fiday.com - nutrients and calories

[genveg]

For the past week I have been faithfully entering all of the foods I have eaten at fitday.com . I was curious to see if I was getting all my (so called) required nutrients. (so called because they are really estimates, and don't (can't) take individual lifestyle into account).

Anyhow, I did not try to change or alter my diet because I wanted

Comments

[guen_the_cat]

I will agree that Raw foodists probably don't actually need the 1500-2000 calorie intake suggested by the RDA. Especially if you're a sedintary person or if you eat foods that use their fuel more efficiently. However, when you're talking about most of the world who eats cooked foods, eating below a 1500 calorie diet just isn't nutritionally pheasable. If they were raw eaters at least 60% of the time, yeah, but not with eating cooked. People who are on regular cooked diets and try to get less than the 1500 calorie intake usually end up starving themselves because they don't have a concept of eating actual meals that are naural and low cal. I categorize myself in that bunch as a beginner in the Raw food world. And I have a friend who's despearately trying to lose weight and so she's resorted to taking many 2-3 day fasts. And when she eats her low cal meals, she eats almost all of her calories in one sitting. So she really DOES starve herself, but not in an intentional anorexic way. She just got into juicing, though so I'm trying to steer her over here so she can get some decent nutritional advice and moral support other than her friends and family saying "Quit starving yourself!"

[genveg]

I think fasting is a horrible way to lose weight, your body goes into a mode where it tries to retain all its calories, so you don't loose any weight. I was always told that 500 calories was the absolute minimum you needed not to have your body do this. I think I learned this when I was a graduate student at Yale; I hung around Med students. So I don't know if that 's a standard doctrine or a fact.

I don't tend to eat meals, but rather 'graze' all day. Even when I make a plate of stuff, it takes me a couple of hours to eat so its not like a meal. Much healthier.

Hope your friend gets better habits.