I am 5'11 and usually between 96 KG and 97 KG and semi active male.
My best competition weight was 91 KG but I look good and move well at 96. I decided to drop some weight to get back down to 91 KG. I went to a nutrionist (my gf) and IFBB PRO or something champion. I told her my goals which was stay at 91 KG.
I work out about 2 times per day, usually 35 to 50 mins of weight lifting body building split and 1 hour of MMA/Grappling/Muay Thai every day. I train usually 5 to 6 days per week. We all know sometimes grappling is not that much exertion.
So my GF gave me a diet plan when I was 94 KG , and it was 2500 KCAL a day to lose weight. Very clean and I stuck to it. Yet each week I kept putting on weight some muscle some fat.
After about 3 weeks I was at 98 KG. So she brought me down to 2300. I still stayed roughly at the same weight. After we went down to 2000 KCAL and I still maintained 96 to 97.
So we went to a extreme and I started eating 1500 to 1700 KCAL per day, just under 250 grams of protein(which was hard to do) and I started to lose weight, down to 93 in about 2.5 weeks.
My fitness GF started saying I must have been cheating because I should eat 3000 KCAL to maintain and 2300 I should drop a lot. I honestly said you think I would eat extra at 1000 calories but not eat extra at 1500 while you were not looking, and the weight is now coming off.
I have always been on the heavier side with muscle, yet I am not surprised due to slow metabolism that I can lose weight at 1500 and maintain at 2000. My family is a big one with wide midsections so at 91 I look pretty good with abs showing. And I do agree 1500 is low but it works for me.
So is it so weird that I need 2000 KCAL a day with my workout schedule?
My best competition weight was 91 KG but I look good and move well at 96. I decided to drop some weight to get back down to 91 KG. I went to a nutrionist (my gf) and IFBB PRO or something champion. I told her my goals which was stay at 91 KG.
I work out about 2 times per day, usually 35 to 50 mins of weight lifting body building split and 1 hour of MMA/Grappling/Muay Thai every day. I train usually 5 to 6 days per week. We all know sometimes grappling is not that much exertion.
So my GF gave me a diet plan when I was 94 KG , and it was 2500 KCAL a day to lose weight. Very clean and I stuck to it. Yet each week I kept putting on weight some muscle some fat.
After about 3 weeks I was at 98 KG. So she brought me down to 2300. I still stayed roughly at the same weight. After we went down to 2000 KCAL and I still maintained 96 to 97.
So we went to a extreme and I started eating 1500 to 1700 KCAL per day, just under 250 grams of protein(which was hard to do) and I started to lose weight, down to 93 in about 2.5 weeks.
My fitness GF started saying I must have been cheating because I should eat 3000 KCAL to maintain and 2300 I should drop a lot. I honestly said you think I would eat extra at 1000 calories but not eat extra at 1500 while you were not looking, and the weight is now coming off.
I have always been on the heavier side with muscle, yet I am not surprised due to slow metabolism that I can lose weight at 1500 and maintain at 2000. My family is a big one with wide midsections so at 91 I look pretty good with abs showing. And I do agree 1500 is low but it works for me.
So is it so weird that I need 2000 KCAL a day with my workout schedule?