How long?

[m_donnelly]

At this point, I'm running on a thousand calorie a day deficit and bouncing between 40/40/20 and 50/30/20 macro splits. I've been dropping body fat with it but I'm wondering how long I should stick with such a large deficit. I have no problem with that level of restriction but I do wonder how much more I'll get out of it before homeostasis kicks in. Should I cycle between various levels of caloric restriction? Should I bump up to a five hundred calorie a day deficit? I plan on dieting hard for another three months and then doing a month at maintenance levels.

Thoughts?

[951thompson]

At this point, I'm running on a thousand calorie a day deficit and bouncing between 40/40/20 and 50/30/20 macro splits. I've been dropping body fat with it but I'm wondering how long I should stick with such a large deficit. I have no problem with that level of restriction but I do wonder how much more I'll get out of it before homeostasis kicks in. Should I cycle between various levels of caloric restriction? Should I bump up to a five hundred calorie a day deficit? I plan on dieting hard for another three months and then doing a month at maintenance levels.

Thoughts?

You need to have regular carb refeeds or your metabolism will crash. Maybe do 4 days low carb, one day high carb, two days moderate.

[Back In Black]

Stats?

Caloric intake?

Training regime?

[cj111]

Up your calories and make up some of the difference with more cardio.
1000 deficit is not needed

[gbrice75]

Up your calories and make up some of the difference with more cardio.
1000 deficit is not needed

^^ this.... x100.

[baseline_9]

Can't answer that question without stats.....