But cutting is a bitch. Be it full blown cut or mini cut.

Woah, no need for the vulgarity I believe.

For one, the threads are here for a reason - information is plenty. Most people here do not encourage spoon feeding and its best for newbies to read through info on the board rather than throwing a stick saying they wanna lose weight and how to do it. Its way too lazy and easy, and most of the time it shows lack of determination, if any at all.

Your earlier advice is not right nor is it wrong. In my opinion, whatever works for each individual. However I would disagree on avoiding all carbs/ sugar. Yes they are "bad" when taken in excess but there's no need to restrict too tightly. Would be good to have cheat days or cheat meals. Otherwise a lot of these "diets" would not sustain for long.

Perhaps you can try what bos. cuci bos. said

Hey guys,

What are the consequences of not eating the average calories needed by the body daily? I want to know best on whether have you all tried this method. Thanks in advance.

I've been trying to lose weight for the last month. Only lost about 2-3kg. I would say I am 20kg overweight.

All I've done so far is replace my rice and carbs with vegetables, but of equal volume unless im counting wrongly . Sitting at a desk 9-5.

Estimate calorie intake 1600kcal. (Usually I eat 3k)

Any suggestions?

Is exercise the main thing that I'm lacking  (did 5 push ups = sore)

Or is there something else in my diet that I'm doing wrong? In particular, I still eat ALOT but it's mostly vege

I was 135kg 6 months ago, now 115 kg with a lot more muscles. Height is 6 feet. What i did was:

1) Half my rice. I just can't get rid of my rice, just love it too much.
2) No sugar, only occasional chocolate.
3) Loads of protein. Huge chicken eater.
4) Exercise twice a day, total of at least one hour a day. Wake up immediately go jogging or elliptical machine. Get back from work, do calisthenics and weight lifting.
5) Instead of driving, i walk 5km everyday to and fro the train station. Well my fitbit says i regularly walk more than 8km a day.
6) Resist getting a girlfriend. Although losing weight has caught the attention of many many girls, I decided it would divert my attention away from my weight loss. Until I become less than 100kg, I won't get into a relationship.

I have to admit my dieting is not as impressive as others as I do still eat junk. But I'm not looking to get that cut look anyways, prefer the strongman or rugby player look. Gonna start replacing the calisthenics with gym after raya.

Thanks. It looks like useful advice.

Is it safe or beneficial to eat chicken and eggs cold after overnight (up to max. 3 nights) storage in refrigerator? I'd like to prep meals but there is no microwave in my office. There is a fridge though.
Typically I make 2 handful of green (usually romaine, butterhead), 2 hard boiled eggs, a palm sized chicken breast (grilled in oven with a dash of olive oil + spices), some cherry tomato or tomato slices, and half a lime/lemon to be squeezed or apple cider vinegar to taste.
I have been doing it, and eating cold for a while...and recently it got rather bland. I have been alternating the lunch with simple overnight oats, typically 5 spoon of rolled oat + 1 banana + crushed almond + fresh milk/yogurt.
As you can see, everything is to be served cold...any suggestion besides getting a microwave?

hey guys... so i've been following this diet where i eat 200-300 kcal above my TDEE besides working hard at the gym. for the past few weeks i've been losing some body fat tho which i'm absolutely thrilled about even though i'm technically bulking. i guess it's body recomposition since i'm fairly new at the gym. i can already see some outline of my six packs especially at the top part of my abs. but i still have some significant fat on my love handles. should i lower my calorie intake? or should i just follow through with my current diet? i heard that the love handles are the hardest fat to get rid of. seriously if i finally get rid of my love handles i'd be the happiest person in the world.

What i can say is that i have read a little about the life of Siddhartha aka popularly known to the world as Buddha. He used to go out to ask for alms and he would not take food more than that can be held in his palms. I have personally tried this way to measure the amount of food i eat and believe me it really is Enough. I dropped 10 kilos after doing this for 2 months, and now my stomach cannot take it when i over-eat.

Anybody has experience with intermittent fasting? How did it go?

I don't count my calorie intake and macros. Should I?
176cm tall
Now at 75kg.

Breakfast: I eat two whole eggs in the morning with a latte(coffee with creamer without sugar)
Lunch: Chicken Rice(Breast meat), deskinned. Some Vege and half of the rice(sometimes less) - IF chap fun the dishes i take is something along that lines
Tea time : Latte (coffee with creamer without sugar) + a one tea spoon of Stephi's peanut butter(no added sugar)
Dinner :  Rice (two spoonful). economy rice which is delivered to my house one meat dish, one vege and one Misc dish(tofu, fish cakes, fish balls)
Post Workout : one tea spoon full of peanut butter then straight to dinner.

I just try to eat as healthily as possible. Less fried food, less carbo but not completely removed and more vege ....if eat kfc i order chicken breast and remove the skin.
I am thinking to stop drinking latte but change it to just black coffee.

I workout 3 days of weight training. Split body parts.
1 or 2 days I will do Tabatha HIIT (20 sec work 10 sec rest. exercise eg. burpees, jump squats, push ups, jumping jacks and various easy movements, i rotate once a while)
Used to do only 4 mins but now I can do 8 mins. Sometimes i go to the cycling machine and do that tabatha HIIT there instead.

So now the deal is I can see significant muscle definition on my arms and chest and back as well as legs(glutes, hamstring and calfs).
Somehow when i pinch my waist areas the amt of fats there is quite thick. BTW i hate working abs (once a week or fortnightly) and I only have the top two abs showing...anything below there is hot messy chunk of jiggly fat. I have the adonis belt lines seen as well. but in between the top ab and adonis belt .....its a chunk of fat.

* when i work out my abs i jsut cannot seem to get the mind to muscle connection. sometimes i do feel the contractions but those are from the upper and lower abs section the middle part where the body bends maciam no feel. Thats y when i workout abs..i stop midway cos i felt i am not hitting them right.

So the question now is ...do i ramp up my abs workout or issit i am still eating too much or too little (starvation mode which i read which is making me skinny fat...not eating too much that the body is trying to conserve fat.) Anyone can advice?

If he eats like me and drink apple cider vinegar pineapple cider strawberry cider peach cider durian cider, nothing is gonna happen.

So it must be true.

Just to share my experience losing weight

I was 91kg back in 2014... about 1 year later manage to lose 30kg

nowadays still maintaining my weight at 62kg

Good diet is key to this, I chose low carb high protein/fat diet since this started.

Feel full for longer so less eating

Added to this is exercise mostly cardio... jogging, running and jump rope, twice a week morning before breakfast.

Good luck to all