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Gym 3w

Anyone who use to be chubby but still muscular. What did you eat to get cut. I feel like I’m running in circles.

Anonymous 3w

Less. I ate less

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Anonymous 3w

This is the only comment you’ll need to cut properly, this worked for me from 40% to sub 10%. Diet: First, track your calories on my fitness pal for a week - don’t change anything and also track your weight. Based on your average intake that week, subtract 200 from it and eat at that and also hit about 0.8-1g of protein per lb be minimum. Cardio: keep it simple - >10-12k steps a day starting the second week. Don’t miss a single a day when you start. All the info above is all you need to cut

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Anonymous 3w

Also every month or so when you see weight not moving increase cardio level not decrease calories ideally

Anonymous 3w

If your midsection has too much fat you just need to diet, you can't spot reduce fat

Anonymous

#1 3w

Ok. What ab work outs. Most of my fat is in my midsection. I’m muscular but I got a bit of a gut

Anonymous

OP 3w

Workouts are an option if you want to burn more calories, but at the end of the day you still have to eat less calories than you burn

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Anonymous

#2 3w

But if you want more optimizations here: Abs: if you cut down to low bf and don’t have abs it’ll look bad. So imo the king of abs are: 1) Weighted decline ab crunches 2) kneeling cable crunches 3) hanging leg raises (do these if you want lower abs and overload with weight and straighten your legs out over time) One thing on diet again, drink a lot of water and maintain a diet of variety. I once cut out sodium and was bordering low bp and seeing symptoms of orthoststic hypotension. 4 weeks lmk

Anonymous

#2 3w

Ok fs. Only thing is, I calculated to lose weight that I would need to eat 2,700 (which is 300 less than my maintenance) calories or under but when I ate close to 2,700 I gained weight any suggestions ?

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Anonymous

OP 3w

2 possible reasons: 1) most likely, you miscalculated your bmr - calculators give you a ballpark but aren’t exact which is why you should use the method I told you before to see your maintenance intake and activity and then use the calculator to see if your bmr makes sense 2) maybe your activity level decreased

Anonymous

#2 3w

Ok so to sum up the diet part. eat and track on MyFitnessPal for a week and see if my weight changes and adjust accordingly . Is that what you’re saying

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Anonymous

OP 3w

Yep. I used to track like a scientist, but once you are lean you get good at doing it mentally mostly and now I just do cardio if I eat like shit. For example I had 3 drumstick ice creams today but I just did 450 cals of cardio to account for half of it. And one big tip, if you have gpt plus use it as your personal trainer - like sometimes if you are comfortable upload photos and ask it for bf% estimations and tips especially near the end of your cut. That’s a lot of info but ye

Anonymous

#2 3w

Nah bro thanks so since the 2700 wasn’t rlly working for me should I try 2500 to 2400 cals?

Anonymous

OP 3w

cable crunches, leg raises, oblique side bends with free weights (i use plates personally)

Anonymous

#2 3w

What did you eat for breakfast lunch dinner, snacks cheat meals etc