1000 calerie deficit how long till I get a 6 pack abs?

[AlexKid]

Im 210 lbs about 17 pc body fat


I want a 6 pack of abs, so im working out with weights some cardio and im only consuming 1500 a day.


Realistically how long till I get visible 6 pack of abs approximately? (and a good face again)

Also how much does total weight go down? My weight doesn't seem to go down much my fat seems to go down faster than my weight.

[Heavyhands420]

Depends how tall you are. Good tip for burning fat though is 3500 calories= 1lb of fat so if you burn 4500 a day and only eat 1000 then effectively burned 1lb of fat off your body

[HedonisticFrog]

12% body fat is generally when you can somewhat see abs. You'd need to lose 5% of your body weight to get there which would be a little over 10lb. this is assuming your 17% body fat is accurate. If you're saying your face is chubby it's probably higher than 17%. How did you calculate your body fat percentage.

If you train hard every day you'd expend roughly 4000 calories a day. That would leave you at a 2500 calorie deficit.

There's 3500 calories in a pound of fat and you need to lose 10lb so that's 35000 calories. If you lose 2500 calories a day that's 14 days.

That's a really big caloric deficit, but if you can actually maintain it you'll drop weight very quickly.

[AlexKid]

12% body fat is generally when you can somewhat see abs. You'd need to lose 5% of your body weight to get there which would be a little over 10lb. this is assuming your 17% body fat is accurate. If you're saying your face is chubby it's probably higher than 17%. How did you calculate your body fat percentage.

If you train hard every day you'd expend roughly 4000 calories a day. That would leave you at a 2500 calorie deficit.

There's 3500 calories in a pound of fat and you need to lose 10lb so that's 35000 calories. If you lose 2500 calories a day that's 14 days.

That's a really big caloric deficit, but if you can actually maintain it you'll drop weight very quickly.

Face fat comes easy to me, can already see the outlines of a 6 pack but its also obviously covered in a layer of fat too and I dont mean like Ehonda you coont


Im losing 1000 calories a day

So maintenance is about 2500, 2000 is slow loss 1500 is fast loss


I think it will take half a year

[HedonisticFrog]

Face fat comes easy to me, can already see the outlines of a 6 pack but its also obviously covered in a layer of fat too and I dont mean like Ehonda you coont


Im losing 1000 calories a day

So maintenance is about 2500, 2000 is slow loss 1500 is fast loss


I think it will take half a year

with 35000 calories to lose from 10lb of fat and 1000 calorie deficit a day it would take 35 days to lose 10 lb. It's simple math.

[Richard P]

with 35000 calories to lose from 10lb of fat and 1000 calorie deficit a day it would take 35 days to lose 10 lb. It's simple math.

Agreed with the maths, but you a working on the assumption that every day is a constant, no fatigue, no injury, no sickness and all training sessions are equal, you dont have an anniversary dinner, kids party, work late, you know the real world stuff

whilst i do not disagree with HeadonisticsFrog's numbers, Realistically, throwing in real world variables such as above i would say 70-90 days

[Richard P]

12% body fat is generally when you can somewhat see abs. You'd need to lose 5% of your body weight to get there which would be a little over 10lb. this is assuming your 17% body fat is accurate. If you're saying your face is chubby it's probably higher than 17%. How did you calculate your body fat percentage.

If you train hard every day you'd expend roughly 4000 calories a day. That would leave you at a 2500 calorie deficit.

There's 3500 calories in a pound of fat and you need to lose 10lb so that's 35000 calories. If you lose 2500 calories a day that's 14 days.

That's a really big caloric deficit, but if you can actually maintain it you'll drop weight very quickly.

But yes, 12% is considered the average male golden number, some will find it at 14% some 11%

Also it is very hard to measure yourself with calipers and those machines at your local pharmacy where you put a coin in and it does your height/weight/BMI and you hold the electrodes for the body % have shown huge inaccuracy's and swings between machines

[AlexKid]

Agreed with the maths, but you a working on the assumption that every day is a constant, no fatigue, no injury, no sickness and all training sessions are equal, you dont have an anniversary dinner, kids party, work late, you know the real world stuff

whilst i do not disagree with HeadonisticsFrog's numbers, Realistically, throwing in real world variables such as above i would say 70-90 days

Is that a loss from fat or muscle?

[AlexKid]

with 35000 calories to lose from 10lb of fat and 1000 calorie deficit a day it would take 35 days to lose 10 lb. It's simple math.

are you sure it will come off fat at that rate and not muscle and fat together?

[AlexKid]

so whats the rate of loss 2lbs a week for how many calories? Pure fat ?


So 3,500 calories for 1 pound of fat 7000 a week for 2?


How do you know how many lbs = fat loss as apposed to just weight loss?


Losing 10lbs is meaningless to me I want to loose 10lbs of fat