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Originally Posted by big I used to be the same way - I would maintain on about 2200-2400 calories. I now maintain on 4000 calories, and my weight is not THAT much different. When I was cutting at the beginning of last year, I was using 2000 calories. This year when I begin cutting, I'll be shooting for 3500 calories. On the 2000 calories I plateau'd at 10% and couldn't get lower, as I couldn't eat any less than that! Since I'll be cutting at 3500 this year, once I plateau, I'll just drop calories slightly as I'll have that flexibility. That's something I couldn't do at 2000 calories, and I'm sure that you'll struggle to do that too when you inevitably do plateau.
How I sped up my metabolism so much is a combination of getting half of my calories from protein (yes, 500g a day), 45-60 mins of VERY low intensity (walking) cardio every day (even when bulking) and cutting out carbs completely from mid-afternoon onwards. All of my fats (25-30% of my calories) come from flax, olive oil and fish oils.
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That's what happened once I got down to 14% and I just hit a plateau. I was told to do a short clean bulk and try raise my metabolism back up. I never though of doing VERY low intensity cardio while bulking that could be just what I needed. I'm wanting to hit the 10% mark this time so I'm hoping not to plateau to early... I think if I do plateau this time instead of cutting cals like I did last time (even as low as 1400 a day), I will increase cals a little and up the low intensity cardio... Thanks...