New Cut Diet - NO IDEA what to do on off days! NARK I NEED YOU!

[mg1228]

I just started a cut diet on Monday. I can post the diet if you'd like, but in short it's 7 meals a day, every 3 hours. Macros work out to 50/30/20 P/C/F.

This is loosely based on a cut diet that another member did and got excellent results - he had help from NARK on it. I have a PM out to NARK with all of my info, but I know he's a busy guy and I wanted to get started asap.

My problem is i've only accounted for workout days (M-F for me) and have no idea what to do on weekends. Should I lower my carb macro? If so, what should increase to keep calories the same (or should they decrease as well?)?

I have also heard of a carb/refeed day - I don't know details of this but have heard it's important to keep the fat loss going. Please help!!!

Nark had me at maint cals on wo days and 6-700 back on off days--keep the split the same----u most likely will b skipping ur normal pwo meal---so that shold lower cals right there

[gbrice75]

Nark had me at maint cals on wo days and 6-700 back on off days--keep the split the same----u most likely will b skipping ur normal pwo meal---so that shold lower cals right there

There's my boy!!!

If I recall, you were only working out 3 days a week, right? I wonder if Nark would have me at maint 5 days a week... these are the types of questions I have. Also - not to sound like a complete imbucile (which I am), but maint. and TDEE are the same, right?

[mg1228]

There's my boy!!!

If I recall, you were only working out 3 days a week, right? I wonder if Nark would have me at maint 5 days a week... these are the types of questions I have. Also - not to sound like a complete imbucile (which I am), but maint. and TDEE are the same, right?

Whats up!! yea 3 days but i think he likes u at maint on wo days just to make sure u are maintaining ur lbm--but thats a good question on the 5 days on--maint and tdee are the same--if it makes you feel better do maint on m/w/f and 2-300 back on tues/th---like i was saying after roughly 3 weeks u should b able to tell alot more about how ur cals are working---i would take pictures though because the scale will f**k with ur head---and we all know how hard it is to get accurate bf measurments

[gbrice75]

Whats up!! yea 3 days but i think he likes u at maint on wo days just to make sure u are maintaining ur lbm--but thats a good question on the 5 days on--maint and tdee are the same--if it makes you feel better do maint on m/w/f and 2-300 back on tues/th---like i was saying after roughly 3 weeks u should b able to tell alot more about how ur cals are working---i would take pictures though because the scale will f**k with ur head---and we all know how hard it is to get accurate bf measurments

I could do that - that would basically give me 4 days at lower cals, 3 days at maint. In my mind (and again, I could be wrong) it seems counter-productive to fat loss - eating at maint. that is. It just seems like it would take longer to get where you want to be in terms of bodyfat %. However, keeping LBM (which I have almost NONE of as it is) is definitely valid!

I am going to take some new pics this week and will post so everyone can follow my journey. I really REALLY hope this works out man... this is like my last ditch effort!