Okay, let's call it 25% for now - as I mentioned in your other thread, if we're wrong you'll just get leaner a bit sooner.
You've read homework 1, right? So assuming 170 lbs lean mass, try getting protein > 170g daily (you can go as high as 340g if you find that helps with appetite suppression while dieting), fats > 90g and run a caloric deficit you can handle. Assuming your maintenance calories are about 2800, you could try dropping down to 2000-2200 and you should find yourself dropping over a pound of fat a week. Maybe limit/target carbs to the meal before and or after you train, more on lifting days and less on rest or cardio-only days.
You prefer to eat in the daytime, or at night? Either is fine, just pick something that works with your lifestyle. I prefer to postpone my eating until later in the day, and eat only three large meals - with no snacks - to keep my appetite controlled. You may be the same, or you may feel better with fewer or more meals, with more carb in the AM, or none. None of that matters at all, outside of comfort, so find a way to feel comfortable on the lower calories you must run. You could go high and low with your calories if you wanted, too - for example, you could do "over a hundred" and "under a hundred" grams of carb for training and non-training days, you could go keto on all but training days, you could go keto all week and do one short carbup a week and one massive cheat meal a week... a million ways to do this and they all work - if you run a deficit and if you can stick to it.
Wanna try to set yourself up with a trial day - maybe two days - perhaps a keto day (carbs under 50g) at 1600 calories, and a non-keto day at 2400 calories? How would you like to try this?




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