Has anyone had any luck with this in terms of reducing overall body fat? I’m relatively active, I walk a minimum of 10-12,000 steps a day (meaningful steps, I don’t wear my tracker at work or when I am in the house) and also lift weights for an hour four to five days a week.
Despite all of this activity I cannot for the life of me get any of this weight off of me. I’ve been following a diet plan that has me in a deficit of 2,000 calories a day 176g protein daily. I can almost NEVER stick with the 2,000 calories and my days generally have me around 2500. My Apple Watch claims my daily calories burned is close to 3,400 (I don’t believe this, Macrofactor has me around 25/2600 but I don’t track perfectly).
For reference I’m 5’10 31 M. I’d say I’m around 20% body fat right now, I was at 14-15% at 182 last summer and liked how I looked much better but I’ve been trying unsuccessfully to lose weight since January. I keep going up and down the same 4-5 lbs.
I’m considering just doing two meals daily and saying fuck my macros. 50-60g protein per meal and then that’s it. I absolutely cannot adhere to an eating plan where I’m eating all day or else I overeat too easily. Yesterday I had only consumed 1,000 calories by 8 pm and I was so behind I sat down and ended up eating 1700 more from 8-11pm.
Has anyone found success with just two meals per day and not lost a ton of muscle? I eat relatively healthy with just one cheat meal (girlfriend insists on pizza once a week) per week. I don’t eat enough vegetables but I do eat spinach kale or broccoli at least once a day alongside either chicken or lean ground chicken or turkey.