calories per day

"suz" wrote in message ...


J.J. Marie wrote:
Hark! I heard suz say:

big snip

Adding fresh veggies is always a good idea, but I want to feel satisfied
and full, instead of starving and headachy.


This sounds a lot like a possible blood sugar problem -- do you
space your food intake evenly over the course of the day? Or perhaps
some other medical issue is at play. I strongly suggest that if this
continues to happen, you talk to a professional...


I eat all through the day. The starving feeling and the headache
started when I started "dieting" --reducing my calories by 200 calories
a day from the level the calculators said I needed to maintain my weight.

Ya know, perhaps the calculators were wrong. I assumed that because I
have been at this weight for a long time that I must be eating around
1600 calories a day, because that is what the calculators say is a
maintenance amount. Perhaps I have been eating a lot more than that and
am actually really hungry. But how could the calculators be so off?

Perhaps you could try tracking your food intake religiously for a couple
days at www.fitday.com. Then you'd have a better idea how much you eat, and
maybe how much you were eating before.

"Lictor" wrote in message
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"suz" wrote in message ...
I would cut out the beef and stick with chicken and fish.

Is there a reason for that specifically? Is beef not good for dieters?
(I use organic by the way.)

That's because some people get the idea that they should eat low fat meat.
They also get the idea that beef and pork are high fat. This all depends
on
where the meat comes from. Tenderloin is pork, but it's also 3-5% fat.
Beef
undercut is usually around 6% fat. Except for a few parts, beef is
reasonnably low fat anyway, especially if you don't eat the visible fat.
On
the other hand, chicken drumstick is very high in fat, even without the
skin, as high as 20%. Same with some fish (salmon...).

However, beef brisket is a much higher fat cut of meat.

"suz" wrote in message ...


Lictor wrote:
"Alex" wrote in message
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I'm no expert by any means, but here's what I see -- you are spiking
your blood sugar repeatedly with sweet fruit & wine and empty carbs
(bread) that metabolize like sugar.


Wine doesn't spike sugar, it's mostly sugar free (white wine does have
some
sugar, red wine is virtually carb free). Alcohol does the exact opposite
of
a sugar spike, it usually pushes you into hypoglycemia (my worst was
drinking vodka while I hadn't eaten, then going to the restaurant,
taking my
insulino-secretor diabete medication and then waiting half an hour for
that
stupid meal to arrive - thought I would collapse). Anywa,y unless I
missed a
glass of wine somewhere, it seems like she's cooking with it. Beef is
cooked
with red wine, so no sugar there, and the alcohol goes away when the
wine is
heated.

As for the bread and fruits, it's hard to spot, since the list is not
broken
into meals. But :
- a piece of whole grain bread with a tablespoon of peanut butter -
should
be medium glycemic index because of the fat from peanut butter (assuming
it's not sugar with a little peanuts in the mix) and whole grain bread
(assuming it's real whole bread).
- 2 pieces of wheat bread with melted cheddar cheese - is also slowed
down
by the cheese, though might still be pretty fast if it's white wheat.
- What's cantaloup? lol

But this does indeed look like hypoglycemia. So maybe this is a severe
case
of reactive hypoglycemia, but her food is not that high GI, I mean,
she's
not gorging herself on soda all day long or stuff like this.
But dehydratation can cause headaches. As someone else posted, so can
lack
of caffeine.



I didn't get the above message from Lictor, so I'll answer both here.

I did drink a lot of water, since I do get headaches from dehydration.
I only drink coffee in the morning, and had my usual cup.

I did not drink wine with dinner, but the wine was in the sauce and
cooked many hours, so no actual alcohol.

The bread was whole grain, so not completely empty carbs, and was eaten
with peanut butter or cheese, so that should not have spiked my blood
sugar.

I am a person who tends to eat throughout the day. I can't be the only
one who will have a piece of melon or another fruit as a snack? If I am
not diabetic, why would that be a problem?

By the way, I cook. Not every meal is perfectly balanced--I'm human!
But I do eat a good variety of foods over the course of a day or several
days. I don't eat fast food, and I don't keep cookies, chips, soda and
other junk food in the house. I do have a weakness for chocolate, but
didn't have any yesterday.

Don't get defensive, we really are trying to help - we're just looking at
all the possible angles...

"Brad Sheppard" wrote in message
om...
I'd suggest going back to your regular diet and finding out how many
calories you noramlly eat. Then subtract 400. You may be starving
because you're eating too few calories. Want an easy way to lose the
ten pounds? Try drinking one cup of grapefruit juice before each
meal. It has worked for me when nothing else did. BTW the juice is
also good for you. The acid in the juice slows digestion, apparently.

Is there a site somewhere that gives impartial information about the affects
of grapefruit juice on digestion? Everything that I've looked at is trying
to sell something. I wouldn't mind adding grapefruit juice to my diet, I
actually like it quite a bit. But I pretty much cut out all juice and other
sugary stuff when i changed my woe 2 years ago... So I'd want to have more
solid info first.

det

Brad Sheppard wrote:
I'd suggest going back to your regular diet and finding out how many
calories you noramlly eat. Then subtract 400. You may be starving
because you're eating too few calories. Want an easy way to lose the
ten pounds? Try drinking one cup of grapefruit juice before each
meal. It has worked for me when nothing else did. BTW the juice is
also good for you. The acid in the juice slows digestion, apparently.


What a neat idea! I love grapefruit juice. Do you happen to remember
which medicines it interferes with? I seem to recall that you cannot
take certain meds with grapefruit juice.

Lictor wrote:
"suz" wrote in message ...

I would cut out the beef and stick with chicken and fish.

Is there a reason for that specifically? Is beef not good for dieters?
(I use organic by the way.)


That's because some people get the idea that they should eat low fat meat.
They also get the idea that beef and pork are high fat. This all depends on
where the meat comes from. Tenderloin is pork, but it's also 3-5% fat. Beef
undercut is usually around 6% fat. Except for a few parts, beef is
reasonnably low fat anyway, especially if you don't eat the visible fat. On
the other hand, chicken drumstick is very high in fat, even without the
skin, as high as 20%. Same with some fish (salmon...).



I was under the impression that it is really the total number of
calories per day that counts, so does it really matter if I choose beef
one night or a chicken drumstick the next, as long as I stay within my
calories?

"suz" wrote in message ...


Lictor wrote:
"suz" wrote in message ...

I would cut out the beef and stick with chicken and fish.

Is there a reason for that specifically? Is beef not good for dieters?
(I use organic by the way.)


That's because some people get the idea that they should eat low fat
meat.
They also get the idea that beef and pork are high fat. This all depends
on
where the meat comes from. Tenderloin is pork, but it's also 3-5% fat.
Beef
undercut is usually around 6% fat. Except for a few parts, beef is
reasonnably low fat anyway, especially if you don't eat the visible fat.
On
the other hand, chicken drumstick is very high in fat, even without the
skin, as high as 20%. Same with some fish (salmon...).



I was under the impression that it is really the total number of
calories per day that counts, so does it really matter if I choose beef
one night or a chicken drumstick the next, as long as I stay within my
calories?

No, not really. The point is to get the most bang for your buck so to
speak. You could lose weight on doughnuts, as long as you stayed within
your calories, but you'd be starving, and you'd feel like ****. If you eat
leaner meat, you eat less calories. So you can use those extra calories to
eat something more filling...

"suz" wrote in message ...


Brad Sheppard wrote:
I'd suggest going back to your regular diet and finding out how many
calories you noramlly eat. Then subtract 400. You may be starving
because you're eating too few calories. Want an easy way to lose the
ten pounds? Try drinking one cup of grapefruit juice before each
meal. It has worked for me when nothing else did. BTW the juice is
also good for you. The acid in the juice slows digestion, apparently.


What a neat idea! I love grapefruit juice. Do you happen to remember
which medicines it interferes with? I seem to recall that you cannot
take certain meds with grapefruit juice.

Xanax is one of the meds that you can't have grapefruit or grapefruit juice
with.

"suz" wrote in message ...


Brad Sheppard wrote:
I'd suggest going back to your regular diet and finding out how many
calories you noramlly eat. Then subtract 400. You may be starving
because you're eating too few calories.

I am beginning to think this is the case. I have never been so hungry
as these last two days! I have such admiration for you folks who manage
to survive on even fewer calories day after day and week after week.

Most of us aren't losing weight on lower calories... For example, I started
at 140 lbs (5'3") and lost weight just fine at 1400-1600 per day. I only
felt deprived and hungry initially, but once I learned to eat to fuel my
body properly, I didn't feel that way anymore.

det

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"suz" wrote in message ...


Brad Sheppard wrote:
I'd suggest going back to your regular diet and finding out how many
calories you noramlly eat. Then subtract 400. You may be starving
because you're eating too few calories.

I am beginning to think this is the case. I have never been so hungry
as these last two days! I have such admiration for you folks who manage
to survive on even fewer calories day after day and week after week.

Most of us aren't losing weight on lower calories... For example, I
started
at 140 lbs (5'3") and lost weight just fine at 1400-1600 per day. I only
felt deprived and hungry initially, but once I learned to eat to fuel my
body properly, I didn't feel that way anymore.

det

I lost all my weight lowering calories, but I should have been exercising
all along, that's where I made my mistake.