Hi everybody,

I’ve been gyming for the last 4 years but I haven’t been cutting properly in my whole life before so I decided to try it right now.

I understand the basic TDEE and cutting down 300-500 calories per week as you go down the weight.

I’m currently weight 82KG
Targeting to lose 300 calories right now with 2230 calories per day

181g of protein
55g of fats
254g of carbs

Height=173CM
Fat percentage around 20%? My mii body fit calculated 28% but I went to celebrity fitness to calculate, the machine showed me I’m in 20% body fat.

My question is I heard lots of people would lose strength when cutting but it seems that I never lose any strength but sometimes can even lift heavier while losing 3 kg for these past weeks.

Am I doing this right or I never lose any fats actually? 🤔

And please comment on my macros since I’m a newbie in counting my macros intake and how much weight I should lost.

Lost of strength will hit you soon enough.

are you gonna cut carbs as well? deplete your glycogen supplies. my bodybuilder friends go for a 70% protein diet but i thought that's quite extreme.

Yes I cut on carbs little by little

You can maintain your strength while cutting but if prolong cutting your strength may be stagnant. Refeed by eating at your maintenance once in a while (maybe every 2 weeks for example) to keep you sane.

If you can maintain or even increase your strength while trimming the bodyfat, then keep doing what you are doing. Over time once you lose significant weight you need to recalculate your TDEE and macros. You can try cut some carbs and up the fat a little bit.

I’m more to carbs kind of guy... if possible I would like to cut my fats to a maximum (I don’t fancy nuts, peanut butter)

Anyway, how often do u recalculate the TDEE? After losing 3kg? 5kg?

Well fats can come from other sources like olive oil and butter. Too bad you dont like peanut butter.. its quite gooding lol.

You can recalculate after your fat loss stalls or you lose slower than expected. There is no hard rule for this but i would say recalc after 2 months as a ballpark figure.

If you can track your bodyfat loss it will be better than to track weight loss as you might gain muscle mass to offset that weight.