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Date Posted: 08:18:35 06/05/02 Wed
Author: Sherry
Subject: Good morning

It is going to be hot today, already starting to get there. I'm wearing shorts to work today even with my fat legs, hope no one gets sick... :)

I worked out this morning for a little while, scale reads the same as yesterday morning, but I didn't have to fight for it today, guess I drank my water earlier yesterday.

I was thinking about the calories per pound thing today, and it seems to me that the best way to calculate it would be based on your "lean body mass" According to Protein Power that is the weight your body would weigh if you had no fat.
When I calculated that amount it came out to 114 pounds. That is your muscle and bone, the things you don't WANT to lose. So I took that number and multiplied it by the 15 calories per pound that is to maintain, and came up with 1710 minimum calories per day. (just to maintain lean body mass). Fat is less active, I can't see it needing as many calories per day just to maintain, (and who wants to maintain it anyway?) So I figured at a losing rate 8 calories a day should be enough to lose some fat and not put your body into starvation mode. If I have 100 calories of fat on top of the 114 of lean, and feed it 8 calories per, that comes out to another 800 calories per day. 1710 + 800 still comes out to 2510 per day.

So I figure if I eat between 1710 and 2510 I should still lose some weight, but falling below 1710 might cause me to lose the muscle I don't want to lose. Interesting that the figures (even with me guessing) come out to similar to what the experts came up with.

Going to work early today, want to get out of there earlier than I did yesterday. It is going to be a hot one, and I don't want to have to work until 6.

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OMG!!! Are those white legs YOURS??? Just kidding. I was real nervous about wearing shorts at first, but 4 years ago I decided that my comfort and well-being was more important than what anyone else thinks of me, and I wear them all the time now. I don't think that other people are as critical of us as we are of ourselves. I've actually had male friends give me compliments on my legs, so who knows... I'm sure you look wonderful!!! (NT) -- Katie, 13:25:23 06/05/02 Wed
OMG!!! Are those white legs YOURS??? Just kidding. I was real nervous about wearing shorts at first, but 4 years ago I decided that my comfort and well-being was more important than what anyone else thinks of me, and I wear them all the time now. I don't think that other people are as critical of us as we are of ourselves. I've actually had male friends give me compliments on my legs, so who knows... I'm sure you look wonderful!!! (NT) -- Katie, 13:34:01 06/05/02 Wed
- Well I don't know about wonderful, but I must not have looked too awful, I got some comments about being cooler, but nothing mean. It was so hot back there I nearly passed out anyway, so it was a good thing I was dressed cool. (NT) -- Sherry, 18:53:09 06/05/02 Wed
Sorry for the double post. (NT) -- Katie, 13:35:21 06/05/02 Wed
Where do you live, Sherry? -- MaryM, 13:57:00 06/05/02 Wed
- Mary I live in Northern California about an hour's drive north of San Francisco in a town called Santa Rosa, center of Sonoma county wine country. (NT) -- Sherry, 18:25:55 06/05/02 Wed
  - I bet it's beautiful there! (NT) -- MaryM, 12:20:19 06/06/02 Thu