[cocu]

guys... this years i've been pigging out and since I had a coupple of gf's didnt give a flying a ****.. now i am single and unhappy with this 40 lbs I've gained in 7 months!!! I joined Jiu Jitsu and jog for an hour everyday... I wanna know around how many calories should I eat in cutting cycle ... O was thinking in 2000 ... how could I find out?

[getbigordietryn]

well as far as cals u nead atleast 2200-2500 thats what i call the normal peoples calorie intake. bodybuilding u eat alot of calories adding a few hundred calories to your diet every cuple weeks b.c your body ajust and then u nead to feed it more id say 4 a cuting diet since u run alot and do jui jitsu alot of complex carbs wud be good like a 50/30/20 carb/protien/fat%. stay away from trans and saturated fats. how many calories u nead can only realy be figured out by u. based on ur matabolism, how active u are, do u lift? u nead atleast enough cals to get u energy 4 ur daily routines, id start one week at 2500 cals aday spread thru 6-8 meals, then increase the cal intake. the mirors ur best friend every couple weeks look at where uv gaind or lost fat. gaining fat means deacreas your fat intake a loss of fat means stay where ur at. also when cuting u usualy loose sum muscle. so deffinatly weight train

[Thomas_Rivera]

Best honest way to find out is to weigh yourself in the morning after using the restroom. Do this on whatever day, eat whatever you usually eat and track every calorie. If you are the same weight a week later on the same day, same water intake, you are eating close to what it takes to mantain. If you are 1 pound higher you ate 3500 calories over your maintenance level, if you are a pound lower you ate 3500 under.

There are calculators that can give you a general calculation but the way I described is the more accurate route in my opinion. Good luck.

[BioBody]

Try to eat around 5 meals a day to keep your metabolism going. Try to eat before you feel hungry and do not eat until you are completly full. If you had a gadge of how hungry you were you would want to keep it around 30-70% trying to keep it around the middle as much as possible. I hope that made sense. This will boost your metabolism. Also try not to eat right alot of fats or carbs right before bed. You can have something that is high in protien (preferably a slow digesting protein) and low in calories, fat and carbs. Sattelite cells in your muscle will use the nutrients while you sleep to recover from your running and Jiu Jitsu