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As far as hunger goes, get used to it, again if you are not genetically predisposed to be big and lean you will be hungry. Go read some modern day Frank Zane, I think I read he consumes about 1800 cal/day so I’m sure he’s hungry too but he looks fantastic for an older guy. Ha! He looks fantastic to anyone at any age.
Anyway in the first few chapters of UD 2.0, Lyle goes in to detailed explanation on how all that works. Under 10% your body thinks it’s starving to death and there are a whole host of hormones in your body screaming “FEED ME!”.
I coined a new term “Comfortable Starvation”, and just learned to structure my meals and food to make starving manageable. Example: On my low carb/cal days I Intermittent Fast for 20 hours and then consume half of my maintenance calories (1500) in 4 meals for 4 hours. After my last meal I’ve forgotten all about starving for the last 20 hours and go to bed satiated and stay full through the night and most of the morning.
If I were to space the 1500 calories all throughout the day, I’d be starving all day, I’d go to bed starving, and wake up in the middle of the night starving. So you see the way I do it with the 20 hour fast is make starving more “comfortable”.
I know it may sound a bit extreme, but I’m almost 50 and I want to be/stay lean 24/7/365 until the box goes in to the ground and this is what it takes for me so I'm learning to deal with it.
You may be able to take a bunch of gear and accomplish the same, but you can’t do that forever…
Anyway in the first few chapters of UD 2.0, Lyle goes in to detailed explanation on how all that works. Under 10% your body thinks it’s starving to death and there are a whole host of hormones in your body screaming “FEED ME!”.
I coined a new term “Comfortable Starvation”, and just learned to structure my meals and food to make starving manageable. Example: On my low carb/cal days I Intermittent Fast for 20 hours and then consume half of my maintenance calories (1500) in 4 meals for 4 hours. After my last meal I’ve forgotten all about starving for the last 20 hours and go to bed satiated and stay full through the night and most of the morning.
If I were to space the 1500 calories all throughout the day, I’d be starving all day, I’d go to bed starving, and wake up in the middle of the night starving. So you see the way I do it with the 20 hour fast is make starving more “comfortable”.
I know it may sound a bit extreme, but I’m almost 50 and I want to be/stay lean 24/7/365 until the box goes in to the ground and this is what it takes for me so I'm learning to deal with it.
You may be able to take a bunch of gear and accomplish the same, but you can’t do that forever…
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