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Oscars 2013: Edith Head, Oscar's enduring fashion and costume queen
Edith Head is the undisputed costume Oscars queen. With a Hollywood career spanning six decades and a record eight Academy Awards to show for it, Head dressed an impressive array of Hollywood actors, from Jerry Lewis and Elvis to Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis. She died at age 83 in 1981, shortly after finishing work on "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."
There's no telling who will get the award at this year's ceremony, but the winner will be unlikely to challenge Head's record because for much of her career, she worked for Paramount Studios, where movie production was executed in-house rather than contracted to different designers as it is today.
Also different from Head's early days is that the stars wear whatever they want to on the red carpet and are dressed by stylists rather than the studio dressmakers, as used to be the case. She not only dictated what actors wore in the movies, but what they wore to the Oscars, too.
"There were better designers, but she was the smartest," says Susan Claassen, an actress, writer and producer who plays the costumer in "A Conversation with Edith Head," which will be at the L2 Arts and Cultural Center in Denver March 3 for a one-night run as part of the Women+Film Voices Film Festival.
Claassen spends most of her time in Tucson, where she is the longtime managing artistic director of Invisible Theatre, but has performed as Edith Head throughout the United States and in Europe. Her desire to act and direct was fostered when she was a student of theater and education at the University of Denver.
She hasn't been back to perform here since she graduated in 1969 after having been in multiple college productions and on stage at such long-gone theaters as the Trident on South Gaylord Street in Washington Park.
In a phone interview from Tucson, Claasen said that she became fascinated with Edith Head after seeing a program about the costumer on the Biography Channel. When Head got started, "It was a boys' club, to run that (costume) shop. She was an executive woman before there was such a thing," Claassen said.
Claassen began researching Head and realized no one had done a stage production about her long Hollywood career. Research led her to California writer, editor and publisher Paddy Calistro, who wrote "Edith Head's Hollywood" in 1983. The book was based on tape-recordings made by the costumer, who died before completing her memoir. "We were like two magnets," Claassen says of meeting Calistro.
Claassen was interested in playing Head because not only did she find her story interesting, she also resembled the costumer. "I was always aware that I looked a little like her. I had short dark hair and always had a style about myself."
Head had studied languages and art rather than wardrobing but quickly learned the ropes and applied herself when she got a job at Paramount. She worked with most of the major stars of the day and was careful not to try to overshadow them, whether she was dressing Bette Davis for "All About Eve" or Grace Kelly for "Rear Window." She put Dorothy Lamour in a sarong for "The Hurricane," and Robert Redford and Paul Newman in dapper suits for "The Sting." Continued...
Claassen wears a plain suit and clear nail polish when she performs her show. "She never wanted to upstage the star she was dressing and had no intention of competing with them," Claassen says.
In the 90-minute show, Claassen takes on the character of Edith Head working in her Hollywood studio, surrounded by photographs of the famous actors she worked with and sketches of what they wore in various movies. She takes questions from the audience and shares stories.
One that might come up that was a sore spot for Head is that while she designed all of Audrey Hepburn's costumes for "Roman Holiday," the actress developed a relationship with French couturier Hubert de Givenchy, and he created clothes for several of her subsequent films. "It broke Edith's heart that she never had that great connection that Audrey had with him," Claassen says.
But Head had plenty of work to keep her busy, amassing credits on more than 1,100 films in her career. Her influence extended in other ways, as she was wardrobe director for such programs as the Academy Awards, sending out mandates that men wear formal suits and women not reveal too much skin.
Head also spent time cultivating her image, greeting visitors who toured the Paramount lot, and going on shows like Art Linkletter to offer wardrobe advice.
In the show, Claassen, as Head, will share style tips. " I think her style tips are universal and classic," Claassen says. "She felt she should make the tricks that she learned in Hollywood accessible to all of America."
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We are extremely excited to let you know that Wanaka has been voted the world's best adventure hub by high-profile US publication "Outside Magazine" as part of their 2012 Outside Travel Awards.
Wanaka has been receiving a lot of positive international publicity lately and we have found this year there has been a marked increase in bookings for our winter (read adventure!) season. While we can't be sure that this is directly related to an increase in overseas exposure we certainly won't complain either way! Outside magazine is a highly influential magazine with a large readership based not only in the US but also around the world so we can only hope this exciting award will bring many more tourists to our beautiful part of the world.
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Would Ratner really let all that space the rest of the tower would have contained dissolve?
High time for a monumental rethink
March 21, 2009
Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano are architects, geniuses, stars - and old. They're children of the Depression, the last one and the current one, and are all well past 70, with Gehry having just turned 80. Happy Birthday, Frank! And welcome to the harsh new reality of the minimalist economy.
For our newest city halls, opera houses, museums and galleries, for the airports and public parks, university buildings and bridges - for unleashing the art of architecture, we have the superstars to thank. It's hard to imagine a more scintillating version of urbanity than the one they delivered.
But the currency of the old avant-garde has become a difficult commodity. Many of their monumental projects have crashed - Gehry's highly anticipated Beekman Tower in lower Manhattan was this week chopped in half from 76 to 38 storeys. Besides that, their fees are outrageous; it's becoming increasingly uncomfortable to ask clients to indulge them. It could be that the glorious, creative outpouring of the iconic ones is destined for an inelegant dead end.
Until recently, Foster + Partners (whose works include London's gherkin-shaped Swiss Re Tower) employed 1,300 architects in 17 offices around the world. Last month, the firm announced that it was firing 300 of them. And figures from Britain's Office of National Statistics, released this week, reveal the number of architects claiming employment benefits rose from 150 to 1,290.
Work has tanked in Russia, forcing Norman Foster to close his Berlin office, where much of the work for the moneyed oligarchs was being drafted. Lord Foster was known to travel in his private jet, and is said to have charged $2,500 an hour for design consulting. His buildings have accomplished startling things with glass and high-tech wizardry. But they're hardly cheap - his remodelling of Europe's biggest football stadium, Camp Nou in Barcelona, involved recladding the exterior with a skin of colour-changing glass panels, estimated to cost upward of $400-million. Now delayed indefinitely, the project pushed architecture to heady heights, but alas, it's produced the kind of price tag that's difficult to rationalize these days.
In the Catalonian capital, considered a Mecca of exquisite architecture, work has dried up. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (creators of Heathrow's Terminal 5) had conjured a way to insert a shopping centre into an old bullring. Five years ago, Las Arenas might have been pushed through, but in these troubled times, the project stands silent and half-built. And a much-anticipated 34-storey tower by Gehry + Partners (which has cut dozens of architects at the firm's Los Angeles studio) has also been put on hold.
Back in North America, in the once-searing-hot city of Chicago, the Spire by world-renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, proposed by Irish billionaire Garrett Kelleher as the tallest residential tower in North America, is a gaping hole in the ground - and going nowhere fast.
In Canada, too, the superstars came, designed and built, working their magic over the country's ambitious downtowns. Projects conceived 10 years ago have survived. They include all seven of the major cultural makeovers in the City of Toronto, including the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts by Diamond + Schmitt Architects; Daniel Libeskind's makeover of the Royal Ontario Museum; and Gehry's sumptuous if slightly leaky Art Gallery of Ontario.
The University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building, by Foster + Partners, with its surreal lecture pods suspended in a gigantic atrium, slipped in under the wire. But, over the last year, Foster's design of the Bow - a commercial glass tower with impressive sustainability, spearheaded by oil-and-gas producer EnCana - in Calgary has suffered a scaling back of the original design vision. Vancouver's proposed Jameson House, a series of glass cylinders rising 37 storeys, was cancelled last month.
For the masters, the past few decades have been a wild ride. After enduring creative fits and starts, they got up their nerve to create mind-altering architecture in the 1960s. In Paris, the youngsters Piano and Rogers imagined the unforgettable Centre Pompidou (1977). Jean Nouvel's L'Institut du Monde Arabe, with its wall of mechanical oculi, opened in 1987.
By the 1990s, the established stars were reigniting a faith in downtowns around the world. But their change-making architecture, which lit fireworks in the metropolis, is set to radically change. And it's about time. Architectural and landscape poetry is desperately needed to help heal the disaffected suburbs. The work may be subtle, but there's an urgency to address the societal discontent lurking on the city's edges.
In North America, the biggest challenge will come in reinventing a suburban landscape marred by boarded-up houses, old-style shopping malls and big-box retailers. The stars obsessed over one-off, showy works of architectural sculpture. A new generation is required to consider new questions: How to negotiate the future of the bloated suburban house in light of changing demographics and a desire for intimate communities? How to accommodate smaller families, gay couples without children, and single parents who live alone half the time?
In Europe, the challenges will take on a different shape. Paris, for instance, is a model of urban elegance. But its suburbs are places of deep unrest, where immigrants are often housed in dehumanizing apartment blocks, and where public amenities and parks are scarce. To address the disaster of the Parisian banlieues, President Nicolas Sarkozy has commissioned 10 architects - famous and not, old and young - to imagine a vision for a new Grand Paris. The emphasis is not on standalone, audacious architecture that requires buying a ticket to enjoy.
Parisian architect Roland Castro has presented a sweeping green, Central Park-style space for the otherwise unhappy suburb of La Courneuve. Besides that, he radicalizes his vision by suggesting that the Élysée Palace be moved to the city's tough northeastern suburbs. In another scheme, by Italian architects Bernardo Secchi and Paola Vigano, waterways, rather than roadways, would be Paris's new connective tissue. Richard Rogers recommends reinventing disused railway lines as a network of walkable greenery, something already happening in downtown Paris and New York.
Culture follows money. Besides that, vanity inspires reckless desire. Maybe there was too much of a good thing in the moneyed cities of the world. With a push and shove by a new world order, and by the likes of Sarkozy, the suburbs might just get their chance at a greater livability. The challenge should be one taken up by young, passionate designers. And who knows? The young might make some room for the superstars to weigh in, too, in their golden years.
Would Ratner really let all that space the rest of the tower would have contained dissolve?
The way the news has been recently I wouldn't be surprised if he sold the unused airrights to McSam across the street.
I guess he can always transfer (sell) the unused air rights over to the Pace site or to the Beekman NYU hospital site or god forbid (I don't even want to think about this) to that unthinkable McSam site across the street.
Midtown Guy, thanks for the article. And people say classical architecture is pricey....
LOL. I know it's terrible, but the thought of the most dominant building in lower Manhattan being a bright red and yellow McSam is pretty hilarious.
Maybe then people will wake up, wonder what happened to good architecture, and start building Drake hotels all over the place.
Speaking as one of the few local residents to comment on this "tower", I would like to propose a rousing Bronx Cheer for the anti-nimby crowd that has perpetually applauded the over development of Manhattan these past eight years.
Thanks so much for rooting for these cheap, unsustainable erections; thanks so very much for belittling any concerns over the costs of this mania; thanks for backing Bloomberg and his developer cronies; thanks for all the 3/4-empty condos and thanks for the loss of dozens of neighborhoods to one after another bland, characterless "development"; may you all retire to the ghost town that is Dubai.
Ratner can't sell the development rights. If you think about it, why wouldn't everybody just do it.
The zoning law term is a called a zoning lot merger, where the development rights are transferred as-of-right to adjacent property. One exception is landmarked property, where a permit can be granted to move development rights off the zoning lot.
Unless I'm missing something, Ratner is stuck with the unused air-rights.
Maybe you missed the part about cutting the building off halfway due to market conditions ... and the how many halted new developments in view of similar concerns?
Such completely out of touch comments are why your crowd gets marginalized. Blame yourself, not others.
The big thing that zoomed over his head is that without the arrangement that allowed the school and added height - in other words, a normal sale of property (the parking lot) to a developer, the as-of- right building that would have gone up would have utilized the entire site. The windows at 140 Nassau St are lot-line windows, thus are not a requirement of NYC code, and would have been blocked.
And the residents say in unison - duh!
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The Beekman tower designed by Frank Gehry
Ratner says Gehry tower will keep rising
By Julie Shapiro
Word spread quickly last week that Forest City Ratner planned to chop the rising Beekman St. tower in half, leaving it at its current height of 38 stories.
The rumors started when workers recently stopped adding floors and WNYC reported that contractors applied for a permit to add a roof.
Joyce Baumgarten, spokesperson for Forest City, said the rumors are exaggerated. The permit was actually for the towers first setback, not for the roof, she said. The permits look similar, which could have caused the confusion, she added.
Baumgarten said the addition of new floors had paused so Forest City could look for ways to save money, possibly by re-bidding construction contracts. She is not worried about finding a market for the buildings 903 apartments, which will range from $4,000 to $15,000 a month.
Theres been no change in the design of the building, Baumgarten said in a phone interview. Work is continuing on the building.
In a statement, Baumgarten added, Given current economic conditions, including downward trends in construction costs, we are conducting a study to evaluate potential opportunities to achieve savings on the project.
Joseph Rechichi, a senior vice president with Ratner, said in January that Ratner had all of the $680 million in financing necessary to complete the Frank Gehry-designed tower. The building is slated to finish in 2011 with the new K-8 Spruce Street School in its base and an ambulatory center for New York Downtown Hospital, along with the high-end apartments.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who led the negotiations to get the K-8 school, said in a statement that he was reassured Forest City had promised to continue building the school. Forest Ctiy has said school could open in 2010 but many people, including Silver, expect it to open in 2011.
Despite Forest Citys assurances, many local residents are skeptical that the projects finances are in good order, especially after seeing so many other projects stall recently. Also, the stock of Forest City Enterprises has lost more than 90 percent of its value in the past year.
The residents who live in the towers shadow and fought its erection had a mix of reactions to the possibility of it stopping at 38 stories.
Definitely its better for the neighborhood, said Suzanne Fass, who lives at 140 Nassau St. Its less intrusive, less of a target and less of a drain on whatever services and infrastructure we have.
Fass said the potential change in height would not affect her building directly, since the tower already dwarfs 140 Nassau and blocks most of the light that once reached it.
Williams Cosby, another 140 Nassau resident, said a truncated building would be more in keeping with the neighborhood, but the most important thing is that the building gets finished.
I would rather them build it to its full height and complete it than stop halfway and not complete it, Cosby said. I would hate for it to fall into some economic crack where they dont finish it for some reason.
Alan Mitchell, who lives at 150 Nassau St., agreed that the worst thing for the neighborhood would be to have an unfinished building. The full-sized tower wouldnt block much more light and air than the half-sized tower already blocks, he said.
The residents of 140 and 150 Nassau St. negotiated with Forest City several years ago to set the tower back from their windows, with a plaza in between.
Over the past week, Gehrys twisty, shimmering design for the tower found fierce defenders on online forums like SkyscraperPage.com.
HALF SIZE .. NO WAY !!! wrote CSABA8. That was my favorite building. So sad to hear!
Added a calmer commenter named CoolCzech, It would be just incredibly shortsighted to allow a recession to gut the heart out of this magnificent project. I can only assume and hope the developer is playing some kind of game for some extra concessions or something.
Fass, the 140 Nassau resident, said the distraught online commenters did not sway her.
They dont live across the street from it, she said.
Good Lord me too. I was on work/vacation for a week only to come home and catch up on 50 posts here of doom and gloom.... ack.


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I'm getting the distinct impression that the weight loss results on a paleo diet are much more consistent for men than they are for women. For the other paleo ladies out there, what has been your experience? If merely restricting your diet to paleo-approved foods alone did not seem to help in weight loss, what further modifications worked for you? Did the diet just not work initially, or was it working, but then it stalled?
I will say (and this echos others' contributions) that while I FEEL loads better sans grains or sugar, to lose weight steadily I need to:
When I don't do either of these, I stall or, worse, regain. I feel compelled to say, while giving up wheat generally represented one day of pain for me last summer, in the months since, giving up sugars, starches, and fructose remains a daily battle that sometimes I win, and sometimes I lose. |
Weight is such a pain to track, which is why I've stopped :) I think I'm around 150 lbs, around 5"4, but I feel 100% better than when I was in my "normal" BMI at 125 lbs. At 125 lbs, I stopped getting my period and starting losing my hair (it was crazy thin). Sure, I was really fit (lightweight rower in university), but it was uncomfortable to sit and I had to nap twice a day (noon and 4pm). I was eating so many calories to keep up with my workouts, but I just couldn't get on top of it. It sucked, because I didn't look that "thin" (rowing once a day every day of the week, then weights 6 days a week on top of that) and never had a completely flat stomach, but everything just wasn't working properly. My body fat was at 18% when we got tested, which isn't even that low, but for me it was low enough to stop the period and feel terrible. I became quite depressed, and was abruptly taken off the team after the coach found out about some surgeries (apparently if you've had more than one heart surgery you aren't supposed to compete at a varsity level for any sport in my university). I quickly gained weight, and settled to where I am now. Allowing myself to gain weight was the nicest thing, it was like going through puberty all over again, just in my 20's- my boobs got waaaaay bigger, my hips expanded, my period came back, my skin improved, my hair was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay (way way) thicker, and my mood improved leaps and bounds!!!! During that time when I was gaining weight was some of my best moods ever, and my mood remains very stable to this day. My weight has gone up and down over the years- up when I was on SSRIs, down when I was rowing, and up when I stopped rowing, and I always feel better when I ere on the side of a "larger" me- I like having big hips, a little waist, and thick hair. I'm petite as is, and have always admired little, curvy, strong women (like my fit little mother). So many of my friends struggle to get themselves into that healthy BMI range, but never ask themselves if they feel better once they are there. Are they able to do more and feel better? Great, then keep that weight!! Do they feel weaker and less energetic? Maybe a few pounds could help with that. There is no "ideal" weight mold that fits for everyone, and you as long as you feel healthy, than as far as I'm concerned you ARE healthy. Having a good body image and feeling comfortable in your own skin, whatever the weight, will give you a longer and fuller life than losing those "last 10 lbs" ever will. |
It's not just Paleo. In general, women have a notoriously harder time losing weight on any kind of diet. I think it's a matter of hormones. |
I began Paleo at 125 lbs in December of 2009 but by April of 2010 I lost 25% of my body weight and weighed in at 107 lbs. By May I was at 103, and at my lowest I weighed in at 97 lbs. I'm a 5'1ish girl who has always been athletic, however what kicked up my weight loss was by eliminating dairy, gluten, legumes, and introducing paleo-friendly meals such as boiled chicken and steamed broccoli, grilled bison steaks etc. Also, I began moving more (walking more, cross fitting, yoga) - just added movement to my day in tandem with eating clean and wholesome foods ignited and has kept the furnace of a burning metabolism going strong. At my lowest (98 lbs) I was at around 8% body fat which by all means was too thin for my frame. I did not feel at my best, so I stopped myself from potentially entering the "faileo" diet zone by getting over the fear of 'fat' and enjoying the delicious taste of chicken thighs, nitrate-free bacon, avocados, full fat coconut milk, etc. Currently, I'm at 100-101 lbs with an average body fat of 12% which has put me at my best. I have great energy, clear skin, mental clarity, greater endurance, and a solid and muscular physique! I rarely get sick and if I do, it is a result of some gastro-irritants but that's mainly because I just can't get enough of broccoli. I also practice a solid routine of Intermittent Fasting (IF) - sometimes going a full 24 hours without food, but once the fast is broken I eat and I eat well! When I workout, I do so in a fasted state and once I'm done, I typically ride out the post workout high for an hour or 2 before re-feeding. I don't eat breakfast, but do enjoy a nice hearty lunch and smaller dinner. When I felt the need to "up" my fat loss, I cut back on eating high sugar foods like carrots, sweet potatoes, fruits, etc. I don't eat much fruit now nor do I eat carrots, but if I am out dining with friends or family I won't shy away from indulging the sweet treat. Speaking of sweets - no sugar, no chocolate, and nuts. Nuts to me are 'dangerous' because I could and have gone to town on a whole container of them in one sitting. To avoid this pitfall, I simply don't eat them. I supplement with 4 fish oils a day (2 at each meal) and if I am out and eat high Omega 6 rich foods, I will take a teaspoon of Carlson's Cod liver oil post mealtime. For feminine issues like bloating, PMS, and all that jazz associated with hormones I take an evening primrose oil supplement daily. That little gem has helped dealing with the monthly side effects of being a lady a lot. All in all weight loss is not concrete - it fluctuates like the temperature outside. Like temperature it is just a number. Seriously, try not to sweat it. What you should be focusing on is how you feel and how you're clothes fit - stuff like that. Numbers will only drive you insane. Go out there and get wild! :) |
I had to drop all the carbs from my diet to start seeing steady significant loss. I was paleo starting Feb '10, and it took me all that year to get off 20 pounds. I would constantly be going up and down, and I still had some appetite issues even strict no dairy paleo. I thought the zero carb people were nutters, but I went full carni in January and I've lost another 12 since then. I'm essentially ZC or VLC, I don't count calories or weigh anything, but I try to estimate to 75% fat. I eat eggs, bacon, grassfed butter and cheese, heavy cream, beef, lamb... The only plants I eat are herbs. I'm just one of those weirdos who stops losing weight even with a bit of green veg. Mind, I was vegetarian for 5 years, raw vegan 2 years, and fruitarian 1 year. And I'm not yet 21. I essentially went from 115lbs to 230 eating tofu and broccoli, and then tried to shift that weight starving myself with watermelon and lettuce with no avail, so I'm betting my body is still reeling a bit. |
I lost the last 10lbs I needed to lose once I switched to Paleo and dropped by body fat by about 7% in just a month. I am 5'2" and 136lbs with approximately 24% body fat. This puts me just in the "normal" range for my height. I am extremely happy with my fitness and body composition right now. I did watch my calories and ratios as well as eating lacto-Paleo. I kept my calories to 1200 and keep my fat at around 50% and my carbs and protein at 75 grams each. As I switched to maintenance I raised my calories to 1350, then up to 1500 while keeping my ratios the same. I have been able to maintain my 110lb weight loss for the last 3 months while keeping this protocol. I do 20/30 minutes of HIIT intervals/CrossFit three days a week. I've been doing this amount of exercise for the last year. |
I have to cut out carbs, nuts and fruit to loose weight. To loose effectively, I have to be in a state similar to the Atkins induction phase. Its really annoying but I've come to terms with it. The moment I start drinking alcohol, eating fruit or carbs it all piles back on. I haven't gotten down to my goal weight yet so I can't go into a maintenance phase yet. |
I lost 50lbs by going low-carb/paleo...it was amazing because the weight just fell off of me without exercise...and it took about 1 year for the weight to come off. Now that I am back near my best weight, I have added exercise into the mix. At this point I am not really interested in losing more weight, although that might happen...I am more interested in building muscle and firming up. I am 54 years old, 5'8" tall and wear a size 8 jeans. Going paleo/low-carb is one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. |
I lost 30lbs this past year, went from a size 16 to 6. I'm 5'8" and now weigh 135lbs. I followed the paleo/primal meal plan along with exercise a minimum of 3 days a week. I lost my last 5lbs by kicking up the cardio ... for me that was learning how to run. I've been able to maintain my weight and also reduce medications for diabetes, blood pressure, cholesteral and migraines by 85%. :) |
I have to restrict calories in order to lose any weight. However I won't put on weight and can maintain easily without watching calories and eating to satiation. Strict paleo, no dairy. Also, my bodyweight fluctuates by about 5 pounds depending on the time of the month ;) |
I did not lose weight initially, but of course my husband did, and he didn't need to! Now he is struggling to gain the weight back and hasn't had any luck so far. Even though I did not lose weight, I didn't gain anything and it was great not to be hungry and not to count calories at all. To lose weight on Paleo, I had to restrict my carbs Atkins Induction Style (but strict Paleo diet) by limiting myself to under 20 net carbs per day (no nuts or fruit). That's when I finally started losing. It really sucks to go Paleo and not lose weight, but now I am looking forward to the day when I can eat nuts and fruit again without gaining. |
Weight loss hasn't been a specific goal of mine, and eating a standard dairy-free paleo diet kept me at 123lbs (I'm 5'7") for the first few years of the diet. Last September I cut out all carbs except leafy greens (for digestive issues) and got down to 110lbs- actually below where I want to be, a problem I never thought I'd have! I've added in waaay more fat and stopped running (due to a busy schedule), and I'm back up to 120. So I conclude... Weight loss is mainly in the carb count, and healthy maintenance is in good amounts of fat. update: When I wrote this post I had amenorrhea, and now that I am menstruating again, I shot up to 130lbs without trying- hormones are a huge role in female body composition! |
I haven't lost much, and my body weight seems to live its own life unrelated to the food I eat ;-) Or so it seems sometimes. I blame it on the anti-anxiety meds I take, though, as I put on 30Ibs on one them. But I don't really care much, I feel great so I am fine with the bit of extra fat I carry around. I know my muscles got MUCH better, stronger and more defined. The fat will go away when it's ready. I think I should lose around 20-30Ibs (I am not sure, I haven't weighted myself in months). To me it was more important I recently bit my high school athletic team kids in push ups. no fat will upset me now ;-) (we were doing our version of the "Presidential Fitness Test" in our school as a part of wellness day) |
I switched to Paleo because it made sense to me. I wanted to maintain long term health. As a result I lost 12 pounds. My mom NEEDS to lose weight due to her emphesema and she has had success with Paleo eating. It seems to me, the more fat I eat the more weight I lose. So, to make my family happy, I delibertly think about adding in more healthy carbs, so I can stop losing weight. I am 45 years, 5'4" and weigh 118. Food is very important to me, but now I don't think about it that often because I am satiated & nourished. When I do eat, I strive for the most nutrient dense foods. Its really quite easy to be Paleo. By the way, for example: I use heavy cream (with a bit of coffee or in tea) butter, grass fed beef, pastured eggs, some veggies, little to no fruit (once a week). No sugar or processed foods if I can avoid it. I am not 100% perfect all the time. Traveling is the worse time for me. |
I wasn't trying to lose weight when I went paleo, but I did, effortlessly and immediately (which is odd for me--pre-paleo, I had to watch my calories like a hawk to maintain my weight, which was incredibly stressful and depressing). I was about 115 lbs (I'm 5' 3") when I started, and was down to 105 in a month (it's worth noting that I completely stopped counting calories). If you're on paleo and not losing, my guess is that your diet is too fruit/starch-heavy. Try trading in things like fruit, squash, and sweet potatoes for high-fiber, low-sugar/starch veggies for a while and see what happens. |
Just so the gainers know they're not alone... I'm 5'2'' 114 pounds. I gained 5 pounds on Paleo for the 30 days I was on it and felt sluggish and tired. I went from taking in about 50 grams of carbs to about 20 grams, but it still didn't help and I kept gaining. I also experienced a lot of stomach issues and, if you can believe it, broke into rashes and hives quite frequently (I think I developed an egg allergy). My background: Been lacto-vegetarian for 6 years (on Paleo I introduced fish and eggs). I've been off processed food and eating a 'real food' diet for the past 2 years (I lost about 5 pounds effortlessly just making that switch. I've never had problems with energy and have always been very active, weight lifting and doing light cardio at the the gym about 4-5 times per week, taking yoga, ballet and biking to work on top of it. When went Paleo I found I couldn't keep up my active lifestyle anymore. I was tired at the gym and ended my workouts early quite frequently (though I did cut back on how often I was going). Since then, I switched back to my regular diet and my energy levels came back up and I effortlessly dropped the 5 pounds I had gained (actually in just a matter of days). Your mileage may vary. |
What I find works for me is: 1-A bigger high fat/low carb breakfast: eggs, heavy cream, full fat sausage 2-Reduce stress. 3-Take 1 or 2 15min "sun breaks" during my work day 4-Focus on eating meals slower & chewing fully No diet without the above works for me. I think stress hormones might undermine women's weightloss in a way that it doesn't for a man? |
I would suggest keeping a food log of what you are eating for a week. I would really focus on how many grams of protein you are taking in. Robb Wolf suggests .5-1 gram per a lb of body weight. I do about .85 per a lb of body weight. Make sure you are getting in enough protein and then filling the rest of your diet with healthy fats and veggies. Here are some more paleo weight loss tips: http://www.30daysofpaleo.com/my-blog/2011/01/new-years-resolution-paleo-tips-.html |
Lax paleo got rid of the weight I gained in college and got me down from 145 lbs to 132 lbs (I'm 5'7"). I did a 2-week Atkins induction experiment that got me down to 127 lbs and I looked noticeably thinner, but I was happy enough at 132 lbs that I didn't continue Atkins and I gained the 5 lbs back. My lax paleo diet maintained me at 132 lbs for 5 years until I got pregnant. So I guess the upshot is, paleo makes me lose weight, low carb makes me lose more weight. |
I gained weight on Paleo but also work out a lot, so hard to say how much is muscle. I do want to lose about 10lbs of fat and couldn't get the scale to budge until I cut carbs to less than 50g total a day. I log everything. I thought I'd lack energy, but don't at all. |
I lost weight initially when I switched to Paleo (probably about 5-ish lbs). I'm 5'6" and and about 162 lbs, last time I had my body fat measured it was 21-22%. I carry most of my weight in my thighs... I'd love to lean down a bit, so I'm looking more into IF and PSMF - anyone have any tips? Looking at my cal/fat/carb averages for a few days taken over the past month, I average 1700 calories, 125g of fat (60% of calories), 110g of carbs (24%, higher than I thought it would be for veggies!), and 72g of protein (15%) a day. |
I've been easing into paleo since Aug 2010 and have lost ~30 lbs. I started by cutting boxed foods and other processed foods. I then limited my grain intake, and then finally completely cut out gluten and most grains. I haven't really lost any weight since Nov/Dec and I know I have more fat to lose...I can see it sitting on my belly. I have been maintaining, but not losing. The weight-loss stall doesn't have much to do with the holidays as I stayed fairly strict and even hosted Thanksgiving and Christmas at my house so I could control the food options a little more. I think the major culprit is that the cold weather moved in around that time and so I stopped playing in the backyard as much. I'm considering cutting out dairy and alcohol. I limit sugar intake, but I could be better about this. I also have a love affair with potatoes, which can't be helping my waistline. 8) As far as exercise, most of what I do is slow and steady (walking the dog, bike rides, etc.). A few weeks ago, I started the 100 pushups challenge and, now that the weather is improving, I plan to be outside running around more at higher speeds/intensities. I have always lost weight easier than my husband, but I think that has more to do with our backgrounds: I have been skinny for most of my life (chunky for 7 of my 27 years) whereas he has been overweight or obese most, if not all, of his life. |
I have lost thirty pounds since starting Paleo. However, I am restricting my carbs. I average between 6-30g carbs a day. Oh, and I started Paleo the beginning of January. |
I've wanted to post this same question. I've always found I only lose weight w/some form of calorie reduction. I tried Paleo hoping there'd be an exception. NOPE! I actually gained weight eating no-dairy paleo--from 132 to 146 (@5' 6") or so cos I think I added heavy weights @ same time as diet and might have been eating too much protein at first, but that was OK since I'm 43 and wanted a little more muscle mass for my bones/longevity. I tried a lot of things before cutting calories but recently CR has FINALLY worked for me. Cutting out nuts nor adding sprints to my workouts helped the fat come off until I did calorie restriction. The fat is melting off now. I average around 1200 a day and eat only meats, fish, eggs, leafy greens, onion (as big carb hit of the day!), avocados. I eat about 50 carbs a day. Fish oil, Vit D, nettle tea daily for calcium. Last summer I was losing weight on about 1200 calores, 100-130 carbs but I don't think it was as easy for my body to get into ketosis which helps. So the weight loss seems faster on the lower carbs. I generally skip breakfast and go for a walk instead. I'm IF'ing, feeding between 12pm-7pm daily, generally. Check out this recent podcast @Healthy Skeptic on food quality and body fat set points/metabolism and some ideas on how to change your body's system. Interesting theory. Good luck! |
I'll fill out a complete account at a later date but for me, weight loss has been achieved with one key word that seems to set all my ducks in a row: SLEEP |
Men and post-menopausal women are far more sensitive to the lipogenic effects of fructose. The elimination of it from the diet of an estrogen-producing female will have a much less drastic effects. My gut feeling is that an increase in activity is far more important for weight loss among these females. |
I lost too much weight when I first started Paleo. It just fell off. I've tried the low carb thing twice and always gain weight that way. I've tracked my food intake for a long time now and looked back at how I was eating when I lost weight the first time it looked like this: Smoothie for breakfast: low cal Spinach salad with some protein, berries and lots of olive oi for lunch: medium cal Hard boiled eggs and lara bar or coconut flakes and almonds for snack Huge pile of veggies with lots of fat and a large chunk of protein for dinner: high cal Lots of frozen blueberries, strawberries and coconut milk and/or apples with almond butter for pre-bedtime snack Overall I ate more calories than calories in calories out would say I ought to and lost weight. Now my weight stays pretty even unless I have any sweeteners at all, including honey or if I do the low carb thing, then I gain weight. |
i can relate...i read that with paleo in a year one's weight would be where it should beI have been doing paleo for one year. i was a good 70 pounds over weight when i began...i lost about 30 pounds in the first several months. i am 54,so post menopausal and a type 1 diabetic . i started cross fit 2 and a half months ago and have gained 8 pounds...grrr..i know...i know it's muscle..i dont care so much about numbers... i would like to lose the fat that coats my new muscle. i feel terrific but i want the fat gone..sounds like i need to kebosh the alcohol and all dairy...being diabetic carbs are important especially when blood sugars go low which they do with exercise...any suggestions? |
I am 46 years old, and have been doing crossfit for about 2 years. I work out 4-5 days a week, doing one boxing class along with the crossfit. I am 5'2" and weigh about 160. I am strong, so I try to remember that the scale number doesn't mean that much. But, I have had three children and my belly is flabby. I am just starting to transition into as paleo a diet as I can muster( between the kids and keeping kosher this feels very hard!). I am hoping that with the increased protein and decreased ( I hope) carb intake I can lose the weight, and get down to the size I want to be. Any help would be very appreciated! |
I have had no problems taking out brown basmati rice (my only carbv of that kind) but I don't lose weight because I can easily eat 1000 calories of pecan nuts or almonds a sitting. I suspect in evolutionary terms women were/are superior to men in that was can store fat and we need it as we make babies etc. So what was good then for 2 million years is not quite so good now when we won't be in times of famine very often these days. I have always even as a child much preferred the protein and fat in any meal to anything else with it - typical meal as a child would be boiled pototoes and meat and some veg. and I could eat as much meat as I was given and more. As a lot of women have said above fruit is probably the problem here. It is good for us and I think we need some and my body feels so good with it BUT unlike when I go in the garden to pick the wild blackberries and get only a mere handful, now we can buy as much as we can afford the portions are much larger and the cultured fruits much sweeter than traditionally are. Lack of will power over fruit is a problem. |


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I CAN POST AGAIN!!!!!WOOO-HOO! I told myself I wouldnt post until we won a game! Now I can attack black (inside joke...see "the Nutty Professor")... 1. Gazoo- I used to have fantasies about the daughters on "8" show. Not one of them looked alike!!! Ah, to be 15 and not in control of my facilities again! Sigh......(did u know the original mom thay died was dating Henry Winkler who was 12 yrs younger at the time? The joke was that only Tv could give Dick Van Patten a wife like that!) 2. Tigers look so.... scared? Its still a lonnnng season. Lets see if we can win 2 of 3 for a while. 3. Here's a tough stat. Lets say Detroit wants to win 90 games. We're 1-7 ..to go 10-10 after 20 games (my goal) we have to go 9-3, a .750 pct. To get to 90 wins, we need to go 80-62, a .567 pct. Not to hard to do, eh? feel better?
I guess Tigers farm system is not all that depleted after all. Tigers roving instructor likes makeup of Whitecaps - Extra Base Hits - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
playoffs are along ways away but some positives Boston 4-5 Yankees 4-5 Cleveland 4-5 So none of the favorites are gettting away to a great start either....
HQ, you can't pull a hollywood comment over on me my astute alumni brother from EMU and CT, so I must correct you here and say that it was actually John Travolta who was involved with the late Diana Hyland who played the first wife of DVP on 8 is enuf, and he was 18 years younger than her. Diana Hyland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Travolta Oh yeah, I am predicting an 84-78 season and five games out of the wildcard spot:(
Cabrera is clearly pressing as he strikes out for the 2nd time. This time in the 3rd inning with bases loaded and 1 out. :(
And Guillen pops out to leave the bases loaded. After 3 innings Tigers have no hits, but they have 4 walks and a HBP. Wakefield has thrown 71 pitches through 3. Robertson needs to hold the fort down until the bats get going.
Well, Robertson comes through in the 3rd after giving up a leadoff double to our good pal Sean Casey, and Tigers finally break through scoring 2 runs - one on sacrifice fly by Inge and another on a single by Polanco. Wakefield has already thrown 94 pitches in 4.
As soon as I get excited, Robertson just falls apart and gives back the lead and more. It is now 4-2 Boston after 4.
Thinkin' the skipper needs to shuffle the batting order around. Needs to try something to stir the pot. At least we haven't traded B. Inge yet. He has been our best player so far. Maybe Cabrerra needs to sit for a while and get healthy because so far; I for one am not impressed.
Pitching is the issue at this point. If offense knows that they have to score a lot to win, it puts too much pressure on them. They are hitting better and scoring quite a bit more. But you won't win many games giving up 9 walks. Boston's Ortiz is hitting something along the line .080.
Not sure about that. They are averaging 3 runs per game. Sounds to me like the pitching is what is under pressure. They have to be almost perfect every time out to get a win. Hard to "pitch to contact" when you only can allow2 runs over 9 innings.
The offense is just getting going. They scored 13 runs in the last 2 games, but they gave up 14. 6 runs should be enough to win the game on most nights. Also, have you ever heard a phrase - pitching wins games?
Kind of a strange game last night, but the Tigs win 5-2. Willis landed awkwardly on a pitch in the 1st and went out with a hyper extended knee, but Lopez, Grilli and Bautista did a pretty good job setting up Jones for the save. WHO is Clete Thomas? The rook looked like All-Star material last night. Listed at 5'11" 195#, his power is apparently deceptive. He doubled in a run off the opposite field wall in LC with a swing that looked like a pop-out to me. The next inning, he runs down a ball hit down the line and throws a perfect one-hopper to 2nd in time to easily take away what I thought was a sure double. This guy looks like a great all-around ballplayer.
Ah so!, OL' Ancient One! Thats right. She WAS however, the nurse on the Happy days episode when they tried to enlist the Fonz in the army. That's what thru me off. The Fonz, "Ahhhh!"..."Ayyyyy!"
Leyland promised changes and a minor change was made. But it made an impact, for at least one game, as bullpen was nearly flawless in this one pitching the entire game and giving the team a chance to win by giving up only 1 run.
Well, it is really painful to follow this team right now. They are not capitalizing on any opportunities they get in the game. Sheffield grounds out with a runner on 3rd and 1 out, Polanco bounces into inning ending double-play with runner on 1st and 2nd and 1 out swinging on the 1st pitch.
Now Mags bounces into a double-play. And Cabrera strikes out. Tigers have no hits through 4. The team is clearly off, especially considering that Floyd is pitching.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Brook Lopez scored a season-high 35 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and the Brooklyn Nets improved to 2-0 under interim coach P.J. Carlesimo by beating the Cavaliers, 103-100, on Saturday night.
Lopez followed his 26-point, 11-rebound performance in a victory Friday over Charlotte by shooting 13 of 20 from the field, making a number of timely baskets in the fourth quarter that the Nets ultimately needed to hold on.
Deron Williams and Joe Johnson each scored 15 points for the Nets, who fired coach Avery Johnson on Thursday and followed with two victories over losing teams. But now, they head off for major tests at San Antonio and Oklahoma City.
CJ Miles scored 33 points and made eight 3-pointers for the Cavs, but Kyrie Irving capped a miserable shooting night when his tying 3-point attempt went in and out. He finished with 13 points on 5-of-16 shooting.
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