X-Message-Number: 12818
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 05:09:01 -0800
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #12810 - #12815
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Doug Skrecky wrote:

> If the reader is interested, as a test I suggest temporaily limiting food
> intake to just whole meal bread with no toppings  for a one day.
> Record calorie intake. You may be surprised by the  results.

I wouldn't.  I made up a diet once that I called the "one-ingredient-
a-day diet".  Each day I ate only one food with only one ingredient, 
making sure to rotate food groups (I think that if the foods were 
carefully chosen, this could even be balanced, but I didn't know about 
that then).  I lost weight easily on that diet, but I couldn't keep it
up for long.  A day of nothing but pecans or chicken or corn or beans
or bananas doesn't tempt one to overeat much, and one would be 
hard-pressed to eat enough broccoli or spinach or tomatoes to 
maintain, much less gain, weight.  The only day that was clearly a 
bad idea was the milk day.  Hmm; it might be a good idea to allow
milk as a beverage on any day -- I'm not interested in osteoporosis.

I think I gave it up after a week or two because my weakness for
pizza got the better of me.  It might be time to give it another 
try.  I remember reading somewhere that as long as your diet was
balanced over the course of a week, you'd be OK, which allows parents 
not to obsess over their kids' eating habits.

If people have comments on how such a diet could be detrimental in
the short or long term, I'd be interested in hearing them.  Assume
a multivitamin is taken each day along with the ingredient of the
day.

Thanks,
Kennita
-- 
Kennita Watson           |   Late to bed, early to rise,
       |      work like hell, and advertise."  
http://i.am/Kennita      |               -- Werner von Braun

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