Newbie here!

(Richard Hanson) #21

Hi Marie,

Glad that I helped. We are all trying to sort this out!

Just keep in mind that as your stores of body fat are progressively depleted over time, you will not be able to get as much energy out of that fat you have left and will need to increase how much fat your are eating. Even then, your metabolism can still slow down a bit but I don’t think this is as nearly as pronounced as with those who are eating SAD and have, at best, very limited accesses to the energy stored in their body as fat deposits.

I am at the point where I am going to start adding more fat into my intake.

Keto for Life!

Best Regards,
Richard

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #22

It can, which is why the advice is to eat to satiety. If our body tells us it only wants 1300 by turning off our hunger, that’s one thing. But to limit ourself to an arbitrary level is to risk triggering our body’s famine-reaction, in which it will cut nourishment to non-essential process such as hair growth, reproduction, etc., lower the basal metabolic rate, and hang on to our fat reserves. But if our body is assured of an abundant supply of energy, it will respond by increasing our metabolic rate and by metabolizing its store of fat. The way to find out what level of energy intake will encourage our body to do this is by eating fat until we are no longer hungry. We may lose interest in food at 1300 calories or we may need to eat 1900 (or more!), but either way our body will still feel safe utilizing its stored fat. But we can’t dictate to our body, we need to let it tell us.

(Marie Dantoni) #23

Hi Paul, Thanks. Yes, I have been doing that albeit with some trepidation. I’ll be 67 in a few weeks, so my energy requirements are not as high as many. That said , I am still only learning how real hunger feels. Manipulating macros and IFing is changing all that, I am actually satisfied with much less food, and feel better than I did 30 years ago. The trick seems to be in allowing my body to regulate rather than imposing a set of rules. There’s an art to that though…