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mkh9 wrote:Hi group,
So Now I have lost all the weight I want. I lost 20 lbs and am at about 19-20% body fat. I am female so at my most athletic I was 19%. So that is fine with me. I like lifting weights since I can't play tennis and jog right now. I will try to get back into jogging maybe a little at a time. First an update: So I read a lot of things on here about protein and so forth and so am a bit confused because what is working for me is a bit different than what Dr. McDougall says to do almost...
I am now lifting weights 4 times a week and that is great. I want to incorporate more cardio though. I am doing the McDougall rapid weight loss plan but have put back in 2 servings of nuts, and 2 days a week avocado. The rest is correct except it looks like I need to increase veggies to have equal plant to starch ratio. I eat two TBS of flaxseed a day and am going into menopause. Before I started this exercise and diet I was sitting on the couch all day with a back injury and knee injury and osteoporsis of the hip and osteopenia of the spine. I couldn't get up the stairs in the gym.
I eat 1800-1900 calories a day and stay at 126 lbs. BMI is 19.7. I am 54 years old and 5'7" I can now deadlift 95 lbs 5 sets 6 reps and do like 45 pound bench press (2- 22.5 lb dumbells) etc.
My blood work looks great but I found before I ate the omega 3 flax seed my husband's and my cholesterol wouldn't not go down and the HDL wasn't good and the rest of the profile. So I went from a cholesterol of 200 to after flax seed is 130. So I don't know. I saw that Dean Ornish said that vegans need the Omega 3 or we have a huge heart attack risk. Look his video or read it. There is a conflict here and myself and my husband's blood work shows the results. So the only problem is my waist is okay 26" but the belly below is still there. The rest of me looks great except my skin is still very dry and after weight loss even though only 20 lbs it is saggy or crinkly? I can't explain. The dry skin may be the menopause. I wish I knew what to do . I would cut back on the oils but my skin is so bad. so I don't know where to go with this?
I also read on here people had new articles that had IGF1 is bad for cancer that growth hormone raises your cancer risk BUT not with vegans. The studies that were done were not on plant based diets. So I am using Jeff's 0.8 g/Kg I think it is calculation for athletes (even though I'm not really an athlete) and that is for me 95g of protein a day (this includes some protein powder in almond milk). This is not on the diet. So of course I want to follow the diet but don't want more calories . Then the thing is I am doing so much better weight lifting with just a small increase in protein at my age.
Any thoughts on all this?
mkh9
mkh9 wrote:Hi group,
So Now I have lost all the weight I want. I lost 20 lbs and am at about 19-20% body fat. I am female so at my most athletic I was 19%. So that is fine with me. I like lifting weights since I can't play tennis and jog right now. I will try to get back into jogging maybe a little at a time. First an update: So I read a lot of things on here about protein and so forth and so am a bit confused because what is working for me is a bit different than what Dr. McDougall says to do almost...
I am now lifting weights 4 times a week and that is great. I want to incorporate more cardio though. I am doing the McDougall rapid weight loss plan but have put back in 2 servings of nuts, and 2 days a week avocado. The rest is correct except it looks like I need to increase veggies to have equal plant to starch ratio. I eat two TBS of flaxseed a day and am going into menopause. Before I started this exercise and diet I was sitting on the couch all day with a back injury and knee injury and osteoporsis of the hip and osteopenia of the spine. I couldn't get up the stairs in the gym.
I eat 1800-1900 calories a day and stay at 126 lbs. BMI is 19.7. I am 54 years old and 5'7" I can now deadlift 95 lbs 5 sets 6 reps and do like 45 pound bench press (2- 22.5 lb dumbells) etc.
My blood work looks great but I found before I ate the omega 3 flax seed my husband's and my cholesterol wouldn't not go down and the HDL wasn't good and the rest of the profile. So I went from a cholesterol of 200 to after flax seed is 130. So I don't know. I saw that Dean Ornish said that vegans need the Omega 3 or we have a huge heart attack risk. Look his video or read it. There is a conflict here and myself and my husband's blood work shows the results. So the only problem is my waist is okay 26" but the belly below is still there. The rest of me looks great except my skin is still very dry and after weight loss even though only 20 lbs it is saggy or crinkly? I can't explain. The dry skin may be the menopause. I wish I knew what to do . I would cut back on the oils but my skin is so bad. so I don't know where to go with this?
I also read on here people had new articles that had IGF1 is bad for cancer that growth hormone raises your cancer risk BUT not with vegans. The studies that were done were not on plant based diets. So I am using Jeff's 0.8 g/Kg I think it is calculation for athletes (even though I'm not really an athlete) and that is for me 95g of protein a day (this includes some protein powder in almond milk). This is not on the diet. So of course I want to follow the diet but don't want more calories . Then the thing is I am doing so much better weight lifting with just a small increase in protein at my age.
Any thoughts on all this?
mkh9
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