Posts by brenxduhhh

At 107 you would be underweight at a BMI of 18.4, which is not only unhealthy but can also be extremely hard to maintain and would cause a lot of health problems. At 118 you are at a healthy weight for your height. You should reevaluate why you want to lose weight. 

Well I just basically eat when I'm hungry, it seems to work for me. 

Mostly healthy food, fruits, vegetables, lean meats. All good stuff. I used to be obsessed with counting calories but that just made me think about food more often, which eventually led me to eating more food in general. I think your body should be the only judge of whether you've eaten enough or not, I don't see the purpose in counting calories anymore. 

Favorite breakfast: chocolate chip pancakes and a banana with peanut butter. 

Favorite fruit/veggie: sweet potatos

Favorite sweet: chocolate, any kind :] 

Favorite source of protein: soy protein shakes or salmon

Favorite carb: pastaaa, any kind

Favorite fat: ice cream 

Favorite "diet" food: cottage cheese

Favorite drink: soy milk

Favorite overall food: cheesecake (although I don't have it often, lol)

Food you hate most: brie cheese (BLECH)

Original Post by gi-jane:

Yes.... stop trying to live like a Marine.   You're a kid.   You feel deprived because your balanced healthy meals are obviously not giving you much pleasure or satisfaction and your exercises are a pain in the backside.   Punishment isn't much fun and come the weekend.... it's too much to keep up with.  Undereating and calorie counting all week in an attempt to lose weight is probably not helping either.  Starving leads to bingeing sure as night follows day

What to do.... stop counting calories all together.  Don't log into this website for a week.   Eat what you feel like eating mixing up the 'healthy balanced' with food you eat for fun.  Eat when you're hungry.  Do your exercises by all means but also find time to relax and chill out and have some fun....  And then at the weekend carry on in the same vein rather than heaving a great sigh of relief at getting out of your self-imposed shackles!

Flying solo and learning to trust your own judgement will help you so much.  As will understanding that 'calorie counting is a good servant but a bad master'.

 

I think thats what I'm going to do, just take a break from counting calories for a little while and see how it goes. I really have been really hard on myself with not having any junk at all, so when I'm alone around it I just can't control myself. Thanks for the great advice you always seem to have ! 

Its so horrible, its almost like they're advocating those diets that the celebrities went on to look that thin. For example, they said Beyonce went on a diet of water and cayenne pepper and lemon stix that could make you dizzy and nauseous ? That's got to be extremely unhealthy. Any impressionable person who looks at those photos will think, "Hmm, If I go on their diet, I'll look just like them!" I wish we had better celebrity role models, I mean seriously. 

To be honest, I don't really see the problem with him announcing that he ate 12 doughnuts and doesn't feel bad about it. If that was me, I might feel really horrible about myself and end up eating another 12 doughnuts the next day! I actually find his post kind of motivational. We all have bad days, theres no use for making excuses why we did it or feeling horrible about it.  I don't see why people can't use his situation as an example; we shouldn't beat ourselves up about eating junk food once in a while. He specifically stated that he would "feel like never having a donut again." By the next day he is probably ready to go back to eating healthy and not crave junk food for a long, long time. That sounds completely rational to me.

And on another note, I think everyone needs to be nicer. People go on the forums to hear support and motivation, not to be critisized or insulted. I think everyone should stick with the rule we should've learned in elementary school: If you don't have anything nice to say, please don't say anything at all. We should make everyone feel welcome to express their opinions without being judgemental.

Heyy, i'm fifteen and we're kind of in the same boat with this problem. 

Sometimes I just feel like I can't stop eating when no one's around. Basically, my parents really disapprove of me eating junk, so the worst food I can get my hands on in my house is peanut butter and chocolate chips. When they're not around I tend to eat them and just can't stop! What I've been doing now, is that I do allow myself to have a little something everyday before I go to sleep, whether its just cottage cheese or sugar free pudding with cool whip, or low-fat ice cream, so I can resist my cravings for junk. Occasionally, I do let myself have chocolate or peanut butter as a treat and I take my time to enjoy it. Its okay to have a treat once in a while!

If you need any other help or want to talk, just message mee. :] 

Cottage cheese and peanut butter, it sounds crazy but its soooo GOOD. 

Just add 1 tbsp peanut butter to 1/2 cup cottage cheese and you'll be in heaven. :] 

I run about 3 miles, 3 times a week. (I'm training for track in the winter). In between the days I run I try to do strength training for at least half an hour, even though I really don't like it but I always feel great afterwards. On the weekends I like to go on walks for about an hour in addition to exercising, and I have cheerleading practice 4 times a week after school and we have games on friday/saturday. In our school we have a really nice gym with treadmills so whenever I can I try to get in a little more exercise there too. 

How many calories do you eat a day when you're on a diet ? This could be the reason that you felt the need to binge. If you're eating too little on a diet, this causes your body to go into starvation mode and the next thing you know, its telling you to eat everything in sight. Believe me, I've been there. Your body is telling you that you need to be eating more, so I would suggest upping your calorie intake to a more reasonable level. Then, you won't feel the need to binge since your body is getting adequate energy. If you are eating enough, then I would suggest eating smaller meals, more often. This makes it so that your metabolism is kept running smoothly throughout the day, and you never feel starving, which can cause you to go into binge mode. Make sure you drink plenty of fluids, too. Hope this helped. :) 

They tried to make our cafeteria a little healthier this year so we have:

Cereal

Salad Bar

Peanut Butter and Jelly Uncrustables (the huge kind thats like 580 calories :/ )

Hamburgers

Cheeseburgers

Hot Dogs

Chicken fingers

French Fries

Make-your-own sandwich bar

Cookies

Chips (Although they do offer the baked, lower calorie versions)

Yogurt

Pre-made sandwiches and wraps 

I'd say compared to most schools they serve a good amount of healthier choices. However, I still prefer bringing my own lunch to any of the foods they offer. :) 

I used to eat uncrustables all the time at school, since I'm really picky with my food and I never had time to make lunch myself. The amount of calories in the uncrustables in your school depend on which type of sandwich and the size. The peanut butter and jelly ones in the grocery store are 2 oz and only 210 calories. I know the peanut butter and jelly uncrustables they have at my school are 4.6 oz sandwiches and are 580 calories! (Its a shame they don't put the calorie content on the wrapper). However, this type of uncrustable is only available to schools and you can't buy them in the grocery store. This tricked me at first because I thought I was only eating 210 calories for lunch, even though the sandwich was huge. I was pretty surprised when I look up the calories on their website.. :/ 

When you buy one at your school, check how many ounces it is and then look up the calories on the smucker's website. They have all the nutritional information for uncrustables sent to schools. 

breakfast: whole wheat pancakes, 1 tbsp PB, soy milk

mid-morning snack: chex mix w/PB dip

lunch: whole wheat pitta bread with tofu

afternoon snack: yogurt w/granola

dinner: whole wheat pasta with pesto sauce (yumm! )

bedtime snack: FF, sugar free ice cream with FF whipped cream and italian lemon cookies :)

My number one favorite exercise has got to be running, indoors or outdoors it doesn't matter. It clears my head and I feel great for the rest of the day! Gotta love those endorphins ! 

A close second would be DDR, its really fun to play and I'm actually getting pretty good at it. Haha. :) 

I love feeling sore, it means I was doing something right! If I'm not sore the day after I workout then it means I definitely wasn't working out hard enough. I always feel like I'm getting stronger whenever I'm sore. Its weird, but I love it. :)