Draglist's Journal, 28 Dec 13

I'm very curious to see how this plays out for you. I'm watching very carefully KK's results as well. I also am trying (sort of) IIFYM. Good luck! For me so far so good... 

I'll be watching with great interest. I compared the calculations from the NIH (MIT Chow) with the IIFYM calculator and the NIH Calculator gave me a maintenance level of 3,300 calories while the IIFYM calculator gave me 2,800 to maintain my current weight. Therefore, as long as I'm in weight-loss mode, staying below 2,000 calories should give me a loss. Which calculator to use will become significantly more important once I reach my goal and maintenance mode kicks in. 

Ok so Im gearing up for this. Gained 5pounds since I was last on here. Obviously I'm not good on my own. Thanks for supporting me it is high time I do something nice for myself and I need your support. Thanks brattiferd.  

Hey, Bill. Good luck. I hope you get some great results from this IIFYM trial! 

Well done hitting the numbers (reasonably well)! It's not as easy as it sounds, is it now? LOL! :) I know it's scary - terrifying - to up your calorie intake like that, but from what I hear about your activity level and your calorie intake, it's CLEAR to me that you're not getting enough calories at 1300-1700 calories. It makes you go over too many times, and then you compensate by going lower, which makes your body hungrier (even if you don't feel it, because you eat a large enough volume of food to feel full). And when your body is hungry, you go eat. It's a primal instinct that you can't get out of. What I see happening by upping the calories is that my average intake stays pretty much the same, but everything is a LOT easier.  

Now, one thing to keep in mind for all you IIFYM people what are new to this... (not so much for you, Draglist, but probably more for some of those following both of us and watching the results - wanting to try it out themselves...) The calculators works best when you have a relatively low body fat percentage, and it works especially well when you KNOW your body fat percentage. If not, it will assume that you need too much protein and fat, and demand that you have a LOT more than necessary of these. It has to take that allowance from somewhere else, and it will be carbs. Since you've already spent most of your calorie allowance on Protein and Fat, you will get a RIDICULOUSLY low allowance of carbs. It becomes unsustainable. I think that if you are still far from goal, then this is NOT the way to go. At least not without knowing how much of your body is muscle, so you can get a correct evaluation of your protein needs. Not only for protein, but also to make the other numbers right, and thus make it all sustainable. I hope this makes sense.  

Good luck BP, anxiously awaiting results. The thought of all those carbs would scare the $%$ out of me so will watch with interest. 

I just did my own calculations and it said I need to eat 21g carbs a day. WOW! It's like a ketogenic diet!