Food for Fuel - Eat It When You Need It

Allow yourself 100 calories (or your personal hourly burn rate - see "How To Follow" instructions) for every waking hour. For example if you normally wake before 7am and go to bed after 11pm. This gives you 1600 calories for each day. An important feature of this method is that you must always EARN your next meal by doing without food for a number of hours equal to the caloric value of your last meal. Therefore; if you eat 300 calories at 7am you can not even consider putting another thing in your mouth until after 10am. The same is true for lunch... If you eat 600 calories at 12pm you can not eat another thing until after 6pm. The tricky part is the evening meal. If you eat at 7pm and the meal is 800 calories, you have to do without food for eight waking hours; so that would be four hours before bed and four hours after you wake at 7am. Therefore you will not be able to eat anything until 11am the next day.

First you need to find your total daily caloric burn rate. (You can use the Exercise Diary within FatSecret.com to figure your daily average). You then divide that number by 2 and then divide again by the number of waking hours in an average day. This will give you your hourly burn rate. For this example the hourly burn rate is 100 calories.

When you eat your next meal Journal it. Measure the caloric values including everything that you drink and eat. If you eat 500 calories then look at the clock and measure five hours. Then tell yourself... that is when I can eat next.