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Well, how well I know what Bevrs is talking about�..personally��..and part of it is age.

I'm not to terribly different than Bevrs, except that I've never had a metabolism test. (Wanna explain that Bevrs?) I just know that for me it is all about calories................so I count..........Oh, I don't ALWAYS add them up at the end of the day necessarily but I do keep track of the total calories each time I eat (give or take say 25) because I want to know a number of things: 1)Just how far I can with go on AMOUNT without triggering an attack, 2) How many calories I need a few hrs. before exercising so that I don't pass out, 3)What's the least amount of calories I can have (which could be considered a snack) to take the growls away, not to mention that funny little feeling like an attack is coming on from not eating or eating TO LITTLE...(Some of you know what I mean.) I feel like I'm eating all day, and am sure I look like a pig. For me, a snack is 100 to 150 calories, a meal 250 to 400 and anything more than that I'm usually in agony.

If you're good at just knowing how many calories are in say a piece of bread, or a plain potato or a carrot, or whatever, it is no problem for you...but if it is, one could carry around a little purse/pocket cal/fat foods lists booklet. I did that for counting fats when first diagnosed.

Hmmm, being somewhat like Bevrs, menopausal for one, and then also, for me, being hypothyroid (and with that the metabolism takes a dump) then I can tell you I can KEEP my weight where it is on
1,000 to 1,200 calories a day, and that's with one hr. of aerobics daily. To loose weight it would have to hover around 800 and that's pretty risky.....so I really don't care what I am right now as long as I feel good. My only gripe is that I WAS down, way down to my old high school weight when I got so sick with IBS, but when I found "THE BOOKS" (Heathers of course) and this site and all the good recipes................especially the Sharon Mello's brownies, I put on 12 lbs. just like that..........sigh

Oh, and another thing, I really DO like plain rice��could eat 1 � to 2 cups just like that. Ever count the calories in THAT stuff?

Hope this helps for some of you that are at younger ages and normal metabolisms.............See what fun you have staring you in the face in later years.........Of course there's alway lipo and lifts and such, if that's what you're into

Kandee

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