**** Official 2020 Fitness Thread ****

[RunKC]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Mostly protein and fat when cutting through the summer. Less than 50g of carbs every day except Saturday where I allow myself a refeed day of excess carbs/calories.

People grossly over-estimate how many calories they really need, even when working out hard, to lose weight. I'm very strict on my cutting diet 6 days per week, eating roughly 1,700-1,800 calories per day. I workout 4 days per week and on the 3 days I do not workout, I fast until 12 or 1 on those days and fit all my calories in the day in an 8 hour window.

Now that summer is over I plan to do a modified carb cycle. Basically I will continue to intermittent fasting those 3 days I don't workout and have little/no carbs. But on the 4 days where I lift I plan to stick carbs post workout and in a large evening meal, 100-200g of carbs on those days. I don't mind gaining some weight/muscle back through winter as I add back heavy strength training of squats/deads/bench/military work every week.

I deadlifted 355x3 last week at a bodyweight of 175 so I was pretty happy to see those numbers already, as cutting definitely zaps my strength.

Do you count calories on an app like MyFitnessPal or Samsung? I feel like unless I use those I always go over, but holy **** is it annoying as hell to keep logging that shit all the time.