Calorie Restriction? - OH YES - Tommie

[Guest guest]

Oh, I know - don't get me wrong..I did say that drinking the wine is why I'm

holding it on, and also the post before, regarding the avocados. I may be

mistaken about the bananas - I thought they had a lot of (sugar) calories, so

I've been choosing avocados over bananas more often as personal taste preference

(from other posts I've learned that it's not good to eat bananas when they still

have some green, but to eat them when they're pretty ripe - yuk!), but to answer

your question, I eat one or two a day, by themselves.

I used to work as an athletic trainer in my late high school and early college

days, and two days ago I taught an older co-worker how to perform some 'office

exercises', so you're right about the choice thing - I'm bad about remembering

to do them myself! I need to choose to finally be 90-100% raw so that my body

REMINDS ME to always be active at my desk!

About the genetics thing - I was refering to the human genome as a whole,

regarding the total amount of calories a human body is able to burn in a

lifetime before most of its cells die off permanently.

-Tiffany

 

jerushy1944 <no_reply > wrote:

The formula is one that takes it off, even with the 500 extra

calories, because it's with a balanced raw food diet. You said this in your

post, " I eat a lot of avocados, bananas and nut pates, and I don't get a lot of

exercise. " That plus the wine is what is keeping it on. A lot of avocados and

nut pates are where the fat calories are.

Bananas have very few fat grams. What you eat and drink has nothing to do with

genetics. That's choice. And you are free to choose whatever you want. There are

lots of ways to fit in exercise all through the day. I power walk whenever I

walk. Tense and relax your muscles when you are sitting. Deep breathe. It

doesn't take equipment, just the desire to make you a better you.

Just curious--how many bananas do you eat in a day?

Tommie

http://www.rawburchard.blogspot.com

 

In rawfood , Tiffany <bluelairess wrote:

Yes, it is great!

But I guess every body is different...Mine seems to hold onto that extra 10

pounds also because I drink red wine (the only alcoholic beverage that has

always agreed with me) every day as well. And I'm older (see next paragraph).

I stopped consuming wine for 10 months when I was 24 years old, and after the

first 3 months I had effortlessly gotten down to 112 pounds, and I'm almost

5'4 " . I was also a cooked-grains-etc.-raw-veggies-vegetarian & sometimes vegan

for 6 years.

Now that I'm 31 and mostly raw vegan for 4 months, I can't see myself adding any

extra calories like you said in the info you received - I stay at 128 now,

instead of my 'ideal' weight of 118, which includes toned muscle mass. I can't

imagine adding 500 more calories, because of this extra 10 pounds! I have no

time for anymore exercise than I can already fit in. Especially since, like I

stated from my research in life extension, a human body can only burn up to a

certain number of calories in its lifetime before most of its cells die off (for

good). It's a genetic thing.

-Tiffany

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

It's true that bananas are calorie dense but they are easily burned

if they are ripe. I used to prefer bananas with some green on them

but now I buy enough ahead so I can have my anywhere from 6-10

bananas a day and they will be speckled. Avocados have a lot of fat

calories and the body tends to store them. Fat is burned after all

the carbs are burned. I did my 45 minutes this morning but I've still

been power-walking in the corriders.

 

Tommie

http://www.rawburchard.blogspot.com

 

rawfood , Tiffany <bluelairess wrote:

>

> Oh, I know - don't get me wrong..I did say that drinking the wine

is why I'm holding it on, and also the post before, regarding the

avocados. I may be mistaken about the bananas - I thought they had a

lot of (sugar) calories, so I've been choosing avocados over bananas

more often as personal taste preference (from other posts I've

learned that it's not good to eat bananas when they still have some

green, but to eat them when they're pretty ripe - yuk!), but to

answer your question, I eat one or two a day, by themselves.

> I used to work as an athletic trainer in my late high school and

early college days, and two days ago I taught an older co-worker how

to perform some 'office exercises', so you're right about the choice

thing - I'm bad about remembering to do them myself! I need to

choose to finally be 90-100% raw so that my body REMINDS ME to always

be active at my desk!

> About the genetics thing - I was refering to the human genome as

a whole, regarding the total amount of calories a human body is able

to burn in a lifetime before most of its cells die off permanently.

> -Tiffany

>

> jerushy1944 <no_reply > wrote:

> The formula is one that takes it off, even with the 500 extra

> calories, because it's with a balanced raw food diet. You said this

in your post, " I eat a lot of avocados, bananas and nut pates, and I

don't get a lot of exercise. " That plus the wine is what is keeping

it on. A lot of avocados and nut pates are where the fat calories

are.

> Bananas have very few fat grams. What you eat and drink has nothing

to do with genetics. That's choice. And you are free to choose

whatever you want. There are lots of ways to fit in exercise all

through the day. I power walk whenever I walk. Tense and relax your

muscles when you are sitting. Deep breathe. It doesn't take

equipment, just the desire to make you a better you.

> Just curious--how many bananas do you eat in a day?

> Tommie

> http://www.rawburchard.blogspot.com

[Guest guest]

Good point, Tammy!

 

Another point: Some people talk about how some versions of

the raw food diet are high in fat, as if that's such a big

deal. They're describing raw foods diets in terms that may

only be applicable to cooked food diets! It's like comparing

apples to oranges. We know that when fats are cooked, they

become deranged and are dangerous to health. That isn't

necessarily true of raw plant fats!

 

There is so much we still don't know about eating raw. We're

all in the experimental stage of this lifestyle. All the

studies that are out there have been done on cooked eaters,

so again, apples and oranges.

 

Blessings,

 

Jennifer

 

 

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:49 AM

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Re: [Raw Food] Calorie Restriction? - OH YES -

Tommie

 

 

If you don't eat any excess calories, nothing will be

stored and if you eat too many, something will be stored. As

far as I know that something will be fat.

 

Tammy