Bowflex Motivator 2 - Manual (Page 27)

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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 Bowflex® home gym will
make your muscles larger—but not excessively large—
and larger muscles will make your body firmer and more
shapely.
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