[CRS_META] crsociety: declined - request forwarded off-list

[Tim C.]

Like the subject says, this request was forwarded off-list.
-Tim C.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: off-list: RE: [CR] advise for new cr
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:36:13 +0000
From: Tim C. <crsociety at diethacker.com>
To: phillips <phillips at kcnet.com>
CC: Lawrence_Kwon at brown.edu


Bob,

I am forwarding off-list a request below from Lawrence_Kwon at brown.edu.

-Tim C.
cc: Lawrence



Hi. Could you send me that nutrition tracker you were talking about? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: cr-bounces at lists.calorierestriction.org on behalf of phillips
Sent: Tue 12/19/2006 9:37 AM
To: The CR Society Main Discussion List
Subject: Re: [CR] advise for new cr

Hi Morgan,

Welcome to CR.

morgan freeman wrote:

>> I am new to cr and I have been reading the cr emails for some time now.
>>   Quite intellectual.  I need some basic cr advise.  I am overweight bmi of 40
>>   and I am considering surgery which would force cr.  But I thought I would give this a try
>>   on my own first.


My advice is:

1.  Start tracking your nutrients.  You can download free software or,
if you have a Windows PC, I will be happy to email you a semi-automated
spreadsheet which is a semi-pain to use, but does the job.  Tracking
nutrients in my opinion is the single hardest thing about CR.

2.  After a week of tracking nutrients, cut your calories by several
hundred calories a day, but, and this is important, do not lose more
than a pound or two a week.  If you are losing more than that, up your
calories.  At the same time you are cutting calories, begin upping your
nutrients (vitamins and minerals) until you reach 100% RDA (or DRI,
actually).  I average my weight and nutrient values over a week and base
decisions on week to week averages.  There is too much daily variability.

This website is the best I have found for getting nutrition information:

www.nutritiondata.com

It has a search tool where you enter a nutrient, or 2 or 3 nutrients,
and get back a list of foods that are highest in that nutrient(s).
Also, you can enter most foods and get back several web pages of data
about the food.

Beyond that, it is personal likes and dislikes. You can eat anything you
like if you can meet the two rules of cutting calories and getting 100%
of nutrition.

My own personal prejudice is to avoid supplements as much as possible
and to avoid any artificial sweeteners.  Others on this list believe
just the opposite.

By the way, I have a personal website on CR and several people on this
list talked about their personal experiences in starting CR. They are at:

http://www.nbrhd.net/CR/CRExperiences/CRPersonalAccounts.htm

If you do take up CR, I would love to add your account to this.

Best of luck,
Bob Phillips
http://www.nbrhd.net/CR/CR.htm







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