Sounds like you are already doing the right things, but a digital food scale + MFP premium; I don't find it that hard to track what I'm eating. Especially if I preplan the day and know for dinner I need 400g of chicken breast.. Whenever I start logging on the fly, the day usually goes to hell.Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 10:01 am
That's 1,500 out of 1,600 calories, and it is nearly impossible to be that precise when eating actual food. In practice, that means that if I don't work out at least some, I can't get the minimum protein I need, as there won't be enough calories left for the overlap. (I've actually had to start giving myself an extra 250 calories 'bonus' on my rest days in order to meet the demands.)
I don't eat my exercise loss, that's my deficit for the week often - eat to maintain, workout to lose; idea being that's long term manageable. Life got hectic and didn't make the workout? That's ok, you already ate to your macros for the day to maintain. Sounds like that approach might work for you?Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 10:01 am
But the challenge, more often than not, isn't in being hungry. I'm not. More often, the problem is that I get to the end of a day after I've done exercise that burend an extra 800 calories and not having enough of an appetite to cram the extra down my throat. Since the burned calories aren't always planned, I can't just eat extra throughout the day to prevent that last minute deficit.
Try the premier protein shakes from Costco - I drink the chocolate ones which are 30g protein, 3g Fat, 5g carbs and they taste pretty good. If I need a powder form I use Diesel whey isolate (chocolate), and mix in some dried PB powder (again costco).