Diet question, is caloric intake roughly proportional to body weight? I've started a diet. Help me not quit on day 2.

I found a BMR calculator online. Roughly my friend's BMR based on her age, height and weight would be 1131. Mine would be 1762 or 55% higher.

So is what some AI bot told me true - caloric needs are roughly proportional to weight?

Quit your diet and run sub 3 instead. Win this site back!

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I'm concerned that the plan has weights of foods in grams. I thought you were American!

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

I could eat 1200 calories for breakfast and still lose weight. Depends on who you are and what you do throughout the day. But yes, 1200 cals a day for any man would probably feel like starvation. You could probably lose weight from 180 eating 2k calories a day and exercising/running.

Lets all point and laugh, rojo's on a diet hahahahahah

hello rojo,

so far your doing real good as you lost 2 pounds on day 1 as that's more than most people.

i agree with you that meal plans are good as you don't have to think about what you want to cook as the recipes are given for you.

you probably should eat more than your wife and your friend as you weigh more than them

but then i ask myself, wow, do they weight 120 together or they each weigh 120 or is that their average weight? but i see you weigh over 180 yourself

tho if you lose 2 pounds on day 1 and you stayed at this plan you could lose 2 pounds on day 2 as 2 + 2 is 4 as in one months that's 60 pounds as you could be down to 120 in one month as that's the same weight as your wife + your wife's friend or just one of them as I'm not sure which

for the lunch you had, that looks pretty good tho i have to ask what's cauliflower race as i don't know what race is. also, cooking spray has a ton of calories so cut that out

also before you said you went to orange theory hows that going as working out can be real good too for weight and for health

lemme know exactly the answers to my questions

thanks

-Fitness Rep

Stop drinking.

Quit being angry and then self-medicating with alcohol and poor food choices.

Restructure your business, take back control of the site, strip bad moderators of their site access, and then change all of the passwords.

In all seriousness, once you have more control over your business and your life, the pounds will come off. The constant cortisol dump that you call daily life is what made you fat.

Why not take the long game and build a "diet" that is sustainable for the long term? Instead of something temporary that is destined to fail? Accept that your weight loss goals will take longer, but you'll eliminate the need for doing this again in a year when you inevitably put the weight back on because no one can eat 1000cals a day for more than a month or two.

This isn't losing weight to look good in wedding photos, this is your long term health at this point. Time to plan your eating for the next 40 years, not 40 days.

This would suggest Rojo had a 7000 kcal deficit on day 1. Did you do an ultra marathon on day 1 Rojo? Or just a big poo and a bit dehydrated on day 2?

the long game can actually be detrimental to health as if you take too long to get healthy then that means you are unhealthy for longer too. so if you take two years to quit cigarettes thats another two years of cigarettes when you could have just quite cigarettes on day one as that's what your saying here as if Rojo is unleahty and overweight and he takes too long to loose weight then he'll be unleahty and overwight for even longer.

i dont know if rojo's plan is to lose weight so very quickly aka crash dieting but if it is i think that's a good plan in my mind. as in my experience if you can lose a ton of weight very quickly your body will adapt to this new weight. think of workign out a ton for one month straight after not working out for a long time your body will be very tired at first as its adapting but then after that one month your more used to working out as that whats happening here

my advice is for rojo to lose as much weight as he can for one month and then his body will adapt and he'll be able to stay at that weight once he stops losing weight as fast

Agreed. Does Rojo remember from when he ran the difference between crash training and the patient, long-term, sustainable approach that led to his brother running just over 28:00 for 10K?

this is from the NIH on the benefits of low calorie dieting:

VLCDs provide <800 kcals/day. These diets lead to rapid weight loss. Lean body mass is preserved by providing adequate dietary protein in the form of milk, soy or egg-based powder which is mixed with water and consumed as a liquid31,32. Such diets provide 80 g carbohydrate and 15 g fat/day. Recommended daily allowance (RDA) of essential vitamins and minerals is also ensured. The source of protein may be from lean meat, fish and poultry33,34. These diets must be supplemented with a multivitamin and 2-3 g/day potassium and adequate fluid intake31.

A study35 has shown that VLCDs not only have beneficial effect on weight but also lead to remission of type 2 diabetes. The authors found that about 40 per cent of study participants achieved ‘remission’, i.e., fasting plasma glucose of <7 mmol/l (126 mg/dl), and this lasted for several months. Along with weight loss, normalization of liver fat content was also seen. Interestingly, the dropout rate was low. Thus, a short-term VLCD intervention is successful in inducing the weight loss and achieving favourable metabolic profile including reversal of type 2 diabetes mellitus35.

By my calculations you’ll weigh -370lb at this time next year. Keep it up!

your joking as that's not possible but I do think if he lost as many pounds in one month as he could loose then that would be good for him for the reasons ive stated and the reasons i found in the NIH article as losing weigth FAST can be GOOD

Hello Rojo,

Your diet is directly proportional to your body weight.

In my bodybuilding days, I was eating between 1700-4700 calories depending on time of year, but 1 thing was constant - 1g protein per lb of body weight.

Theres plenty of online calculators to help you work out how much you need, but many many people over complicate this.

Weight yourself every few days. Write down exactly what you eat on your diet. Is your weight dropping at a rate of .5-1lb per week, then you’re good. If it’s not going down, then move more or eat less.

When you’re dieting and hungry hungry, lettuce and courgettes are your best friend. IMO, do not sacrifice all fats from your diet, you’ll need it for regular hormone production, especially in a caloric deficit.

I’ve used some intense, RFL diets in my bodybuilding days. They’re not for everyone, that’s for sure. Incredibly effective though if you can stick to them!

7mmol is insanely high for fasting blood sugar. Even in my offseason at 235-240lbs and eating 4500+ cals per day I kept it consistently below 5mmol fasted. If you’re up anywhere near 7 serious intervention is needed imo