Ryan Mercer is a 34-year-old personal trainer based in Northern Ireland; he recently became popular on TikTok (his account is @rmnutrition88) for eating only pizza to prove that calorie deficit diets help with weight loss.
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Tiktoker fitness proved that you can lose weight by eating pizza
During 30 days Ryan Mercer ate pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner, daily the man ingested approximately 10 total slices. This was done in order to demonstrate that in a weight loss process one should not be so restrictive in terms of food.
“January is a tough month for people when it comes to healthy goals, my goal was to highlight fat loss over calories in and calories out and show that it’s not about restriction either. We don’t have to restrict our favorite foods to get results and also wanted to encourage more people to prepare their own food,” he explains in his TikTok video.
Of course, the professional trainer was in charge of following his usual exercise regimen and preparing the pizzas himself. Up to date, two were made with pita bread and the largest one with dough.
The preparation of the food was the most difficult part of the challenge, because time was often against them. But Ryan found advantages to cooking the pizzas himself, like saving money (he spent about $10 a day) and making sure he had a variety of vegetables and proteins in the toppings.
In fact, the ‘fitness’ tiktoker set himself the goal of consuming 1,800 to 2,100 calories from Monday to Friday and 2,700 on weekends, in order to lose weight; so their pizzas were prepared with an ounce and a half of protein and seven promotions of fruits and vegetables a day.
At the end of the month, Ryan Mercer met his goal by dropping half a pound in weight and further ripping off his athletic frame. Below is the video of his drastic change with more than six million views:
What is a calorie deficit diet?
Ryan Mercer mentioned that the point of eating pizza for a month was to show that calorie deficit diets shouldn’t be overly restrictive. This type of diet is also known as hypocaloric and consists of restricting daily calorie intake, but including the essential nutritional requirements for the body.
Foods that do not contribute nutritionally (such as sugars and fats) are controlled and eliminated, fried cooking methods are avoided (to give way to boiling, grilling or even air frying) and consumption is favored. of water.
These diets must be applied by a health professional to adapt the amounts depending on the age, weight, height, lifestyle and medical history of a person. They are efficient to lose weight and fight diseases such as diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure.
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