After asking Lord Silock if it were true - here was his response ->> "It can be. It depends on what the weight consists of. Someone might weigh 200 lbs and be muscular, which requires a few more calories per pound to maintain than someone who weighs 200 lbs but has a lot of body fat. Body fat doesn't require nearly as many maintenance calories as muscle."

My plan in the app is to lose 2 lbs a week. My plan in real life is to stay 800-1200 calories below the suggested daily calories. Those numbers are without the exercise.

Right now I'm not working so I can concentrate on this part of my life. I've got the time to walk 3-4 miles a day. I may take a job next week. It's going to take 18-24 months to finish. I'll have to figure out another way to exercise in a short amount of time. I think thats where my challenge to stay on track will come from.

Hi Ryan! I just had a macro friendly meal. 2 chicken egg white sandwiches from Chikfila. 600 cals 40g protein! Enjoy your day!

Keep it up!

Went a bit over yesterday on my down day, at about 600 calories. However, a bulk of those calories were boiled potatoes that had been cooled and reheated. This converts a chunk of them to resistant starch which isn't digestible. The calculators don't take that into account.

Anyway, I was at 220 lbs this morning. I now have back to back 2500 up days.

Three lbs of fat would require roughly a 10,500 calorie deficit or 1050 calories a day over your 10 days. So 3 lbs over 10 days sounds reasonable.

well that's cool i guess.

Also good job to all of the other recent posts - just watch the booze!

I'd like to see your input more in here. I was sort of hoping for it - you and some of the others.

Went a little over yesterday on a non workout day.

Goal - 2,020; food - 2,161; exercise - 0; Overall - -141

Add a little extra cardio today

He gives great advice. I've made more gains since switching to an upper lower split as he suggested! I still struggle to hang around 2k Cal's a day tho.

yes - Lew is pretty good - there's a group of about a dozen who are very knowledgeable - I welcome them all here. Sure would help us all out.

I’ve lost over a pound a day over a 10 day span at least twice so far. So l dont think your numbers can be applied to everyone.

I said pound "of fat". Losing weight and losing fat are two different things. I dropped five pounds after my first down day on Sunday. There was no way in hell it was all fat though. Clearly, most of it was water.

When just looking at the scale, it's tough to tell what all is involved in weight loss. It can be fat change, water change, the change in the amount of stuff in your digestive tract, lean tissue loss. However, if someone is water stable, it would take about 1000 calorie a day deficit to lose 3 lbs of fat in 10 days. Losing 10 lbs of fat in 10 days would take a huge deficit - basically eat nothing and exercise like crazy. I would think that's pretty rare.