Question on Nutrients

mmapags - no, no-one on any video stated anything about this. I went to several sites and look at my height, weight, age and those sites, along with MFP, said 1,450 calories. I decided, just like when I was in Alaska, to just try to hit that per day, and go ahead and log the exercising per day, and then just look at the net calories and see what's up.

For all of February, I didn't log any exercising. Didn't know to do that. Started March 03 logging exercise.

So here is my latest, as of today and closing down the logs. The 1,100+ calorie net days are just when I walk. The other days, usually under 400 net calories, are when I kayak and hike. Yesterday, was a rain day. So I didn't do anything really. And made up for that today. The 630 net calorie day was a quick kayak in the evening, not that far and not to my island where I hike.

In Alaska, I could take 78 days of food at a time. And eat everything that day. Then in time, I would notice I could skip a meal and if I got laid over in some storm, could eat that extra meal that day. I was kayaking ten hour days, plus 4 hours hiking and photography, and 2 hours to set camp or take down camp, and be constantly moving.

I haven't been hungry really, and yesterday was my first day to go over 1,400 calories. Usually, I am looking for what can I add to my food today to hit 1,400 calories. I am 5 ft 5.5 inches. Small frame. And now 155-156 lbs. There are charts that say I should be at 114-144 lbs for my size. I am not going back to 125 lbs. I was that throughout high school. But I wouldn't mind somewhere between 138-142. I would love that. Sure would beat the 177 I was at last year, or 25 days ago.

Thanks Ann. I'll look you up and talk more when I get into the maintenance end of it. Till then, I will look into the psyllium husk supplement you mentioned, for fiber. I miss Alaska and the ability to go year after year and circumnavigate a new area each year. But I can't right now. So, I kayak on the lake near by, and use an island out there that really no one goes to. It's large enough to hike around on, and when windy, it can be a good workout to pop over there and back. But when you exercise enough, or kayak, as many days as I seem to be doing right now, its pretty easy to feel when you may be off. That signal to eat more carbs and put in a bit of weight. I surely get enough proteins. But in Alaska, or when I was working on the boats out in the Bering Sea, or the tuna boats 700 miles north of Hawaii, it was just go go go. I'm cool with that. Keep moving.

Today's menu looked a bit thin, lots of protein, but not much of anything else besides romaine lettuce. Usually, there is more veggies, like bell peppers and mushrooms or green beans. Today was lean. But you saw what was in my refrig vs what I kicked out of the freezer, all those frozen dinners, and I have plenty of whole foods around. The flax seeds you mentioned, I like. I use to buy flax seed tortilla chips. Loved them. I don't miss the high processed foods, at all.

I also want to thank you for respecting what I am researching and believing in, from my time looking into foods. So thank you for not trying to convert me to your line of thoughts. I am looking at more than youtube videos, or websites that have articles, and am reading research papers, usually linked somewhere in there, to the actual studies, but I guess some here will call me the video guy. That's fine. I still struggle to understand why one can't watch a video, decide if they agree to any of it, and then follow that up with research. I keep being told I am pushing my beliefs and yet have stated I don't believe in everything on any site or in any video. I do that with our mainstream media every day. I don't take what they say as honest till I find their sources. LOL

But thanks Ann. Sometimes helping is accepting - and still planting seeds you hope to grow in another person, while not judging. That way they can maybe, if necessary, look back one day and say Hey, that person tried to tellme that. That's cool. But sometimes those days never come and that seed never grows. And that, too, is cool.

mmapags, I am chalking our discussions up to the fact that you are concerned, genuinely, about my health or anyone else's health who is eating and exercising the way I am. I don't mean to look defensive, but I am comfortable with my process. If I were to feel tingly or light headed, I would stop and go eat. But I feel energy and satiated. So I push on. I can imagine you have seen a lot come and go in ten years. And yet, I am not boasting to be the exception. I simple know, after years of caloric deficits, what to expect. This is what years of my life were like. Again, you can only take so much food (78 days) at a time. I would go 45 days no human contact in remote areas. Just normal for me.

I am starting now, while I have the opportunity, to try - in moderation, new foods that I hope to include long term. I don't want a repeat like in Alaska where one day I just quit this and go start slamming the foods I am now mainly avoiding. So to do that, I need to learn what I enjoy - so it's not just a diet, but a lifestyle of good foods. I hope if I ask other questions, you will continue to give me your thoughts. I appreciate them always.

We can't always agree, but we can always listen.

Final update on this thread. Can't end with that last picture, on the bottom of me wearing that black shirt. So a before and after picture which covers the first month of this diet. Just got access from a trail camera to the photo from March 20. So about a month.