[Bruce Paine]

nila480,

I don't know if you are 18 or 45 whether you've had children or not (things that help one determine a person's metabolism), and there is no such thing as normal from a macrobiotic perspective, so if you don't want someone to get a complete enough picture of what you are about to help you lose weight, maybe you should just eat less.

You can't gain if you eat less and it's almost guarenteed that you'll lose weight.

Why are you choosing macrobiotics?

What benefit(s) do you expect to derive from it?

If you just fast and drink water and juice, and increase your activity, you will certainly lose weight.

But this is a macrobiotic website and macrobiotics is not geared specifically to losing weight.

Some people gain weight and others lose it and many more just maintain it.

If you eat a standard macrobiotic diet of soup, whole grains, beans, vegetables, sea vegetables, seeds, fermented foods, etc. but chew very well and eat less than what satisfies you, you will probably lose weight but relatively slowly, though you"ll probably maintain your health, well being and equilibrium.

You do more extreme things like a 12 day brown rice fast, and/or ginger compresses with a strict diet, and/or plenty of liquids and lots of exercise, you'll probably lose weight faster but be more more vulnerable to becoming unbalanced and experiencing heavy discharges (sickness).

It all depends on what you want and your condition and constitution.

But if you reveal little about yourself then others won't have enough to go on to really help you.

So what are you going to do?

Thank you, very much.

Bruce Paine