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