Tips and tricks to assist when cutting!

Biggerarms22

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If any of you guys have any tips on how to assist in restricting or burning more calories please contribute them here.. I'll start.

Tips/tricks for Restricting calories-

- CAFFIENE: In my experience the best hunger suppressant, mood enhancer, and energy replacement when you're in a deficit. I'd love to here If any of you have better!

- Drinking lots of Water/0 calorie drinks: Keeps you fuller longer and less likely to need food.

- Eating a calorically dense macro split: High carb, high Protien, low fat. High carbs tend to keep you fuller longer both physically and mentally. Although everyone likes to cut carbs in a diet, cutting fat seems to work best in my view for making sure the diet isn't broken or cheated on.

- Intermittent fasting: if you cut off eating for much of the day, and supply yourself with only caffiene energy, you're amount of food you're able to eat in your feeding window is significantly less if it is a shorter window. Especially if you're eating calorically dense, and pumping water!!

- Sleep more: The more time spent sleeping, the less time eating lol but more seriously, if you're sleeping more you'll be less likely to give into cravings, and you'll have more energy. Than of course there's the benefits sleep can provide which go hand and hand with your diet and training as foundational building blocks.

- 0 Calorie diet options: instead of those high Calorie syrup's, salad dressings or sauces they're are plenty of alternative 5 calorie or 0 Calorie options now. I only buy sugar free syrup, tastes the same! And 0 or low calorie BBQ sauce, honey mustard ECT.

Tips/tricks for burning calories-

-Stair master: No reason you can't get off 600 calories If you can commit to the stair master for an hour at a slow pace.
You can burn a lot more calories on here than walking on a treadmill, and burn them faster! In my experience I much rather walk on the stair master than run on the treadmill. And even when the two are compared, you don't really burn very much more calories running than you do on the stair master at the right pace.
 
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I’m no expert and I agree with most of your points.. not sure what you mean by calorically dense macro split. And then you mention high carb. Calorically dense usually means more fat, hence the 9 calories per gram. Also carbs are notorious for causing quicker hunger spikes, while fat takes longer to digest and keeps you fuller for longer.

High volume, low calorie food choices are better in my opinion. For example I’ll take half a bag of spinach probably 100+ grams and rip it up into tiny pieces and make a tuna salad with sriracha. Takes me 20-25 minutes to eat and is filling from a volume and fiber standpoint.

What makes for an easy cut imo is how you lead up to it. It’s easy to drop weight if you have a lot of calories to work with. If you start your cut at 2500 calories you’re going to be dying by the end of it. But if you work your maintenance up to 3500-4000 you can end your cut at 2500 and not suffer.

Usually as you go throughout a cut the consensus seems to be to raise protein (because it’s satiating and will help you retain muscle), lower carbs (because they’re not satiating), and keep fats the same.
 
I’m no expert and I agree with most of your points.. not sure what you mean by calorically dense macro split. And then you mention high carb. Calorically dense usually means more fat, hence the 9 calories per gram. Also carbs are notorious for causing quicker hunger spikes, while fat takes longer to digest and keeps you fuller for longer.

High volume, low calorie food choices are better in my opinion. For example I’ll take half a bag of spinach probably 100+ grams and rip it up into tiny pieces and make a tuna salad with sriracha. Takes me 20-25 minutes to eat and is filling from a volume and fiber standpoint.

What makes for an easy cut imo is how you lead up to it. It’s easy to drop weight if you have a lot of calories to work with. If you start your cut at 2500 calories you’re going to be dying by the end of it. But if you work your maintenance up to 3500-4000 you can end your cut at 2500 and not suffer.

Usually as you go throughout a cut the consensus seems to be to raise protein (because it’s satiating and will help you retain muscle), lower carbs (because they’re not satiating), and keep fats the same.
Hey @JoeBlob12 thanks for the info. I didn't know Caloric dense meant foods with higher Cal's, like high fatty foods. Thanks for teaching me something.

So for me, carbs keep me fuller longer. I also perform significantly better in the gym on high carb, high Protien, low fat in a diet, if a Caloric deficit is what I'm doing. This is my reasoning for going with this macro split over taking away carbs.
 
Hey @JoeBlob12 thanks for the info. I didn't know Caloric dense meant foods with higher Cal's, like high fatty foods. Thanks for teaching me something.

So for me, carbs keep me fuller longer. I also perform significantly better in the gym on high carb, high Protien, low fat in a diet, if a Caloric deficit is what I'm doing. This is my reasoning for going with this macro split over taking away carbs.
Yeah I should’ve added that everyone is different and ultimately it comes down to what works for you. Gym performance is a major factor for sure. When I lower carbs I keep them around my training. Peri workout carbs should always be the last that get pulled.
 
Eating enough to support hard training. Too many ppl going overly restrictive and caving in before they see real results. Many of these fad diets and trends are targeted for ppl who simply don't train the same way that several of us on this forum train. They are recipes for failure. It's best to restrict gradually as you get in leaner condition, but not at first
 
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