Eating too little during cutting diet.

[nemesis]

Just another stupid question to put out there.

I'm following a cutting diet best I can, what with night shifts, kids holidays, visiting grandparents (who skim the fat off mince to make gravy out of!! urgh!! What the f#*k?) its not been to the letter exactley.

I'm on about 2800kcal a day, or should be, but keep missing meals and probably only getting about 2300-2000. Ive lost 2kg in 2 weeks but concerned its too little food and therefore I'm losing muscle?

Should I make a greater effort to get that extra meal in and lose less weight per week, but with better quality loss. Or just maintain my training and be happy I'm dropping weight so easily?

By the way, shouldn't I be hungier during a cutting diet? Its been pretty easy so far! Does it get harder the longer I deprive my body as its only been 2 weeks-ish.

Thanks

[mike27]

post up your diet and timing's and breakdown etc

hows your week for gym time? 5 day split?? post that up also

cardio?

[Android]

Be keen to hear what you do to lose fat...hope it's not just the cutting diet you speak of.

If you do enough quality cardio in the AM or post-workout you won't feel so bad about eating what you are calling "the wrong foods" sometimes.

If you want to know for sure what's going on (we can only speculate e.g. I don't even know what you weigh, height, bodyfat%, sedentary workplace? etc) get a regular bodyfat test done and work out the lean mass from that.

Sure it'll be a little inaccurate at first but you'll be able to graph your weight loss and if you lose 2kg one week but your bf doesn't drop by the same amount...the difference is lean muscle mass that you've lost.

This way saves guessing and making an adjustment without all the facts. Who knows you might be losing 2kg of bf and doing ok :-) hard to tell in the mirror when you're 15%+ as there's no abs or real definition to gauge progress.

[Diab0lic]

I wouldn't stress about 2kg in 2 weeks, I doubt it's muscle loss if you've been training and eating sufficient protein. As long as protein is a major component of your diet and you have kept lifting I don't think you're going to lose much if any muscle at 2300-2400 cals unless you're hyooge or have a rip-roaring metabolism, but yeah, post up your diet for critique (and your bf%)