experimenting with a 1600 kcal per day deficit cut from 2800kcal maintenance…
pickles are a gift from the gods snack between meals. also strawberries.
Discussion
That's a big deficit. Pickles are a great snack for sure. Good luck with that 💪 🧡
Napa cabbage and kimchi are also great snacks.
I'm a Big blueberry & watermelon snacker
Why the pickles? I need to cut back too but I'm Peating tonight and had ice cream to make sure my liver is fully loaded with sugar so I don't release any stress hormones :)
low calories, filling. probably going to replace it with some kind of protein snack
A friend’s dad is a Cardiologist. He’s a pretty big deal in those circles, with people coming to train with him from all over the world. He has eaten a jar of dill pickles every day for lunch for more than 30 years.
wow!
Save the jar. Even better are making your own. So easy, and takes very little time. Just buy or grow cucumbers, and add red pepper, or garlic, or just salt & pepper. 1000x better, and you’ll drink the brine.
sbf cucumber vibes 😂
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yeah kinda weird how filling they are. Pickle juice helped me a lot to finish my first 14 day fast after being stuck at 10 for a few attempts. I thought it was just the electrolytes, but you probably aren't terribly short on electrolytes during a calorie restriction diet, so... maybe pickles are special. maybe it's the explosion of flavor
Easy with the sodium there fren……
Drink an electrolyte drink. I’ve found it’s very helpful for appetite control. LMNT is ok but my personal favorite is Salt of the Earth. Plus, you can purchase it with lightning BTC. Definitely don’t get one that has a bunch of vitamins in them (you’ll see that some OTC electrolytes like liquid IV have a bunch of shit in them that you don’t need). Let your body guide what you need. I’d start with at least one packet a day but you may find that 1 to 3 per day on a cut like that will help a lot.
Just make sure if you’re doing that to get 1g of protein per lb of body weight. Also you don’t really want to lose more than 1% of bw per week in order to preserve muscle. Also make sure you’re lifting if you’re cutting as well. Godspeed it sucks lol
I've never been on a diet. Just don't eat like a pig.
For example for lunch you should eat 1 slice of pizza not 4. Most people seem to eat 3 or 4 slices of pizza during lunch.
They keep you hydrated too.
If you like pickled snacks try these:
That's a very aggressive calorie restriction. You'll lose weight fast but it's going to be miserable and it'll eat away at a lot of your muscle too.
shouldnt be too bad if I hit my protein targets
Great work with the fast. Don't know about the pickles though. 😲 Fairplay though. I'd be sticking to strawberries if those were my only options.
Experimenting with my own.
Baby watermelon next 🫡 
Snacking habits were gifted by satan
Should try for science 🔬