1200 calorie deficit diet

28 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this informal YouTube segment, the speaker argues that a modest daily calorie target (around 1,700 kcal) can produce greater weight loss than an extreme 1,200 kcal plan. The key point is that weight loss depends on the total weekly calorie deficit, not daily restriction. Severe restriction often leads to intense hunger, especially on weekends, causing binge eating that can push weekly intake far above the intended deficit (e.g., up to 2,000 kcal per day). By choosing a slightly higher, more sustainable calorie level, individuals avoid starvation, maintain better adherence, and ultimately consume fewer calories over the week, achieving a larger net deficit.

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You will lose more weight eating 1,700 calories versus if you ate 1,200 calories, and here's why. For you to lose weight, you need to be in a weekly calorie deficit. So if you're trying to eat 1,200 calories, you might make it a couple of days out of the week if you're lucky, but because you've deprived yourself, you get to the weekends and you're fucking starving. So you end up way— Eating more. Overeating. So for this whole week, you didn't eat 1,200 calories, you actually ate 2,000 calories. If you just would have ate more calories to begin with, you won't end up starving yourself, over-restricting, and then binging, and you'd actually end up eating less weekly calories by simply just eating more calories to begin with.