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Is doing a sustained prolonged calorie deficit really the best way to go about losing body-fat?
Say maintenance calories are 2,600 and you want 150g+ protein per day. Why not just do something like the following...
>Monday - 1500 (-1,100 deficit)
>Tuesday - 1300 (-1,300 deficit)
>Wednesday - 1200 (-1400 deficit)
>Thursday - 2000 (-500 deficit)
>Friday - 2550-2600 (maintenance)
>Saturday - 2550-2600 (maintenance)
>Sunday - 2550-2600 (maintenance)
Total deficit for the week = 4,300 calories , or 1.22 lbs of bodyfat, and you only spent 3 days on really low calories, and 1 day on moderate calories, and 3 days on FRI/SAT/SUN @ maintenance calories. If you moderate your fat in-take on those 3 days at maintenance and eat more carbs over fat, you could even improve body-composition even more.
>b-but fat doesn't make you fat
Yes, but the thermic effect of dietary fat is pretty much 0%, so for improved body-composition you're always better off eating protein or carbs over fats once you've hit your minimum requirements of fat in-take.
Cutting is easy at the start, and gets harder the longer you do it, so why not just do 3-4 days of aggressive cutting, getting as high as a deficit as possible, then just return to maintenance calories.
Please tell me why nobody has ever mentioned cutting like this?
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Of course that work just like intermittent fasting works but it's typically the easiest and fastest to do the most amount of deficit the longest.
If you did the same thing with -1,100 deficit every day you'd end up with a -7,700 deficit over a 4,300 which is clearly better results.
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>>42587782
Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, you're not smart enough
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>>42587782
> the best way to go about losing body-fat?
Not the best way, but it would work, in theory. The whole concept unsustainable though and if you fuck up on the first half of the week, you're going to be having a hard time with the rest. There will be days where you physically cannot be in a deficit of 1400 calories, then what? You'll start subtracting calories from the rest of your days and you'll find that you're just doing what everybody else does: spreading the deficit amongst the full week instead of half of the week.
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>>42587782
This is what i normally do
>-250 on lifting days
>-750+ on rest days
On my lifting days i tend to eat more carbs than on rest days
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