FT Questions....

[Altamir]

Hey Scott and all the other brainiacs on here,

When you're blasting, How important do you think appetite is when it comes to your overall diet? I feel like once you reach a point in your caloric intake where food intake is pretty high, nothing really keeps appetite elevated. You just eat your meal regardless of how you feel, and move on

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Not Scott or a brainiac but I'll throw my 2 cents in.

I think it's a lot of "know thyself". I think overall appetite can be a GREAT indicator in caloric excess or deficit. I think the important thing to note is, appetite is very individualistic. But its for sure another piece of information and biofeedback that fits into the puzzle. I think when really pushing calories almost everyone is going to hit a wall at one meal or another and just have to eat and push through. Depending on how you structure your diet though, there are certainly spots where you can feel pretty hungry or at least have a appetite for food.

One of the things I like about how Scott structures diets in the FT ebook is the non-aggressive model with only going trace carbs on days off. It's my personal favorite. On weeknights I finish my post and post post meal of a million carbs and calories and I feel so ungodly full. But by morning or noon the next day of having no carbs and lighter calories, appetite is back up, and by the time training rolls around again 48 hours later. I'm ready to stuff myself again. I think the same amount of calories and carbs spread out over the week differently and I may have a harder time getting everything down. Scott has also outlined a few tricks to getting larger meals down by shifting calories on non training days, to the time you have your large post work out meal.

Same thing with cruises. Less training, overall less calories, and less carbs. I usually come back from my cruises more insulin sensitive and hungry not only to train but the first week the same calories I might have been struggling with the week previous, go down much easier.