Bowflex ULTIMATE Owner's Manual page 78

Q&A
Q. I often get headaches when I eat only 1000 calories a
day. What should I do?
A. Yi)ur 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 caffMne notice headaches when they stop
consuming coffee fk)r several days. If this is tile case with
you, you might want to ease off tile coflee more
graduall)/
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 sul)stitute f_)r Lasagna with Meat Sauce. TIT to find
one that contains tile same calories, with approximately
15 to 20 pei_'ent of the calories coming from fat. Some of
tile Lean Cuisine dinners actually have too little fat fi)r
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 ]23 calories or more
themK)genic effect fi_ml warming the cold water to core
body temperature. Try a more gradual drinking of tile
cold water. You may have been consuming it too quickl)/
Q. Is it possible to drink too much water?
A. Certainly To do so, however, you'd probably have to
drink f_tlr or five tinles as much per day as I'm
recommending. There are a few aihnents that can be
negatively aflected by large amounts of fluid. If you feel
you have a proMem, check with your doctor befkwe
starting tile program.
Q.
Is bottled water better than tap water?
A. Resem_'h shows that bottled water is not always higher
quality water than tap water. Tile 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 frst you might want to try a twist of
lemon or lime added to the water fronl 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 tile result of an increased level of
estrogen cimulating in your body, which weakens tile
walls of the capillaries and causes them to break under
the slightest pressure. When this happens, blood escapes
and a braise occurs. Estrogen is broken down in the
liver, and so is fat. When you a_ dieting, your liver
breaks down tile fitt, leaving a lot more estrogen in the
t)loodstreanL
It may be helpful to supplenlent your diet with a little
extra vitamin C each day to help toughen the walls of
the capillaries.
Q.
A,
I'm a 40-year-old woman with a teenage son and
daughter. My husband and I both want to lose 10
pounds and the children would also like to lose
some weight. Can I put the whole family on the
program?
It wotlld be great if you cotlld, btlt you cannot. Tile
nunlber of calories per day is tile prot)lem. Teenagers
require significantly more calories each day than 1500,
which is the highest level. Check with a registered
dietician (RD) fk)r appropriate recommendations.
Your teenage son and daughter, however, could fk)llow
the Bowflex exemise 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 unnecessarily.
Building large muscles requires two conditions. First, tile
individual must have long muscles and short tendons.
Second, an abundance of testosterone nltlst be present in
the blood stream. Women ahnost never have either of
these conditions.
Under no circumstances could 99.99 pe_'ent of
American women develop excessively large muscles.
Progressive resistance exemise such as Bowflex will
make your muscles larger but not excessively laEge
and larger muscles will make your body firmer and more
shapel)/
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