The previous days, was what you logged just the breakfast or you didn't eat anything else all day?
If so, don't you think that 600-800 kcal with under 70-90g protein is way beyond the cutting and deep into the starvation spectrum?
Yup, 24hr fast culminating in one meal of the day at 8pm. I'm not sure how many days I could pull off eating 600-800 a day but it does give a wicked caloric deficit and will get bodyweight down quickly. Is it ideal? Nope, but being fat is unideal too
I mean short of using drugs, even dieting for a long ass time, these things will always be inconvenient no matter how you go about it. Early on a cut, while my metabolism is high, mood is good, i can get away with big deficits and less protein and (carbs/fats for that matter). But down the line it will be hard, maybe impossible to do it. Right now it's not so bad to eat less protein in particular. Later it will be necessary to eat more. I am playing it by feel. Also more protein seems to me a waste, when I was looking at cutting from 77->72kg. It means being fat enough and (low enough lbm given a lean mass of around ~70kg) that i don't need a lot. But as i get closer to 72kg, im gonna have to eat more protein for sure. I won't mind spending/eating 200g a day when im closer to the target bodyweight..
Or is it just a temporary sacrifice to get your bw at a given number in some ( very few ) given days? If so it is more understandable, although i still disagree.
Plans like yesterday's ( 1400 / 120 ) would serve you much better. But of course they need more time.
Protein is too low too, even 120g is still much below the 1g per BW lb.
I just wanna make the most of this honeymoon period. You get the best fat loss in the first week or two when metabolism is good, mood is good, motivation is heigh, strength and performance are still ok. Later that changes of course, and i will adapt my diet as required.
Just a few notes, i know you know your stuff and you are aware of all that, but sometimes the outside observer notices things you don't.
I get ya, you're right though, conventional wisdom would have me eating 300g of protein right now. Fuck conventional wisdom, i will tread my own path
update:vag it occured to me why i dont agree with advice such as L.McD to eat 1.4-1.6g of protein per lb of bodyweight while cutting. For me that would mean eating 900 calories just from protein! So that means what else wud i be eating? Nothing! And so instead of eating normal meals and feeling good about my food, i would be dreading eating 200-250g of pure protein, even though it wud effectively be the same number of calories. I'm really not interested in eating so much protein, that's too much pain. I've done RFL for like 6 months over my lifetime, it's not fun,i don't want to go through that shit again, especially when i dont have to!
I function much better with a minimum amount of carb in my diet (50g cap on rest days, 100g on training days). I function better with about 35-50g of fat a day. Why would i wanna fuck around with that. IT means either eating some awful protein only diet - or having a much smaller deficit, so that means i'd be eating say 1500kcal-2000kcal a day or something like that, which will mean cutting takes much much longer. I don't see the point of that. Would rather get this whole thing out of the way asap and then move on to productive training.
