>Decided to buy a scale once and for all and start a diet.>Calculated my TDEE.>3,000 calories a day.>Started weighing everything I eat, and it's a realization that 100-200 grams of food is quite a lot.>Swapped white rice for potatoes.>Feeling completely full.>The macros are still misaligned, carbs sometime don't even reach 50%, fat intake was over for a few days, but a switch to leaner meat is helping to calibrate it better, and protein ends up being a little over 20% too high.Will see the one-week progress this Friday, but this really doesn't feel right. It makes sense to be in a deficit, but the amount of food hasn't changed at all compared to how much I used to eat. The expectation was that portions would drop drastically and that I would never stuff myself like I used to.
>>76610767I'm confused, is your issue that your cut is too pleasant?
>>76611765I'm just sharing my experience with a broken expectation I had. I always assumed that starting to weigh my food for a cutting phase would be torture, forcing me to give up the foods I enjoy or leaving me constantly hungry (I have a big appetite).
>>76611790If you are actually in a deficit, just give it a month
>>76610767It's possible you were lucky and your natural metabolism is even-keeled enough that it doesn't take much to put you into a deficit. Regardless, if you're in week 1, I'd wait until you're at it for at least a month to see how you feel and how effectively you're actually losing weight
>>76611809>>76611825I have seen the recommendation to increase the deficit if the cutting phase doesn't work, which would be my plan B. This is because even with a TDEE of 3,000 calories, and although it seems to make sense since I do moderate weight training 4-5 times a week, there's a chance it's not what I actually burn.In the first three days, I started by consuming 2,000 calories, and in the last two, I lowered it to 1,500. This was unintentional; the idea was to stick to a 1,000-calorie deficit, as my research indicated it would be the most aggressive approach. I'm not sure how harmful a 1,500-calorie deficit would be.If I gain weight, I'll know I'm doing something wrong (though my paranoia of checking the app and my research 2-3 times tells me I'm not), or that my TDEE is much lower. However, the idea is to monitor this every week and make adjustments accordingly.
