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My weight going from 212.2 to 206.8 in a matter of days and feeling lethargic is telling me my calories are LOW. I have had a few 1700 calorie days since last Sunday and I feel it. I usually don't feel like this until I'm like 6 weeks out from a show.Do you feel 2000 cals or so is too low, looking at cronometer post, from 3,000 or so, which was being took in not long ago?
Do you feel dropping 300-500 at a time would be better, despite raised hormone use ?
On low calories, while volume is dropped a bit, is intensity raised?
Do you adjust based on the mirror?
The training I lower the volume and up the poundage and lower the reps just a little. So short, intense, heavier workouts, where my normal is usually slow controlled time under tension training with a little higher rep range.
Yes dropping calorie slowly is the way I do things 98% of the time, but every once in a while I do short intense mini diets to drop quickly. Going out of town Memorial day weekend so figured I would hit a short hard diet. I actually did a short "skipload" last night after my workout which I wasn't planning to do, had about 300g of carbs and today I feel much better for another hard week push.