Caloric Intake Cycles

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Hi folks:

Further to Lee Shurie's suggestion to delay eating until 6 pm: this

really does seem, tentatively, to have some very interesting and

helpful implications, suggesting an excellent way to reconcile

caloric restriction with some QOL issues. (As I said, tentative for

now, subject to change in the light of further experience).

The particular QOL issue here is that I enjoy 'pigging out' from time

to time on healthy food. For example, I like to make the occasional

visit to an excellent local all-you-can-eat chinese food

establishment. Also, I have noticed that I often find I consume a

large number of calories on Friday evenings, and on Saturdays as

well. It is something I have found enjoyable over the years and

would like to continue, if possible, while complying with a CR diet.

'Shurie's Solution' looks to be the key to how to do it. Here it

is. Let's say I want to consume 1500 calories a day when established

on CRON (this can be adapted to whatever you choose to be your

personal caloric intake, I still do not know what mine will be). An

intake of 1500 per day is 10,500 per week.

Now suppose I can successfully adopt 'Shurie's Solution' and not eat

prior to 6 pm. If so, then how many calories of healthy, nutrient-

dense food do I find I want to eat between 6 pm and bedtime? For me

1000 calories is more than plenty in that five hour period. So let's

assume that Monday through Thursday I eat 1000 calories a day, all of

it after 6 pm, and do not eat on Friday until 6 pm also.

This means that from Monday 12:01 am to Friday 5:59 pm I will have

consumed about 4,000 calories. So, for the remainder of the week -

6:00 pm Friday to 11:59 pm Sunday - I can consume 6,500 calories and

still hit my weekly caloric intake objective of 10,500.

Each of us can choose how to allocate those calories. My choice

might be to really pig out Friday evening and eat double the 1000

calories I would normally eat on a weekday evening. Then eat a huge

3000 on Saturday (sometimes at the Chinese restaurant) and another

1500 on Sunday.

So my typical daily caloric intake cycle might look as follows:

(please excuse the added markers designed to try to force the thing

to format properly):

Mon -- Tue -- Wed -- Thu -- Fri -- Sat -- Sun

------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------

1000 - 1000 - 1000 - 1000 - 2000 - 3000 - 1500

I suppose there are three issues related to this:

1. Can I abstain from eating, most days of the week, until 6 pm?

2. Are there any known risks associated with eating only once a day

at 6 pm?

3. Are there any nutrient deficiencies that could be a problem in as

few as five days of 1000 calorie intake (I doubt it, but am

interested to hear opposing views.) If there are it might be

necessary to supplement those nutrients daily.

It is Lee's suggestion to refrain from eating until 6 pm that is the

critical component to the puzzle here.

Rodney.