Guest guest Posted January 16, 2002 Report Share Posted January 16, 2002 Welcome , I started out making big extravagant " megameals " that were close to those recipes in Walfords books. That came to a screeching halt in about a month. What a pain. If that's what it took to follow a cr lifestyle I'd never do it. I now keep my meals very simple. I may not get a great amount of variety in my diet but I definitely eat healthy food now. Lot's of fruit and vegetables. You almost can't get too much. Some foods that I like that pack a big nutrient bang for the calorie buck are: Spinach, broccoli, okra, wheat bran, brewers yeast, tuna, apples and ff yogurt. Sprout's are super good too but I haven't gotten into doing that yet (I've only been following the cr lifestyle for less than a year). I would recomend getting Dr Walfords Interactive Diet Planner. It makes planning your daily food intake very simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 19, 2002 Report Share Posted January 19, 2002 I never counted calories, never. Instead I simply let my body and the scale do the work for me. My body tells me if I overeat and the scale confirms that if it needs to go down eat leass> This really helps you to get inn touch with your body and its needs, rather than the artificial ones. Regards, Mike Colella ----- Original Message ----- From: johnd1234567 <johnd1234567@...> < > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:40 PM Subject: [ ] question about counting calories > I'm just starting a CRON lifestyle -- changing my eating habits > without having yet started to count or restrict calories. I'm > wondering if anyone has any suggestions for easy ways to count > calories. Most of Walford's recipes involve many ingredients, making > calorie counting difficult. For instance, I'm tearing off big hunks > of Romaine lettuce, red cabbage, spinach, etc to put in my salads, > but I really don't know what quantities of each of these I'm using. I > would think a " cup of chopped such-and-such " could vary in mass > depending on how compacted the chopped up hunks are. Do I need a > scale to measure quantities by mass for this purpose? > > Do any of you try to use the exact ingredients and quantities in the > recipes so that you can simply use the calorie count listed in the > book for that dish? Do you prepare simpler dishes with fewere > ingredients so that calorie counting is easier? Or do you just resign > yourself to many complex calculations? > > Right now I'm primarily just trying to get an approximate idea of how > many calories per day I currently consume -- how many calories of the > new, healthy, CRON food I need in order to maintain my current weight. > Thanks in advance > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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