Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Personally, I found that aspect of DietPower pointless because you had to use it ALL the time. If you omit a single meal, it throws off the computation. What percentage of us record everything eaten every day? But the idea that you can get your true metabolic rate this way is a interesting theory. I'd like to hear from someone who has successfully done it. I've always wondered how it would interact with the notion of setpoints. Don On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 11:49 PM, beneathremains wrote: > " ... DietPower monitors your true metabolic rate by comparing your > weight changes with the foods you've eaten and the exercise you've > logged. If the rate goes up or down, the program adjusts your > calorie budget by just enough to cancel the difference.* It does so > daily. This self-correcting system guarantees that if you > consistently record your meals and exercise and live within your > budget, you will reach your goal on schedule. " > > http://www.dietpower.com/ > > Logan > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 I calc BMR from the - Benedict equation, and it seems quite accurate for me at 1800 kcals. In a spreadsheet and I do enter in what I eat almost every day. I also observed an increased calorie req't when I started on whey. That caused me to lose weight, so I could put a factor on the H-B calc to refine the number, but I would rather cut out the whey and go back to my old BMR and be cold and live longer. I don't consider it a necessary thing to do what I do CR, or lose weight - It's just my analytical approach. The reason it works for me is that I first established the 1800 kcal req't by reducing intake in steps until I got to the point where I lost weight. I was eating a lot of wasted calories, I guess. If you don't do that, any "BMR" calc will be suspect, IMO. Let's say you eat 5000 kcals and stay at the same weight. The program would calculate a higher BMR, because it wouldn't know how not to. As you drop calories (and retain weight), it would calc a lower BMR. And there's another assumption in all dietary advice that we absorb all that we eat. I don't find that to be true at all. It seems folks just can't separate CR/CRON from "dieting". Another thing is we aren't necessarily about ingesting a lot of supplements, ala 1982, "Life Extension", or finding new chemicals, or "megadosing". In most respects, I, at least, want to stick with protocol. I do experiment with supplements, but only after checking Pubmed, and with my doctors. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Libes Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:57 AM Subject: Re: [ ] DietPower Personally, I found that aspect of DietPower pointless because you had to use it ALL the time. If you omit a single meal, it throws off the computation. What percentage of us record everything eaten every day?But the idea that you can get your true metabolic rate this way is a interesting theory. I'd like to hear from someone who has successfully done it. I've always wondered how it would interact with the notion of setpoints.Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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