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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
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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?
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.
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.
Under no circumstances could 99.99 percent of
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