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Bowﬂex

Body Leanness Program

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 unnecessar

ily. Building large muscles requires two conditions.

First, the individual must have long muscles and

short tendons. Second, an abundance of testoster-

one 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

using a Bowflex

Xceed

™

Plus 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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