Seeing results

[MAC33]

With a strict diet and cardio, weighttraining and all that other stuff associated with fat loss while preserving muscle and whatnot... about how long should it take to start seeing results if I just started seriously cutting about 3 days ago? I have to loose like an inch of fat (with my stomach and chest anyway.. my arms and legs are somewhat toned due to muscle but loosing that inch of fat all around would certainly help my overall look) and I was just wondering how long it will take to start seeing results because I tend to loose motivation quickly... but I'm actually gonna stick to this one so again... Im just asking for an estimate of how long it takes to start seeing results when it comes to fat loss and maybe an estimate of how long it might take to loose an inch of fat. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you

 

[CowPimp]

Way too many factors to determine that. An inch on you could mean 3 pounds, and it could mean 6 pounds. It depends how tall you are, your genetic fat store layout, how much of a caloric deficit you are in, etc.

If you eat in a 500 calorie deficit each day, then you should be losing about a pound per week. 1 pound of fat contains approximately 3500 calories worth of energy (500calsx7days=3500).

 

[MAC33]

CowPimp... when you say 500 calorie deficit do you mean if I consumed a total of 500 calories or if I just consumed 500 calories less then what I am consuming now? That always confused. But I have a feeling its not 500 total cause thats probably not a good idea at all.

 

[NeilPearson]

CowPimp... when you say 500 calorie deficit do you mean if I consumed a total of 500 calories or if I just consumed 500 calories less then what I am consuming now? That always confused. But I have a feeling its not 500 total cause thats probably not a good idea at all.

It's 500 less than you need to maintain. So if your maintanence is 3000, you need 2500 a day

 

[beerman_420]

Way too many factors to determine that. An inch on you could mean 3 pounds, and it could mean 6 pounds. It depends how tall you are, your genetic fat store layout, how much of a caloric deficit you are in, etc.

If you eat in a 500 calorie deficit each day, then you should be losing about a pound per week. 1 pound of fat contains approximately 3500 calories worth of energy (500calsx7days=3500).

agreed

 

[CowPimp]

It's 500 less than you need to maintain. So if your maintanence is 3000, you need 2500 a day

Yeah, what he said.

 

[GFR]

With a strict diet and cardio, weighttraining and all that other stuff associated with fat loss while preserving muscle and whatnot... about how long should it take to start seeing results if I just started seriously cutting about 3 days ago? I have to loose like an inch of fat (with my stomach and chest anyway.. my arms and legs are somewhat toned due to muscle but loosing that inch of fat all around would certainly help my overall look) and I was just wondering how long it will take to start seeing results because I tend to loose motivation quickly... but I'm actually gonna stick to this one so again... Im just asking for an estimate of how long it takes to start seeing results when it comes to fat loss and maybe an estimate of how long it might take to loose an inch of fat. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you

I would say two weeks in you should see something. It all depends on if you are doing it right though.