First time trying the eat 100 calorie an hour diet
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Recently I turned 60. I am more active than most, riding cycle 30 miles three times a week with my 76 year old riding partner. With each of the last 5 years, my yearly stress test improves as I get older. I have rode my cycle across Iowa in the yearly RAGBRAI event (400+ miles in 7 days) three times. After years of trying many other plans, pretty much ALL of the ones you have ever seen advertised, I have succeeded in reducing pounds, but FAIL EVERY TIME to reach my target weight OR keeping the pounds off.
Based on DNA analysis and family history, I am prone to gain and hold extra pounds. My brother recently had surgery to reduce the size of his stomach, with great success.
So I decided to try something different. Learning from my experiences with all the other diet plans, it is clear that eating regularly is one key to success. Coupling that realization with my brother's recent experience, being that he can ONLY eat very small portions now, it became obvious to me that eating small 'mini-meals' many times a day works, not maybe, but absolutely.
Using this calculator, http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ I understand that at my target weight of 180 I should burn just over 1600 calories a day, at rest. Now this is several hundred calories below my current BMR.
My plan is to eat my way to my target weight. The issue for me was how?
It has to be simple, it has to manage my hunger, it has to be cost effective, it has to be easy, it has to enable me to eat whatever I want, it has to enable me to eat where ever I am and I have to enjoy the process.
How I 'stubbled' onto this plan originated from my cycling experience. I learned early on that if I was to ride distance I had to manage fuel and fluid intake. I drink my own concoction sports drink, 1:5 ratio of pomegranate juice and water with a pinch of Himalayan pink salt. I always eat half of a CLIF bar at least 30 minutes before I ride and the other half about half way through the ride. I NEVER hit the wall.
I thought, at 250 calories per bar, if I ate half each hour, it may very well satisfy my hunger and manage my caloric intake. What if I ate 'around' 100 calories each other so that I don't drive my self nuts with managing precision of portions?
For several weeks now I have been eating every hour, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. I have a variety of options that I enjoy, one boiled egg, half of a CLIF bar, on turkey hotdog with one slice of 45 calorie bread, Star Kist tuna kit (a little more than 100 calories), 3oz of frozen lightly breaded chicken breast, or basically ANYTHING that is 'around' 100 calories.
The first HUGE value of this plan, I AM NEVER HUNGRY. One thing my brother said recently, "You really don't need very much food to stay ahead of hunger". I can now confirm that statement. In fact, often during the day, my hourly cell phone alarm goes off and I think to myself, "I just ate!".
The pounds are melting away faster than any other plan I have ever tried!
I am sleeping better than I have in years!
My mood, emotions, peace of mind is steady and bright!
I have ZERO food anxiety, what to eat, when to eat, how to eat!
This, like everything else in life, is not a plan that will work for everyone, but I'm convinced that I have found the nirvana of weight loss plans for me!
DON'T KNOCK IT UNTIL YOU TRY IT!14 -
I couldn’t do it. It would lead to an obsession with food. Not for me3
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@andyW58 So you are a 60 yr old man eating 1200 cals per day and are active?
Sure you are going to lose weight on this plan, and fast. You are severely undereating and will be losing lots of muscle. You may not feel it now, but you will eventually, once the damage is done.
Saying I shouldn't knock this until I try it is like saying I can't say for sure I can't fly until I jump off a cliff and see for myself.
Read the Most Helpful Posts pinned to the top of each forum here, there is so much to learn. And please please take good care of yourself.10 -
I just tried a diet skill exercise where you write down how you are feeling hunger wise every hour. Just that drove me crazy and it didn't involve any planning, I just had to have my phone with me.0
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Recently I turned 60. I am more active than most, riding cycle 30 miles three times a week with my 76 year old riding partner. With each of the last 5 years, my yearly stress test improves as I get older. I have rode my cycle across Iowa in the yearly RAGBRAI event (400+ miles in 7 days) three times. After years of trying many other plans, pretty much ALL of the ones you have ever seen advertised, I have succeeded in reducing pounds, but FAIL EVERY TIME to reach my target weight OR keeping the pounds off.
Based on DNA analysis and family history, I am prone to gain and hold extra pounds. My brother recently had surgery to reduce the size of his stomach, with great success.
So I decided to try something different. Learning from my experiences with all the other diet plans, it is clear that eating regularly is one key to success. Coupling that realization with my brother's recent experience, being that he can ONLY eat very small portions now, it became obvious to me that eating small 'mini-meals' many times a day works, not maybe, but absolutely.
Using this calculator, http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ I understand that at my target weight of 180 I should burn just over 1600 calories a day, at rest. Now this is several hundred calories below my current BMR.
My plan is to eat my way to my target weight. The issue for me was how?
It has to be simple, it has to manage my hunger, it has to be cost effective, it has to be easy, it has to enable me to eat whatever I want, it has to enable me to eat where ever I am and I have to enjoy the process.
How I 'stubbled' onto this plan originated from my cycling experience. I learned early on that if I was to ride distance I had to manage fuel and fluid intake. I drink my own concoction sports drink, 1:5 ratio of pomegranate juice and water with a pinch of Himalayan pink salt. I always eat half of a CLIF bar at least 30 minutes before I ride and the other half about half way through the ride. I NEVER hit the wall.
I thought, at 250 calories per bar, if I ate half each hour, it may very well satisfy my hunger and manage my caloric intake. What if I ate 'around' 100 calories each other so that I don't drive my self nuts with managing precision of portions?
For several weeks now I have been eating every hour, 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. I have a variety of options that I enjoy, one boiled egg, half of a CLIF bar, on turkey hotdog with one slice of 45 calorie bread, Star Kist tuna kit (a little more than 100 calories), 3oz of frozen lightly breaded chicken breast, or basically ANYTHING that is 'around' 100 calories.
The first HUGE value of this plan, I AM NEVER HUNGRY. One thing my brother said recently, "You really don't need very much food to stay ahead of hunger". I can now confirm that statement. In fact, often during the day, my hourly cell phone alarm goes off and I think to myself, "I just ate!".
The pounds are melting away faster than any other plan I have ever tried!
I am sleeping better than I have in years!
My mood, emotions, peace of mind is steady and bright!
I have ZERO food anxiety, what to eat, when to eat, how to eat!
This, like everything else in life, is not a plan that will work for everyone, but I'm convinced that I have found the nirvana of weight loss plans for me!
DON'T KNOCK IT UNTIL YOU TRY IT!
It's really wonderful that you found something that works for you! (Though, like others, I do worry that you may turn out to be undereating or losing too fast.)
I'm not as clear why you revived a post from 2013 to tell us about it.
Your method may work for some other people, but it wouldn't work for me. I don't need to try it to know that.
In my opinion, key to keeping weight off is using the weight loss process to find a healthy way of eating that you can continue happily forever, to stay at a healthy weight. If eating every hour is that for you, you're in your sweet spot. For me, it would be too limiting to my other activities . . . and I'm retired, so my activities are less constraining than the lives of people who have regular jobs, school, children to raise, etc. Still, my crafts projects, my rowing, my banjo practice, my gardening, my social life, and lots of other things would be annoyingly interrupted by fussing with food every hour. So, I just eat 2-4 main meals a day, and sometimes random snacks, and watch calories plus scale weight, and that's working fine.
Like you, I'm "more active than most" (in season, I row on water 4 days a week for an hour or so, and go to spin class two days; in Winter I mix it up more). I'm 63, and in year 3 of maintaining a healthy weight after being obese for most of my adult life.
There are many paths to weight loss and health. I don't need to try all of them.9 -
100 cals an hour = hungry ATFT! N1 here..0
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Why I posted this now? I ran across this discussion searching the Internet for others who might be trying to do the same, small meals every hour.
Regarding my health, I have a wonderful doctor who fully supports this plan. With his help I started riding cycle 8 years ago and he has guided my path to good health for over 10 years. I am in the best shape of my life, except for the extra pounds.
Regarding the 1200 calories each day, you see that is my 'target'. I eat 'around' 100 calories each hour, many times it is 130 or 150. So, I built into the plan a 'Fudge Factor' (pun intended).
The clearest reality from my life experience, there is no easy way of determining your exact fuel/burn equation. But using this plan, I will have a much better data set to understand how to make life long adjustments once I reach my target weight.
As I stated, this is definitely not for everyone. The most interesting 'concern' is managing this process. In fact, it is easier than any other plan I have ever tried. Cell phone plays a nice tune, I eat. I carry CLIF bars, only eating half each hour. This process, for the first time, is giving me clarity of food intake and it's affect on my weight, and in the end, my health.
I'm not a fat shaming guy, but I have many friends and family who are over weight, some quiet heavy. The vast majority of them cannot afford the surgery my brother had to help him finally take off the weight that was a critical health risk. So, one thing driving me, if this works (as results have already shown), then others can do this, as an option versus the cost and difficulties of other, more traditional, socially acceptable plans.
My concern is not about appearance, it is founded completely on health. At 60, I have been to many funerals, and the majority of those deaths were directly related to lifestyle, most resulting from weight related illness like Diabetes and Heart Failure.
I very much appreciate all the comments... :-)1 -
That's not entirely true Anna. I eat more now than I used to when I was fat. Yet I continue to lose weight. 1, I eat healthier, much much healthier. And 2, I exercise a lot. A minimum of 60 minutes of cardio a day. I hate blanket statements that include the word "ONLY". You can't possibly have taken every single possible option into account.
You added 60 minutes of cardio per day and you don’t understand how that tipped you CICO into a deficit regardless of adding in more food (supposedly)?
Did you track your food when you were “fat” to know for sure your eating more now? Either way you aren’t defying laws of thermodynamics. Your in a deficit if your losing weight.
ETA: oh and OP, this 100 cal per hour concept is absurd practically.0 -
This would drive me absolutely crazy. I feel like it could screw up your hunger cues too because you would never feel full and would be thinking about food literally all day.2
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That's not entirely true Anna. I eat more now than I used to when I was fat. Yet I continue to lose weight. 1, I eat healthier, much much healthier. And 2, I exercise a lot. A minimum of 60 minutes of cardio a day. I hate blanket statements that include the word "ONLY". You can't possibly have taken every single possible option into account.
You added 60 minutes of cardio per day and you don’t understand how that tipped you CICO into a deficit regardless of adding in more food (supposedly)?
Did you track your food when you were “fat” to know for sure your eating more now? Either way you aren’t defying laws of thermodynamics. Your in a deficit if your losing weight.
ETA: oh and OP, this 100 cal per hour concept is absurd practically.
The first two pages of responses were from 2013. Someone bumped it today but very likely that none of the people you’re quoting or referring to are still around...3 -
WinoGelato wrote: »That's not entirely true Anna. I eat more now than I used to when I was fat. Yet I continue to lose weight. 1, I eat healthier, much much healthier. And 2, I exercise a lot. A minimum of 60 minutes of cardio a day. I hate blanket statements that include the word "ONLY". You can't possibly have taken every single possible option into account.
You added 60 minutes of cardio per day and you don’t understand how that tipped you CICO into a deficit regardless of adding in more food (supposedly)?
Did you track your food when you were “fat” to know for sure your eating more now? Either way you aren’t defying laws of thermodynamics. Your in a deficit if your losing weight.
ETA: oh and OP, this 100 cal per hour concept is absurd practically.
The first two pages of responses were from 2013. Someone bumped it today but very likely that none of the people you’re quoting or referring to are still around...
Ah crap...1 -
Sounds like a diet that someone would do for a few days then give it up.
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I read through this. Is tooth decay really an issue?
Anyway, exercise (especially lifting) makes me hangry, no I would feel satisfied eating so little at a time. I would need an hourly alarm, which would be a nuisance (although if I had to take medication every hour for survival I guess I would get used to it).
I couldn't possibly do this for maintaining weight and I like eating in a way that I will maintain so I'll stick to 3-4 meals and snacks.1
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