Questions about cutting weight

[Andario]

Since Monday I have been restricting caloric intake, mostly from carbohydrates. I am still eating a balanced diet. I have been running sprints and lifting weights. I have made sure that I am still meeting the recommended daily intake of the macro and micro nutrients. I am running between a 1000-1500 calorie deficit a day (2,400 calorie Estimated Energy Requirement normally) depending on activity level, and guessing metabolic expenditure. I was planning on continuing this until next Sunday, making it a full 2 weeks, and then increasing intake again to normal levels. Please give information as to whether I am going about this correctly in manner and length, and some of your own experience with cutting weight.

[compleks]

2 weeks won't accomplish much.

Do you mean that you are eating 1000 to 1500 calories below maintenance? That is a huge deficit.

[Andario]

No, I'm eating about 500-750 below each day, then adding on 500-750 from exercise and EPOC (guestimate). If there's 3500 calories in a pound, I should end up losing about 5 pounds after 2 weeks. I didn't have too much fat to begin with, I just wanted a fast way to cut it down a bit, then continue with regular eating and still lose more gradually from exercise.

[Andario]

I think I'm going about it the wrong way and trying to rush things too fast. I'm doing sprints, I'm lifting, my body fat percentage isn't that high anyways. I just need to gain some more muscle mass and definition and that should solve my problem. I will just eat the way I was before, which will still result in a net fat loss because I'm increasing my exercise quite a bit from what it was. Not to mention the more muscle I build the more energy they will burn.

[compleks]

I think I'm going about it the wrong way and trying to rush things too fast. I'm doing sprints, I'm lifting, my body fat percentage isn't that high anyways. I just need to gain some more muscle mass and definition and that should solve my problem. I will just eat the way I was before, which will still result in a net fat loss because I'm increasing my exercise quite a bit from what it was. Not to mention the more muscle I build the more energy they will burn.

Much smarter.

I wouldn't want to maintain a deficit above 500cal for a prolonged period of time.

[linkrjh]

I've had a deficit of like 750-1000cal/day (sometimes more) for 3 and a half weeks and am gonna go 2 and a half more. I feel weaker and less capable in just about every way, but not by much and I'm looking more and more ripped.

My muscle mass has gone down a bit, but my strength in terms of lifts isn't reduced that much, and like I said before I'm looking way more ripped.

Not the healthiest method (probably the least healthy, lol), but I had the goal of ripped ass abs by the 24th of March and this seems to be working. I know it's at the cost of mass and strength, but I was pretty big before and I'm still big enough for people to say/think I'm big, and my strength really isn't dropping so much which is most important to me. But hey, my abs are getting shredded and I had a barely visible six pack before.

[NightHunter]

I've had a deficit of like 750-1000cal/day (sometimes more) for 3 and a half weeks and am gonna go 2 and a half more. I feel weaker and less capable in just about every way, but not by much and I'm looking more and more ripped.

My muscle mass has gone down a bit, but my strength in terms of lifts isn't reduced that much, and like I said before I'm looking way more ripped.

Not the healthiest method (probably the least healthy, lol), but I had the goal of ripped ass abs by the 24th of March and this seems to be working. I know it's at the cost of mass and strength, but I was pretty big before and I'm still big enough for people to say/think I'm big, and my strength really isn't dropping so much which is most important to me. But hey, my abs are getting shredded and I had a barely visible six pack before.

If I had to guess, I would say that what others think of your physique is more important to you.

[linkrjh]

Maybe :/