Some knowledge
To be able to effectively understand these recepies and categories, it is first important to understand some key terms. First of all, we have calories. Calories represent how much energy the food contains, to loose weight you should eat under your maintenance calories, to maintain weight you should eat around your maintenance calories and to gain weight you should eat above mainenance calories. To start, we recomend eating not more than 200 calories away from maintenance, and monitoring progress, if nothing changes, eat more or less depending on your goals, or if you feel like your are loosing/gaining too much weight eat more or less respectively. To find your maintenance calories, we recomend using a calculator, our pick would be the following. It is also important to note that in the begining, a lot of the weight loss or gain will be water, and that it is normal to see fluctuations, the trick is to weigh yourself right after waking up and going to the bathroom every day and to observe a trend. We wil also note that as you loose or gain weight, your daily energy use will lower or rise respectively, leading you to start maintaining again, if you have achieved your goals, then just keep it up, or if you wish to keep loosing or gaining adjust the calories appropriately.
