Women who eat a ton without gaining.... page 18

[gopintos]

... and to get the message that the food is coming and the famine is now over.

That part makes sense. I was thinking of starting a way more rigid & structured exercise program and timing my carbs starting tomorrow. To the point of anal. I was tired of being anal about calories & nutrition, and thought I might try to be anal about the fitness side of things for awhile. My self-diagnosed OCD only allows me to be anal about one thing at a time. I wonder if I should still only focus on getting my calories up, or can I do both? hmmm. I should be able to do both. The increased exercise will most certainly make me more hungry but it also might only increase my deficit. Probably not by that much though. Just typing outloud.....

[canio6]

I did an experiment yesterday and ate "a lot". I ended up around 1700 calories and can't imagine a primal way to easily get up to 2200 calories. I can imagine a high carb way.

Really? Perhaps it is because I am a guy that this seems rather odd to me. For example, I made a recipe from Chocotaco's blog the other day - ribs. The nutrition info was:

Calories…2,115
Fat…160g
Carbohydrate…6g
Dietary Fiber…2g
Protein…155g

I ate them for dinner. 2100+ calories in one sitting. It was not hard. That was after eating during the day so it was not as if I was breaking a 16 hour IF or something. Actually, I had four servings of Full-fat fage and nuts that day (1400 calories, 96g fat, 60g carb, 92g protein). As well as 6 eggs cooked in butter (531 calories, 41g fat, 2.5g carb, 37.7 protein)

That is over 4000 calories and I could have eaten again. Carb count was under 70g.

I didn't get to be 300 pounds by eating 1200 calories. I doubt many people here did (of course, there are exceptions). I also do not eat 4000+ calories every day. I was just really hungry that day. But to say I can't imagine getting up to 2200 calories easily is a bit of a stretch.

[magnolia1973]

I didn't get to be 300 pounds by eating 1200 calories. I doubt many people here did (of course, there are exceptions).

Of course not. But we ate junk food. I could EASILY make 2200 calories with the use of white potatoes, bread, pasta, sugar, primal sweets. I mean, how many ribs did you eat? I guess it does come down to eating fattier meats and using more fat to cook with.

I mean you ate alot of calories, but damn, that is an expensive way to eat.

[j3nn]

Primal is one of the more limiting Paleo protocols, even with its dairy allowance. The rigid carb curve would usually have to be discarded to keep calories high. Fruit, dairy, and starches in much higher quantities.

I think Mark's carb curve is holding primal back. It has initial great success rates, but much like Atkins, the long-term adherence fails for many people unless they ignore arbitrary numbers.

[canio6]

Of course not. But we ate junk food. I could EASILY make 2200 calories with the use of white potatoes, bread, pasta, sugar, primal sweets. I mean, how many ribs did you eat? I guess it does come down to eating fattier meats and using more fat to cook with.

I mean you ate alot of calories, but damn, that is an expensive way to eat.

I ate all of them, and, yes, that is a very expensive way too eat. I generally only buy ribs if they are on sale. Also 4000 calories is not normal by any means. I just wanted to illustrate that 2200 calories is not hard for me to imagine. I just find it a funny quirk about some posters here (certainly not you specifically) that they claim there is no way they can eat X number of calories. I can and call it dinner

Edited...looking back on my eating lately it is more a calorie cycle. 4000 calories one day. Today I have eaten two apples and about 2 ounces of cheese. I may eat again later. I might not. I'm just not hungry today. The other day I would have slapped my mother for another rib

[eKatherine]

I ate all of them, and, yes, that is a very expensive way too eat. I generally only buy ribs if they are on sale. Also 4000 calories is not normal by any means. I just wanted to illustrate that 2200 calories is not hard for me to imagine. I just find it a funny quirk about some posters here (certainly not you specifically) that they claim there is no way they can eat X number of calories. I can and call it dinner

Edited...looking back on my eating lately it is more a calorie cycle. 4000 calories one day. Today I have eaten two apples and about 2 ounces of cheese. I may eat again later. I might not. I'm just not hungry today. The other day I would have slapped my mother for another rib

I don't think anybody said that you couldn't imagine eating that much. Just because you do it regularly doesn't mean that I could imagine eating 3500 calories in a day.

[canio6]

I don't think anybody said that you couldn't imagine eating that much. Just because you do it regularly doesn't mean that I could imagine eating 3500 calories in a day.

I think I am being too literal in my thoughts on the word imagine. I am pretty sure there is not a person here who cannot imagine eating 3500 calories. Hell, I can imagine riding a unicorn with Jessica Beil. That does not mean I can do that. As such, I just need to revise my reading of the word imagine to mean "I cannot actually eat 3500 calories of primal food in one day"

[eKatherine]

I think you are not nearly as skilled at mind-reading as you think you are.

[canio6]

I think you are not nearly as skilled at mind-reading as you think you are.

Damn, and I just bought this crystal ball.

[sbhikes]

I'll try to estimate to my best right now.

Breakfast:
1 sweet potato: 100
2 cups cubed chicken breast: 460

Lunch:
Mixed veggies (panda express clone): 70 (really?? I find that hard to believe.)
Teriyaki chicken: 250

Snack:
Chocolate: 250

Dinner:
Wine: 25 x 12oz = 300
Sweet Potato: 100
Vegetables: 70
Salmon: 300
More chocolate, what the heck: 250
Cheese, what the heck: 120 x 3oz (estimate): 360

Total: 2210

This would be a day where I felt like I ate fairly normally, if not a little on the conservative side.

My Fitness Pal tells me that to lose a microscopic amount of weight I'd need to consume 1200 calories. Then I'd lose maybe 10lbs in 6 months or so. If I wanted to stay the same weight, it tells me to eat 1500 calories a day. I eat at least this much every single day. I do exercise every day, but not a whole lot and usually not very strenuously.