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Day 18 of 100 Days
Day 18 and scale still at 229
Just got on my scale and it is hovering at 229 and wants to go lower. Maybe tomorrow. I had about 550 calories yesterday, 3 slices of cheese and a small bowl of cherry-tomatoes that my wife grew. This is a good reduction in calories for me, and I'm going to try to be especially good this month of September. I'm going for about the same number of calories today, although tomorrow, before hiking, I'm going to boost it a bit so I am able to make it up to our campsite without stopping every two hundred yards. One thing about yesterday impressed me again: I had my last of three slices of cheese later last night and it was only after that slice that I began to feel hungry. For me, eating (or the opportunity to eat food I at least find palatable) makes me hungry. Going without food is much less hunger-intensifying. I didn't go up my hill yesterday – I was trying to reroute the water to put in a new toilet (and had to turn the house's water off), but it turns out that the new toilet would have fit without the rerouting (although when we tested it the first time, it didn't seem to be anywhere near fitting). Now I have to repair a hole in the drywall. But I learned something about this business and it was kind of fun. I hope everyone has a great day and a great month ahead! I hope we can be "good enough for long enough!" Yours, Caleb 239/226/190 Day 18 of 100 Days |
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I talked to my
nutritionist and he said our bodies need around 1500 just to function I believe your nutritionist is considering 1500 calories per day to be the rate below which your resting metabolism will start to fall off. It's not that it will all at once go to zero, just that it will start to go down. The number 1500 sounds high to me. My own nutritionist is at the VA and has the benefit of my complete medical history and current blood chemistry. For me she says 800. Maybe get a second opinion? Another thing. There is not a one-for-one relationship between calories taken in and scale weight. I mean, imagine eating 1000 calories worth of turnips and then stepping on the scales! There is a lot of chemistry going on, and it all takes time. Don't give up. Keep on trying, 'cause it's really, really gonna work. Trust me! Lazy On 9/3/04 2:48 PM, in article , "Linda C. T." wrote: I have been on a 1500 calorie diet for a week and nothing has happened. In fact, I gained some weight. This is insanity! I am losing hope! I think I am at the point where it is the "law of diminished returns," and I cannot go lower anymore. L |
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I can't lay my hands on the articles now but I'm sure that I've read
that a lot of the lowered metabolism comes about by restriction of exercise, and that if people maintained (or increased somewhat) their exercise levels while restricting calories, this would lead to a basic maintenance of their basal metabolic rate. Linda -- I can remember having breakfast once with my mother about 15 years ago and thinking this whole thing was hopeless, especially following back surgery and this removing for me my major source of weight stabilization. But as Lazy says below: Don't give up. Keep on trying, 'cause it's really, really gonna work. Trust me! Yours, Caleb LazyEights wrote in message ... I talked to my nutritionist and he said our bodies need around 1500 just to function I believe your nutritionist is considering 1500 calories per day to be the rate below which your resting metabolism will start to fall off. It's not that it will all at once go to zero, just that it will start to go down. The number 1500 sounds high to me. My own nutritionist is at the VA and has the benefit of my complete medical history and current blood chemistry. For me she says 800. Maybe get a second opinion? Another thing. There is not a one-for-one relationship between calories taken in and scale weight. I mean, imagine eating 1000 calories worth of turnips and then stepping on the scales! There is a lot of chemistry going on, and it all takes time. Don't give up. Keep on trying, 'cause it's really, really gonna work. Trust me! Lazy On 9/3/04 2:48 PM, in article , "Linda C. T." wrote: I have been on a 1500 calorie diet for a week and nothing has happened. In fact, I gained some weight. This is insanity! I am losing hope! I think I am at the point where it is the "law of diminished returns," and I cannot go lower anymore. L |
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