HOW'S YOUR HEALTH INFORMATION SHARING

A Challenge

The #1 concern for all adult Americans is "eating well and exercise." You can click here to read a brief summary about the exercise and eating well. But you probably already know a lot about this topic.

The question always is, how do I do it?

This blog (web log) is for you to share your ideas with others. What works? What does not work?

Here is challenge to open up the discussion.

Fact #1: I can almost never exercise enough to "burn off" weight. Fact #2: I can almost never keep good track of calories and what I eat. Fact #3: I generally eat the most in the evening. Fact #4: I am an older adult with pretty "fixed" habits.

So here is what I did to stay in balance.

During the work week, for breakfast lunch and snacks I have 2-3 glasses of low-salt V8 juice and 3 low fat yogurts. (Very filling, great nutrition and vitamins, minimal fat and carbs --total calories for V8 (150-200) and yogurt (400 calories). Since I weight 190 pounds ideally I can maintain that weight with usual exercise by eating 1900 (10 times my ideal weight) plus 600 (30% extra calories for usual activities).

Get the idea? I feel great and I enter dinner (over-eating) time with a lot of calories less than I need to maintain an ideal weight ...(about 1800-1900 by estimate). Unless I am a real idiot at dinner and eat huge loads of pasta, desserts, and grease, I should end the day with a few less calories than ideal. So when the weekend comes, I can eat other things without much worry that I will have more calories for the week than needed.

By the way, if I had diabetes, this would be a great way to avoid too many "carbs."

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