Hi Jordan, I appreciate all the information from you that I’ve put to good use over the years. One thing confuses me at the moment: I’m trying to shed a few kg’s at the moment while getting back to strength training after more than a year off (doing BM’s beginner prescription and HIIT), so I am cutting calories. I am following your To Be a Beast-articles recommendation of 11.43 calories per pound of bodyweight. Yet I see that you’re now recommending the NIH calculator (Body Weight Planner - NIDDK) for caloric intake guidelines (as far as I understand). That calculator puts my caloric intake significantly above (600+ calories) your recommendations from the article, even if I don’t put in any physical activity. So I don’t know which one to follow.
To make it specific: I’m 165 cm, 59 kg and “skinnyfat” - undertrained after a year of zero activity and skinny enough to fit into a size XS, but do have some very visible lovehandles and a little potbelly that I want to get rid of (cooking and baking bread is my main hobby lol). So I am now training 3x a week and I am implementing cardio as well.
What do you recommend? Big surprise, I know, but I’d obviously love to keep my caloric intake as high as possible while still being able to lose weight.
Thanks a lot.