Posts by madeba

Original Post by watergirl:

haha you are just the only one here at the moment perhaps. nothing about bill c gives me a warm fuzzy but im old and have a stick up my arse haha what would i know about anything?

hahahahaha  

I know man, I don't think that they came back because bill clinton is great. I just liked seeing him on t.v. and wanted to make a lighthearted post about. Please don't take it too seriously. I have like a childhood admiration (he was president when I was a child) for Bill Clinton, and just wanted to comment on how great it was seeing him on t.v. 

Original Post by floggingsully:

Original Post by madeba:

I would like to try to find alternatives to items I consider staples such as breakfast cereal oatmeal!, soymilk how about real milk?, granola bars I make my own protein bars (recipe below) etc.

From a John Berardi article:

Ingredients:

3/4 cup almond meal (put 3/4 cup of almonds in a blender to make meal)

3/4 cup pecan meal

AWESOME!!! I'm definitely t

1/4 cup chopped walnuts

6 scoops vanilla whey protein

2 whole eggs

2 egg whites

Mix all ingredients together, place in greased pan and bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

 

 AWESOME I am definitely trying it this weekend!! I do drink milk, just happen to like the taste of soymilk, but have no problem drinking milk (hormone free).

Thanks to everyone for all your responses!

Oh man those BBQ seitan ribs look goooooood!! My mouth is watering! lol

Thanks Kraysler! I had no idea that almond milk was so simple to make. I do eat only 1300 calories, for most of my weight loss (since nov.) it's been 1400. The reason is that right now I am swamped with finals and am virtually getting no exercise (except for walking around school). It's not so bad, I'm trying to eat calorie dense foods (which the walnuts w/ fruits seem great) so I don't feel hungry that often. However, as soon as I get the chance to get back into an exercise routine I'm going to up my calories. I really just want to get to my goal weight so I can maintain. 5 lbs away seems so close yet so far away lol! Wow, but really thanks! You gave me some great alternatives to my beloved cereal and milk. 

Eat Reeses!! Just for one day! then back to watching calories/maintaining

So I've held strong, and have actually lost 3 lbs!! I was 165 last wednesday, and as of this morning am 162! My goal weight is 149 (145-150). Not being able to control my sweets intake was really killing my diet! I think I'm going to give up sweets until I reach my goal weight. It seems so feasible right now.

I weigh myself everyday, or every other day. I find that when I don't myself for more than a week let's say I start becoming rather ignorant about my weight. Especially if I am exercizing! I'll eat more thinking that I am thinner, then when I realize I am actually gaining weight I put off biting the bullet and getting back on the scale and back to reality. 

So I usually weigh myself every day or every other day. Yesterday I weighed myself and I as 163.2 and today I was 163.4 (haha), but I am completely ok with that. 

I definitely want to give that type of plan a try, but I want to reach my goal weight of 149 ish before. Desserts aren't essential, and they shouldn't be part of my daily diet, so I am doing this in order to lower my sugar tolerance, and hopefully my cravings for desserts. I need to teach myself that I really don't need that piece of cake or that bar of chocolate first. Hopefully I am not settng myself up for failure, but I think I need to teach myself self control (for desserts), before I can try that kind of lifestyle or diet, because I am afraid that I might over do it right now if I try to limit it to 2 days a week. I want to try this out first, I think I have enough self control to do it. This is the exact same way I stopped eating meat. I started out with a week and then it turned into a month and now it's been a year. My goal is not to ever eat sugar, just actually be able to eat it in moderation like one is supposed to. For that I think I need to get over my addiction/obsession with it first. 

With that said that sounds like a great plan! I will probably use that strategy in the future.

I just changed my activity level to light, because I am going to the gym everyday. It told me to change my caloric intake to 1700 (yikes!) I've been doing well on 1400 calories (I wasn't exercising as much) I'm kind of afraid to increase it. 

I personally choose not to drink soda. I even limit my regular non-diet soda intake. You have to be careful what kind of "juice" it is, a lot of juices aren't really as pure as the claim to be with excess sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and other chemicals. The best I can usually find just say "concentrated x juice, water" It's pretty impossible to find juice not from concentrate. 

What I do, and this kind of gives me a soda fix, is that I buy club soda, and mix it with my juice in the glass. So i'll get a little bit of juice 1/2 cup and fill the rest up with club soda. I really enjoy that, because I find juice by itself usually to be too much. It's also half of the calories since club soda doesn't not contain any. Also no chemicals :)

Thanks for your advice! I ended up not eating anything, but I think that I had over my calorie allowance, because I gained .2 lbs (haha). Maybe not, it could just be normal fluxuations. I'm one of those people that weigh's themselves every day, it helps keep me motivated and realistic about my body. I think next time I go, I'll skip the sundried tomatoes, because I'm almost certain they probably soak them in olive oil or something. 

Yeah, me neither. I was just curious lol. I was pretty surprised it said 74 cal per hour though

I'm just worried that I might not see results as fast as I maybe want. I want to be thin again pretty bad, but I also don't want to break down and binge. I think i've found a happy medium with this website, and am crossing my fingers it works. 

Besides, being thin I also want to be healthy. In the beginning of the summer I discovered that I had slightly high cholesterol, and well I am 21, 20 at the time the doctors told me. I worked out pretty hard all throughout the summer, I was in the gym 4 times a week etc., but did not watch what I ate (thinking it would be fine as long as I exercized). But when I went for another check up at the end of the summer, my numbers had definitely improved, but my cholesterol was higher :/. So I got pretty discouraged. 

swedish fish is gelatin free . I'm a vegetarian, new to calorie counter.