Guest guest Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 I just recently joined the organization. I started the CRON diet Is there anybody in the Rochester, NY area to communicate with? Thanks. Curt F. Fey, PhD, CFA, CFP Fee Only Financial Planning, Registered Investment Advisor 25 Esternay Ln. Pittsford, NY 14534 O: 585-244-0152 H: 585-442-6265 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Curt, I am in my first week of the CRON diet also and I am looking for someone to communicate with. I am doing the MegaMeals for 4 weeks and will need to spend a lot of time this weekend making the meals. Please tell me how you are doing? thanks Joann Minersville, PA Schuylkill County > > I just recently joined the organization. > > I started the CRON diet > > Is there anybody in the Rochester, NY area to communicate with? > > Thanks. > > > > Curt F. Fey, PhD, CFA, CFP > Fee Only Financial Planning, Registered Investment Advisor > 25 Esternay Ln. > Pittsford, NY 14534 > O: 585-244-0152 H: 585-442-6265 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2006 Report Share Posted February 24, 2006 Curt, I am in my first week of the CRON diet also and I am looking for someone to communicate with. I am doing the MegaMeals for 4 weeks and will need to spend a lot of time this weekend making the meals. Please tell me how you are doing? thanks Joann Minersville, PA Schuylkill County > > I just recently joined the organization. > > I started the CRON diet > > Is there anybody in the Rochester, NY area to communicate with? > > Thanks. > > > > Curt F. Fey, PhD, CFA, CFP > Fee Only Financial Planning, Registered Investment Advisor > 25 Esternay Ln. > Pittsford, NY 14534 > O: 585-244-0152 H: 585-442-6265 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 --- In , " joann2086 " <joann2086@...> wrote: > > Curt, > I am in my first week of the CRON diet also and I am looking for > someone to communicate with. > I am doing the MegaMeals for 4 weeks and will need to spend a lot of > time this weekend making the meals. If I may interject here, in my experience, people who start out CRON thinking that it necessarily involves laboriously making up special meals are unlikely to continue with it. The key, as I see it -- as as I have found over the past few years -- is to do, primarily, one very simple thing -- change the foods you eat from calorie-concentrated processed foods over to mostly calorie-dispersed fruits and vegetables. In addition, eat some lean poultry, oily fish, whole grains & nuts -- although those you have to limit a lot more because, while they are good for you, they are also high-cal. That's the main thing. Because these different foods are not calorie-concentrated, you may find that you actually eat MORE food than your non-CRON friends. You make this change on a permanent basis. You don't just cut down on the " bad " food, you stop eating it completely, forever. Period. That's the only way to break the habit of eating it. But you will find that in a few weeks or months, you are craving fresh blueberries instead of sugary deserts. You may still crave to eat -- appetite may be genetically passed on, not just a habit -- but you will be craving the low-cal fruits and vegetables. After you have changed the foods you eat, you can then cut back more on the amount you eat, as necessary. Many CRON people, including myself, skip lunch, but I eat quite a bit -- sometimes even stuffing myself -- at breakfast and dinner. But the foods I stuff myself with are low-cal fruits and vegetables. In practical terms, this means that, for breakfast, you don't have eggs and toast, you have 6 different fruits, maybe cut up the night before and waiting for you, cold and inviting, in the frig. For dinner, you may have a big salad with some lean chicken or fish on top. You are not depriving yourself or having to eat anything weird or hard to prepare. It's food from Whole Foods or Safeway, it' s just not processed, refined, high-glycemic, calorie-concentrated food. I am not suggesting that there is never a struggle, never a need to impose self-discipline. I struggle all the time. Even if I have no temptation to eat ice cream or pot roast -- and I don't -- I still need to resist the temptation to over-stuff. Life is struggle, there is no getting around it. But if you just change your foods to other normal foods -- the fruits, vegetables and limited quantities of lean meat, whole grains, nuts etc. -- rather than to weird, hard-to-prepare " meals " -- you will do better, be more likely to stick to CRON. gary austin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2006 Report Share Posted February 25, 2006 --- In , " joann2086 " <joann2086@...> wrote: > > Curt, > I am in my first week of the CRON diet also and I am looking for > someone to communicate with. > I am doing the MegaMeals for 4 weeks and will need to spend a lot of > time this weekend making the meals. If I may interject here, in my experience, people who start out CRON thinking that it necessarily involves laboriously making up special meals are unlikely to continue with it. The key, as I see it -- as as I have found over the past few years -- is to do, primarily, one very simple thing -- change the foods you eat from calorie-concentrated processed foods over to mostly calorie-dispersed fruits and vegetables. In addition, eat some lean poultry, oily fish, whole grains & nuts -- although those you have to limit a lot more because, while they are good for you, they are also high-cal. That's the main thing. Because these different foods are not calorie-concentrated, you may find that you actually eat MORE food than your non-CRON friends. You make this change on a permanent basis. You don't just cut down on the " bad " food, you stop eating it completely, forever. Period. That's the only way to break the habit of eating it. But you will find that in a few weeks or months, you are craving fresh blueberries instead of sugary deserts. You may still crave to eat -- appetite may be genetically passed on, not just a habit -- but you will be craving the low-cal fruits and vegetables. After you have changed the foods you eat, you can then cut back more on the amount you eat, as necessary. Many CRON people, including myself, skip lunch, but I eat quite a bit -- sometimes even stuffing myself -- at breakfast and dinner. But the foods I stuff myself with are low-cal fruits and vegetables. In practical terms, this means that, for breakfast, you don't have eggs and toast, you have 6 different fruits, maybe cut up the night before and waiting for you, cold and inviting, in the frig. For dinner, you may have a big salad with some lean chicken or fish on top. You are not depriving yourself or having to eat anything weird or hard to prepare. It's food from Whole Foods or Safeway, it' s just not processed, refined, high-glycemic, calorie-concentrated food. I am not suggesting that there is never a struggle, never a need to impose self-discipline. I struggle all the time. Even if I have no temptation to eat ice cream or pot roast -- and I don't -- I still need to resist the temptation to over-stuff. Life is struggle, there is no getting around it. But if you just change your foods to other normal foods -- the fruits, vegetables and limited quantities of lean meat, whole grains, nuts etc. -- rather than to weird, hard-to-prepare " meals " -- you will do better, be more likely to stick to CRON. gary austin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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