Watch what you eat
Calorie restriction isn’t the same thing as cutting calories; it’s the belief that people who eat less will live longer. Instead of a guy consuming roughly 3,000 calories a day, he’d cut back to 1,200-1,5000 and feast on veggies and supplement meals with vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. The payoff, according to CR enthusiasts, is an additional year of life for every four years on the diet.
However, the people from the CR Society International have warned that decreasing daily caloric intake that drastically for an extended period of time can lead to horrible things like decreased testosterone, fatigue, food obsession, reduced bone mass, and the physical appearance of Mary-Kate Olsen.
“I tried it for two weeks,” Wexler says. “I’d gladly take five or 10 years off my life in order to be able to eat normally.”
If self-induced starvation is too extreme, you can use websites like Swole.me, an automatic diet generator that customizes food choices based on desired calorie count and number of meals per day.
