A Brilliant Cardiologist Once Wrote......
I'm a 62 year-old male, 5'7" 185lbs. I'm slowly losing weight and will
forge down to 170-175 and that'll do it for me. 46" chest, 36" waist,
16" biceps, 8" wrists. I'm broad across the shoulders and thick through
the chest. Years of athletics. I live on a farm and get more exercise
than most. Use a push mower to cut my lawn. Ride bike. Walk to get the
mail (about 1/2 mile each way) across some steep hills. I was this size
in high school playing football, running track. I gained a lot of weight
after a bad motorcycle accident (broke all left-side ribs, scapula,
clavicle and lost a lot of skin) and had to spend a year in physical
therapy to learn to use my left arm again. During the time I couldn't
even walk down the stairs of my house, I gained almost 50 pounds. To
have not gained weight, I would probably have had to live on a diet of
fewer than 1000 calories. I didn't eat wisely, but I didn't have much
else I could do, so I ate too much. That was in the early 80s. I went
from a 32-inch waist to a 46-inch waist.
This menu below wouldn't satisfy me, would never have satisfied me and I
wouldn't dream of eating like this.
Congratulations. It works for you.
These meals wouldn't give me a sense of satiety. And the menu is, for my
tastes, rather uninteresting. The portions, shall we say, are scant. A
bowl of muesli with milk and banana for a total weight of 9 ounces? Too
spartan for me. At very least, I'd want more fluid than that implies. A
cup of milk - a small quantity for an adult - weighs about 8 ounces. A
breakfast that consisted entirely of two eggs after not having eaten
anything since the night before wouldn't do it for me. Ham salad - 5
ounces - surely wouldn't do it for a lunch. That's a pile about the size
of a medium-small apple.
I made a sandwich this afternoon of two slices of bread, a whole lettuce
leaf and two slices of ham of one ounce each. A teaspoon or so of mayo.
It weighed 6.8 ounces. I ate it to see if it sufficed. It didn't. I
drank a 16-ounce mug of tea with a splash of milk in it. It was enough.
For about an hour.
I'm not a big eater by any comparisons. I don't gorge at buffets. I
don't serve big portions at home. I know from very many years of dealing
with food in very many cir***stances that these scant meals you describe
here wouldn't make me feel as though I were eating well. And I wouldn't
try to feed them to anyone particularly active.
Chris, you do this sort of thing to your heart's content. Count me out.
I find it too parsimonious.
Obviously YMVaries.
Pastorio
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