[greeneyes]

I will gain weight if I eat more than 1400 calories, and all the charts say I should be able to eat 1700 and lose weight even if I am sitting on my behind all day.

My Doc says the CPAP will help that. Most of his patients lose 25 lbs even with no changes to diet or excercise. As I do have a little more energy, I am beginning my excercise program, and continuing to tweak my diet so that it's healthy.

Now that breakfast you ate, I would have probably only had a half serving of the fatty foods and starches, and added a real lemonade and some citrus fruit. Plus some oolong tea.

The oolong tea supposedly helps block the fat from being stored. The citrus and lemon juice helps with digesting the starches.

I have broken my sugar addiction. The only time I have sugar now is when I get nausea, then I drink a little cola cut with no sodium seltzer water. I even love lemonade without added sugar.

My sweet treats are fresh apples, peaches etc. I do add a little maple syrup or honey to peanut butter for an extra special treat sometimes, but that's it. Reduction of white flour has been coming along too. Replacing it with oats, and brown rice or sweet potatoes. I figure if I can't lose, I'll at least eat healthy and get all the nutrients I can.

[Sarajevo]

I started on CPAP last night. The Mrs says she is already sleeping better..........

That was a bit of sarcasm, BTW. I'm not sure what to make of it yet.

[Ellendra]

I will gain weight if I eat more than 1400 calories, and all the charts say I should be able to eat 1700 and lose weight even if I am sitting on my behind all day.

I think my threshold is around 1200, but, same here. Add to that the fact that I tend to run low on minerals like iron and magnesium. Part of the reason I'm doing so much research on nutrition right now is to try and find a way to pack more nutrients into less food so I can get all of them.

So far I haven't found a combination that would work for me, but I do have several combinations for a 2000 cal diet that have all the nutrients. I can't eat enough to finish any of them, but it's a start.