Cottage cheese and cutting?

[UberSteroids]

Hey guys,

I love eating the salad that I make out of 1cup of low fat cottage cheese and 1 can of tuna with some green onions.

1 cup of cottage cheese = 24g protein, 9g

Is this ok for my diet if I want to cut the BF down?

Thanks.

[fit_in_2010]

Hey guys,

I love eating the salad that I make out of 1cup of low fat cottage cheese and 1 can of tuna with some green onions.

1 cup of cottage cheese = 24g protein, 9g

Is this ok for my diet if I want to cut the BF down?

Thanks.

All you need to get your BF down is a calorie deficit. As long as you are in a calorie deficit, you will lose weight. I always incorporate foods that I like to eat into my daily allotment of calories. This makes it a lot easier to stick to my "diet".

[cerealkiller326]

Should not be a problem so long as your caloric intake doesn't exceed what it should be. I eat cottage cheese before I go to bed. My BFT has not been effected by it.

[xxblazenlowxx]

I am at 9% bf and eat 1 cup of cottage cheese 4% fat before I go to bed along with some weight gain mixed with 2% milk

[gbrice75]

All you need to get your BF down is a calorie deficit. As long as you are in a calorie deficit, you will lose weight. I always incorporate foods that I like to eat into my daily allotment of calories. This makes it a lot easier to stick to my "diet".

Sorry, but I disagree. I have personally seen people eating in a caloric deficit and still gain fat. Notice I said FAT, not weight. If macros/marco combinations are off, meal timing is off, etc. you can still gain bodyfat in a caloric deficit even if you are losing weight overall (which indicates LBM loss).

Order of importance, IMO:

1) solid diet
2) cardio
3) caloric deficit

I am currently eating at maintenance but losing bodyfat because my cardio is spot on. Others eat ABOVE maintenance and still manage to lose bodyfat, because again you are relying on cardio to create the deficit. This is much healthier IMO, because you are still providing your body with plenty of nutrients, and working your heart/CV system to burn fat rather then the 'easy' way which is a basic caloric deficit.

With that out of the way, cottage cheese is fine for any diet. I prefer it in the evening as it provides a healthy dose of casein protein, but there's nothing wrong with it any time of day.

Now, tell me about this cottage cheese/tuna concoction you have? I can't find ANYTHING to eat tuna in water with that I can stomach, and keep going back to the tonno in olive oil which has more fat then i'd like (even after draining).

[bruary17]

fat free cottage cheese w a little fat free italian dressing is really good!

[Hitman Heimler]

I am cutting right now, and I have low-fat cottage cheese with fruit in it for breakfast. I lost 5 in a week while eating this for breakfast everyday, however, the meal timing and the protein and everything else was already in place.

So, the short answer is yes, it should be fine.

[UberSteroids]

Good to hear!

The way I make it is:

I mix 1 cup of low fat cottage cheese with one small can of tuna and I add 1/2 cup of chopped green onions and some tomato.

Tastes good and kills the tuna pretty nicely.

[scrunnyronnie]

I definitely gonna be using cottage chesse on my upcoming diet.

[jngymrat]

gbrice75,, Has said the some of the most important facts in this post! Its not just about calorie deficit to lose body fat. It is true however, that a calorie deficit will absolutely positively drop body weight! The real questions are do you want to cut body fat % or just drop weight? If you want to decrease body fat % and your looking at calorie deficits, then you should look at your diet and eat the absolute best sources of protein, carbs and fats. You have a calorie limit! and if your not feeding the muscle and starving the fat, your going nowhere to drop body FAT %. So make every calorie bean important one, right?

Now dropping body weight is something virtually completely different. You can eat a calorie deficit of budweiser and twinkies and still lose weight. But what would the quality of your body be when your down to your desired weight? RIGHT!! I have read tons of places here that say garbage in garbage out, well I say garbage in garbage on! There is a reason its called "essential"!! your body needs it. There is hardly anything your body can use from empty calories. Now, the reason you want to gain or maintain muscle while cutting is quite simple, it takes much more calories to maintain muscle than it does fat in the body. So while your protecting the muscle and starving the fat your turning your body into a metabolizing machine!

Without beating this to death, I think the advice from gbrice75,, is decent,

BTW, I warm my tuna in the micro for a few seconds to make it go down smoother and add green onions, chopped celery, and fresh mango salsa with it. Also I always try and eat my LFat cottage cheese with a simple sugar carb, i.e. apple wedges, banana's and for a real treat, I mix it with an equal portion of LFat yogurt, with the addition of fruit (simple sugar) it metabolizes better in the bloodstream.

[gbrice75]

^^^ thx bro. Agreed, we need to be concerned with the composition of what weight was lost, not just 'weight loss'.

[jngymrat]

Very well said, thank you for the post earlier that emphasized the differences, great job and great advice gbrice75,,