Re: What if you are sickly obese...losing weight faster may be healthful

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Actually, dropping weight quickly is pretty normal for the first few months

(and that's what probably happened to most of us). Walford discusses this.

However after about 3 or 4 months, one should slow down. You may not see an

immediate change in your health, but the mice that lost too quickly died

YOUNGER than the ad lib mice, not older. So there's scientific evidence for

this. And if one is middle aged, CRON should not be extreme - this too

demonstrated in the lab, in unhealthy.

on 1/7/2004 2:56 PM, kimlynette@... at kimlynette@... wrote:

> I know that calorie restriction is recommended to be at a slow rate for

> " normies " , but it seems to me that those of us who were sick and obese may

> have

> real health needs met by dropping weight more quickly. I know I put my

> autoimmune

> junk into remission by dropping the weight from 215 in March, to 155 in

> August. Now I am at 131. There have been no down sides in health. What damage

> is

> caused if one is eating healthful foods, supplements, exercises, and keeps

> calories in the 1000-1200 range, which is what I did most of the time? Now I

> am up

> to about 1500-1800 calories a day, losing more imperceptably, within 2-5 lbs

> of lowest desired weight.

>