I gotcha. Those calories are drastically low for your activity level and body weight/height. I would boost them up to around 2,000 on workout days, at LEAST. See how you feel with 2,000 calories. if you feel tired and sluggish, you can boost them another 200-300. But 1,500 is definitely too low.

Ok raynor.

Thank you very much.

I was just wondering if it was fine because I don't feel that tired or sluggish now. I just want maximum loss and I feel I can maintain this diet.

Just don't want to starve my body into retaining fat.

This post was edited by Miniflight on Jan 11 2013 05:26pm

How many calories do I need per day to gain mass, I am currently 5'8 140 lbs.

how do you flex your lats? im trying to learn how to flex em and i haven't made any progress

Do you know anything about rock climbing? Im looking for some workouts that will make me stronger for climbing. So I guess arms back core

Raynor....

Do you think there is a different ingredient in the optimum pro complex that could be causing my face to break out?

My diet is pretty clean besides the occasional ice cream.... I cannot figure out what is causing my face to break out so bad.
I eat plenty of vegetables and clean foods and drink so much water.
I always clense. moisturize good... nothing has changed.....

The past 2 months my face has been breaking out like bad... I haVENT HAD breakouts like this since high school.

THe ONLNy thing that is different is the protein.... I switched from ON 100% NATURAL WHEY to ON NATURAL PRO COMPLEX. for the past 2-3 months

that is it.

I have "experimented" in the past and MILK and CANDY does cause my face to break out.... as well as when i took kre alklyn ( i cycled it many times and everytime i was on it my face would break out)

WTF!?

I threw the rest of my pro complex away ( had a little) i have some 100% ON WHEY natural... but im going to stay away from the supps for a few weeks and see if i notice a difference...

I really think its the pro complex. ( I hope it is )

do you think caesin actually works before you go to bed? & is it better to mix all protein shakes with water instead of skim milk? i like the taste more with milk and i need the calories of it really..

Raynor I was planning on going on a cut soon.
I'm not doing an intense swimming during this season although i plan on swimming still bout an hour or a day
my schedules gonna be mostly school with
Workouts MWF
and swim 5 days a week
(MWF I'll be swimming 1st then working out)

I was trying to calculate many P/C/F
and got about
192g P
275g C
70g fat
(Approx 2500 cals) although I might have to adjust this I've been eating 2500-3000 calories when I swam 2 hours etc

Is this too high or low?
I'm 5"8
170 approx
looking to drop to 165 for Master program in the summer (swim) then just maintain

I wanted to cut right now while I don't have any intense swimming.
Most of the practices I have will just be moderate intensity just so I don't lose swim shape

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=121703981
is what i got my info off of

am i on the Right track or way off?
I've never actually counted macros before always just estimated calories

my carbs seem high. Is that normal?

This post was edited by Shekkie on Jan 12 2013 09:19pm

can i put KCl from shakers into empty capsules as a supplement? i tried shaking it on food but it's quite nasty. i'm taking 2 avocados a day for fats/fiber/potassium, but that's nowhere near the 4000+mg potassium you recommend and the 99mg capsules i can buy are incredibly annoying.

What would the difference of training & volume in a caloric deficit (cut) have on the muscle size and strength?

For example, if you trained 4 sets with ~1.5 min break between sets for 8-12 reps [ high reps, high volume, a lot of exercises] compared to 3 sets, ~3 min breaks between, ~6 reps to failure .