| Title: | Weight Loss and Maintenance |
| Notice: | **PLEASE** enter notes in mixed case (CAPS ARE SHOUTING)! |
| Moderator: | ASICS::LESLIE |
| Created: | Mon Jul 09 1990 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 933 |
| Total number of notes: | 9931 |
I have been thinking about a new concept in loosing and maintaining
weight loss. I have lost hundreds of pounds in my lifetime and gained
the same hundred back...the answer appears to be that the loosing isn't
as difficult as the maintaining.
So I am beginning at the end this time...I want to weigh 145. I am
moderately active so I figured that in order to maintain 145 pounds I
could consume 2000 calories a day. A little less than 14 calories per
pound. I am going to being by measuring and weighing my food at this
maintenance level. After 'maintaining' for a given period I will start
reducing my calories that I consume daily until I reach 1200 per day,
once I reach goal I will start adding calries till I get back to the
2000.
Using this theory I will be very aware of my future during the actual
dieting and will have already established a maintenance plan. I
have never really done maintenance and that could be the reason I keep
gaining the weight back.
I would like to get together with a bunch of folks that need to loose
approximately 20 pounds. We can think about this concept and develop
individual eating plans and go at it.
I work in Acton and live in Clinton...if you are interested send me
mail. I have twenty pounds to loose, and figure that is about the
right amount for this idea.
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| 627.1 | corrections | AKOCOA::LAMOTTE | days of whisper and pretend | Tue Dec 04 1990 12:32 | 7 |
I do not know how to spell loosing...is it losing.
And the last paragraph is repetive...but I have to go to work and I
don't have time to fix it now...I am so excited about my idea I don't
want to wait until tonight....
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| 627.2 | CNTROL::JENNISON | Tue Dec 04 1990 13:50 | 12 | ||
Joyce, Your plan sounds very good! The Nautilus diet does something similar, in that you start out with (I think) 1400 calories for 2 weeks, go down to 1300 for two weeks, 1200 for 2 weeks, then start again. The premise is that by changing your intake level on a regular basis, your body does not adjust to the lower intake and begin to learn how to survive on fewer calories. It sort of reminds me of interval training! Best of luck! Karen | |||||
| 627.3 | Not as hard as it seems! | EARRTH::WORRALL | Thu Dec 06 1990 19:58 | 3 | |
I have a new concept also. It is very simple. Eat less and exercise more.
Greg
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| 627.4 | Rotation DIet | PCOJCT::MILLET | Wed Jan 30 1991 15:13 | 4 | |
THe idea is the same as "The ROtation Diet" which is one that
came out a few years ago...
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