One thing Fast-5 does is change: 1) Your appetite and 2) How well you process food. OK, the second one is my addition, not Dr. Herring's. But I digest food way better than I used to, even though I'm eating way less and my metabolism has not slowed.
I think it's a mistake to count calories too closely, unless you are having problems. 15 lbs overweight may or may not be "over fat" ... if you work out, you are probably gaining muscle and even bone. But here is the deal: your appetite KNOWS what your body needs. That is what it is designed for. In most creatures, it works exquisitely, and the creature only eats as much as it needs.
If you eat a low-nutrient diet, your body will adapt such that you can eat more calories, just so it can get the nutrients. It may not actually digest all those calories (there are lots of bacteria that can digest it instead, for instance). Or it may decide to digest the extra calories and store them as fat, depending on some triggers people don't understand well just yet.
But if you are truly not eating "enough", and you are paying attention to your appetite and how you feel, you will be HUNGRY and want to eat more. This is a good thing. The fact you are not underweight, and not hungry, I would think means: your body is quite happy with your food level. OK, so some book somewhere might disagree. But your body is, right now, doing way more accurate measurements on you than any lab can.
Now, if you start going really skinny, lose your appetite, get sick often, have no strength, get depressed, get dry skin, can't get out of bed ... something is wrong. Then it's time to figure out what is going on.
Otherwise ... I think of my Dad. When he was born, the medical community was saying that a newborn needed exactly 4 oz of milk. He was a huge baby, and always hungry, but they would only give him 4 oz. So he cried a lot. Now, when I had my daughter, I dutifully asked: "how much should I feed her?". The doc just laughed. "But what if I feed her too much?" He laughed again "You can't overfeed a baby!".
He was right. Babies haven't been taught to eat more than they want, and they'll just toss up the extra. Usually the slurp and slurp and then go to sleep. Adults SHOULD be like that!
So right now, if you indeed have 15 extra lbs of fat: perhaps your body is saying: I want to get rid of this 15 extra pounds. I'm not turning on hunger, til it's gone.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:20 PM, mariabl <piggieria@gmail.com> wrote:
Well right now I'm only averaging between 800-100 calories per day. I am overweight but only by like 15lbs now. I shouldn't really be eating less then 1200 calories, and really more like 1300 calories. Right now because I'm trying to loose weight I want to make sure that I'm eating enough to continue to loose weight.
Although the difference today then in the past is that I'm eating a lot more fruits and veggies vs processed grains. So technically I'm guessing I am getting more nutrients.
Maria
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
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> Sounds like it should be pretty easy to get enough calories then. Most of
> the calories in a meal come from the fat part (fruits and vegies are mainly
> water and fiber). I'm not sure why you need more calories though: if you
> aren't hungry for more food and you have enough energy and aren't
> underweight? However, if you do need easy calories, one thing I've done is
> to make coconut oil candies. Just mix coconut oil, honey, cocoa (if you like
> chocolate) with seeds (ones you can eat) dried fruit, etc. and make them
> into little balls. You can also pulse dates or other dried fruit in the food
> processor, and mix with seeds, coconut, or other crunchy bits. And of course
> there are meals with plenty of calories, like fried fish!
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