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Old 01-29-2007, 05:02 PM
red92gt red92gt is offline
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Default Too much deficit?

LONG VERSION:
Suppose you need 2000 calories a day to maintain, and you are entering a cutting phase. It's a known fact that if you eat too little your metabolism slows down and you go into a fat conservation mode. It is also (so far as I've heard) considered healthy to lose up to 1.5 pounds per week, which could be accomplished by eating 1200 calories per day. So, theoretically, 1200/day for this person is about as low as you want to go without making the body to resort to conservation. This leads to the question at hand- suppose this person burns about 500 calories per day in cardio, and consumes 1400 calories per day. This would lead to a gross of only 900 calories per day. However, this would theoretically be safe, correct? I say this because the body is still getting enough food, so I wouldn't think it would start to conserve fat. Thoughts?

SHORT VERSION:
If you are cutting and eat 500 below maintenance but also burn 500 in exercise (lets say your maintenance is 2000, so you would in effect be consuming 1000 calories per day), will your body still go into the fat conservation mode that it does when you don't eat enough, even though you are eating a healthy amount, just burning more off?
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