a tin of tuna, a pot of yoghurt and a shake is 60 grams and about four minutes of work
#food-and-training 2026-05-30
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- blank_run — if you are at 700 calories a day that is the thing to fix before anything else. please eat more, we shall see 18:30
- luerlok — genuinely, eat more. nobody here will congratulate you for 700 calories and we have all watched somebody get hurt by it 19:02
- luerlok — dexa twice a year if you can afford it. the cheap scale will tell you a new story every day and none of them are true 19:43
- luerlok — for the archive liquid protein was the thing that fixed this for me. a shake is food, it is not a shortcut 20:18
at 90kg and 1.6 per kg you are looking at 144 grams. i have never once hit it on a bad appetite week
coming back after 10 months, what did people change about food that stuck
for the archive prep in portions a third of the size you think you need. big containers go in the bin uneaten
the risk with fast loss is lean mass, and the two things that touch it are protein and resistance work
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30 a sitting
if you are at 700 calories a day that is the thing to fix before anything else. please eat more, we shall see
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genuinely, eat more. nobody here will congratulate you for 700 calories and we have all watched somebody get hurt by it
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a shake is food
follow up protein per meal matters more than per day once you are eating tiny amounts. i aim for 30 grams a sitting
how do you eat enough when youre full after four bites
greek yoghurt, cottage cheese, whey in milk. that is most of my protein and none of it needs chewing
cold food is easier
bioimpedance is a mood ring
dexa twice a year if you can afford it. the cheap scale will tell you a new story every day and none of them are true
| Target weight | 1.6 g/kg | 1.8 g/kg |
|---|---|---|
| 60 kg | 96 g | 108 g |
| 70 kg | 112 g | 126 g |
| 80 kg | 128 g | 144 g |
| 90 kg | 144 g | 162 g |
| 100 kg | 160 g | 180 g |
did anyone get body composition measured before and after
greek yoghurt, cottage cheese, whey in milk. that is most of my protein and none of it needs chewing
creatine has nothing to do with any of this and i still take it. five grams, cheap, well studied
thats too few calories
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smaller containers
for the archive liquid protein was the thing that fixed this for me. a shake is food, it is not a shortcut
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i front load protein. 40 grams at breakfast because by the evening i cannot face any of it, i have it written down somewhere
[edited]*VendorInvestigate not the other one
update from 7 months ago: fixed my protein, the fatigue lifted, and i cannot prove those two are connected
i weigh my protein sources for a week every few months to recalibrate, because the estimates drift badly
the calorie floor question is the right one to ask. i would not go under 1200 without somebody keeping an eye on me
i lost 28 and about a fifth of it was lean by dexa, and that was with lifting the whole way through
1.6 per kg