Something I'm not fully understanding from the FAQ
FAQ:
keeping protein intake moderate, 0.7g to 1.2g per pound lean body mass. (1.5g to 2.6g per kg lean body mass.) - Note that going over 0.9g is only suggested for people doing heavy lifting and endurance training.
I'm not fully understanding this section. How is the lean body mass has derived? Is it referring to protein source consumed or some figure derived from my stats? In either circumstance, how is that calculated?
Posted Oct 21, 2019, 9:13 AM UTC
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Lean body mass is that portion of your body that is not fat tissue. So mostly muscle & bone.
You can measure it with a digital scale wirb Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) technology, which can accurately measure body metrics including body fat percentage, water weight,muscle percentage, bone mass, and muscle mass.
25-35 $/£ /€
Or you can estimate your fat % visually:
https://www.ruled.me/visually-estimate-body-fat-percentage/
Then a bit of arithmetic.
Or go by the suggested fat% in the calculator recommended by the FAQ.
Oh.. yeah
These scales are notoriously inaccurate specifically for keto peeps.
Although I know that the scale method is inaccurate I wonder what's your source that it is worse for people on keto? (is it also worse while fasting?)
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/3mp578/help_my_fitbit_scale_keeps_saying_that_im_gaining/
Chiming in here--they work on based on the retained fluid in your body. Since people on keto don't have nearly the glycogen stores that people on carb heavy diets do, we retain far less fluid. So it stands to reason they would get wonky.