How Many Calories Do You 'Think' You Eat A Day

[JohnEGreen]

And only one case of diabetic complications that I can think of Donald Pleasence.

 

[jonbvn]

Strange then that every single person that was incarcerated in a prisoner of war camp in germany during ww2 lost weight. Eat less and you will lose weight, fact.

Also of interest is the general health of the UK population during WW2, who were on rations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom

"rationing improved the health of British people; infant mortality declined and life expectancy rose"

 

[MikeTurin]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom

"rationing improved the health of British people; infant mortality declined and life expectancy rose"

We are talking about pre war levels of food. With current industial food calorie and carb packed I think there are other worsening elements.

If you relax your diet it really easy to get more calories, and the simple fact only that one has less mass to move if not fat means that less energy is used.

Now is really easy to overeat, and the fact there are a lot of fat people is a telltale sign.

 

[Indy51]

The problem with eating all these processed foods is that people don't get the nutrients their bodies are craving - so they keep eating. Once you stop eating junk food and gain nutrient sufficiency, your appetite drops off dramatically and becomes self-regulating. Stop the 'carbage', eat real food and you notice a change very quickly

 

[MDHalstead]

I use the app MyFitnessPal it allows you to log accurately what you eat, and works out what you burn off though exercise.

It helps me train, and makes sure I eat enough.

 

[mist]

I would guess 1500.01

 

[JoeBul]

I understand that everyone is a little different, so there is no one way that everyone can follow. However, my own experience is that counting carbs and calories has worked for me. Over the last 18 months I've come down from 105.6kg (16.5st) to 73kg (11.5st) and my HbA1c from 91 to 35 so that I no longer need medication. I followed Dr Cavan's advice to keep carbs to below 100g per day. As a male I ate 2000 cals per day for the first year and am currently consuming 2400 cals per day. I also use a fitbit exercise tracker to ensure that I take my 10000 steps per day, so that I at least have an estimate of my calorific burn.

The crucial thing is not to drastically reduce calorie intake but to aim at a deficit of 500 cals/day so that you are not starving but are slowly loosing weight, roughly about 1lb per week ! A sudden severe calorie reduction will cause your body to protect itself by cutting down on nonessentials such as heat to your peripheral body parts and the maintenance of skin and nails. A 1000 cals/day is the diet given to prisoners in a Gulag and will result in ill-health if you keep this up for a prolonged period of time. It also will preferentially cause your body to burn lean muscle and hang on to as much body fat as it can, so that you get a rebound in weight when you return to 'normal' eating.