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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.
A. 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.
A. 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 and the children would also like to lose
some weight. Can I put the whole family on the
program?
A. It would be great if you could, but you cannot. The
number of calories per day is the problem. Teenagers
require significantly more calories each day than 1500,
which is the highest level. Check with a registered
dietician (RD) for appropriate recommendations.
A. Your teenage son and daughter, however, could follow
the Bowflex exercise routines.
Q. I’m afraid that I might get large, unfeminine muscles
from some of the Bowflex exercises you recommend
in this course. What can I do to prevent this from
happening?
A. You are worrying about large muscles unnecessarily.
Building large muscles requires two conditions. First, the
individual must have long muscles and short tendons.
Second, an abundance of testosterone must be present in
the blood stream. Women almost never have either of
these conditions.
A. Under no circumstances could 99.99 percent of
American women develop excessively large muscles.
Progressive resistance exercise such as Bowflex will
make your muscles larger – but not excessively large –
and larger muscles will make your body firmer and more
shapely.
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