Cutting diet

To properly understand the meaning of a cutting diet, we must start from an analysis of basic but commonly misunderstood concepts.

When we look for a diet that suits our needs, the first thing we look for is to lose weight, we want to look thinner without first assessing where that weight that we are going to eliminate from our body comes from.

That is why most people do not usually separate the concepts of "losing weight" and "losing body fat", is it the same thing? You will deduce that no, but why?

Differences between losing weight and losing body fat

Losing weight is simply reducing our body weight in any way, and it is precisely the "any way" that makes this concept dangerous. If we were to reduce our muscle mass we would weigh less, and therefore we would have lost weight, but perhaps this is not what we want. Reducing our muscle mass is not going to make us healthier people, it will not eliminate excess fat from our body and it probably won't get us closer to the physique we are looking for.

There is not much science to losing weight. If you eat less you will lose weight, it is enough that the calories you spend are higher than those that enter your body to start noticing how your weight decreases.

All this becomes more complex when we want to reduce the fat in our body without affecting our muscle mass. If to lose weight the most important thing is the quantity and not what you eat; to lose body fat the formula will be analyzed in reverse.

We must find a balance that allows us to have a negative result in calories but rich in macronutrients that help us to protect our muscle mass in the process of decreasing the excess fat we want to eliminate.

All this we will see in more detail in this guide; and for this we will begin by analyzing the fundamental aspects that characterize this diet.

How to elaborate my cutting diet plan?

Having understood the above concepts we will proceed to explain in a simple way what are the aspects that distinguish the cutting diet and how we can create a plan to carry it out.

As we mentioned before, the first thing is to achieve a negative result between the calories we add and the calories we burn. This is the basic principle of any diet you are going to do.

Now, attending to the specificities of the cutting diet, we induce that you want this loss not to affect your muscle mass, so we will proceed to decrease the result of our calories either by decreasing the intake of foods poor in protein or by increasing the calories we burn through our exercise sessions.

We will balance this with a moderate increase of the proteins that we introduce to the organism, in such a way that we will be burning calories from our body while maintaining our muscular mass.

As you can see it is not about eating less, it is about knowing what we eat and with what intensity we are willing to burn calories through our training sessions. The success of this diet is based on a complex balance between exercise, calorie decrease and protein increase.

How much protein should I consume during the process?

Although there are quite accurate estimates on the amounts of protein we should consume in this process, we must always consider that we must be aware to make any adjustments if necessary, based on the fact that each organism has particularities that make them unique as the metabolism that the subject has.

In principle we start from the idea that consuming between 0.8 and 1 gram of protein per pound of weight daily is sufficient to carry out this diet.

But once again if we attend to the needs of each particular subject, it may be th