Re: [fast5] F5 Reduces calories ?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Re: [fast5] F5 Reduces calories ?

Yeah, it really is apples and oranges. Long-term starvation
may lower your metabolism. But suppose that for some
reason you just stopped OVEReating and started eating
what your body actually NEEDS to be at an ideal weight.

If your body's appestat is healthy, it should not, no way,
no how, interpret "eating the correct number of calories"
as "starvation". That fact is that most of us have been
eating too many calories for too long and that in itself
causes damage. F5 probably just sets things back to
what they should be. Which isn't the same as what they
do in the studies, setting calories way below what a
person needs and what their bodies want.

Your body does have a very sensitive chemistry
set that does in fact regulate calorie intake and output
extremely closely, when it is working right. When the
appestat is working, your weight won't vary by more than
a pound or so of fat (water weight changes, obviously).
F5 just seems to kick the appestat back into gear,
with the result that IF you are carrying around more
fat than you need, you eat less until the fat is used up,
which is exactly what the body is supposed to do when
it has too much fat. That's not the same as "starvation".

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:47 PM, andy030144 <andy030144@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Counting calories isn't really possible. First of all, to do it right
> you have to weigh and measure everything you eat. Second of all,
> there's no way to accurately measure how many calories you burn in a
> day, and that's not taking into account how many calories are absorbed
> and how different people process different foods differently. I grew up
> eating the same food in the same amounts that my brothers did and i
> was "husky" and they were thin. I obviously processed my food
> differently than them. I was even more active. Height/weight charts
> don't agree, and all those calorie counters on the net all give
> different numbers. If you go to 5 different websites you'll get 5
> different answers as to how many calories you need to eat. I weigh
> 220lbs and I've "found out" using those websites that I need to eat
> anywhere from 2200 to 2800 a day. That's a big difference. Which one's
> right? If I want to lose weight I'd obviously pick the lower number.
> But why wouldn't I just eat as little as I can without going insane?
> And if I'm willing to do that, why don't I just eat only healthy food
> that's high volume, high nutrient, high fiber etc that way I can eat
> alot and feel full and naturally get the lowest calories possible? Why
> don't I do that right off the bat without counting anything or
> resorting to those charts? The reason I don't do any of that is because
> I can't do any of that. If I could, I would have already. I would have
> never had a weight problem to begin with. The reality is once I start
> eating I can't stop. Eating triggers more eating. My only hope is to
> hold off until the end of the day when it's near impossible to overeat.
> My body has the whole day to rest and cleanse itself and burn off
> excess fat via the fasting hormone response and the end of the day to
> eat. Eating less is a side effect of F5, not a goal. If I were to eat 3
> meals a day and count the calories and compare that to a day when I'm
> on F5, because it's an experiment I would find out that I ate less on
> f5. But if I wasn't doing an experiment and just ate 3 meals a day I
> would also be inclined to snack here and there because I'd have started
> the day with my insulin being thrown sky high and as a result, no
> matter what I ate or what the amounts were I'd never feel "full" and
> would be inclined to eat more than I need. It's not a fair comparison.
> I'm not comparing apples to apples. I can't compare something that's
> stupid to something that's intelligent. It's really a no brainer.
>
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>> I thought that Fast 5 does reduce your calorie intake but in a
> natural way. Do people here
>> still eat the same number of calories as before? since you are eating
> in a smaller window,
>> you just naturally consume fewer calories, right?
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