In my last post I discussed various eating style options<\/a>; that post was written to detail various approaches to eating styles I’ve done or researched.\u00a0 In the recent past I’ve gone from eating an average 1500 calorie intake to 2280 calories, or more, daily. (You can use my Total Daily Energy calculator<\/a> to find your number.) I\u2019ve learned, over time, to be more intuitive to how I feel each day and how certain foods or groupings of foods can make me feel or how my body responds.\u00a0 Our body is always evolving, changing over time, each phase of life changes nutritional response and requirements it seems. My one lifetime goal is to remain naturally healthy and fit over time and across all phases of my life. I’ve always incorporated fitness in my life plan, why?<\/p>\n During 2013 I\u2019ve run trials on various eating protocols, with a group, to see how our individual response based on body type.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n During 2013, a range of eating styles used included: timing macros around workouts, managing macros in an undulating style, using various macro nutrient percentages and various ranges from low to high carbohydrate daily intake; data tracking was done over time as well.<\/p>\n One major take away I had from these trials:<\/strong><\/p>\n Eat enough to support the basic daily activities of life, plus your daily physical activity!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Under-eating creates a situation where your body responds by slowing down metabolism to use less energy to do more activity. Congratulations, you have now become a Prius and can go long distance on less energy.\u00a0 What you really want is a metabolism that runs like a Ferrari and requires more energy to go the same that same distance..<\/p>\n Who doesn’t want to be the sleek Ferrari or Lamborghini of the metabolism world right!! \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Knowing what your TDEE or Total Daily Energy Expenditure number is will help rebuild you to health eating levels and happy metabolism.<\/p>\n If you have been eating at a level much lower than you get from the TDEE calculator, or,\u00a0 if you want to get back to a better place, adjusting by additional nutrition should be added slowing each week until you get from where you are today to where you should be.<\/p>\n I’ve listened to this lecture a few times, it relates to experiences Layne Norton has had while working with fitness competitors that come to him in preparation for a competition.\n
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