Dieting while staying at bed & breakfast inns for someone with a "metabolism" or basal metabolic rate (BMR) of 2600 calories per day

Bed and Breakfast Inns usually offer gourmet breakfasts, and since you are paying for it, you need to eat most, if not all of the breakfast that is served. This breakfast will be grand. It will be much more than the usual 1/5 BMR (520 calories) that you get for breakfast on low carb days, and even more than the 2/5 BMR (1040 calories) that you get on cheat days. Eat a fair amount until you are fairly full (not too full) and you should eat about 3/10 BMR (780 calories) worth of food. Then what you should do is take about 1/10 BMR (260 calories) to go in a container to have for your mid-morning snack. If there is more than this left, you can either save even more to be used for lunch, or throw the rest away. Ask the innkeeper if you can keep some of the breakfast to go in a refrigerator on the premises. If you feel you need to, you could explain to the innkeeper that you are full, but that you liked the breakfast so much that you want to save some to eat for a mid to late morning snack. Or you can explain that you like to have a snack in between breakfast and lunch. Or since many innkeepers know about how many calories their breakfast servings are, you could have them even help figure out your portion allotments by telling them you're on a diet that allows you eat about 3/10 BMR (780 calories) at breakfast, and that if there is extra, that you'd like to have a small snack of about 1/10 BMR (260 calories) to be saved as a mid-morning snack. Hopefully you can keep it in a refrigerator until just before you leave the B&B in which case this would be your mid-morning snack.

The reason for doing this is so you won't have to think about what you're going to have to eat for your mid-morning snack, but if you feel it is too much of a hassle, or too embarrassing, you can have something else for your mid-morning snack. But if you do end up keeping some, it would be nice if you could actually bring a small reusable container on vacation with you, so the innkeeper doesn't end up possibly using a disposable one. An alternative is to grab an extra one the night before at the restaurant where you eat at.

Since you ate 3/10 BMR (780 calories) at breakfast, on low carb days, you can only have a snack of 1/10 BMR (260 calories) at lunch time. On low fat days, you can have 1/5 BMR (520 calories) at lunch, and you will have 2/5 BMR (1040 calories) at the restaurant or party, instead of the ½ BMR (1300 calories) that you are allotted when eating at a hotel or on a day that you're going to a party where food is served.

Suggested Eating Times for your 6 meals and the amount of food you should eat (example is based on you waking an hour before breakfast; then hopefully taking branch chain amino acids (BCAA) and doing 45 minutes of cardio exercise; then having breakfast; and also going to bed at 10 PM):

Breakfast: when served have 3/10 BMR or 780 calories
Snack #1: In between breakfast and lunch have 1/10 BMR or 260 calories
Lunch: 1 PM 1/10 BMR (260 calories) on “low carb” day; 1/5 BMR (520 calories) on “low fat” day
Snack #2: 4 PM have 1/10 BMR or 260 calories
Weights Workout: 5:30-6:15
Dinner: 7 PM have 2/5 BMR (1040 calories) on both “low carb” days and “low fat” days
Snack #3: 10 PM have 1/10 BMR or 260 calories

It is easy to find bed and breakfast inns on BestLodging.com. On the Best Lodging header logo at the top of every page, there is a link to the bed and breakfast home page.

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