Settle an argument. Which statament is correct, "I am

You're both fucking retards and neither is correct.

Thanks for your help man

>>40580219
Calorie deficit means being below maintenance. How can you be below below maintenance?

Fair point, but im sayingi im taking in less calories then what my usual intake is (which is a calorie deficit). Is my wording just trash? Or passable

>>40580219
Grammatically both statements are fine. They both basically follow a "noun phrase, verb phrase, noun phrase" structure, which an adverbs an prepositions in the verb phrase.

"caloric deficit" might be preferable to "calorie deficit", but I'm not sure on that, so I'll ignore it.

What can be discussed it whether they make sense semantically (make sense in meaning). Your friend's "maintenance" obviously refers to the amount of calorie you should eat at per day to maintain your body weight. Strictly speaking it doesn't make sense for a person to be positionally under an amount. But it is well understood that the "I am" here refers to how much you've eaten so we can interpret this sentence as "the calories I have eaten so far today are well lower than the calories it would require for my body to maintain weight". I would say this sentence makes sense semantically.

Your sentence on the other hand is a bit trickier. It is not sure to what "calorie deficit" refers. If it refers to 500 calories (which you eat below your TDEE) that your sentence would say "the calories I have eaten so far today are well lower than 500". This sentence makes sense semantically, but is probably not what you wanted to say. Instead we can assume that you are referring here to you TDEE-500. So your sentence means "the calories I have eaten so far today are well lower than the calories it would require for my body to lose weight" (since eating below TDEE-500).

In summary, both sentences are ok gramatically and semantically, but differ in meaning.

Thanks alot that was actually perfect and solved our argument

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>>40580219
>doesn't know how to reply
reported for being newfag

>>40580316
>"the calories I have eaten so far today are well lower than the calories it would require for my body to lose weight" (since eating below TDEE-500)
But eating a 1 calorie below maintenance will cause weight loss.
What he means semantically is 'I have eaten fewer calories than my goal of a 500 cal deficit below maintenance'

are you boys 14 y/o autistic virgins?

>>40580228
* neither are correct

>>40580219
A deficit is a lack of something. It is basically meaningless to say 'I'm under my deficit'. Not only that but it's ambiguous as well. Do you mean you increased your deficit? That you're below a specific deficit? Or do you mean the opposite, that you're *under* your deficit because you didn't achieve the deficit you hoped for, and consumed more calories than what the deficit calls for?

The next one is better, but still not perfect. In order to fully convey the meaning you want to get across you should say 'I'm under my BMR' or 'I'm under my TDEE'. Obviously maintenance is a substitute for these, which is why it's the better way of expressing what you wanted to express.

>>40580219
who the fuck cares just lift faggot