new member introduction

[Guest guest]

Hello people,

My name is , I'm a 21 year old guy from Holland. I'm a new

member of this list, so here is some info about me and my experience

thus far with (transition to) CRON, for the ones interested.

After I saw a documentary named " fat and happy " on the National

Geographic Channel about food and health wich informed about CRON, I

wanted to know more about CRON. So I ordered Walfords 'The Anti-Aging

Plan' and 'Beyond the 120 year diet' and after partially reading them

I decided to switch to a CRON-diet.

I wanted to start right away so I changed my eatinghabits: I began

eating only " healthy foods " and began eating a bit less (also I

stopped exercising). Though I didn't make the important major steps:

I never began analyzing my diets nutrient- and caloriecontent and I

never made a good planning of my daily foodintake. I kept postponing

these steps, because I just moved to a student flats and started a

new study and so I didn't find much time. Also I wasn't home most of

the day, and so I felt forced to eat easy food wich I could buy at

the spot.

During that time I was eating less while uncertain about wether my

diet was optimally nutritious. I once in a while began to ignore a

hungerfeeling. My weight dropped from a 68-70 kg to a 55-56 kg in

about 1,5 to 2 months, wich is maybe a bit too fast (my length is 177

cm). The weightloss included muscle loss, since I reached the 70 kg

after a few months of powertraining in order to gain muscles and

improve my sexappeal, wich I cared more about those days

than I do now

Before I began training, my weight was about 60-65 kg, so I guess my

setpoint lies in this range.

After a while I figured that I just didn't have enough time and/or

spirit at that moment to switch to CRON intelligably and so I began

eating " normal " amounts of healthy foods in a way that didn't make me

feel hungry at any time and I didn't really make an attempt to reduce

calories. Also I began doing fitness again, a bit of weight

resistance and mostly aerobic exercise. During this period I once

reached 58 kg, but at the moment I weigh approx. 55.5 kg (wich makes

a BMI of about17.7, since my length is about 177cm, what a

coincidense!!. So my weight remained pretty much the same, even

though my abdominal fat increased a bit; so maybe I lost more muscle,

wich would be consistent with the fact that I tended to reduce weight

resistance excercise and increase aerobic excercise. That's about

where I am now.

In short: I made a careless attempt to switch to a CRON-diet, wich

left me with a loss of weight and improved eating habits.

So now it's time to really switch to a CRON regimen. At the moment,

during the holidays, I will go analyzing my daily foodintake using

DWIDP 2.0, start cooking megameals and freezing them, planning my

daily foodintake.

This really looks like a cool and valuable list, I'm glad I've joined

it.

Greetings,

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