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Q. I often get headaches when I eat only 1000 calories

a day. What should I do?

A. Your headaches may be caused by going longer than

three hours between meals or snacks. Try spacing

your meals and snacks where there are fewer hours

between them.

Some people who are used to drinking regular

coffee with caffeine notice headaches when they

stop consuming coffee for several days. If this is the

case with you, you might want to ease off the coffee

more gradually.

Q. I don’t like red meat. I notice that the Lean Cuisine

Lasagna with Meat Sauce contains beef. What can

I substitute for it?

A. Lean Cuisine

has many other frozen dinners that

you may substitute for Lasagna with Meat Sauce.

Try to find one that contains the same calories,

with approximately 15 to 20 percent of the calories

coming from fat. Some of the Lean Cuisine

dinners actually have too little fat for my nutritional

requirements.

Q. May I have dinner for lunch and lunch

for dinner?

A. Yes.

Q. I tend to get a headache when I drink

cold water. Can I drink water without it

being chilled?

A. Yes, but you won’t get the 123 calories or more

thermogenic effect from warming the cold water to

core body temperature. Try a more gradual drinking

of the cold water. You may have been consuming it

too quickly.

Q. Is it possible to drink too much water?

A. Certainly. To do so, however, you’d probably have

to drink four or five times as much per day as I’m

recommending. There are a few ailments that can

be negatively affected by large amounts of fluid. If

you feel you have a problem, check with your doctor

before starting the program.

Q. Is bottled water better than tap water?

A. Research shows that bottled water is not always

higher quality water than tap water. The decision

to drink bottled water or not is usually one of taste.

If you dislike the taste of your tap water, then drink

your favorite bottled water. But first you might

want to try a twist of lemon or lime added to the

water from your tap. Some people say it makes a

significant difference in the taste.

Q. I’m a middle-aged woman who gets black and blue

marks on my legs when I diet. Am I doing anything

wrong?

A. I doubt you are doing anything wrong. Such

black and blue marks are usually the result of an

increased level of estrogen circulating in your body,

which weakens the walls of the capillaries and

causes them to break under the slightest pressure.

When this happens, blood escapes and a bruise

occurs. Estrogen is broken down in the liver, and

so is fat. When you are dieting, your liver breaks

down the fat, leaving a lot more estrogen in the

bloodstream.

It may be helpful to supplement your diet with a little

extra vitamin C each day to help toughen the walls

of the capillaries.

Q. I’m a 40-year-old woman with a teenage son and

daughter. My husband and I both want to lose 10

pounds (4.5 kg) and the children would also like to

lose some weight. Can I put the whole family on the

program?

A. It would be great if you could, but you cannot.

The number of calories per day is the problem.

Teenagers require significantly more calories each

day than 1500, which is the highest level. Check

with a registered dietician (RD) for appropriate

recommendations.

Your teenage son and daughter, however, could

follow the Bowflex

exercise routines.

Q. I’m afraid that I might get large, unfeminine

muscles from some of the Bowflex

exercises you

recommend in this course. What can I do to prevent

this from happening?

A. You are worrying about large muscles unnecessarily.

Building large muscles requires two conditions. First,

the individual must have long muscles and short

tendons. Second, an abundance of testosterone

must be present in the blood stream. Women almost

never have either of these conditions.

Under no circumstances could 99.99 percent

of American women develop excessively large

muscles. Progressive resistance exercise such as

with the Bowflex

machine will make your muscles

larger—but not excessively large—and larger

muscles will make your body firmer and more

shapely.

Q. Why is it so important I perform the Bowflex

exercises with a 4-second count on the lifting and

lowering?

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