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[IslandLeaper]

well that's great...

[Evander Farson]

I get the impression that this site is not updated often. Are member pages more active?

[Billiard]

Seems to be the case...

[Sara2]

I've noticed long-term CR people are mostly using their email accounts to continue posting their conversations by email to 2 email-lists rather than over here in the new Forums.

 

For those not aware or new to this website/forum there are two longstanding email lists where most of the research data is still posted on a daily basis. You should definitely read those lists to gain access to the giant knowledge base still accumulating there, which is vastly superior to what can be learned here in 2013. You can still post to both those lists by email but not directly online, whereas you can post here directly online using this Forum.

 

You must subscribe by email & verify to do that. Follow the link to access these lists...

 

Two Primary CR Lists Here

[BrianMDelaney]

I've noticed long-term CR people are mostly using their email accounts to continue posting their conversations by email to 2 email-lists rather than over here in the new Forums.

 

Hi Sara! Yes, you're absolutely right. We expect it will take a while for people to see the benefits of moving discussions over to the Web forum here. People tend to be creatures of habit...

 

Best,

Brian

[Linda6214]

Hi Everyone,

I'd like to introduce myself. I am new to the CR Society as of today.  I am 49,  5"4 and feel best at 114, BMI of 19. I can consume 1000 calories a day and lose but only 1200 to maintain. Period. I exercise every day and I never adjust calorie intake based on exercise. It is already factored in for me. Staying trim takes more discipline each passing year it seems.   I  joined the CR Society today because I want to have the support of other like minded individuals with the same health focused goal where food consumption is concerned. My Dad died of Cancer and my Mother's side from Heart disease. I am wellness focused. I want to proactively decrease my risk factors by eating a nutritionally sound diet, 360 days of the year. (yes, 5 days of holiday or birthday cheating) I am a Whole Foods and Farmer's Market buyer to ensure organically fresh food products. 

 

I invite any member of this CR Society who wants to support and be supported with this personal healthy eating goal to reach out so we can do this together. It is NOT easy to make good food choices every meal of every day. We need to stick together. I am glad I found this organization. Please be in touch if you are interested in more of a one on one or group support process. 

Linda

[Jim Pearce]

Hi everyone! I'd like to introduce myself. I've been practicing CR loosely for several years now and more rigorously for about 6 months.

This is my story. 

This all started for me in November 2014. My doctor at the Branson VA clinic wanted to put me on meds for early stage diabetes, meds for my high blood pressure, and meds to tamp down my high cholesterol. 

I didn't think I wanted to start a lifelong dependence on those drugs. I said "schedule me another set of labs in 6 months. Let's see what I can do without the drugs."

Then I spent the rest of 2014 stuffing myself like I never would again. At the end of 2014 I weighed 260 pounds. 

I'm 5'8". 260 pounds doesn't ride well on me. I weigh 157 today.

I had read somewhere that early in his career, before he was really anyone, Elon Musk had made himself live on $1/day worth of food for a spell. I guess he figured that he wanted to know he could just in case he ran into rough times before he got rich.

So Jan 1, 2015, I decided that if Elon Musk could live on $1/day back when he did it, then I would live on $2/day. I also had a plan for avoiding hunger by steering clear of high glycemic index foods. 

I had read about the glycemic index and one of my takeaways was "don't spike your blood sugar and you'll avoid the powerful cravings you get when it falls an hour later."

I was successful. It worked like crazy. I lost so much weight! But I was only avoiding added sugars and high glycemic index foods. To stay under $2/day worth of food and still get enough calories, however, I was shopping for foods with a low glycemic index or zero sugar that gave me the most calories per penny. 

Boiled eggs at that time gave me 5 or 6 calories per penny. Oatmeal at that time gave me something like 21 calories per penny.

Great Value chicken nuggets were a favorite. Each chicken nugget back then cost about a dime a piece and gave me 40 calories. 

6 months later I went back for more labs and found I had kicked diabetes' butt.

But my cholesterol had shot higher and I still had high blood pressure!

Ok, I said. Schedule me another set of fasting labs in another 6 months and let me see what I can do about this, too.

Time passed. I discovered "How Not To Die" by Dr Greger. And somewhere along the way I ran into the calorie restriction monkey studies online. I was 58 at the time and thought it would be so cool to figure maybe I could have another 50 years or more. 

It was like being offered another lifetime! I still feel that way. My father died from diabetes and related problems when he was 53.

I'm 67 and I'm just as likely as not to head out for an 8 mile hike in the mountains on a summer day when it's 105 degrees. My best time hiking 8 miles in the summer heat going up and down some mighty big hills here in the Ozarks is one hour and 50 minutes.

Obviously, the chicken nuggets and the eggs are history now. "How Not To Die" changed all that.

I'm a strict vegan but once every few weeks or so I'll have a packet of wild caught low sodium salmon. Actually, I usually put it off so it's more like once every 5 or 6 weeks. 

I initially amazed my VA doc with a hundred pound weight loss but that was before I got much better at this. Now I'm thinking I want to go down to 140 and this time, I know much more about optimizing my nutrition. 

I love this lifestyle.

Edited October 12 by Jim Pearce
Misspelled word

[Dean Pomerleau]

Welcome Jim, and congratulations on your weight loss and diet improvements!

It sounds like you are doing great. If you dropped to 140 lbs, your BMI would be around 21, which is quite reasonable especially if you are eating healthily and tracking your nutrition.

--Dean

[Jim Pearce]

Hi Dean! I accidentally did a double post elsewhere (titled "Where is everybody?")

I can't figure out what to do to eliminate one of them and, also, by the way, where is everyone?

I think CR for prolonging healthy life is exciting and I wonder why there's so little activity here!

Edited October 12 by Jim Pearce

[Dean Pomerleau]

I think you were able to figure out how to delete your double post, since I don't see it now on that other thread. I did my best to answer your question about where is everybody over there.

--Dean