Advice on my calorie consumption and training

discombobulate

I posted a couple of weeks ago about the plan I was going to try as i've injured my shoulder and can't do any upper body work for a while.

I was previously doing starting strength and trying to pack on some muscle but due to the injury i've decided to burn the fat now instead.

I'm 5'10 153lbs

Calorie intage at the moment is approximately 1500 - 1600 a day
Breakfast - 2 weetabix
Mandarin or banana
Lunch - Chicken or beef with veg and 1 scoop of mash
Apple or banana
Evening - Brown bread sandwich (cheese and ham) or brown bread with eggs or beans

Doing HIIT for 20 minutes 3 times a week on the treadmill while doing some squats lunges and aab work also. About 20 - 25 minutes walk to and from work also.

Just wondering what peoples opinions are on this routine for the moment. I'd say i'm at about 13% body fat at the moment. Bit of rubber tyre syndrome I want to get rid of

corkcomp

discombobulate wrote: »

I posted a couple of weeks ago about the plan I was going to try as i've injured my shoulder and can't do any upper body work for a while.

I was previously doing starting strength and trying to pack on some muscle but due to the injury i've decided to burn the fat now instead.

I'm 5'10 153lbs

Calorie intage at the moment is approximately 1500 - 1600 a day
Breakfast - 2 weetabix
Mandarin or banana
Lunch - Chicken or beef with veg and 1 scoop of mash
Apple or banana
Evening - Brown bread sandwich (cheese and ham) or brown bread with eggs or beans

Doing HIIT for 20 minutes 3 times a week on the treadmill while doing some squats lunges and aab work also. About 20 - 25 minutes walk to and from work also.

Just wondering what peoples opinions are on this routine for the moment. I'd say i'm at about 13% body fat at the moment. Bit of rubber tyre syndrome I want to get rid of

porridge would be better and salad better than bread in the evening .. however, thats just splitting hairs, your diet is good overall but dont drop any lower on the cals IMO

digme

Too few calories during recovery from injury is a great way to achieve your goals.Keep rushing into things, as your going to get phenomenal results every week.In fact, don't eat food at all.Sorry to hear about your shoulder.

Your training and dieting for fat loss is fine,your timing however is not.

discombobulate

digme wrote: »

Too few calories during recovery from injury is a great way to achieve your goals.Keep rushing into things, as your going to get phenomenal results every week.In fact, don't eat food at all.Sorry to hear about your shoulder.

Your training and dieting for fat loss is fine,your timing however is not.

Thanks for the input. Its a very slow recovering injury so I want to be doing something productive and not interested in just general fitness. My 2 goals were to put on muscle and then cut the fat but as I can't put on the muscle now i've decided to reverse it.

Thanks corkcomp on the calorie advice. I reckon i'm about 1000 cals under my maintenance which may be a little extreme but I don't go hungry. Not the greatest appetite in the world so finding the calorie cutting a lot easier than when I was trying to go over on the calories before Christmas.

Khannie

digme wrote: »

Too few calories during recovery from injury is a great way to achieve your goals.Keep rushing into things, as your going to get phenomenal results every week.In fact, don't eat food at all.Sorry to hear about your shoulder.

I don't understand what the point of this is? Are you just having a rant?

Khannie

discombobulate wrote: »

I reckon i'm about 1000 cals under my maintenance

If you're finding that level of deficit ok I'd say continue with it. That's about my limit and I lose about 1KG of fat a week at that. I get the cold hands buzz (a sign that I've entered starvation mode) if I try to go beyond it.

corkcomp

Khannie wrote: »

If you're finding that level of deficit ok I'd say continue with it. That's about my limit and I lose about 1KG of fat a week at that. I get the cold hands buzz (a sign that I've entered starvation mode) if I try to go beyond it.

yeah thats not good! I got that yesterday and im not even running a deficit, more of a surplus if anything... I did a very tough workout yesterday a.m and missed breakfast and by lunch time I knew all about it!

OP, if you are not hungry and feel fine then your on the right track .. 1500cals would be the lower limit for a guy

itsallaboutheL

discombobulate wrote: »

I posted a couple of weeks ago about the plan I was going to try as i've injured my shoulder and can't do any upper body work for a while.

I was previously doing starting strength and trying to pack on some muscle but due to the injury i've decided to burn the fat now instead.

I'm 5'10 153lbs

Calorie intage at the moment is approximately 1500 - 1600 a day
Breakfast - 2 weetabix
Mandarin or banana
Lunch - Chicken or beef with veg and 1 scoop of mash
Apple or banana
Evening - Brown bread sandwich (cheese and ham) or brown bread with eggs or beans

Doing HIIT for 20 minutes 3 times a week on the treadmill while doing some squats lunges and aab work also. About 20 - 25 minutes walk to and from work also.

Just wondering what peoples opinions are on this routine for the moment. I'd say i'm at about 13% body fat at the moment. Bit of rubber tyre syndrome I want to get rid of

:eek: Rubber tyre syndrome at 153lbs??

I'm about an inch taller than you and 72lbs heavier and currently wondering how to transport 3.5kg of mince, 42 eggs, a mountain of mozzarella and 4 cabbages home from shopping...

One of us is doing something wrong :pac:

corkcomp

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

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4 cabbages ...

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watch those carbs!

The spare tyre problem exists for most people TBH whether im 12st or 15st Ive got a bit... only way to get rid of it is eat cleanly and lift heavy + a lot of cardio .. I can usually manage any two of the above ...