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Common Questions About Weight Loss Diets

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How Low Should You Go on a Cutting Diet?

I don't like to go below 30 grams a day for just about anybody now if you're above 150 centimeters tall then there is an equation that you can use. It's not sitting there in a study okay this is me just kind of piecing together literature and trying to find a generalizable heuristic which seems to be compatible with the evidence I've seen. The approach I take is I start by setting a protein target then I set a fat target  and somewhere within that range I feel comfortable with protein is set fat is set and then the rest of calories are coming from carbohydrate. If you're doing a decent amount of glycolic activity such as lifting or doing some form of

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