So I have been lurking in this sub and learning a lot about IF. One thing i see gets mentioned a lot is “calorie deficit”. What is that?
From my research I believe it is eating 400-500 less than your daily needed calorie? Is that correct? I did all the calculations. My CW is 213 lbs and GW is 150 lbs. Found out my daily calorie is 1620. So in order to be calorie deficit and to lose weight, i need to eat 1200?
Thanks.
Look up TDEE and you’ll be able to find a calculator, it’ll tell you what calories you need to just to live, you’ll work out if you’re sedentary/active and what calories you should burn with that, plus how much to eat so it becomes less than what you burn-up and this equals your deficit. Does that make sense? It should work out that you burn up more in being alive/working out than what you eat.
Calorie deficit is simply eating less calories than you need to maintain your weight. Just like deficit spending is.. spending more than you earn, a calorie deficit is spending more calories than you earn.