levels.
With regards to muscle mass
maintenance and dieting, there is little to discuss: based
on the direct research available as well as the general difficulty in stimulating protein synthesis when
calories are reduced, a slow / spread pattern of protein intake is clearly optimal.
Understanding and tracking your
maintenance calories requires a calculation here and there, but once you've got the math out of the way, you can focus
on what your body needs to meet your weight loss goals.
If you are looking to focus more
on weight
maintenance at this time now that you've reached a healthier weight, I'd recommend increasing your
calorie intake by adding back some of those healthy higher
calorie foods like nuts / nut butters, seeds, avocados, dried fruit.
One study actually shows that overweight adults who consumed a quarter of their total
calories in the form of fructose - sweetened beverages while
on a weight -
maintenance diet had reduced insulin sensitivity, worsened cardiovascular health markers, and increased belly fat.
The baseline diet of 55 % carbohydrates, 30 % protein and 15 % fat is without a doubt the healthiest, most balanced way to eat, and most people will lose weight
on this diet, as long as
calories are below
maintenance.
If you really focus
on your strength training and keep
calories at
maintenance or slightly above you can still change your body composition for the better even if you gain some weight.
In one study, overweight and obese adults who consumed 25 % of
calories as fructose - sweetened beverages
on a weight -
maintenance diet experienced reduced insulin sensitivity, increased belly fat and worsening of heart health markers (33).
If your energy expenditure changes significantly
on a day - to - day basis, generally by more than about one thousand
calories per day, finding your
maintenance calorie intake can be a littler trickier.
I would eat slightly under
maintenance 300 - 500
calories and focus
on strength training.
As for
maintenance, that will really depend
on where the
calories are when you hit your goal.
Do you have a
calorie calculator post
on here so that I can find my approximate
maintenance level?
Set your
calories at
maintenance and focus
on changing your body composition.
So for anyone who is hesitant
on listening to Sara's advice
on reverse dieting so that you can eat your
maintenance calories every day, please listen to me when I say it was the BEST CHOICE along with starting to lift weights instead of relying
on cardio to lose weight.
On the other 5 - 6 days of the week, your main goal is to simply eat normal (
maintenance calories).
On the other hand, eating 500
calories less than your
maintenance without any additional activity is way easier.
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For anyone who's following a strict «
calories in vs.
calories out» approach to weight
maintenance, switching from whole milk to skim can be an easy way to skimp
on calories while still gaining many of milk's benefits.
A bodybuilder who has caloric
maintenance levels of around 3,000
calories would then eat 3,150 to 3,300
calories every day
on the weekend.
To explain the deficit and
maintenance diet plan it goes like this, it is a direct reference to your
calorie intake
on any day of the diet plan.
a. control your
calorie intake
on a
maintenance and deficit style diet plan; b. make sure you have at least 12 hours of fasting (overnight) and; c. eat food that is Beta A friendly (most foods are) and avoid food that is not such as soy based products and refined sugar.
So if you're
on a deficit day you eat less
calories than your resting metabolic rate requires (the
calories your body needs to function) and
on a
maintenance day you eat the actual amount of
calories your body needs.
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.
Macronutrient adherence can be a bit less strict during this time — staying within your target
maintenance calories is crucial, and it's important to more or less hit your protein needs, but the remaining
calories can be split amongst carbs and fat as you see fit, and if you're a little low
on protein here or there it's not as important as during the «
on» portion of your prep.
Find out how to calculate your
maintenance calories to keep your health and fitness goals
on track.
The truth is when
calories are consumed past your
maintenance, virtually ALL of your dietary fat gets stored
on the body.
If my
maintenance calories for training days is 3000 cals, I would eat 3500 cals
on training days.
The total amount of
calories you eat a day would vary depending
on your goals whether you want to lose or gain weight or
maintenance.
Some women like yourself are doing well
on JUDDD which is a modified every other day fast eating 25 % of your
maintenance calories ie 500 cals every second day (your down day).
Coming from someone who has also lost 70 lb I imagine that you've been
on a low
calorie diet for a long time (say 3 year) and we may need bite the bullet and eat at
maintenance calorie for a while (maybe 2 weeks?).