Need help cutting cals!

[Hoppy]

I've tried fallowing the 1600 cal diet that the cutting thread talks about but by the 3rd day i no longer had the energy to do my job(I mount truck tires 8hs a day).

How do i calculate how my calories my body burns in a day? I figure i need to stick closer to that number so i don't run myself out of energy again.

I'm 5'11" and 175lbs. 34in waistline.

Any articles you guys could point me to on the subject would be greatly appriciated. Thanks guys.

 

[CLOONEY]

I would go to a neutritionalist/diatician (however you spell both of those names, but u know what I mean) and ask them for some professional advice.

 

[line_in_the_sand]

http://www.ironaddicts.com/articles/lose bodyfat.htm

This diet works! Trust me!

HOW I KNOW:
20% at the start of the diet.

8% at the end of the diet. Could have gone lower, but I didn't want to, was tired of dieting.

Took me about 12 weeks.

 

[semag]

That doesn't look too bad of a diet program... I was looking at it and it looks a lot like what this one guys "sazuki" always advocates.

When sazuki told us about it, he never put the ratios up like that, I can see that working, and here's why.

The guy says to get 1.5 - 2 g of protein per lb. Let's say you weigh 200 lbs, that'll be 300-400 g's of protein per day.

He also says to make sure about 40-50% of your diet is fat during your low carb eating. IF you go purely with 50% protein and 50% fat, then at 1.5g of protein per lb of body weight, you'll have 300 g of protein, and 133 g of fat, which will translate to 2400 calories. (1200 cal (protein) + 1200 cal (fat) = 2400). I could see a calorie defecit at 2400 or so if you weigh that much, and that number will go down for every lb of bodyweight less.

I think the overall caloric number is probably less, because of the fact that he throws in 65-100 g of protein in a post workout shake (factored into the 1.5/lb bodyweight) and also the 65-100 g of carbs... which is 5 calories/gram less than fat. There's also the 40/30/30 meal he mentioned post workout... I bet the numbers will come around 2000-2200 calories a day for a 200 lb guy, which is definitely a fat burning diet.