Baron
ET Founder
As a side note, an easy way for most people to estimate their BMR is to multiply your body weight x 10. So if you weight 230 lbs, you multiply that by 10 so the result would be 2,300 calories.
Ketogenic Diet - Personal Experience
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As a side note, an easy way for most people to estimate their BMR is to multiply your body weight x 10. So if you weight 230 lbs, you multiply that by 10 so the result would be 2,300 calories.
Earlier this year i was on a low calorie diet, a death in the family through a monkey wrench into the process and i wasn't able to get back in the groove, so i gave up that fucking calorie counting. But now I'm doing intermittent fasting. It was a challenge at first but I'm over that part of it now. I have been doing it almost two months. I have more energy now, i work out at the gym every other day, I couldn't be more pleased with how i feel and how my energy level is. I only eat in a 5 hour window. My fast range is from 16 to 17 hours and it starts when you go to bed. I do feel the stress of not being able to eat and yes it's been tough getting used to it, but its worth the effort. My knees are good now and I don't feel like old whale rolling out of bed and i jump right out like a Rooster. Yes you still need to eat right and yes you still need supplements like vitamins. Its not starving its just giving up breakfast and lunch. Your stomach shrinks slightly being away from food for that long and you end up eating less when you do. I'm sleeping more restfully and mental clarity is unmatched. FyI, The gym is no problem on an empty stomach. "Cheers"
Are you doing a keto "diet" during your eating hours, or are you doing a normal/with carbs diet and just letting the intermittent fasting be your "edge" without regard to whether you are burning ketones or glucose?
Yes I'm using the intermittent fasting as my edge, but my diet is normal with some carbs. It does work for me. I have the occasional lapses regarding garbage foods but 90% of my diet is well balanced.
I did come across another type its called fast-5. This system, if i recall correctly is based on 5 days and a 5 hour eating window. No breakfast or lunch and starts when you go to sleep.
Regarding intermittent fasting, i found that if I eat dessert or any type of sweets after my dinner i have a hard time next morning, due to hunger cravings. But from my research the suggested time to eat sweats is actually before dinner and never processed sugars. P.S, No alcohol. Just
water, coffee, Tea and no sweetener. In the morning the same thing. Anything else will take you out of your fast and raise your insulin and its too late, you have to start over the next day.
Yes I've had great results also, i don't focus or look at the scale. I just look in the mirror, see how my clothes fit and how much more energy i have.
I do recall reading a few years back about this old guy in Montana. He was 112. I think the oldest person in America at the time. Google can help if someone needs more information I suppose.
Anyway, one of the things he said, if memory serves and I think it does, is that he did not eat anything after noontime.
Yes for sure, but fasting is dependent on when you stop eating. so if your last meal was 8pm than at 12 noon your at 16 hours fasting time. But here's another bit of information. I talked to a family member who is a physician regarding this fast, eating window and she said that makes sense from a weight loss point of view, because while your sleeping your body consumes muscle and after the 12 hours it switches to fat. So if your insulin hasn't spiked yet because of not eating, you will be in fat burning mode until you actually break your fast. I still have to look at that muscle thing to verify.
Yep. Dont know his routine. I see he ate two meals but read elsewhere that he did not eat after noon. And an evening meal would be eating after noon. So I think he might have done a morning and afternoonish rootine which would make it sort of a Fast-Five ish. approach, approximating it anyway.
Anyway. he was an advocate of not eating much. I believe he died a while back which of course can happen when you are over 112.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/montana-man-believed-to-be-worlds-oldest/
Anyway. he was an advocate of not eating much. I believe he died a while back which of course can happen when you are over 112.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/montana-man-believed-to-be-worlds-oldest/