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<blockquote data-quote="AdamJames" data-source="post: 1790396" data-attributes="member: 459333"><p>Sorry, missed this post. I hardly ever remember to come back to threads unless I get an alert!</p><p></p><p>The best summary of my diet over the last few months would be to eat 20-50g of carbs per day, a moderate amount of fat, and <em>not</em> count calories.</p><p></p><p>However for a week or so recently I did count calories during the week (not at weekends when out walking) and that helped a lot to keep me on track.</p><p></p><p>Funnily enough this weekend just gone I've made my most accurate effort yet to count calories both during a weekend of walking and for 2 days afterwards, but not let the numbers stop me eating what I wanted.</p><p></p><p>It was as I had suspected: I'm almost certainly eating well under maintenance calories during the big walking days because my appetite lowers during exercise. I say "almost" certainly because for the 3 days the numbers where something like 1800, 2400 and 3400. I'm pretty sure that on a day where a 100kg man with a heavy rucksack walks up and down hills however, 3400 calories is less than maintenance. Sure enough my weight had dropped when I got back home.</p><p></p><p>But then in the two days afterwards, I had over 5,000 calories one day and I stopped counting in disgust at 6,000 the next day. It really felt "right", as in I was eating food until I felt mentally alert and physically capable if you know what I mean. This food was same sort of food - it doesn't take many carbs at all for me to get high fasting levels - it just takes weight gain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AdamJames, post: 1790396, member: 459333"] Sorry, missed this post. I hardly ever remember to come back to threads unless I get an alert! The best summary of my diet over the last few months would be to eat 20-50g of carbs per day, a moderate amount of fat, and [I]not[/I] count calories. However for a week or so recently I did count calories during the week (not at weekends when out walking) and that helped a lot to keep me on track. Funnily enough this weekend just gone I've made my most accurate effort yet to count calories both during a weekend of walking and for 2 days afterwards, but not let the numbers stop me eating what I wanted. It was as I had suspected: I'm almost certainly eating well under maintenance calories during the big walking days because my appetite lowers during exercise. I say "almost" certainly because for the 3 days the numbers where something like 1800, 2400 and 3400. I'm pretty sure that on a day where a 100kg man with a heavy rucksack walks up and down hills however, 3400 calories is less than maintenance. Sure enough my weight had dropped when I got back home. But then in the two days afterwards, I had over 5,000 calories one day and I stopped counting in disgust at 6,000 the next day. It really felt "right", as in I was eating food until I felt mentally alert and physically capable if you know what I mean. This food was same sort of food - it doesn't take many carbs at all for me to get high fasting levels - it just takes weight gain. [/QUOTE]
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