recommended daily intake

[requiem]

No noxibox - but some people have a much harder time using fat as fuel, and have a much slower metabolism.

Then you get people who's metabolisms work unbelievably fast, and aren't carb sensitive at all.

Although those are two extremes - most people fall in the middle somewhere, and it does boil down to monitoring what you eat and diligently sticking to it.

If someone really wants to lose weight, he/she can.

 

[biometrics]

You guys should really use kJ not calories, makes it much easier when at the shop ...

4.2 kJ = 1 calories btw

In my case to lose 1-2kg a week I reduce my intake to 3000 kJ a day. I'm 1.85 m and 100 kg and need to be 90 kg.

3000 kJ:

Breakfast 175 ml Ayrshire yogurt = 300 kJ (or low fat fruit yogurts 400-500 kJ)
Lunch various Woolies options = 1000 kJ
Dinner steamed chicken & extra vegs = 1500 -1700 kJ

No snacking and no alcohol, black coffee, one 2 hour hike up the mountain a week.

Easy and no suffering ...

 

[requiem]

You guys should really use kJ not calories, makes it much easier when at the shop ...

1 kJ = 4.2 calories btw

In my case to lose 1-2kg a week I reduce my intake to 3000 kJ a day. I'm 1.85 m and 100 kg and need to be 90 kg.

3000 kJ:

Breakfast 175 ml Ayrshire yogurt = 300 kJ (or low fat fruit yogurts 400-500 kJ)
Lunch various Woolies options = 1000 kJ
Dinner steamed chicken & extra vegs = 1500 -1700 kJ

No snacking and no alcohol, black coffee, one 2 hour hike up the mountain a week.

Easy and no suffering ...

1 Calorie = 4.18 kj.

You have it the wrong way around

 

[Friedpet]

Breakfast 175 ml Ayrshire yogurt = 300 kJ (or low fat fruit yogurts 400-500 kJ)
Lunch various Woolies options = 1000 kJ
Dinner steamed chicken & extra vegs = 1500 -1700 kJ

Starvation. Not the healthiest of methods to lose weight but it works in Somalia so why not try it here...

 

[ClintZA]

Starvation. Not the healthiest of methods to lose weight but it works in Somalia so why not try it here...

Geez, I originally read those as calories and not kJ. It barely makes my calorie requirements...

When I read that I did think 10kg in 10 weeks was a little extreme.

 

[Friedpet]

Geez, I originally read those as calories and not kJ. It barely makes my calorie requirements...

When I read that I did think 10kg in 10 weeks was a little extreme.

My BMR is more than double that:/

The measures some people will take to look good in their Speedo's in Margate....

 

[patrick]

I used fitday when I started eating right. Now I know pretty much exactly what I take in without needing to keep records. I do about 2400 cals every day to maintain, and 2000 to lean out slowly...