Sat, Mar-13-04, 14:36
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Plan: PP/Omega
Stats: 163/123/120
BF:no idea/too much
Progress: 93%
Location: Houston, TX
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I decided to try Protein Pwer because I was getting nowhere on Atkins, I bought the PP book (thank God it was second-hand and very cheap). I started reading last night and continued today. And I'm utterly lost.
It's very badly written for one thing (and I'm an English teacher so I can make sense of most things). The chapter on blood-test results uses different names for the various tests than my printouts from the tests use, so I don't know what some of them are and whether I've had them. Never mind. Then they get to Hemaglobin A1C and I'm totally at sea in the 2nd paragraph; I figure it's irrelevant anyway as I've no idea what the average value for whatever that the lab my physician uses would be. Never mind that, skip that, too.
Next, measure my waist. My waist, they say, is on the level of my navel. Mine has never been on the level of my navel even when I weighed 95 pounds, but I do it anyway. Then I measure my hips and do the calculations. OK. I'm an apple.
On to the next step--and suddenly we're not talking about waists and hips, we're talking about hips and abdomens. What on earth is going on? I know enough anatomy to know that in any animal the waist is the narrow part between the thorax and the abdomen. The hip is part of the bone-structure of the abdomen as the chest is part of the bone structure of the thorax. But now we've lost the waist altogether and somehow the "abdomen" which we don't have measurements for, has come into play. Never mind, pass over this, too. Onward and upward.
OOPS. That's a problem, because it turns out that I need all these numbers and calculations in order to know how much protein I should be eating, and as this seems to be the whole point of the diet and the book, not knowing makes it impossible to do.
Can someone enlighten me? Is there an easier way to determine what I need to know in order to know how much protein I need? Or does it really matterand I should just eat as much as I want? (In which case I'd be back to Atkins.)
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