Calorie Restriction.

When I say calorie restriction I'm talking about eating a daily calorie intake of roughly 1,200 - 1,800, maybe a little more or less depending on the person. I don't mean a couple of hundred calories each day.

It's something that's interested me, but I've never really bothered to look it up until now. I found an interesting article in the New York Magazines website: http://nymag.com/news/features/23169/ and it definately provided me with some information.
Firstly, I was surprised by the amount of calories eaten. All of the people mentioned in the article eat 1,300 calories or over.
Secondly, they didn't seem particularly obsessed with their weight at all, it was more about health over all.

I was first introduced to the concept of Calorie Restriction (sometimes referred to as CR or CRON, which stands for Calorie Restriction Optimum Nutrition) when I read the blog of Dylan, ex-maintainer of the Livejournal Proanorexia website and argueably quite the sociopath. I was slightly intrigued but decided that obsessing with my weight was enough, I simply didn't have the energy to find out how much zinc, vitamin K, sodium etc everything I consumed contained.

But now, as the thought of recovery occasionally skims through my mind, it is becoming more of an option. I'd be eating more, I'd be eating healthily and my weight wouldn't zoom up. Could CR be the answer for me and others suffering from eating disorders?

Right now I don't feel ready for recovery, but I hope one day I'll embrace it, perhaps with the help of calorie restriction.

Calorie Density.

I've started using calorie density to grade foods.
For those who don't know, basically to work out calorie density find out the amount of calories per 100g and divide that number by 100.
Some articles on it:
http://www.calorieking.com/foods/caloriedensity.php?partner
http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/mag/health/d2742/c71296.html
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004305.html

I find it helps me when choosing what to eat and gives me a little more control over food.

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Exercise resources.

I will fully update you on my life and why I haven't been posting tomorrow.

For now, here are some links for great cardio exercise information:
http://www.fitnesstrainerstogo.com/cardio/
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/following-a-cardio-plan-for-weight-loss.html


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Liquid fasted.

38 kcalories from 1 low-cal hot chocolate (Options) and that my dears is it.

I'll update points later.
Watching the Fearne Cotton documentary and soon (when YouTube works properly again) I plan on posting some episodes of Intervention.

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Calories today :)

Breakfast:
-1 small bowl of porridge; 89 kcalories.
-1/2 spoon of sugar; 8 kcalories.
-1 glass of sf cordial; 4 kcalories.
=101 kcalories.
Lunch:
-1 large baked potato; 278 kcalories.
-1 serving of tomato ketchup; 15 kcalories.
-1/2 cup of cabbage; 17 kcalories.
=310 kcalories.
Dinner:
-1 serving of rice and lentils; 200 kcalories.
-2 glasses of sf cordial (different type); 12 kcalories.
-10 grapes; 20 kcalories.
-232 kcalories.
Total:
=648 kcalories.

Calories today :)

75ml milk - 36 kcalories (used a little less than usual).
1 weetabix - 50 kcalories (left some).
3/4 teaspoon of sugar - 12 kcalories.
1 small baked potato - 160 kcalories.
1 serving of tomato ketchup - 15 kcalories.
1 quorn escalop thing - 243 kcalories.
70g peas - 44 kcalories.
1 small bowl of porridge - 89 kcalories.
1/2 spoon of half spoon sugar - 8 kcalories.
1/2 a cup of pineapple - 68 kcalories.
=725 kcalories.
I think I had a little less than that because I used a little less than the amounts.
I have 275 kcalories left.
IDK if I'll eat anything else, I quite like that amount.
I feel like I've eaten too much :/

Tomorrow,

I'd like to fruit/veg fast.
I don't know if I will, but I'll probably be able to until dinnertime, then I'll just have a various vegeterian protein.
I'll do the same the next day methinks.
I want to have fewer than 1,000 calories.

I'm fairly determined, but I don't know...

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