Recent weight gain -> need to diet

[tarmyg]

As I know you like studies and data this could come in handy: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/arti...970-015-0100-0

A 1K deficit will make you lose somewhat more muscle. Is there a reason you are not eating at maintenance and letting training create the deficit? Why the rush? Is there a need to accelerated weight loss or is that in your mind?

[hammerheart]

As I know you like studies and data this could come in handy: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/arti...970-015-0100-0

A 1K deficit will make you lose somewhat more muscle. Is there a reason you are not eating at maintenance and letting training create the deficit? Why the rush? Is there a need to accelerated weight loss or is that in your mind?

Well, the reason for a quick loss is I hate being fat, I developed horrid pseudogyno that looks very bad, haven't been this fat in years, so I just want it to disappear, not to mention summer is approaching and I'm still a virgin.

This is also the rate I used to lose weight back then, I ended up very lean but skinny (don't have a better photo unfortunately):



was feeling very healthy and strong though (much more than now), and wasn't even on hormones, I take T4+T3 for hypothyroidism and T3 might prevent metabolism from slowing down for some extent, and I'm also on TRT.

I'm actually pointing to eating at maintenance and let training do the hob, I just fixed and hard limit at 2000kc for simplicity, eventually I'll always end up taking in 10% more.

Thanks for the link, but I don't fancy high protein diets, my usual intake is 2g/kg (~1g/lb).