kinda confused about your overall calorie intake? I see...based on info provided, 1000 cals eaten, 1700 left. to eat = 2700...if you take another 700 off that...IMO, TOO LOW...calorie deficient..you'll store more fat. People need to understand their bodies needs.
Take your weight, I'll use mine as an example...and add a '0'...
175 -> 1750 calories just to EXIST if I was comatose. Eat only this and body likely to go into starvation mode...
normal day to day moving around (unless you're mostly sednetary then lean towards the low end) of another 500-1000 caloires burned off just walking around, digesting food, going to the store, chores, etc...I'll pick 750 again for me to keep even numbers...actually 1000 is closer to my normal activities which get me over 10k steps a day..
So...2750 calories (not counting exercise) just to maintain my current weight/BMI, etc....
Toss in cardio, CIZE and/or weight workouts, snow shoveling...need to add another 500+ calories to what gets burned off....
So, 3250 calories a day typically for me to maintain my physique with training and to support recovery.
With training for increasing size, I need about 3500 cals/day.
Work out your numbers this way, and see how it compares with what you're doing. This is an easy way to estimate what you can calculate online with your Harris Benedict Equation BMR/BMI numbers.
Where you source your calories from too matters. 100 cals of processed foods (pour out of a box, add water, boil and eat) is not the same as low-processed foods of the same caloric value.
NOW...want to lose weight? Then keeping all your activities the same, reduce that down by maybe 250 cals/day....looking to bulk up a bit like I do some times when training hard, add another 250-350 cals.
Some would say you need bigger adds/subtracts to get more impact from your efforts, but:
a) unless you want to weigh everything,
b) risk too great of a calorie deficiency and impact exercise performance,
c) or risk too great a calorie add and pack on a few pounds...
I'd go with a lower increment, check progress every 2 weeks on scale, in mirror and with measurements. Results not enough, back off another increment of calories..(or add lol).
PLUS, one more thing....your body carries about 1 hr worth of stored glycogen. SO unless you knock out your 30 minutes of cardio first thing in the morning when you wake up in a calorie deficient state, if you're hitting your cardio later in the day after eating meals, you need to do atleast 90 minutes to get into the fat burning zone. No matter your caloric-intake deficiency, your body will maintain and replenish that glycogen store first...need 60 minutes of pretty intense exercise to work that off BEFORE you'll start burning fat.
Alternatively, if you do weights and cardio, do the weights first, without long rests in between sets, then finish off with your cardio.
Do NOT drink anything but water, doing 90 minutes of carido while sucking down worthless neon colored sports drinks you'll still be replenishing your stores and reset the clock before you'll get into fat burning mode.....
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