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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.

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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@...>

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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

>

>

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