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Q. I often get headaches when I eat only 1000 calories a
day. What should I do?
A. Your headaches may be caused by going longer than
three hours between meals or snacks. Try spacing
your meals and snacks where there are fewer hours
between them.
Some people who are used to drinking regular coffee
with caffeine notice headaches when they stop
consuming coffee for several days. If this is the case
with you, you might want to ease off the coffee more
gradually.
Q. I don’t like red meat. I notice that the Lean Cuisine
®
Lasagna with Meat Sauce contains beef. What can I
substitute for it?
A. Lean Cuisine
®
has many other frozen dinners that
you may substitute for Lasagna with Meat Sauce.
Try to find one that contains the same calories, with
approximately 15 to 20 percent of the calories coming
from fat. Some of the Lean Cuisine
®
dinners actually
have too little fat for my
nutritional requirements.
Q. May I have dinner for lunch and lunch for dinner?
A. Yes.
Q. I tend to get a headache when I drink cold water.
Can I drink water without it being chilled?
A. Yes, but you won’t get the 123 calories or more
thermogenic effect from warming the cold water to
core body temperature. Try a more gradual drinking
of the cold water. You may have been consuming it
too quickly.
Q. Is it possible to drink too much water?
A. Certainly. To do so, however, you’d probably have
to drink four or five times as much per day as I’m
recommending. There are a few ailments that can be
negatively affected by large amounts of fluid.
If you feel you have a problem, check with your
doctor before starting the program.
Q. Is bottled water better than tap water?
A. Research shows that bottled water is not always
higher quality water than tap water. The decision to
drink bottled water or not is usually one of taste.
If you dislike the taste of your tap water, then drink
your favorite bottled water. But first you might want
to try a twist of lemon or lime added to the water
from your tap. Some people say it makes a significant
difference in the taste.
Q. I’m a middle-aged woman who gets black and blue
marks on my legs when I diet. Am I doing anything
wrong?
A. I doubt you are doing anything wrong. Such black
and blue marks are usually the result of an increased
level of estrogen circulating in your body, which
weakens the walls of the capillaries and causes
them to break under the slightest pressure. When
this happens, blood escapes and a bruise occurs.
Estrogen is broken down in the liver, and so is fat.
When you are dieting, your liver breaks down the fat,
leaving a lot more estrogen in the bloodstream.
It may be helpful to supplement your diet with a little
extra vitamin C each day to help toughen the walls of
the capillaries.
Q. I’m a 40 year-old woman with a teenage son and
daughter. My husband and I both want to lose 10
pounds (4.5 kg) and the children would also like to
lose some weight. Can I put the whole family on the
program?
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