Trying to be in a calorie deficit? Watch this!

23 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief fitness advice video, the speaker explains that when aiming for fat loss, maintaining your daily calorie target is more important than meeting your protein goal on a given day. If you have already reached your calorie limit, you should not add extra protein that would exceed that limit. Instead, accept a shortfall in protein for that day and simply ensure you meet your protein target the following day. The core message is that overall calorie control drives fat loss, while protein intake can be adjusted across days.

If you are trying to lose fat and you have already hit your calorie goal for the day, but you are under on your protein goal, the best thing you can do for fat loss is to just stay at your calorie goal. Do not eat more protein, which would then put you over your calorie goal, because the most important thing for fat loss is your overall calories. And so if you're short on protein one day, that's fine. Just get right back to it and hit it the next day.