So I started working out and tracking my diet recently...

[BornToLooze]

I finally get why Goku was always hungry.

So I downloaded an app to track my macros, and it says for me to to lose weight I need 2500 calories, 160g (232g) of carbs, 255g (370g) of protein, and 99g (144g) of fat, parentheses is what it gets bumped to after my daily activity. The only time I've gotten close to that was yesterday when I had a rest day, and had a couple whiskey drinks and pretty much a whole ass frozen pizza for dinner. Hell, today, with the fasted cardio I do in the morning, a very conservative guess on how many calories I burn at work, and my workout, I've really only had like 800 calories.

It just feels weird eating so much while I'm trying to lose weight, but I've plugged in what I used to eat along with the added exercise I do now, like negative 300 calories a day.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

wtf, it thinks you need 370g of protein?
That seems inordinately high for someone not on a hard bulk. I eat about 250g of protein a day and that's pretty doable ime.

You should at least try to hit your calorie goal for the day consistently. Dropping lower than your BMR will drive your body to stop losing weight past a certain point. It also makes losing weight in the future harder, as your body will adjust your bmr to a smaller amount to prevent starvation. Starvation also causes the body to catabolize muscle first, since excess muscle uses up the most energy.

 

[BornToLooze]

wtf, it thinks you need 370g of protein?
That seems inordinately high for someone not on a hard bulk. I eat about 250g of protein a day and that's pretty doable ime.

You should at least try to hit your calorie goal for the day consistently. Dropping lower than your BMR will drive your body to stop losing weight past a certain point. It also makes losing weight in the future harder, as your body will adjust your bmr to a smaller amount to prevent starvation. Starvation also causes the body to catabolize muscle first, since excess muscle uses up the most energy.

I have it set to a high protein diet because while I am trying to cut at the moment, I'm trying to get two birds stoned at once and build muscle while I'm doing it.

 

[Winspear]

Take estimates with a grain of salt. They aren't worth much.

You didn't say how much you weigh - 1g of protein per lb of bodyweight is fine. Less if you are overweight, because obviously the extra weight is fat that doesn't need to be maintained with protein whilst on a cut.

A lb of fat is 3500 calories - a 500 daily deficit will have you losing a pound a week. You can go slower if you want to be less hungry. Track your calories and weigh yourself daily - an app can't guess your maintenance level and there is no need to go drastically under it, it will make a cut feel like shit and be harder to maintain.

Are you saying you're in a 300 deficit (though indeed you wont know the answer to this unless you actually know your maintenance calories rather than what an app said), or something more extreme? 300 is a good rate and should have you down a pound every 11 days
If you want to build muscle whilst doing it, do go for the higher brackets of protein intake, but that amount is excessive - also go for the lower deficits and slower cut of course

 

[shredmechanic]

Holy hell 370g of protein a day is a lot(unless you actually weigh ~370lbs and are training for strongman). Your liver is going to be crying my dude.

 

[jaxadam]

This boy needs some of that Half Wicked YK11