I would want more of a solid protein intake especially during a cut. Never really cared for those juice fad diets, too little calories can crash your metabolism.
Idk how much I believe that except for extreme circumstances....like deathly low calories and body fat circumstances. Survival mode.
Here is my thoughts from reading a few studies.
1st, as you lose mass you expend less calories and need to eat less calories to lose weight. That is fact. However, when I eat 2000 calories a day, I can hit a plateau around 168 lbs. when I eat 1000 a day, I do lose fat quicker (not 2x quicker, but significantly quicker), and still plateau...but this time is often is at a significantly lower weight. I plateau but at a point that is corresponding to the calories in a sense that I eat.
2. If I do resume a normal diet right away, I gain weight QUICK. That’s normal in my opinion, you can’t jump back and forth dramatically, just take your time. Reintroduce calories 200-300 more per week. Before you know it you’ll be back at your maintenance that corresponds to your current weight.
3. For example to all of this, assuming I didn’t lose ANY muscle, if I eat 500 calories a day I WILL WITHOUT A DOUBT, eventually become Ghandi like!(emaciated look)
In this sense, if you continue to eat a low calorie diet and weight train and maintain the SAME level of activity (don’t get lazier or workout less), you will keep burning calories
. Also utilize calorie cheat days here and there.
Now, maybe this all works for me because I am almost always using EC stacks or other thermogenesis based supplements when cutting. AND I take testosterone
This is just my opinion and works for me. I don’t buy all the starvation mode arguments, unless you get so low that you are actually starving
