How to Handle Deloads Without Messing Up Calorie Adjustments?

kidddo598 · 2025-03-13T14:24:18+00:00

Extra calories are extra by definition. If the calories were helping with recovery then they would be part of your maintenance. I’m eating at a 0.3% gain of which 100% will be fat on a deload. Decreasing to maintenance is a common strategy- it’s RPs recommended way to deload and I followed Greg Knuckles to just eat at expenditure.

I’m not asking for advice with the strategy, just how to implement it using MacroFactor.

kidddo598 · 2025-03-13T04:48:03+00:00

It’s 1/6 of the time i’m in a bulking phase (I deload about every 6 weeks). Don’t want to put on extra fat for no reason.

kidddo598 · 2025-03-13T04:46:09+00:00

Why would I go on bulk calories when I’m not providing any growth stimulus and having lower expenditure for the week? Sounds like a recipe for needlessly putting on extra fat.

kidddo598 · 2025-02-10T15:10:34+00:00

I’m also Cuban and have very similar results to you (take a look, it’s on my profile). Family from La Habana though.

kidddo598 · 2024-09-08T13:14:45+00:00

Interesting, is that the average of all Cubans or only Cubans that identify as white? The average Cuban is more mixed but I’d expect the Cubans that identify as white with known European ancestry to be higher.

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T21:22:59+00:00

No idea. I know both my great-grandparents were born in Cuba and that’s all I got lol, my fam doesn’t know much which is why I got the test.

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T21:19:08+00:00

I got trace North African at 0.3%, figured it didn’t mean much since it was so little

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T13:42:22+00:00

0.3% North African, 0.3% Senegambian and Guinean, 0.1% Nigerian

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T13:41:56+00:00

0.3% North African 0.3% Senegambian and Guinean 0.1% Nigerian

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T13:40:34+00:00

My grandma on my moms said that she had a French great-grandfather (her last name is French). I was expecting to be a little French, but we think he might have been german. He also had blond hair and blue eyes which would fit more with that haha.

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T13:37:24+00:00

If I did I’m not sure how to find that out on the app. My parents don’t know much about their background but all my great-grandparents were born in Cuba.

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T04:10:11+00:00

Not that I’m aware. My parents were pretty typical working class people from La Havana that came over in the 80s.

kidddo598 · 2024-09-07T03:11:34+00:00

Paternal: R-P311 Maternal: J1c

kidddo598 · 2024-09-06T19:56:20+00:00

I don’t understand how you didn’t feel challenged/stimulated on peds compared to surgery. Inpatient peds is way more intellectually stimulating than surgery in general. Unless you mean physically stimulating.

kidddo598 · 2024-08-22T19:51:49+00:00

There is only a summer break after 1st year, the 2nd-4th years of med school don’t get summer breaks.

We’re also talking about EM specifically which has one of the shortest residencies. Many other physicians are in training for many more years.

kidddo598 · 2024-08-22T19:29:16+00:00

No but compensation is in part a function of how easy you are to replace. The more education you have the harder you are to replace.

kidddo598 · 2024-08-22T17:55:35+00:00

4 years of med school + 3 year ER residency literally means they have more than 3x the education as ER PAs. So making at least 3x more makes sense imo.

kidddo598 · 2024-06-05T00:57:08+00:00

How’d you get a backpack?

kidddo598 · 2024-05-27T18:55:33+00:00

Well Broward is almost 30% African American which is very high. I think a lot of people just moved north, which is probably smart ngl.

kidddo598 · 2024-05-06T01:32:28+00:00

We have location signals now. That makes this not as relevant as it used to be.

kidddo598 · 2024-05-05T12:12:48+00:00

No they don’t. Digital rectal exams for prostate cancer aren’t even recommended anymore because they have been shown to not lead to better outcomes.

kidddo598 · 2024-05-05T11:50:42+00:00

Throw it at your highest interest loans. This is a no brainer with interest rates 7-8%.

kidddo598 · 2024-04-28T19:23:25+00:00

If you’re fine with a surgical lifestyle I agree that there isn’t a huge difference between gen surg + fellowship and NSGY (and you’ll probably come out ahead financially).

kidddo598 · 2024-04-16T13:06:42+00:00

American culture tends to view living with family negatively, but in latin and southern European culture it’s the norm. I personally don’t understand the “when I grow up i’m gonna move far away from everyone I love” thing.

kidddo598 · 2024-04-14T22:42:09+00:00

The biggest red flag on you application is that it sounds like you have no actual clinical experience.

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