Why is my maintenance so fucking high?

Just lucky with metabolism or tracking like a retard.

I'm 5'7 180 and maintain it on 2600 calories. Cutting ATM on 1,800 to get down to 160 or so.

Back when I was 150 I gained weight on 2300 calories.

>been lifting for three years

So you should look incredible, right? If so, whatever, you're probably tracking wrong. If not, that's why.

I'm 6'6, 250, and I maintain on 3400. Something's wrong.

>>40108256
I track all my food and cook all my meals
I'm definitely tracking right.

I just can't understand why I have to eat so damn much. If I go drinking or eat out I always end up loosing about 2lb since I keep eating under maintenance

>>40108324
It's science mate, at that height and weight you cant maintain weight with the minimal physical activity you described.

Simple. You aren't eating 3600 calories.

>>40108364
I spend around 90 minutes at the gym.
Then around 70 minutes walking

I do that 5 times a week

>>40108206
Some people are like that. Do you have a lot of muscle? My brother is 5'6, 150lbs, and he maintains at 3300 calories.
I'm 5'7, 170 and maintain at 3500, but that's more because of my job.

>>40108206
Some people just get to eat more than others. Consider yourself lucky. The skinny dyel's on this board will whine and yell liar but my TDEE is well over 5000 during rugby season at 6'5

>>40108206
Mine is 4300 calories while laying in bed and basically diddling.

>>40108206
Why is my maintenance so low?

I'm maintaining weight at 1800 calories a day, 5'8 155lbs lifting 5x a week and 1 - 2 hours of cardio on treadmill 5 days a week. I count calories and eat different things every day, so I'm not counting the same thing every day incorrectly.

As soon as I bump it up to 2000, I start slowly gaining weight. To cut I need to go down to 1600.

You got it good OP.

>>40108206

you're really bad at math, like most skeletons/fatsos.

At 180lbs 13% bodyfat with 500mg tren and 200mg test a week my maintenance is about 3000 calories while working a job that's on my feet and moving the whole time(but not physically demanding or more than walking), this is probably on the low end of the genetic spectrum, most people should have closer to 3500.

160lbs nattyshit like you would have to be a construction worker to even dream of hitting 3600 a day.

>>40108650
I've been tracking calories since the day I started lifting.
When I started my maintenance was around 2500 calories

I'm not retarded

>>40108709
>I'm not retarded
>my TDEE is 3600kcal @ 160lb.

Pick both

Sounds like OPs protein powder is amino spiking.

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>>40108726
yeah, i just have superhuman metabolism for no apparent reason.
i've been skelly all my life though

>>40108736
Does amino spiking increase metabolism?

>>40108206
Its not that high youre counting wrong

>>40108709
Youre extremely retarded if you think youre burning 3600 kcals at 160.

>>40109190
Read the whole thread

ITT: Tall, lazy tubs o' lard who can't imagine getting enough physical activity to need lots of food.

>>40108283
You're a fatass who probably doesn't work as hard as OP does

>>40109204
Ya i read it. Youre a fucking idiot
>asks a question
>is given the answer
>no u guys im serious i must be super human or something guys i totally eat nonstop guys forreal i even lose weight when i stop trying
Youre a fucking idiot who cant count calories just like every other skelly who thinks he eats a mountain of food. Eat nothing but prepackaged stuff with the calories clearly labeled for a while

>>40108206
Lemme gues, you started tracking your calories two days ago, miscalculated and now you think you can eat like a linebacker.
Come back in a month with 20 pounds of fat and you'll have you'll have your answer.

>>40108364
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLphSZY0FE
also we had a girl in our school that had to walk around with a bag of cakes and sandwiches because she had some crazy condition she was also thin

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>>40109260
Its time to stop posting

>>40109149
No, it severely lies about protein content

>>40109260
Just shut the fuck up mate. You're a fucking retard if you take some one with a condition of 1 in a million to prove your own stupidity.

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>>40109257
NIgger i've been counting calories since the day I started lifting I know what I'm doing.
I know how to cut, bulk etc
I'm gaining 1.5lb per month.

>>40108206
Good metabolism and you're very active.
Everyone is different.
I'm 200lbs but maintain at 4400

>>40108206
because you need a lot of fats
good fats obv

>>40109409
Good to know I'm not the only one who has to eat a shitton
It seems like the majority of /fit/ are sedentary fatties lmao

>>40108206
Could be a tapeworm.

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Hey brothas I'm on a cut right now. Last night I hit my calories for the day. And was still hungry. And I sat there and felt like I was dying. I think I actually died for about 20 seconds. But than I came back to life. Am I going to make it?

>>40108206
perhaps you're not taking into account the thermic effect of food?

are you eating nothing but rare steak mixed with shitloads of psyllium husk?

>>40109505
>rare steak