I quote from the meal planner: "This places your recomended daily intake between 1020 calories and 1520 calories per day. However for males the general accepted guideline is not to allow your consumption to fall below 1800 calories per day. You calculated level was below 1800"

Key word is consume isn't it? meaning that I shouldn't eat below 1800. But if I eat 1800, I can still burn all the way down if I want?

Never tought of this honestly. I'll have to become a cardio beast looks like.

@Wess77 Hey Daniel.

Are you sure you put the right details into the meal planner? You might have put in your numbers slightly wrong, such as putting your weight in kilos when it asked for pounds, because I took your details on your profile and put them into the calculator. And with those numbers as well as putting 'little to no exercise', it still came out as 1719 calories for BMR at rest and 2063 for BMR in motion.

Maybe try again? Because those numbers you got do seem extremely low

Hey Scott, how are you?

No, I think everything it's right. BMR is 1683 and BMR in motion 2020 calories. (74KG, 1.75 cm, "little to no exercises" (I guess) )

So as I want to cut, the planner tells me that a good caloric cut would be to consume 1000-1500 calories (aprox). But as that is below 1800, it just recomends me to eat 1800.

So... if I eat 1800 calories, can I still do a lot of cardio to burn fat faster? (to burn like ... 400-500 calories per day)

@Wess77 I'm good thanks, hope you're doing well! OK I see man.

So if your BMR in motion is 2020 calories, I'd recommend for starters, probably being between 1500 - 1750 calories. Even then, you could probably be somewhere around 1700 - 1800 if 2020 is your BMR in motion.

But this does still seem very low. Even if you weren't doing any exercise at all.

How often are you training at the moment?

I try to stick as much as I can to the schedule (PPL- Month 1), so I try to work-out  6 days of the week.

But lately I have been training like 4 days of the week, because I needed to do other stuff aside of the gym.

I choosed "little to no exercise" because I don't really workout outside of the gym, maybe when I do cardio but not more than that. I mean, after the gym I don't go hiking or something so yeah.

I feel okay eating 1800 calories (the minimum recomended for men, in the meal planner), but the fat loss is super low (0.04 to 0.044 pounds per week), so I tought about burning 500 calories doing cardio every day to accelerate my fat loss (keeping in mind the meal planner says the recomended cut would be to consume 1000-1500 calories)


Would this be factible?

@Wess77 If you're doing the PPL program then you should be at moderate exercise. You're definitely higher than little or no exercise man.

Doing more cardio will help with your fat loss for sure. But you might even be under-eating honestly. Given the amount of training you're doing you probably are under-eating a bit.

Also, what are your macros like?