Re: [fast5] Re: Calories during eating window

Friday, January 4, 2013

Re: [fast5] Re: Calories during eating window

As always, some good advice from Ms. Twist.

Vee, your initial question wasn't about carbs, but about calories. That's impossible to answer without knowing things like weight, height, lifestyle activity, etc.

I'll repeat the advice I've given on here a couple of times, because I think it's simple and effective - I got it from a Men's Health magazine many years ago. to get a good "general calorie target," just take the weight you want to be at in pounds (not the weight you are today), and multiply it by ten. For an average person who doesn't schedule exercise, it's a good rule of thumb. If you exercise vigorously or lead a highly active life, increase the multiplier for every hour of 'real exercise' after the first one.

For instance, I'm 6'4" with a lot of muscle (and fat, haha), and want to be around 210 pounds. 210x10 would equal 2100 calories per day. However, I lift weights and do cardio on alternate days of the week. Being that it's not all constant exercise, I'd say 4-5 hours per week. My goal is fat loss, so I use 4 hours per week. Ignoring that first hour of exercise, I add 3 to the multiplier, so 210pounds x 13 = 2420 calories per day. Now, one of the benefits of being as tall as I am is that I can reduce that calorie number and not starve, so I generally try to make high-quality food choices and stay under 2000 per day.

Hope this helps - cheers!

Phil

From: Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@gmail.com>
To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [fast5] Re: Calories during eating window

Vegetarian, or vegan? If you do eggs, eggs are about the best food EVER for everything. And there are good studies indicating that eggs are great for weight loss ... they have substances in them that are really good at regulating appetite. Plus the egg yolk has fats and vitamins that are difficult to get from vegetables. Whey protein has similar features.

If you are concerned about "factory eggs", check out one of your local farmers and check for happy chickens. We have a couple of dozen here, and they are happy and healthy. Very good for the ecosystem too: they eat our kitchen scraps and also those of some other families. Some farmers are gathering kitchen scraps from restaurants or grocery stores. The chickens produce good manure and outstanding eggs.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:20 AM, vee_dempsey <vee_dempsey@yahoo.in> wrote:

Hey thanks all of you for your advice. You guys are such sweethearts and take time out of your lives to reply. Thanks again!
On the low- carbing, I am a vegetarian , so my options are pretty much limited for a low carb diet. Any ideas out there for a low-carb diet on fast-5 ?
For all you fast-5 ers, I use an iPhone app called the 'iFasters' which helps in reminding me about the start and end of fast times and also helps in tracking the progress, using body weight.
I feel so lucky to have stumbled on this great diet and lifestyle. I have already spread the good word with friends and family. Some were easy converts and the others want to see how it goes with me and then try it..:-)

Cheers,
Vee

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Robert Persson wrote:
>
> Hungry two hours after the window closes? This sounds like a blood sugar
> swing. I'm not a fan of extreme low carbing, but try to keep your carbs
> down, maybe eating a little more fat, and go easy on fast carbs such as
> sugar , white potatoes and white rice.
> However, since you are just two days in, if you like the way you eat, just
> go with it and stand the hunger after the window closes, it will most
> likely go away when the body adapts to your new way of eating.
>
> /Rob.
>
>
>
> 2013/1/2 vee_dempsey
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I am a newbie and I am from India. I am just 2 days in the diet and
> > feeling good about it. I just wanted to know , how much calories is too
> > much during the feeding window? I have a 2-7 PM window and I am sometimes
> > hungry 2 hours after my window closes. Which makes me wonder I am not
> > eating enough during the window , hence the question. Please help!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vee
> >
> >
> >
>

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