-Diablo's Journal, 30 August 2021

The reverse is true: go super low on calories, and your TDEE almost certainly goes down. 

laughing chevre: word! 

1K calories is alright, by me, especially if one is sedentary or semi-sedentary. Like me, I cannot be as active as I once was, Once Upon A Time, so, I do what my body/mind/spirit allow me to do daily. I go for walks, mostly, but I do luv and hour of good aerobics/cardio. Like Taurielfan said, "that 20% is important". I too concur w/that sentiment wholeheartedly and then some. Don't ever forget, the heart is the most important muscle that must be conditioned by cardio/aerobics for at least 20-30 minutes 3-5 days per week in intervals or up to an hour total. Stretching is just as important to keep the muscles, nerves, skin, bones, tendons, etc. flexible and pliable enough so that we may continue accomplishing our daily tasks that we take for granted like; Standing, Sitting, Walking, Bending, Twisting, Turning, and so on and so forth. Very enlightening subject you got going here Mr. =) 

August was a very robust month according to my food calendar. will be tampering down the intake accordingly. 

Also, the overweight/obese individuals is NO JOKE! They struggle everyday w/ themselves and what not to eat and what to eat, when, how much. My heart, truly, bleeds for the individuals that eat out of nervousness. They don't have to be starving nor hungry. They just eat whenever they feel they are hungry. Also, Diabetics tend to be hungry alot of the time too. There are many individuals that have one issue or another and I sure hope that the troubled/desperate/tired souls will accomplish all of their goals Godspeed...Amen  

Don't listen to me though, I just hate cutting calories and have always hated hearing "80% diet 20% exercise". In my opinion, having a grasp on both is essential for the best results. I've seen the result of just focusing on diet and barely training the body, and the result of training without any attention to what one eats, and neither is optimal. 

Man plus size women like me always struggle with our weight. Totally a bad habit. I had my issues since childhood. 

Definitely not a joke to eat when full, bored, nervous, etc. I find it interesting that some people don’t know that behavior and can’t even imagine eating when full or way beyond full. 

L2E, oh yeah, it’s mental, eating till you’re STUFFED, yet wondering while still chewing, what’s for dinner?🙃 

Going to start a 5/2 fasting way of eating. I found some of the research on fasting vs calorie reduction quite interesting. Will increase my calories from 1600 to 1900 on the days I'm not fasting. 

Diablo, is it more beneficial to fast the days you work out, or the day before? 

Eating prior to working out will give you more energy. 

Okay, first day of fast. Let’s see how difficult this is. 

I had heard that about Basal metabolism but this is the first I have seen about how to work it! Focusing on diet this month. 

It's 90% nutrition...exercise just feels good 

trying to get the link. oh GOD why this app didn’t have a link with the address 😞 would be interesting to read as always  

You can copy and paste the link in the first post on here. 

Na the iphone is not picking it. well. i will try the computer later. let’s see