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exboyfil

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4. On huge breakfast
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 10:45 AM
Aug 2015

I start the day with a very large salad with low calorie dressing (usually combination of spinach and romaine along with sliced up veges and lots of seasoning). Follow with a grapefruit and usually another piece of lower calorie fruit like an apple.

I do find I need to eat a sufficient amount to sleep before going to bed. Probably driven by rowing 1 1/2 to 2 hours everyday and walking/jogging 1 1/2 hours a day. It does not work out to be a small meal, but it is a healthy meal (stir fry with low calorie sauces and lots of veges which is also my lunch the next day, no fat plain Greek yogurt with fruit, and an ice cream sandwich (my favorite which is 170 empty calories but keeps me sane).

I have lost 90 pounds since January. Still have a way to go, but I am off blood pressure and cholesterol meds. My pulse rate is very low, and my blood pressure and cholesterol numbers without the drugs are near the ideal.

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