Nutrition by the numbers?

RE: Nutrition by the numbers?

H6497 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:06:16 GMT

A hungry fish is a fast fish. I would learn to eliminate highly processed food and excess sugar and salt. Once you can go without them and get over craving them start skipping a meal until you can go 18 hours without food then increase it to 36.Learn the benefits of fasting.

RE: Nutrition by the numbers?

AW9S7 — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 01:21:16 GMT

Thank you

I've started using some apps to help. I'll know more in a week but I'm guessing about 3500 as I workout six days a week.

Thanks again

RE: Nutrition by the numbers?

Windrath — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:05:31 GMT

Charlie,

Congrats on being cancer free for 1 year and regaining your physical fitness.

There are alot of factors affecting caloric expenditure:

Age
Height/weight
Effort level
Duration of effort
Others

I suggest googling "baseline caloric expenditure" to learn more. You will see that men expend 2,000-2500 calories just through daily living, but there is a wide range.

Next - track your exercises, the duration, and your heart rate/exertion level. Then, find a chart that lists exercises and their caloric requirements. At that point the math is easy. For example, let's say the 4 miles/week of swimming requires 2 hours (30 minutes/mile). Assuming you expend 500 calories/hour (which is high for most masters swimmers), that is only 1,000 calories from swimming for the entire week.

Based on the exercise regiment you describe, 4,000 calories/day sounds too high. However, only you know by doing the math.

Good luck with the research and preparing for the OW event - there are plenty of discussions about OW prep.

Paul