Posted by Larry Hoover on June 5, 2006, at 16:42:49
In reply to Re: Anyone want to be my diet buddy? » Larry Hoover, posted by Deneb on June 5, 2006, at 16:16:32
> > You can change weight by five pounds in a day, just from water balance. Professional football players can lose twenty pounds in 3 hours.
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> Whoa! That's gotta be unhealthy.Not if it's temporary. They drink it back, afterwards.
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> > I also wonder how you came to the number 17. Would 16 not do? Not do what?
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> I'm technically not overweight, but I'm sure I'm overfat.Overfat? Getting into physical shape might mean gaining weight. Muscle is denser than fat.
> I want to be 100 pounds or less, that is why I picked 17.
What is the significance of that number, 100? What if you lost a little weight, and then reassessed? How do you know that target is a good target?
> I think I'll look much better at that weight.
<shrug>
> > On track? Again, with the water balance thing, and other similar variables, daily monitoring is perhaps excessive?
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> I won't weight myself everyday. I think weekly will do.You were talking about daily monitoring, I thought.
> > That's doable, counting calories in. But I don't have any idea how you'd count calories out.
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> > Lar
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> There are plenty of tools out that that let you estimate the calories you burn. I'm estimating I burn about 1400 calories a day. I'm not too active.Inactivity is a health risk.
> I'm going to try my hardest to eat 1000 calories or less a day. I really want to be thin, quickly.
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> Deneb*Quick weight loss is very unhealthy. Why the rush?
Lar
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