Winning naturally with Hunt-Feast
For thousands of years we have had irregular access to food. The Hunt-Feast method mimics this pattern by alternating deficit and excess in energy during a week. The Hunt period consists of one or two meals per day and up to 24 hours of fasting between, so called intermittent fasting. The Feast period allows for spoiling yourself and recharge your will-power for the next Hunt period.
Eat normal food but vary the amount according to the Hunt-Feast cycle. This is the all-natural way of regulating the body weight. You do not only get back your sweet-spot weight by stimulating the body's ability to burn fat, you also get a mental and physical energy boost by inducing the important cellular repair processes and your metabolic rate. That's what we call winning naturally!
Is intermittent fasting painful? The small discomfort of being hungry can bring you significant benefits down the line. We are designed to be extremely resilient and functional over a long period of nutritional scarcity. If you are used to living next door to your refrigerator all the time, you may feel the hunger a bit for some time. But once adapted, the hunger will be replaced with an arousal that brings well-being and energy.
In calinut, you can throttle the Hunt-Feast support from Low (for weight control) to High (for weight loss), or switch it off. Kick-start your 2022 weight goal by using the Hunt-Feast method today! The coaching in-app videos in calinut gives you advices along the way.
What is weight control
Weight control is when you know your energy balance point with reasonable precision and are able to throttle it with minimum effort to manage your weight. For the record, there's more to weight control than daily exercising. Much more.
What you need
To achieve weight control, you need a proven method that is easy to follow, gives you daily guidance and ensures that you reach your desired weight goal - and thereafter permanent weight control
How you succeed
The method is called the
Hunt-Feast Weight Control
and calinut is the tool that is designed around it to help you achieve your goal and keep your weight where you want it to be. Permanently. With just 2-5 minutes of effort per day.
How do I get started?
looks_oneDownload and install calinut by clicking on the button below.
looks_twoTake the in-app coach's advice.
looks_3Log your calorie intake and expenditure.
looks_4Focus on a weekly energy balance.
You'll soon get to a reasonable level, shown as green bars in the History view.
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Want to know more? See the intro video below
the coach's intro
The journey to permanent weight control have six premises. Watch the video to learn what they are.
Register your daily intake and spending in the Calinator. Roughly is good enough. By learning a few tricks on how to approximate the energy in food and drink, you can register your intake in seconds.
Measure and register your body weight once a week. On the same day and time every week. By getting feedback on how well you approximate the energy level with your weight change, you will soon learn to be precise enough
Intuitive graphs with educational feedback let you monitor how you are doing day by day, and week by week. The key lies in mastering the balance between intake and expenditure in the long run. The coloured feedback scheme helps you quickly to become just good enough!
in-app coaching videos
| Video Title | Release Date | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction | 2021-01-20 | 8 min |
| 2. Registration tactics | 2021-02-20 | 8 min |
| 3. Energy estimation 1 | 2021-04-10 | 5 min |
| 4. Strategies for weight loss | 2021-05-05 | 5 min |
| 5. Day 1 - The 2022 Goal | 2022-01-10 | 2 min |
| 6. Day 2 - The 2022 Goal | 2022-01-11 | 2 min |
| 7. Day 3 - The 2022 Goal | 2022-01-12 | 2 min |
| 8. Day 4 - The 2022 Goal | 2022-01-13 | 2 min |
| 9. Day 5 - The 2022 Goal | 2022-01-14 | 2 min |
quick guide
How to get started
Register and monitor
Register activity automatically
Understanding the stats
Calorie overview
How you should measure
Lead Developer & Coach
How to get started with calinut
After downloading calinut from App Store, you will be presented with a choice to register with an e-mail or your AppleID. We suggest that you use AppleID, it is the fastest and most convenient way for you get up and running.
Since calinut will need to know your age, gender, height and weight to be able to calculate your calorie expenditure and predicted weight change, you will be asked if you will allow the app to access health data. If you allow, we can assure you that we will treat this information as it were our own. If you don't allow, you will need to register these details manually in a subsequent step. Moreover, if you want calinut to get your active energy from your Apple Watch or Garmin or whatever, this also requires your approval to read health data.
In the final registration step you will be presented with available coaching plans. The guest plan will provide limited functionality and have ads. For subscriptions, you will be prompted for payment. Once the payment is finalised, you're ready to get cracking.
1-2-registered!
The daily calorie amount for you to spend is based on your age, gender, weight and height, aka basal metabolic rate, plus 20% to cater for average normal activity.
The Calinator is your daily usage screen. (1) Shows your remaining calories for today and (2) is your estimated weight change since last measurement.
To register, (3) select meal, snack or drink for intake or exercise for expenditure. (4) Tap amount buttons to add up to the desired amount (6), and hit save (5). If you got something wrong before saving, tap (7) to clear the screen.
To see your last registrations, tap (8). Here you can delete any registration by swiping to left
You can register up to three days back if you've forgotten something.
Just tap the - or + field at the bottom to set the appropriate day.
Let your smartwatch register active energy for you automatically
Let calinut read all active energy from your smartwatch or training watch. You enable it from the Help & Settings menu, just tap accessory wheel in Calinator and hit "Active energy from watch" to activate it. This option is, however, only available to subscribing members on devices with Health kit included, such as iPhones but not iPads. You might need to consent to having the watch and calinut access your health data if you haven't already done so.
The way it works is that every day calinut sums up yesterday's active energy, adjusts it to your daily 20% "on account" calories and register it as the last thing on that day, something like this:
What does the graphs tell you?
On the Last week screen (left) you get your energy intake (blue bar) and expenditure (red line) for the last seven days.
On the History screen is your weekly balance between energy intake and expenditure (blue bar) and registered weight (red line) four months back. Look at the figure above right: the weekly balance there is slightly underreported. Can you see why? Hint: answer below
The correlation between weekly balance and weight is key for obvious reasons. Controlling the weekly balance and its impact on weight is the key to success. Paying users will get a view that contains feedback on their registrations, where green means < 15% deviation per week, yellow 15-30% and red > 30% deviation in your energy estimation.
Correctly estimating energy in food takes some time learn. So
by using our colour-feedback you will greatly speed up the the learning to
estimate the energy in your intake.
It's better to be roughly right, than precisely wrong
The challenge with finding the right amount of energy in food and drink is mainly to determine all ingredients including portion of water, and - of course - the amount. As these varies all the time, aiming for precision will be a daunting task.
For our purpose, average is good enough in the long run. Below is a suggestion of average values you can use as a starting point.
Plate with...
Bowl with...
Glass with...
Handful with...
Spoon with...
Fruit...
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results"
Whatever your strategy is, losing or gaining weight, or just staying put, you should measure it regularly. Once per week is recommended until you have reached your desired level of control.
You should also do it on the same time and have as similar routines as possible two days before to eliminate variables such as water level, salty food, bathroom visits and glycogen level. Together, these have the potential to affect your body weight with more than a kilogram (2.2. lbs, 0.15 stone) - up or down.
Upon registering your new weight, calinut will look at your preceding registrations and determine how much off you are as a means of education. You get instant feedback (1). Green is great, you're less 15% off, yellow is quite okay with 15-30% off, whereas red means that you are more than 30% off and should make an effort to improve your estimation skills.
Based on your registration, calinut will also predict what your next expected weight will be (2) if you are continuing in a similar manner. In the history graph (3) you can see how you have been doing for the last months as these coloured bars are connected.