Thread 76610767

>Decided to buy a scale once and for all and start a diet.
>Calculated my TDEE.
>3,000 calories a day.
>Started weighing everything I eat, and it's a realization that 100-200 grams of food is quite a lot.
>Swapped white rice for potatoes.
>Feeling completely full.
>The macros are still misaligned, carbs sometime don't even reach 50%, fat intake was over for a few days, but a switch to leaner meat is helping to calibrate it better, and protein ends up being a little over 20% too high.
Will see the one-week progress this Friday, but this really doesn't feel right. It makes sense to be in a deficit, but the amount of food hasn't changed at all compared to how much I used to eat. The expectation was that portions would drop drastically and that I would never stuff myself like I used to.

>>76610767 (OP)
I'm confused, is your issue that your cut is too pleasant?

>>76611765
I'm just sharing my experience with a broken expectation I had. I always assumed that starting to weigh my food for a cutting phase would be torture, forcing me to give up the foods I enjoy or leaving me constantly hungry (I have a big appetite).

>>76611790
If you are actually in a deficit, just give it a month

>>76610767 (OP)
It's possible you were lucky and your natural metabolism is even-keeled enough that it doesn't take much to put you into a deficit. Regardless, if you're in week 1, I'd wait until you're at it for at least a month to see how you feel and how effectively you're actually losing weight

>>76611809
>>76611825
I have seen the recommendation to increase the deficit if the cutting phase doesn't work, which would be my plan B. This is because even with a TDEE of 3,000 calories, and although it seems to make sense since I do moderate weight training 4-5 times a week, there's a chance it's not what I actually burn.
In the first three days, I started by consuming 2,000 calories, and in the last two, I lowered it to 1,500. This was unintentional; the idea was to stick to a 1,000-calorie deficit, as my research indicated it would be the most aggressive approach. I'm not sure how harmful a 1,500-calorie deficit would be.
If I gain weight, I'll know I'm doing something wrong (though my paranoia of checking the app and my research 2-3 times tells me I'm not), or that my TDEE is much lower. However, the idea is to monitor this every week and make adjustments accordingly.