Overweight and dehydration (WAS: Living lean: (Question For Elchanan))

[Guest guest]

Hi Sharon,

 

Great question.

 

Overall, a healthy human body is comprised, in part, of about 70-75% water.

 

Stored, structured fat contains about 5% water, give or take a bit. So as

the percentage of fat increases, the percentage of water necessarily

decreases proportionately.

 

At the same time, our system is committed (biologically committed) to

maintaining all that extra material we have made a part of ourselves. This

means supplying that material with circulation ... heart pumping, fuel and

other nutrients being expended, etc., 24x7. We we INCREASE our physiological

or metabolic requirement for water, even as we decrease the percent of water

that is us. Ergo, we are dehydrated, 24x7.

 

There is more ... but does this much make sense, for now?

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

PS: I publish most of my posts in the PathOfHealth Group.

 

_____

 

rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

vegigran

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:11 AM

rawfood

Re: [Raw Food] Living lean: (Question For Elchanan)

 

 

Elchanan,

 

I think I read where you once said that if we were " overweight " we could

tend to be " dehydrated " . What is the reason for this?

 

Thanks,

 

Sharon

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Elchanan,

Are you saying that the stored, structured fat as it increases is taking water

needed by our bodies and leaving us dehydrated? Kind of confusing.

Sharon

In our hearts we plan our day, but it is God who determines our steps. Proverbs

16:9

 

Hi Sharon,

 

Great question.

 

Overall, a healthy human body is comprised, in part, of about 70-75% water.

 

Stored, structured fat contains about 5% water, give or take a bit. So as

the percentage of fat increases, the percentage of water necessarily

decreases proportionately.

 

At the same time, our system is committed (biologically committed) to

maintaining all that extra material we have made a part of ourselves. This

means supplying that material with circulation ... heart pumping, fuel and

other nutrients being expended, etc., 24x7. We we INCREASE our physiological

or metabolic requirement for water, even as we decrease the percent of water

that is us. Ergo, we are dehydrated, 24x7.

 

There is more ... but does this much make sense, for now?

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

PS: I publish most of my posts in the PathOfHealth Group.

 

_____

 

rawfood <rawfood >

[rawfood <rawfood >] On Behalf Of

vegigran<vegigran

Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:11 AM

rawfood <rawfood >

Re: [Raw Food] Living lean: (Question For Elchanan)

 

Elchanan,

 

I think I read where you once said that if we were " overweight " we could

tend to be " dehydrated " . What is the reason for this?

 

Thanks,

 

Sharon

 

[Guest guest]

There is more ... but does this much make sense, for now?

 

*** totally lost me. But I'll admit I did not read most of the " living lean "

posts because I have the opposite issue.

It's taken me 5 years now to drop 60 pounds and for the last year I've been

stuck at my currrent weight...give or take 10 pounds that yo yo around. I

have 30-40 more to go and totally frustrated. I eat low calories. I just

took up walking again. I stopped working out after jogging 3-4 miles a day

(very hard at my large size) and actually gaining weight and NOT dropping

inches. I have been totally depressed ever since!

 

Most people don't think I eat enough. I get about 800-1000 calories a day.

But when I eat more calories I gain 4-5 pounds a week!

And then people tell me I eat too much fruit/carbs. So maybe that is it.

Today I began upping my protein but I don't know how to do that in a vegan

manner.

Where I live, raw foods are extremely hard to find.

 

Jen

 

.

 

 

 

Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.7/816 - Release 5/23/2007

3:59 PM

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Jenn,

 

If I might make a suggestion?

 

I was 270#s during the early months of last year. At that time I had

been working with nutritionists for 2 years and wieght management

doctors for 1 year at a local hospital. I was very frustrated as my

wieght had increased while working with them. In May 2006 (yes last

year) I gave in or gave it up - I literally put my hands in the air

and declared out loud to the power of the universe (g-d if you

prefer)'alright, I get it - it isn't my job to loose wieght! and if

that is what you want then I give. I just want to feel better, to be

healthy enough to learn to have fun, to laugh some times, to sleep

good' ... etc. I canceled my appointments with the doctors and began

to search my memory for any times in my life when I felt better, had

less issues with my health and/or wieght. Then I asked myself a

series of questions like what was I doing differently then, could I

do it again, will I do it again... this process led me to remember my

research into Natural Hygine in my late teens and early 20's, during

the 70's. I implemented a couple things like becoming vegetarian

again, getting outside 1ce a day rain or shine and eating more fruit

and salads. I let go of 20#s in 2 weeks - well, as you might

imagine, that was enough encouragement to keep going. I just

listened to both my intuition and began learning to hear what my body

was telling me - like whatever you just gave me isn't working & wow,

don't feed me that again. In a short period of time I was eating 85-

90% raw vegan (without being aware that there was a 'raw' lifestyle

movement in the world). Late June last year I visited with my

daughter in Virgina Beach where they have a wonderful health food

store & organic market called the Heritage Store. My daughter was

late returning from work to pick me up from a day walking on and

enjoying the beach and I was a bit tired, so I popped into the

Heritage Store to wait for her. While waiting I picked up a couple

books to scan and found a comfy chair. The books I chose were Paul

Nison's the Raw Life, which I chose because I wanted to know more

based on the sub-title which was " how to become natural in an

unnatural world " - it has not been easy for me to be different and

the other book I picked up was Victoria Botenko's Raw Family -

because of the hiking experience mentioned.

 

I read the entire section of interviews with long term raw foodists

which is the 2nd half of Paul's book before my daughter arrived. I

became 100% Raw vegan then!

 

Fast forward to today - I weight 138#s. My athsma is gone, the

chemicals are gone from under my sinks & out of my bathrooms, I have

3 lovely grape tomato plants and a couple bush cucumber plants

growing on my 1 window sill. I have set some revised goals which

this year include playing, riding bike, making friends (which I have

already)... and getting/studing the original Natural Hygine info

again - you see I never finished studying it 30 years ago & I like to

know for myself.

 

I have transistioned in my own way. I have hit road bumps along the

way, one that I was particularly stumped by for a while was that I

had a lot of gas and my wieght change had stalled although I was

hungry most days - this lasted for a couple of months and was

particularly frustrating as I was around 160#s and happy with the

change, although I was hoping for a lower final weight.

 

I finally identified the issues after I began using

www.nutridiary.com. The benefit was that I was able to visualize

what I actually was consuming, it's breakdown into fat vs carbs vs

protiens and calories. I found 2 major things 1. my caloric intake

was LOW - very low 6-800 calories most days (yikes) and 2. the

percentage of fat that I would eat was low most days and would spike

to a very high percentage ever 6 days, which I equated with the

hunger issues and I'd get fed up and eat 2 or 3 handfulls of

sunflower seeds or a mainstream raw, prepared deli 'mock tuna'

sandwich or 2-3 avocados. AND I was never drinking much water. The

changes I made gradually tho relatively quickly were: 1. I increased

my water intake by 1 glass each day until I was satisfied with the

number of times I went to the bathroom (7-9 daily) 2. Though I was

nervous what would happen with my weight, and I had to wait through a

5# wieght gain that lasted 2 weeks, I increased my caloric intake

(aiming for 12-1500 daily so I could continue to let go of weight).

With advice and encouragement from our beloved Elchanan (I feel you

grinning already E), I chose to increase the sweet fruits to get

these needed calories. To my amazement my wiegh began changing again

at a very comfortable rate. and 3. I monitored my consumption of fats

(nuts, seeds, avocados, olives etc) and kept them below 10% so I

don't experience 'fat spike' days any longer. I am now learning HOW

to eat fat in a healthy way.

 

The reason I've chosen to tell this story is to encourage you, by my

example, to try nutridairy or one of the other nutrition trackers

online to help you get a visual of where you are right now. Getting

a clear picture of now will help you to set realistic, measurable

healthy goals that you WILL reach. I would love to hear your success

story as it develops.

 

Simply,

Lesa

 

 

TRIMMED ORIGINAL POST

rawfood , " Jennifer Beschinski " <Jenifer9

wrote:

>

> There is more ... but does this much make sense, for now?

>

> *** totally lost me. But I'll admit I did not read most of

the " living lean "

> posts because I have the opposite issue.

> It's taken me 5 years now to drop 60 pounds and for the last year

I've been

> stuck at my currrent weight...give or take 10 pounds that yo yo

around. I

> have 30-40 more to go and totally frustrated. I eat low calories. I

just...

Jen