DATE WAIST WRIST WGT % BF BF LBM 9/7/00 36.75 6.75 194 20.2% 39 155 9/14/00 36.5 6.75 194 19.6% 38 156 9/21/00 36.47 6.75 192 19.7% 38 154 9/28/00 36.19 6.75 191.5 19.1% 37 155 10/5/00 36.1 6.75 189 19.2% 36 153 10/12/0 36.1 6.75 190 19.1% 36 154 10/19/0 36.1 6.75 190 19.1% 36 154 [Tom Tanner] Presently using Clarence Bass' three prong approach as featured in 'Lean for Life' http://www.cbass.com > -----Original Message----- > From: K M Ma [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 8:01 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [EVOLUTIONARY-FITNESS] My initiation to EvFit > > Hi everybody, > > I see that many people have joined the list since I restarted it a few > weeks > ago. If you joined late and missed earlier postings, you can review them > at > the following URL: > http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/evolutionary-fitness.html Past > postings > are archived by month. So far the list has been relatively quiet. > Hopefully, > with time, we'll see more active discussion. > > Tom, how do you restore melatonin at night? Do you take melatonin > supplements > before bedtime? 1 mg? [Tom Tanner] Hi Ming, Yes, use melatonin at night, 3 mg. But only if you are over 40 years old, as a growth hormone enhancement. > I started on the path of EvFit living about five or six weeks ago. I'm in > my > early thirties, ostensibly healthy, with a body weight of 147 lbs on a > 5'10" > frame with 12% body fat. I don't have any recent clinical blood labs to > share. > > So far, changing the diet has been the easy part. Despite my enjoyment of > a > range of cuisines, I easily gave up eating out for a healthy diet of nuts, > fruits, vegetables, and meats. I've been using the cancer research of > Bruce > Ames and the antioxidant research of the USDA as a guide on choosing the > plant > food to emphasize, e.g. strawberries, kale, etc., or to avoid, e.g. > broccoli, > mushrooms and peanuts, etc. > > http://socrates.berkeley.edu/mutagen/ames.summary.html > > http://www.hnrc.tufts.edu/researchprograms/USDALabResProgDes/Webhome.html > > I started to write about the exercise and weightlifting part but I'll > withhold > it here since I'm still evolving and tweaking the program. > > After 6 weeks, despite the radical change in diet and the introduction of > weight-training, my weight and fat % has not budged one bit! Talk about a > stable attractor. > > Of course, I need to be patient and there might be important internal > changes > that aren't evident in the macro-measurements. Unfortunately, we aren't > yet > in the age where we can do blood labs at home. Prompted by a random > conversation, I measured my blood pressure two days ago and found it to be > 100/67! Subsequent measurements have proved this to be stable. My > resting bp > for the longest time was 120/80. Is this due to entirely to absence of > sodium > from processed foods and restaurant cooking? > > Ming