New female user looking for help with diet before starting clen

[prettypoodle]

Hey, welcome to the board! So you're a female at 5'9, 230lbs - and your goal is to lose around 30lbs? As a point of reference, i'm a 5'11 male and weigh 190lbs. Not trying to make you feel bad or discourage you in any way, just trying to understand the goal, because it would seem that you need to lose quite a bit more then 30lbs based on those stats. Also, i'm willing to bet BF is higher then 30%.

No matter, the plan will be the same regardless of the goal being to lose 30lbs, 40lbs, 100lbs, etc. whatever.

We need to find your maintenance calories - i'm willing to bet they're somewhere around 2000 or so. Chances are you're eating much higher then this - if you could post up an example of a typical day's diet, it would be very helpful. Do you currently weight train? If not, let me know because we will need to get you on a plan.

Please answer the above and then we can get to work. In the meantime, me along with some of the others here have been helping another new female member - EnvusChick. Check out her thread in this section, you may benefit quite a bit from reading it.

It's certainly possible that the trainers at my gym were wrong, but when I used the hand help BF monitor about 6 weeks ago, my bf was at 30%. I was certainly surprised, as that does seem pretty low for my weight. Back when I was seeing the nutritionist, he said my maintenance calories were 2500 a day, and said to eat 2000 day in order to lose about 1.5 lbs a week. I did even lower than that (1700 a day), but found myself starving all the time, no matter how well I spaced out my meals/snacks and how much water I drank.

I set my goal at 30 lbs (with an ultimate goal of 55 lbs) just to make it seem more doable for me. I think it'd be more motivated if I set reasonable smaller goals rather than one, large goal. Also, I'm not looking to get too small as I think image wise, I look and feel the best around 170-180 lbs. If I go below that, I start to lose my lady lumps, which is not what I want. I have a large frame and prefer to have a bit of weight on me, just not this much haha.

I've posted my current diet and workout details below. I certainly appreciate you being frank with me and hope that you continue to do so.

[baseline_9]

It's certainly possible that the trainers at my gym were wrong, but when I used the hand help BF monitor about 6 weeks ago, my bf was at 30%. I was certainly surprised, as that does seem pretty low for my weight. Back when I was seeing the nutritionist, he said my maintenance calories were 2500 a day, and said to eat 2000 day in order to lose about 1.5 lbs a week. I did even lower than that (1700 a day), but found myself starving all the time, no matter how well I spaced out my meals/snacks and how much water I drank.

I set my goal at 30 lbs (with an ultimate goal of 55 lbs) just to make it seem more doable for me. I think it'd be more motivated if I set reasonable smaller goals rather than one, large goal. Also, I'm not looking to get too small as I think image wise, I look and feel the best around 170-180 lbs. If I go below that, I start to lose my lady lumps, which is not what I want. I have a large frame and prefer to have a bit of weight on me, just not this much haha.

I've posted my current diet and workout details below. I certainly appreciate you being frank with me and hope that you continue to do so.

hand held BF monitors are useless

Skin fold is the best way

However i dont think we need to know that ATM

We need to get u at least eating healthy and regularly, same for ur cardio and weight training