I'm like Herman Munster

janice wrote:
Wendy I'm not not sure whether you mean the link between lack of sleep
and weight loss was solely because you ate less on the days when you
went to bed earlier (or more on the days when you stayed up), or
whether going to bed at different times has some effect on your
metabolism.

It has some pervasive effects on my behavior the next day. I am not a
late-night muncher - in fact, my actual calories burned while awake would
seem higher than if I spend the same time at rest. But the lack of sleep
causes some metabolic shifts in me that tend to a.) hold onto fat at a
cellular level and b.) cause me to be more likely to eat for energy boosts
and c.) cause me to be less likely to work out hard because I'm tired.

I'm not an expert on cortisol, but do a search on cortisol and sleep
deprivation and fat storage and see what you find! (Sorry, don't have
time right now to do that research myself!)

-- Wendy

Mars at the Mu_n's Edge wrote:

On 30 Oct 2003 05:28:06 GMT, (beeswing) wrote:

The truth? Calorie counting is indeed an inexact science. That having been
said, armed with a measuring cup, a kitchen scale, and www.fitday.com, I
calorie-counted 70 pounds off of me. You might want to think twice before you
are so quick to dismiss it.

You lowered your food intake using an inexact way to do so. It was the
lowered food intake and not the counting of calories that mattered.
The inexact counting of calories was your yardstick to a lowered food
intake.

How about the inexact amount of water in foods. Some have a lot and
some have very little. Some have a lot of calories some have few. Mere
weight is only an indication of weight. Dehydrated food like the
Everest climbers ate make your scheme void and ludicrous. Eat dry food
and drink the water weight in later? Good use of common sense.

Beeswing used a method that worked and has been documented literally
millions of times. Unlike your 2PoundPOWDiet.

Pastorio

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:00:06 -0800, "Mike Turco"
wrote:



Its easy to say, "Get rid of the old habits and replace them with new ones."
What new habits? For example, I wake up about six times a night and hit the
goddamn fridge. What am I supposed to do at 4:30AM? What new habit do I
throw in there?

Mike



Well, that is unusual. Perhaps you need to replace the eating activity
with something else. Do you have any hobbies? Do you like to read? Do
you own any exercise equipment? (Even if you don't, there are ways to
exercise at 4:30 PM...) Those are all things you could do at odd hours
of the night.

Do you have any sleep disorders? Perhaps a doctor could help. That is
an awful lot to be waking at night.

At worst, get online, see if you can raise someone on this group to
try and talk you out of eating.

Also, you mentioned that Atkins worked for you. It may be that you are
one of those people who are somewhat sensitive to carbohydrates. You
might start by cutting down on white flour products and sugars.

Cynthia
262/234.5/200 first goal