Nutrition is something that has a lot of variables.
I would say there is are guidelines of recommendations. But in the end it really depends on the person's body. Stuff like age, metabolism, muscle/fat ratio, activeness, daily tasks, time between meals, starvation, diabetes, and everything else in between will affect what our body needs and what our body will do with it once it gets it.
Sometimes the body will make it very clear on what it needs, and it can be felt very strongly.
I notice that when I go grocery shopping while kind of hungry or feel a bit out of energy from a long bike ride. I tend to or have the need to buy ready to eat snacks, usually high carbs or sugary. And it's not from my brain telling me to buy those things because I normally would not. I guess the body knows what it needs, in this case that would be something that can be converted into energy fast which would be carbs/sugar and it automatically hunts for it. When I get that feeling, the meat section simply don't interest me as much as the like potato chips/pop/ice cream/etc sections. Now, I try to go after I've eaten something and not hours afterwards. And I don't get that feeling when I do it that way.
I would say that any new diets or even old diets we start going on, is basically an experiment until we see what the results are after some time. In the old diets case, yes it may have worked the past but depending on how far past it may not work anymore because of things like age, body composition, change of daily activities, change of lifestyle, etc.
My current diet seems to be working ok for me. Was 146.6 lbs on June 1, 2012 and I'm 144.0 lbs now, June 24, 2012. My log shows that I've been going down by about .2 lbs each day. Some days it stays the same as the previous day or higher if I eat something extra which happens once in a while. But overall, my weight is going downwards.
My lightest in all my adult life was about 128 lbs in 2009 when I was very active. Close to like a Bruce Lee figure. Sometimes I wonder why I'm giving that up, because I did put a lot time into it. For sure, that was a high maintenance body. And the workouts though short in duration in my case, was not exactly easy. But I also got angry easily, probably from the testosterone levels. Now when I do get angry it's more of a calm-angry.
I would say there is are guidelines of recommendations. But in the end it really depends on the person's body. Stuff like age, metabolism, muscle/fat ratio, activeness, daily tasks, time between meals, starvation, diabetes, and everything else in between will affect what our body needs and what our body will do with it once it gets it.
Sometimes the body will make it very clear on what it needs, and it can be felt very strongly.
I notice that when I go grocery shopping while kind of hungry or feel a bit out of energy from a long bike ride. I tend to or have the need to buy ready to eat snacks, usually high carbs or sugary. And it's not from my brain telling me to buy those things because I normally would not. I guess the body knows what it needs, in this case that would be something that can be converted into energy fast which would be carbs/sugar and it automatically hunts for it. When I get that feeling, the meat section simply don't interest me as much as the like potato chips/pop/ice cream/etc sections. Now, I try to go after I've eaten something and not hours afterwards. And I don't get that feeling when I do it that way.
I would say that any new diets or even old diets we start going on, is basically an experiment until we see what the results are after some time. In the old diets case, yes it may have worked the past but depending on how far past it may not work anymore because of things like age, body composition, change of daily activities, change of lifestyle, etc.
My current diet seems to be working ok for me. Was 146.6 lbs on June 1, 2012 and I'm 144.0 lbs now, June 24, 2012. My log shows that I've been going down by about .2 lbs each day. Some days it stays the same as the previous day or higher if I eat something extra which happens once in a while. But overall, my weight is going downwards.
My lightest in all my adult life was about 128 lbs in 2009 when I was very active. Close to like a Bruce Lee figure. Sometimes I wonder why I'm giving that up, because I did put a lot time into it. For sure, that was a high maintenance body. And the workouts though short in duration in my case, was not exactly easy. But I also got angry easily, probably from the testosterone levels. Now when I do get angry it's more of a calm-angry.