Re: Holiday eating and CRON

[Guest guest]

I'm just wondering how everyone else is doing with CRONing during the holidays.

This is my first year as a committed CRONER, and this is also the first year that I have not gained weight during the holidays!

[Guest guest]

Hi Bernadette:

Each has their own approach. Whatever works. I enjoy holidays and

eat more than usual, but avoid truly dangerous 'foods' - I will not

eat pie crusts, for example, and generally avoid things with

humungously high fat content. To make sure my daily caloric intake

AVERAGES what I want it to be over, say, a one month period, I eat

appreciably less before and after the holiday to make up the

difference.

As for gaining weight over such a short period ........... I can

never see the evidence of changes in my weight except over periods of

months. In the normal course of business, over a couple of days or

so, my weight fluctuates within a five pound range. In the case of

occasional (a couple of times a year) more extreme aberrations my

weight fluctuates within a nine pound range. So, if I eat 10,000

extra calories during a holiday period, it is still barely

perceptible in a chart of my weight among the fluctuations that

normally happen from day to day or week to week. (The largest 24-

hour weight fluctuation I have recorded, from 8 am one day to 8 am

the next, was eleven pounds. In about a week I was back down to

where I had been).

As previously discussed, the fluctuations in my weight largely

result from fluctuations in the diuretic/anti-diuretic

characteristics of what I consume. Most obviously tea, wine and salt.

If I need to 'get a grip' after eating too much over a ten day period

at Christmas, say, then I just eat more than I normally would of

my 'patented' vegetable soup - one huge 160 calorie bowl of which

supplies ~30% of all but three of the RDAs.

But as I said, whatever works.

Rodney.

> I'm just wondering how everyone else is doing with CRONing during

the

> holidays.

>

> This is my first year as a committed CRONER, and this is also the

first year

> that I have not gained weight during the holidays!