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[dawg 0]

Here's my typical menu:

1st breakfast: 1/2 cup fibre one, 1/2 cup skim milk (I hate eating in the mornings)

2nd breakfast: 1 pack of "heart healthy" blueberry instant oatmeal.

Lunch: a tuna lunch pack by Starkist.

Afternooon tea / dinner: a Healthy Choice meal.

Supper/snack: Half a can of mixed fruit / peaches / pears.

I eat roughly every 3 hours. I'm trying hard to keep my metabolism ticking all the time. My full daily menu comes in at right around 1000 calories with around 70g of Protein. Once I start moving Iron I'll be adding a Protein shake to get me up to about 100g of Protein and 1200 calories.

Oh and the Kcal is the standard unit world wide :confused: 4200J / 1 KCal.

I guess we'd be eating 1.2 million calories a day. sweeet.

[Penni60 45]

cheese. If I start picking at cheese after having not eaten in a long time (as in above) it goes down sooooo easily, and since it is pure fat, and hence, hyper-caloric, I can wreck my diet in just several bites. Best left alone whenever possible.

Ice-cream. Its a devil. :violin: Its my baine. I've never tried heroin, but this must be pretty close. About my only way to minimize the damage is to eat one of those pre-measured Klondike ice cream bars, which has 250 calories, and I can say "I'm done." Any suggestions on cutting down or avoiding the ice cream monkey on one's back would sure be valuable.

OK I know I am not a DUDE I am a DUDETTE but I have a suggestion for you on the Cheese and Ice Cream.

Cheese: I too have a weakness for this food item. I have found these 100 calorie 6 g of Protein Cheese slices that works wonders and satisfies my craving for cheese. They are cracker size slices and I think made by Kraft. They can be found with the block cheeses. Three of the cracker slices is considered a serving.

Ice Cream: Every tried yogurt ice cream? Less calories and can taste just as good.

OK back to your channels guys.

[Bandster Brad 1]

Thanks for the advice. I'll check 'em both out.

[jbtullis 0]

Can someone expand more on how excerising too much can slow down your weight loss? I think I am beginning to run into that and wanted some more explanation on what I should be trying to accomplish at the gym. I have a trainer for lifting and guess i could ask him too but he is one of those who have never had a weight problem and never will

Thanks

[4RE4ME 1]

Makes very little sense to me except when you gain muscle it weighs more then fat. That being said I am betting that 125 you are looking to loose is not all muscle.

[DBAGuy 0]

The thumb rule I most often see for men is 12 x current weight = number of calories/day to maintain that weight.

If you figure out your daily 'calories in - extra calories burned by exercise', and keep that about 500 calories below the calories to maintain, you'll lose a pound a week. Keeping it 1000 calories below will lose two pounds a week.

I hit the treadmill every day, and have just recently gotten back to playing golf for the first time since surgery. If it is a nine-hole course, I walk it if they'll let me...not up to walking 18 yet.