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| Foods | Wraps for Lunch | Jul 14 2008 04:43 (UTC) |
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| I'm no help on the second two questions, but in regards to the first, why not just take the incredients in seperate containers and assemble the wrap when lunch time comes around--that way nothing gets soggy during the day. | |||
| Foods | Tofu | Jul 14 2008 03:18 (UTC) |
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| I normally absolutely hate tofu, but one time I made vegan lasagna with it, and it was delicious. Basically you blend up tofu with various seasonings, and use it to replace the cheese in lasagna. A google search for "vegan lasagna" will turn up a bunch of different variations. | |||
| Vegetarian | tofu question | Jul 14 2008 02:28 (UTC) |
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| Most of the time I've found it in the produce section. If your grocery has a health food section it may also be there. | |||
| Vegetarian | vegan/vegetarian recipe blogs | Jul 14 2008 02:27 (UTC) |
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| Happy Herbivore is wonderful and healthy, and Vegan Dad looks like it would be great if you have kids in the house. | |||
| Health & Support | stretch marks? do they go away with weightloss at all? | Jul 13 2008 05:48 (UTC) |
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| Stretch marks don't ever completely go away, but over time they fade and become MUCH less noticable, at least for most people. | |||
| Foods | Are my veggies worthless? | Jul 13 2008 05:27 (UTC) |
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| Your veggies certainly aren't worthless! Even though any type of cooking will deplete SOME of the nutrients in SOME types of vegetables, it doesn't render them worthless. Eating your cooked veggies is a ton better than just not eating them at all. There was a post similar to this a few days ago, and someone responded to it with an article about the best way to prepare various types of veggies--you might want to search for that post for more specific information. | |||
| Vegetarian | Please help me! | Jul 13 2008 05:22 (UTC) |
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| Maybe one way you can help your parents see that vegetarianism can be a very healthy lifestyle is by moving toward it slowly with them. If your parents are concerned that this is because you just want to lose weight, then maybe you could look up some full-calorie, healthy, delicious recipies on the internet or in cookbooks, and volunteer to make them together with whichever parent does the cooking in your house. By helping to prepare the meals your family eats you can show (1) that you are responsible, and (2) that you know how to eat healthily without a big hunk of meat on your plate. Once they see the types of things you would be eating, they may be more willing to let you do it on a more consistant basis. In order to do that, though, you are going to have to do a lot of foot work and learn about vegetarian nutrition. Search the web, and go to your local library to see if there are any books on vegetarian/vegan nutrition or any cookbooks that could help you make yoru case. Even if they don't ultimately allow you to become a complete vegetarian while you are under their roof (it's their house, it's their rules, and you just have to live with that--it sounds like their rules are because they love you and just want what they think is best for you)--you can still minimize the animals your family eats AND in the process of doing things like cooking with your family you may be able to build a stronger relationship with them while most people your age struggle to identify with their parents. | |||
| Foods | Wait-- this contains WHAT? | Jul 13 2008 02:22 (UTC) |
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| I never actually bought them, but I recently read an article about a type of Green Giant seasoned frozen vegetables that contained "Chicken and it's natural juices," yet no where in the description on the front of the packaging mentioned that it was vegetables WITH chicken. When I think of seasoned, I think of salt or garlic or thyme or something like that, or maybe even vegetable or meat broth, but since when did actual meat become a seasoning? | |||
| Foods | Pure, unadulterated ridiculousness... | Jul 13 2008 02:16 (UTC) |
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| The worst food-thing I've ever seen was in the cafeteria in junior high school. We had those plastic cafeteria trays, and there was a girl in my class who would cover every single thing in every part of the tray in ranch dressing, every day. Something like carrot sticks, or salad, or even french fries, it made sense. But ranch dressing on a brownie? Ranch dressing on Jell-O? Ranch dressing on spaghetti? It was ridiculous, and she did it every day, all year long. | |||
| Foods | thai red vs green vs matsaman curry | Jul 13 2008 02:09 (UTC) |
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| It really depends on the resturaunt (every place uses different ingredients), and thai curry is always FULL of calories. That being said, it's absolutley delicious in all varieties, so I can't say I blame you. Generally masaman will have peanuts which will make it the highest calorie option (although that doesn't necessarily mean it's "bad" for you--peanuts can be a very good for you food). Green and red curry's often have close to the same basic vegetables in them, sometimes with one having eggplant and the other not, or often green will have peas in it while red won't. Yellow is often potato based (and generally has a milder flavor than your red or green). None of these are low-cal by any stretch of the imagination, but green and red are probably the lowest in calories. If you want to minimize the calories, go for the straight up vegetable or tofu version rather than the one with meat (I always do this, and I HATE tofu--I just pick it out and give it to a friend who loves it) and cut down on the rice you use. I've also noticed a few thai places now have brown rice available upon request, so you might want to go for that if it's available, instead of the white--won't cut calories, but it will it least make the calories healthier.
Oh, and if you are talking about making your own at home, find a recipie and make your curry paste from scratch--its sooo much better this way then just buying the horrid stuff in a jar from the grocery store. |
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| Games & Challenges | 30lb by Halloween | Jul 13 2008 00:32 (UTC) |
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| SW: 212 CW: 209? Long Shot Goal: 182/ Realistic Goal: 192 Argh, I hopped on the scale this morning to find it not working. I put my dogs in my bathroom when the maintenance guy came by yesterday, and it appears either that they managed to break it somehow or that the battery just happened to die coincidentally last night. I hopped on yesterday morning and was down to 209, though, so I will use that for this week's weight. yourfavoriteblonde--I wish I were as far along as you--I very much woke up this morning with a craving for hang-over hash browns, and was pretty disgruntled with the knowledge that the closest I was getting was a small potato microwaved and covered with Mrs. Dash. It turned out to hit the spot suprisingly, though. |
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| Foods | Foie gras!! | Jul 11 2008 22:39 (UTC) |
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| Ha, I want to hear more about the culture that was entirely dependent on fatty diseased duck liver.
Seriously, though, the OP wanted a way to keep from eating the stuff. If the fact that it's full of calories isn't enough, then maybe knowledge of how the stuff is produced could be helpful. |
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| Weight Loss | should i really only be eating 1207 calories a day!?! | Jul 11 2008 03:25 (UTC) |
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| Is that 1207 without you actually pluging in your excercise? If I remember correctly, the tool to suggest calories only allows you to put in weight/height/age/activity level, and not specific exercise. So that 1206 would be with only "light"activity. You might be better off plugging in your stats with "sedentary" activity. Then you can eat whatever number it gives you, PLUS the number of calories you burn exercising. I find that to be much more accurate, especially if you don't really fit any of their activity descriptions (if you have a sedentary desk job, but then teach kick boxing two hours a night, who knows what you're supposed to select?) | |||
| Vegetarian | easy, quick veggie ideas? | Jul 11 2008 00:57 (UTC) |
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| Cook up some brown minute rice, and throw it in a bowl with organic (i find organic has WAY less sodium) canned kidney beans. Stir in a little bit of ketchup, and whatever spices you have on hand (parsley, crushed red pepper, cayanne, etc) and you have a cheap and quick version of red beans and rice. Serve with a salad or some microwaved frozen veggies, and you have a fairly healthy and balanced meal in only 10 minutes Plus, you can make one serving for portion control, or multiple servings for time saving. | |||
| Vegetarian | Protein shakes...whey not vegetarian?? | Jul 10 2008 15:58 (UTC) |
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| Whey is sometimes made using calf rennet. So if you care about animal-rennet based cheeses, then you should probably care about whey sources as well. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that this information will be on the box/can/whatever, so you'll have to contact the manufacturer of your particular product to find out.
The problem with beer/wine is isinglass. It's made from dead fish, and then is used as a fining agent for many beers and wines. So the final product doesn't have any dead animals in it, but it was made intentionally using dead animals. So if you define vegetarian as someone who doesn't eat dead animals, technically the beer/wine would meet that definition of vegetarian. However, if you go further with vegetarianism and start to avoid things like animal rennet, then isinglass is another one to consider avoiding, because even though you don't eat the dead animal, animals died for the product to be made. Most American and German beers do not use isinglass ( I think ALL German beers may be free of it, because of some old law they have), and there are lists of wines available online that are also veg*n. All this being said, most of the people who I've known who care about isinglass have been vegans, not vegetarians. |
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| Vegetarian | Pescatarian vs. Vegetarian... | Jul 10 2008 15:43 (UTC) |
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| This depends. Do you want to be vegetarian for purely health reasons, or do you care about the environmental/animal cruelty/animal rights reasons for being veg*n as well? | |||
| Weight Loss | 30 lbs by Halloween! | Jul 10 2008 03:08 (UTC) |
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| I'm in.
Age: 25 Height: 5'6" CW: 212 Goal: 182 |
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| Vegetarian | Vegetarian pets? | Apr 10 2008 22:39 (UTC) |
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| amberr--Yes, vegans can breast feed. Generally, there are three major reasons people become vegan. If it's environmental, then breast feeding is fine, because it has a low environmental impact compared to the other options for feeding a young child. If it's for health reasons, of course breast feeding would be ok, being that it is ususally the most healthy option. If the veganism is because of concerns for animal exploitation and welfare, then breastfeeding would still not be prohibited, because the mother would be giving her breastmilk knowingly and freely to her child, and even if there is suffering involved, it is suffering she voluntarily goes through. A common vegan view would be that, just as cow breast milk is for calves, human breast milk is for human babies. | |||
| Weight Loss | The #1 problem I see on Calorie Count - Undereating | Apr 07 2008 01:21 (UTC) |
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| longwaytogo-- The CC site includes the calories you would burn just sitting on your butt when it says how many calories you burn during your exercise. If you click on "Account" at the top, and then click on "Account Home" you can see how many calories you've burned total during the day--it will list the time you exercised and the calories you burned during those times, and then your "normal calorie expenditure" (the calories you spend just living your day to day life) and the time you spent doing that, which will decrease the more time you spend exercising. Its kind of hard to explain clearly, but if you look at that part of the site, you should see what I'm talking about. | |||
| Weight Loss | Help? | Apr 06 2008 21:07 (UTC) |
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| It depends how long it took you. | |||
| Fitness | Calves | Apr 06 2008 17:58 (UTC) |
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| If you do weight training, calf raises would work well. I'm not good at describing exercises, but basically it involves using the bar (plus whatever additonal weight is appropriate) while you raise your heels off the ground, or off of a box if your gym has the right set up. I remember my high school PE teacher tellign us that your calves are actually the one muscle you can weight train every day, because they are used to repairing themselves from walking all the time, but who knows how much my high school PE teacher can be trusted :) | |||
| The Lounge | The pregnant "Man".... | Apr 06 2008 17:44 (UTC) |
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| sunnybra-- In the US, gender identification laws vary depending on what state you are in. In some states you are "legally" stuck with the gender you are born with, even if you go through full sex-reassignment surgery. In other states, you can only change your "legal" gender if you undergo full-sexual reassignment. And apparently in Oregon full-reassignment surgery is not even required. The male-to-female transgendered person who is pregnant had undergone surgery to remove his breast tissue, and was undergoing hormone therapy until he and his partner decided to get pregnant. He still has female reproductive organs, both internally and externally. So Oregon has some of the most liberalized legal-gender change laws in the United States. |
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| Foods | Popcorn Flavouring - ideas please! | Apr 05 2008 17:14 (UTC) |
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| nutritional yeast is awesome on popcorn. You can get it at most health food stores/Whole Foods in the bulk bins. It's yellow in color, has sort of a cheesy/nutty flavor, and usually is a great source of b12. | |||
| Weight Loss | 1200 calories are really making me cranky!!! | Apr 04 2008 06:34 (UTC) |
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| That seems awfully low for someone with your stats, if it's not per your doctor's instructions. If you are considering something like a lap band, then I would suggest that you first set up a diet/exercise regimine with your own doctor before you start taking general advice at a seminar--any general advice doesn't take into account your body type/history/medical conditions/etc . If you take in too few calories for a person of your size, you can actually hurt your weightloss if you aren't under direct medical supervision. So get personalized advice from a doctor or nutritionist before you go too far. | |||
| Health & Support | Is it healthy to do this? | Apr 04 2008 06:17 (UTC) |
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| Most of the time this pattern is bad for weight-loss, because if you don't eat regularly throughout the day, you are more likely to binge/go over your calories at night when you get home, have time, and are super hungry. At a minimum, to jump start your metabolism in the morning, you should aim to have either a decent sized breakfast or a small breakfast and some substantial morning snacks . . . then you can make your lunch the smallest meal of your day, if you are generally working through your lunch time, just try to get a couple of simple afternoon snacks/simple lunch in, and have your largest meal/snack at the end of the day. | |||
| Vegetarian | Do vegans have clearer skin? | Mar 28 2008 02:04 (UTC) |
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| I definitely notice something with the "chicken skin" on my arms. When I first switched to vegan the chicken skin got better (didn't go away, I don't think it ever does since its genetic), and from what I read I think it was because I was finally getting enough vitamin A. That has less to do with going vegan than it does with just finally eating a healthy balanced diet, but depending on how bad your diet was as a lacto/ovo, you too may notice an improvement, especially since as a vegan you will (ideally) be eating a wider variety of plant foods. Going vegan (if done correctly) generally leads a person to getting more essential vitamins than a person gets from the average American diet (just because going vegan correctly requires you to pay more attention to your food), and can lead to a lot of improvements in skin/hair/nails. Now, if all you eat as a vegan are Fritos and pasta, you can't expect the same wonderful results. | |||
| Vegetarian | Suprise...It's NOT vegetarian! | Mar 27 2008 20:31 (UTC) |
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| Sorry--just realized someone else posted this link above :)
With regards to wine and beer, not all of them are refined with isinglass. In fact, most beers (except those produced in the UK) are vegan. A list of vegetarian and vegan beers can be found here: http://www.tastebetter.com/features/booze/typ e=beer Vegan/vegetarian wine is a little more difficult to find, but it is possible. Here's a list: http://www.tastebetter.com/features/booze/typ e=wine |
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| Foods | Serving size of fruits and veggies??? | Mar 27 2008 20:11 (UTC) |
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According to the government reccomendations, a serving size is:
According to cc, 1/2 cup of chopped carrots would be 64 grams, so you are a little over a serving on the carrots. A half cup of diced celery would be 60g, so you are also a little over a serving there. A half cup of cucumber slices is 52 g, so you are also over there. So you already got over your three servings. |
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| Foods | carob vs. chocolate chips | Mar 26 2008 04:01 (UTC) |
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| Carob isn't necessarily "healthier" than regular old chocolate. But it is a great option for people who can't/won't eat regular chocolate chips since they are made with milk. It can taste pretty much the same as chocolate, depending on what it's used in. Give it a shot and see if you like it.
Plus, it has the side bonus of being safe for dogs, so since I switched to using carob I've been able to share occassional treats with my begging little mutts :) |
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| Vegetarian | vegan lifestyle? | Mar 24 2008 14:55 (UTC) |
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| Some make-up IS vegan. You can go through vegan vendors to get those products, or sometimes even regular brands have vegan options. For example, a lot of (though certainly not most or all) Avon's products are vegan-friendly. I personally try to choose vegan for everything other than medicines, which can't be vegan since the FDA requires animal testing. I certainly didn't throw away everything non-vegan I owned when I made the switch, though. I finished up my non-vegan vitamins and wore my wool coat for the rest of the winter. Living a vegan lifestyle is about doing what you can, not beating yourself up over the little mistakes/slip-ups/things you can't financially afford to do. | |||
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