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Welcome Carol,

Congratulations on having gone from being obese to normal weight! It

takes a lot of determination to do so.

My first comment is about your current calorie intake of 1200

calories. I think that it is too low. 1200 calories is about 41% CR

which is quite severe. Now that your weight is in the normal range,

you should probably eat about 1600 to 1700 calories which corresponds

to about 22% to 17% CR for your level of activity. It is not good to

lose weight too fast. You have already lost 37 pounds this year.

My second comment is about your diet. You do not mention that you are

tracking your nutrients. There have been many cases of eager dieters

who ended up with osteoporosis because they were not practicing

optimum nutrition. You cannot just guess. When you are on a low

calorie diet, you have to actually measure what you eat to make sure

that you are getting 100% of all the required nutrients. You can use

CRON-o-Meter, a free program that lets you keep a food diary and

displays the percentages of your daily nutritional intakes. This is

specially important for you because it is easier to get vitamin

deficiencies with vegetarian diets. Your comment that you are a

" no-fat added vegan " is also worrysome because omega-6 and omega-3

fats are required nutrients. I highly recommend that you use

CRON-o-Meter to avoid harming yourself with an inadequate diet.

CRON-o-Meter

http://spaz.ca/cronometer/

Tony

CR Calculator

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/health/cron1.html

--- In , " C. Widger " <edgegardener@...>

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> Hi Frances

> I am 51, and looking forward to the next 51.

> I'm 5'8 " tall and currently weigh 160, down from 197 in January. My

> wight goal is 130-135., or a BMI of 19.

> I have not had a physical since 2006, and don't remember what my blood

> levels were for anything, but the nurse liked my blood pressure of

> 104/60 and asked what I was doing to keep it so low. The only

suppliment

> I take is b12, in the form of nutritional yeast, and eat lots of raw

and

> cooked greens, beans, some soy, moderate whole grains, limited salt,

> limited sugar, a wide variety of fruits and vegetables and I love to

cook.

> I've read Walford twice, and perused parts more often than that.

> Read all the files links and all the articles posted here. I've also

> recently read the C.C. 's " The China Study " , Caldwell

> Esselstyn's " Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease " , Furhman' s Eat to

> Live, following his basic guidelines. Just got Robbin's book

> " Healthy at 100 " ...

> I'm happily married 32 years next week with one grown son. Active in

our

> church music group as sound mixer, work 2 part time jobs, devoted

> amateur astronomer and California historian.

> Clear skies!

> Carol W.

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