145 :-)

Well, today I weighed in at 145. I'm not sure why I've lost weight so
fast these last few days -- it's not what I expected to happen when I
got down to this level; I thought it might take me a few months to
lose the last 5 pounds, and instead it has been only a few weeks.
I've had some significant weekend splurges but then been relatively
abstemious the rest of the time. Maybe this is a good combination.
Sometimes this just happens, though -- I'll have a slow period and
then a whoosh. Anyway, this puts me at the bottom of my goal range,
so I'm going to officially start trying to just maintain.

Lately I've been eating on the order of 1150 calories on many of the
weekdays, with some higher days when I go out. I'm going to try, for
now, to eat at least 1300 each day. If I still lose or don't gain at
all with that, I'll gradually up it.

I don't expect there to be big changes in how I eat, but it's quite a
different mindset somehow.

I'm pleased, though :-).

Chris
262/145/ (145-150)

On 18 Jun 2004 01:49:57 GMT, Ignoramus30064
wrote:

so you now have some weight "cushion" below your goal...

congratulations!

i

Thanks! Yeah, the idea was to have kind of a cushion. I wouldn't
want to be in situation where I got upset if I gained a single pound.
Normal weight fluctuations would drive me crazy if I felt like I had
to maintain an exact number :-).

Chris

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:43:47 GMT, Chris Braun
wrote:

Lately I've been eating on the order of 1150 calories on many of the
weekdays, with some higher days when I go out. I'm going to try, for
now, to eat at least 1300 each day. If I still lose or don't gain at
all with that, I'll gradually up it.

I don't expect there to be big changes in how I eat, but it's quite a
different mindset somehow.

How tall are you, what's your body frame and what's your bodyfat like
and how active are you?

1300 calories a day is not a sustainable level for any human being,
save maybe a small child, for any ammount of time. If your input does
not begin to approach and match your output once you've lost your
bodyfat, you could have a serious malnurishment problem, and you
should seek professional medical help and have a complete bloodwork
done.

I'm not here to rain on your parade, Chris. I'm just used to some
people taking it WAAAY too far :-)

"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
Well, today I weighed in at 145. I'm not sure why I've lost weight so
fast these last few days -- it's not what I expected to happen when I
got down to this level; I thought it might take me a few months to
lose the last 5 pounds, and instead it has been only a few weeks.
I've had some significant weekend splurges but then been relatively
abstemious the rest of the time. Maybe this is a good combination.
Sometimes this just happens, though -- I'll have a slow period and
then a whoosh. Anyway, this puts me at the bottom of my goal range,
so I'm going to officially start trying to just maintain.

Lately I've been eating on the order of 1150 calories on many of the
weekdays, with some higher days when I go out. I'm going to try, for
now, to eat at least 1300 each day. If I still lose or don't gain at
all with that, I'll gradually up it.

I don't expect there to be big changes in how I eat, but it's quite a
different mindset somehow.

I'm pleased, though :-).

Chris
262/145/ (145-150)

Congrats Chris, the rest of your life now begins. You've been a great
role model - I'm sure you'll do just fine in maintenance. I definitely
attribute some of my most recent success to your influence.

Jenn

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:14:38 +0200, Pegasus wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:43:47 GMT, Chris Braun
wrote:

Lately I've been eating on the order of 1150 calories on many of the
weekdays, with some higher days when I go out. I'm going to try, for
now, to eat at least 1300 each day. If I still lose or don't gain at
all with that, I'll gradually up it.

I don't expect there to be big changes in how I eat, but it's quite a
different mindset somehow.

How tall are you, what's your body frame and what's your bodyfat like
and how active are you?

1300 calories a day is not a sustainable level for any human being,
save maybe a small child, for any ammount of time. If your input does
not begin to approach and match your output once you've lost your
bodyfat, you could have a serious malnurishment problem, and you
should seek professional medical help and have a complete bloodwork
done.

I'm not here to rain on your parade, Chris. I'm just used to some
people taking it WAAAY too far :-)

You don't know what you're talking about. I've been dieting for two
years, working with a nutritionist. My health is excellent. I am
never ill. My doctor is most impressed with my health. All of my
indicators are in healthy ranges. (And I just today -- I posted about
this separately -- had a bone scan in which my bone mass was off the
charts for my age group.)

I am 5'6", relatively large frame -- don't know BF% but am sure it's
fairly low. I am a competitive weighlifter; I am the state bench
press champion in my age group, and silver medalist in the Olympic
lifting Masters' Nationals. I lift 4-5 times per week. I also walk
10-20 miles per week and run 6-8 miles. I have maintained this
exercise program during the 2 years I have been dieting. I also work
full-time as a systems engineer.

I am also a menopausal 56 year old woman. If you care to learn
something about all this, you will find that the nutritional needs of
menopausal women are significantly different than those of younger
women or of men of any age.

Chris

Congrats on meeting your goal!

"Chris Braun" wrote in message
...
Well, today I weighed in at 145. I'm not sure why I've lost weight so
fast these last few days -- it's not what I expected to happen when I
got down to this level; I thought it might take me a few months to
lose the last 5 pounds, and instead it has been only a few weeks.
I've had some significant weekend splurges but then been relatively
abstemious the rest of the time. Maybe this is a good combination.
Sometimes this just happens, though -- I'll have a slow period and
then a whoosh. Anyway, this puts me at the bottom of my goal range,
so I'm going to officially start trying to just maintain.

Lately I've been eating on the order of 1150 calories on many of the
weekdays, with some higher days when I go out. I'm going to try, for
now, to eat at least 1300 each day. If I still lose or don't gain at
all with that, I'll gradually up it.

I don't expect there to be big changes in how I eat, but it's quite a
different mindset somehow.

I'm pleased, though :-).

Chris
262/145/ (145-150)

You haven't participated in this newsgroup for very long and/or have no idea
about Chris's background to make statements like that! I can honestly say
that she knows more about nutrition and exercise then most of us here
combined! Sheesh... know what you are talking about before you make posts
like this!

"Pegasus" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:43:47 GMT, Chris Braun
wrote:

Lately I've been eating on the order of 1150 calories on many of the
weekdays, with some higher days when I go out. I'm going to try, for
now, to eat at least 1300 each day. If I still lose or don't gain at
all with that, I'll gradually up it.

I don't expect there to be big changes in how I eat, but it's quite a
different mindset somehow.

How tall are you, what's your body frame and what's your bodyfat like
and how active are you?

1300 calories a day is not a sustainable level for any human being,
save maybe a small child, for any ammount of time. If your input does
not begin to approach and match your output once you've lost your
bodyfat, you could have a serious malnurishment problem, and you
should seek professional medical help and have a complete bloodwork
done.

I'm not here to rain on your parade, Chris. I'm just used to some
people taking it WAAAY too far :-)

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:34:32 GMT, Chris Braun
wrote:

You don't know what you're talking about.

Gee, touchy feely are we? It looks like a large number of people in
this group are so concerned with dieting it's taken on an almost
religious fanatical zeal.

I have a doctorate in astrophysics. Granted, I'm no doctor, but we did
cover biochemistry pretty well.

I've been dieting for two years, working with a nutritionist.

For two years? And you're still overweight?

I am 5'6", relatively large frame -- don't know BF% but am sure it's
fairly low. I am a competitive weighlifter; I am the state bench
press champion in my age group, and silver medalist in the Olympic
lifting Masters' Nationals. I lift 4-5 times per week. I also walk
10-20 miles per week and run 6-8 miles. I have maintained this
exercise program during the 2 years I have been dieting. I also work
full-time as a systems engineer.

Okay, all this, for two years, eating 1150 calories? And you still
think you're overweight? Sorry, but maybe you should be seing a
psychiatrist, not a nutrionist. What you are doing is by no stretch of
the imagination considered healthy.

I am also a menopausal 56 year old woman. If you care to learn
something about all this, you will find that the nutritional needs of
menopausal women are significantly different than those of younger
women or of men of any age.

I know enough to know that after two years, and with such an active
schedule, you cannot stay healthy on 1150 calories a day.

"Pegasus" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:34:32 GMT, Chris Braun
wrote:

You don't know what you're talking about.

Gee, touchy feely are we? It looks like a large number of people in
this group are so concerned with dieting it's taken on an almost
religious fanatical zeal.

Chris is not on a diet... she changed her WOL for life! Losing over 100 lbs
over 2 years, working with weight trainers and nutritionist is much
healthier method then most people.

I've been dieting for two years, working with a nutritionist.

For two years? And you're still overweight?

She is no longer overweight, or can't you read her original post where she
said she is officially at goal weight... she lost her weight slowly and
safely.

I am 5'6", relatively large frame -- don't know BF% but am sure it's
fairly low. I am a competitive weighlifter; I am the state bench
press champion in my age group, and silver medalist in the Olympic
lifting Masters' Nationals. I lift 4-5 times per week. I also walk
10-20 miles per week and run 6-8 miles. I have maintained this
exercise program during the 2 years I have been dieting. I also work
full-time as a systems engineer.

Okay, all this, for two years, eating 1150 calories? And you still
think you're overweight? Sorry, but maybe you should be seing a
psychiatrist, not a nutrionist. What you are doing is by no stretch of
the imagination considered healthy.

You must be a troll to type something as stupid and unfounded as that last
paragraph.

I am also a menopausal 56 year old woman. If you care to learn
something about all this, you will find that the nutritional needs of
menopausal women are significantly different than those of younger
women or of men of any age.

I know enough to know that after two years, and with such an active
schedule, you cannot stay healthy on 1150 calories a day.

If you have been reading her posts more regularly, you would know that she
lost most of her weight by gradually reducing calories and mainly eating
about 1500 a day. Apparently, she is incredibly healthy and in excellent
shape so who are you comparing her to? For someone who supposedly has their
doctorate in astrophysics, you sure are good at making stupid, unfounded
statements about someone you don't know. But what do I know... I am just a
lowly mortgage banker with just a bach.

Sorry for getting involved in this Chris.. but I can't help it!

2 years ago she weighed 262 lbs before she started changing her eating and
exercise patterns... last time I checked, that made her overweight. Duh...
didn't you see this at the bottom of her post? On which planet are you
living on that 262 is a healthy weight for a 56 yr old woman who is 5'6"?
This is her signature line:

Chris
262/145/ (145-150)

Who is an anal retentive zealot? Why the hell are you here if you don't
want to work on getting healthier... Are you here just to put down people
that are successful in doing what you apparently can't? I think that is by
far your stupidest statement. I can't wait to read what comes out of you
next.



"Pegasus" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:22:15 -0500, "JMA"
wrote:

Gee, a usenet group called alt.support.diet being concerned about
dieting...
whoda thunk it?

Dieting is supposed to be about health. You anal-retentative zealot
jerks have made a religion out of it, and you're making people sick as
a result.

For a rocket scientist, your reading skills are pretty weak. Where
exactly
did she say she was overweight?

As I asked her, if she's not overweight, then why is she dieting?
Eating disorders come in many shapes and sizes.