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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 154698" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sharon/LDM, sorry to hear about the flat battery in the car. Was it the tape player? I've found that anything with moving parts flattens batteries a lot faster. We've been very happy since switching to using an iPod with an in car cable.</p><p></p><p>Michelle, good luck with the Alli. Do watch out though, if you've not already been in the habit of eating a low-fat diet. It's amazing hoe sneaky fats can be, but with a product like this too much fat in your diet will go straight through you and will remind you to avoid that food again. From the "CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet" book, here is a formula to calculate not only how many calories you burn each day, but from there how many calories you need to cut back to, in order to lose weight. It's based on the amount of calories you bur just by being alive, followed by what you burn for your weight and height, then an amount subtracted based on your age (as we get older, we burn fewer calories).</p><p>For women: 655.1 + (9.56 x weight in kilograms) + (1.85 x height in cm) - (4.68 x age in years). This gives you a number in calories. For kiojoules, multiply that number by 4.2.</p><p>But that's not the final figure - you now need to change it according to how active you are. You have to multiply that number by 1.2 if you're getting little or no exercise; 1.375 if you do light exercise or sport 1 - 3 days a week; 1.725 if you're doing hard exercise or sports 6 - 7 days a week and 1.9 if you're in serious athletic training.</p><p></p><p>Now you should have the number you need. This is the number of calories you burn each day. If you want to lose weight you need to eat less and/or exercise more. To lose weight you need to eat about 1000 - 2000 fewer calories a day, to lose 1 - 2 pounds a week. There's no point cutting back harder than that because there's not enough evidence you will lose weight faster in any permanent way.</p><p></p><p>I doubt this book would be available to you, which is a pity because it's really good. And because it's from a government department, it's not connected to the weight loss industry with commercial interests. It's more like the sort of diet book that might be produced by FDA.</p><p></p><p>Sharon/Wiped, you need to find out why you are eating. Then maybe you can have more success with finding a substitute activity, or what will work for you.</p><p></p><p>WFEN, it's really difficult when you can't exercise. Can you do some upper body stuff? Something like sitting on a swivel chair and, well, swivelling? Holding a tin of soup in each outstretched hand?</p><p></p><p>I posted yesterday about my calculations. I really wish I'd done the maths before I saw the doctor. Now I have to wait to talk to her about it.</p><p>I mentioned it to mother in law tonight and I think she was in one of her "denial" moods, when she is feeling off-balance and in response tries to organise the universe to her own specifications. She began telling me I'm crazy to cut back my food so much and that I'm making myself ill with this starvation diet. She had mentioned on Sunday that I was looking very pale in the cheeks - I do get paler in autumn. Besides, I'm 52, well past the bloom of youth. I've been looking middle-aged wan for much longer than I've been on this diet.</p><p>Every time I visit, she offers me biscuits and cake. She bakes a fruit cake and sends half of it up to our place because it's too much for her to eat. husband likes fruit cake but I suspect he's eating it mainly to get rid of it, then she bakes another one. Fruit cake keeps; we've frozen excess leftover Christmas cake in the past. </p><p>Hmm... do you think she's trying to sabotage me? </p><p></p><p>I mean, this diet isn't a whim with me, this is necessary for my health. I knew I would have to cut calorie intake to a ridiculously low level and I told my doctors this. I am being supervised medically. I am taking vitamins and calcium to compensate for what I'm not getting in my diet.</p><p>mother in law was again complaining that I've been told to wait for another four months before I can have blood tests again to see how my liver is doing. I suspect that if I did have earlier tests and they showed my liver enzymes improved, she'd be working on me to stop the diet early. "You don't need to worry any more, it's better now."</p><p></p><p>Really annoying. I can't do anything about it, I just have to be aware of it and ratchet my willpower up another few notches.</p><p></p><p>I have done things in the past she didn't approve of and I have had to live with the consequences of the ongoing criticism. This is just another one. Maybe it will blow over by the next time I see her, maybe it won't. But I've managed before, I will manage again.</p><p></p><p>At an op-shop today I finally managed to acquire a belt I can use to hitch up my jeans. I had borrowed a belt from mother in law which is elastic, and so was not going to be useful for me for long. I'll gauge her mood when I give her belt back to her, tomorrow or over the weekend.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 154698, member: 1991"] Sharon/LDM, sorry to hear about the flat battery in the car. Was it the tape player? I've found that anything with moving parts flattens batteries a lot faster. We've been very happy since switching to using an iPod with an in car cable. Michelle, good luck with the Alli. Do watch out though, if you've not already been in the habit of eating a low-fat diet. It's amazing hoe sneaky fats can be, but with a product like this too much fat in your diet will go straight through you and will remind you to avoid that food again. From the "CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet" book, here is a formula to calculate not only how many calories you burn each day, but from there how many calories you need to cut back to, in order to lose weight. It's based on the amount of calories you bur just by being alive, followed by what you burn for your weight and height, then an amount subtracted based on your age (as we get older, we burn fewer calories). For women: 655.1 + (9.56 x weight in kilograms) + (1.85 x height in cm) - (4.68 x age in years). This gives you a number in calories. For kiojoules, multiply that number by 4.2. But that's not the final figure - you now need to change it according to how active you are. You have to multiply that number by 1.2 if you're getting little or no exercise; 1.375 if you do light exercise or sport 1 - 3 days a week; 1.725 if you're doing hard exercise or sports 6 - 7 days a week and 1.9 if you're in serious athletic training. Now you should have the number you need. This is the number of calories you burn each day. If you want to lose weight you need to eat less and/or exercise more. To lose weight you need to eat about 1000 - 2000 fewer calories a day, to lose 1 - 2 pounds a week. There's no point cutting back harder than that because there's not enough evidence you will lose weight faster in any permanent way. I doubt this book would be available to you, which is a pity because it's really good. And because it's from a government department, it's not connected to the weight loss industry with commercial interests. It's more like the sort of diet book that might be produced by FDA. Sharon/Wiped, you need to find out why you are eating. Then maybe you can have more success with finding a substitute activity, or what will work for you. WFEN, it's really difficult when you can't exercise. Can you do some upper body stuff? Something like sitting on a swivel chair and, well, swivelling? Holding a tin of soup in each outstretched hand? I posted yesterday about my calculations. I really wish I'd done the maths before I saw the doctor. Now I have to wait to talk to her about it. I mentioned it to mother in law tonight and I think she was in one of her "denial" moods, when she is feeling off-balance and in response tries to organise the universe to her own specifications. She began telling me I'm crazy to cut back my food so much and that I'm making myself ill with this starvation diet. She had mentioned on Sunday that I was looking very pale in the cheeks - I do get paler in autumn. Besides, I'm 52, well past the bloom of youth. I've been looking middle-aged wan for much longer than I've been on this diet. Every time I visit, she offers me biscuits and cake. She bakes a fruit cake and sends half of it up to our place because it's too much for her to eat. husband likes fruit cake but I suspect he's eating it mainly to get rid of it, then she bakes another one. Fruit cake keeps; we've frozen excess leftover Christmas cake in the past. Hmm... do you think she's trying to sabotage me? I mean, this diet isn't a whim with me, this is necessary for my health. I knew I would have to cut calorie intake to a ridiculously low level and I told my doctors this. I am being supervised medically. I am taking vitamins and calcium to compensate for what I'm not getting in my diet. mother in law was again complaining that I've been told to wait for another four months before I can have blood tests again to see how my liver is doing. I suspect that if I did have earlier tests and they showed my liver enzymes improved, she'd be working on me to stop the diet early. "You don't need to worry any more, it's better now." Really annoying. I can't do anything about it, I just have to be aware of it and ratchet my willpower up another few notches. I have done things in the past she didn't approve of and I have had to live with the consequences of the ongoing criticism. This is just another one. Maybe it will blow over by the next time I see her, maybe it won't. But I've managed before, I will manage again. At an op-shop today I finally managed to acquire a belt I can use to hitch up my jeans. I had borrowed a belt from mother in law which is elastic, and so was not going to be useful for me for long. I'll gauge her mood when I give her belt back to her, tomorrow or over the weekend. Marg [/QUOTE]
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