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| Weight Loss | "Honeymooning"? Am I going to get cravings later? | Nov 18 2008 22:45 (UTC) |
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I see. I'll definitely up it to at least 1500 and see how it goes. If I stop losing weight, I'll try upping it with an extra bit of walking rather than going down (this is zig-zagging, right?). Thanks. It's really helpful to hear how dieting went for somebody who was pretty much in the same situation as me. It would be cool to lose 30 pounds by the time I return to America in July. I think that's pretty reasonable? I would love to be able to fit a Japanese "L" size or even an "M" before I leave (LL is almost impossible to find, so I haven't been able to buy /anything/). Other than that, I don't have a rush to lose my weight either. 40 sounds like a /lot/ to me, but I imagine that's just because I've been 160 for so many years. I never realized how much food 1300 calories actually is. I can't imagine how much I was eating before that. Maybe double after I started realizing I shouldn't be eating so much even if it wasn't making me fatter, and who knows how much before that... Now that I think about it, it's pretty scary. When I started, I was squarely in the "medium build frame according to the middle-finger-to-thumb-around-wrist test, but I just did it now and while they still don't overlap, they definitely touch more.. maybe I was still suffering from wonderful "that time of the month" bloating. I don't think the four pound difference between start and now could make that big a difference in my wrist. My mother is a large frame, but I'm quite a bit smaller than her.. hm.. I guess the best thing to do would be try to test my build again in a week or so? Or is there a better self-test than the wrist and finger method? Either way, I don't plan on dieting till my ribs stick out. I just want to fit normal people clothes (particularly pants/stockings), haha. P.S. In your picture you already look great to me! If I got to about that appearance ever, I would be shocked. I've never seen myself without a belly and thunder thighs. Unless you count my 8 year old pictures of me at Halloween.
EDIT: I just changed my activity level on CC to "light" and asked it for a new calorie advice and it /still/ says eat 1350 calories.. Oh well, I'm just going to tell it I want to eat 1500 and roll with that. I'm glad this site has forums or there would be a whole lot of confused and upset first-time dieters who don't understand why their bodies won't drop any fat! |
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| Weight Loss | "Honeymooning"? Am I going to get cravings later? | Nov 18 2008 22:06 (UTC) |
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Original Post by minerva_moon:
Okay, I'll up it to 1500 calories. I guess I didn't understand the site's recommendations. It's only been four days on 1300 so if I just up it to 1500 and leave it like that, I should be okay, right? Thanks for telling me! I probably would have gotten pretty discouraged if I went into starvation mode and had to /gain/ weight over 160 pounds before I could really lose it! I've never weighed over 160 before ever. It also said a healthy weight for me is 121 pounds (medium build). Is this what I should be aiming for? Is it when I get closer to my goal weight that I should start following CC's suggested calorie intake of 1350? Or is the problem with the suggested intake that I mislabelled myself when I said I was sedentary, and I should probably never drop to 1350? It would sure be yummy to have one of those delicious soba bowl sets at school lunch rather than salad/tofu and lunch bar all the time. I've been skipping the set meals and hitting the bar because the set meals tend to be 200 or so calories too many for 1300.. they sound just right for 1500.
To sunshinelisa3, my 124 calorie snack is convenience store bought "mitarashi dango," a sweet and savory traditional Japanese food, but I think you probably can't buy it outside Japan.. you may have to make it. Here's a picture. http://sublunaryxsoul.files.wordpress.com/200 8/08/recipe_1.jpg Here's a recipe, if you want to give it a shot. I translated it from the website of the grocery store I often go to, but I've never made them myself.. I don't know how low-cal this recipe is compared to the convenience store dango, though. The convenience store dango is 124 calories per skewer, including the sauce. (for four skewers) (Balls) Rice Flour 120g ; Water 100g (Sauce) 8 tablespoons sugar &nbs p; 2 tablespoons Shouyu(a kind of soy sauce) Water 100g Potato Starch 2 teaspoons Step 1: Boil water in a pot, while slowly adding your ingredient water (100g, not the hot stuff) to the rice flour, kneading as you go. Roll the rice flour into balls (mine are about the size of a quarter each). They should be about as squishy as your earlobe. If they're too soft, the water was too much and you need a little more rice flour. Carefully drop the balls into the boiling water. They should float to the surface when done. Step 2: Drop the balls into cold water to cool them off when they've finished cooking. Once cool, dry them off (putting them on a paper towel generally works). Then stick them on some skewers (optional, but that's the traditional way to serve). You can grill them slightly if you like to add some flavor. Normal ones are grilled to have little singe marks on one side. Step 3: Bring the sauce ingredients to a boil in a pan while mixing well. Step 4: Let the sauce cool a bit so it thickens, then coat the balls with the sauce and you're good to go! |
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| Weight Loss | "Honeymooning"? Am I going to get cravings later? | Nov 18 2008 14:52 (UTC) |
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Yeah. I guess the problem is, the way things are going /now/, I could totally do this for the rest of my life, with a "cheat day" stuck in every few weeks to enjoy a piece of fresh baked cake (I just love baking them). If you asked me if I could spend two days on 1300 calories before I tried it, I would have laughed. Hm.. from your second paragraph, it seems like pre-emptive snacking could stave off binge cravings? One of my faves (the one I ate) happens to be 124 calories per serving, so it would be super easy to stick in even on a "mediocre" day. I think I may have phrased the excersize question poorly. I didn't mean I could run 5km in 30 minutes. I only run it if I'm late. Haha. That doesn't change 1300 being low for my age, though. I let CalorieCount tell me how many calories should be my target, and it picked 1350 after asking my height, age, weight and level of activity (I picked sedentary because I do little to no regular excersize outside of my commute, and manually log my walking as an activity). I did read about starvation mode, but wasn't sure if because I do not exceed a 750 calorie deficit, nor do I dip below 1200 calories, I would be okay? I'd really appreciate some confirmation on that though!
EDIT: Cool! I would love to be able to run my commute someday. Thanks for the info on it. The site I see doesn't look like it would be hard for me to try out. Also, I can definitely attest to the blood sugar regulation! As a type 1 diabetic, I must check my blood sugar 4 times a day. I have had to lower my base insulin dosage by about 30% since starting my diet, regardless of the exact configuration of my foods. |
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Wakame soba, here I come! Did you miss me? 
I'm terribly out of shape and generally speed walk my entire commute in around an hour and some minutes. I'm not sure on the entire distance, although the longest appears to be about 4km for going and coming. I would say possibly I walk 2km in 15 minutes or less? I plan to pick up a pedometer at some point to figure out how much excersize I actualy do..
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