Posts by jas_cuzzie

24th November 2009 Tuesday

6am: went for my 45min walk/jog again. hmm.. it's tiring, I couldn't get myself to wake up.. was wondering whether if it would be better alternating 4 days cardio with 3 days yoga/pilates instead of cardio everyday.. someone please give me advice on this!

9am: couldn't find anything to eat in the house, no eggs, no bread, only fruits.. how pathetic. (fruit salad ~ 150cal)

1230pm: tofu with fishballs veggie soup + apple (~375cals)

730pm: Kimchi stew + apple (~445cals)

Total: 970cals

Original Post by trustwomen:

Jas, your goal might be a bit extreme (102 lbs, BMI 18.7). Because you are asian, short, and presumably narrow-framed, I'm not going to call it unhealthy, but you may find that maintaining that weight will not come naturally to you - and it is a bad idea to fight your healthy set point. Since you have been "binging" (what is binging to you, btw - how many calories a day is "binging" in your mind?) then it is possible that your current 132 lbs (BMI still under 25, though) is indeed above your natural weight, especially if you are narrow-framed.

I have to echo the others - 1200 cals a day, for someone who tends to emotionally eat, is setting yourself up for failure. You think you are organizing quick weight loss, and that might be true for a little while, it will backfire by leading you to quit entirely - and you will stop, it will feel like punishment/deprivation, and as you lose weight your self-hate will diminish and that seems to be what is motivating you. That's another bad idea, by the way - body hatred being the motivation to lose weight - it leads directly to weight cycling. You hate yourself less as you lose so you stop "punishing" yourself, so you regain, then you hate yourself more.

If your friends are real friends, they won't mock you for your weight and they will be perfectly OK with hanging out as before. They will be supportive of your efforts to stop emotional overeating.

Your youth is wasting away not because you are carrying a few extra pounds (again, not even overweight in terms of health risks), but rather because you are isolating yourself and feeling depressed. Do your best to adjust your attitude, and you can jump back into enjoying life at any weight.

 my binges can be as much as 5000 calories. so yah, it's definitely a binge right? I've always been around 102 lbs but the bingeing has caused my weight to shoot up rapidly to 132 lbs.

Original Post by bairn:

Walking is good.

1200 calories is probably not enough for you... what are you eating currently? I found it was a lot easier to "clean up your diet" before getting too specific with the calories. Cooking healthy stuff, taking your lunch to work etc, means you're full and you tend to eat a lot less calories, win win! What you don't want to do is make yourself miserably hungry if you have a tendency to binge. So eat lots of good, filling, healthy stuff. Veggies and soups and fish and seafood and massive tasty salads and big breakfasts to fill you up for the day.

I lost 50lb (over several years) by making small manageable changes one at a time - you can look in my gallery for pics - small changes tend to stick whereas big life upheavals last four weeks and make you more depressed in the long run.

Hope that helps.

 thanks for the reply! however i am only 5'2. so I'm worried eating more than 1200calories will impede my weight loss process... and I really admire you for losing so much weight.

could you tell me what kind of exercise and how much you do? plus what's your daily calorie intake?

alrighty, let's try our best and update here as often as possible=)

however I'm eating 1500calories everyday and STILL bingeing.

Plus I'm Asian and have a very small frame. so calorie counts should differ from westerners right>

honestly, about 80% of the girls in Asia (particularly countries like Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea) have an eating disorder. the thing is.. they don;t recognise it as an eating disorder. if someone loses weight till 100lbs or below, they are admired and praised. if you can't fit into an asian S, you're considered "not beautiful". eating disorder awareness isn't widely publicised nor are the people educated about them.

ridiculous diet plans are introduced in all media sources. just in singapore alone, you can see hundreds of slimming centres and advertisements in the streets, on the radio and tv, in the newspapers, on buses, at train stations. it's ridiculous! Many people take slimming pills or teas.

in taiwan shows, fat people are always the butt of jokes and as long as the girl is above a size 3/4, they are ridiculed. the ideal BMI is 16. urgh. celebrities go on talk shows boasting that they survived a week without eating anything. widely popular pop singer, Jolin tsai only ate boiled veg and water for the past few years. and yet she is deemed as "healthy" and a goal to be followed. unlike America, there are NO reports on celebrities having eating disorders or getting too skinny.

girls are made to believe they would not get a guy if they weren't skinny. girls with muscles are called manly. and eating over 1000calories a day is considered horrifying!! those who admit they have an eating disorder will probably invite gossiping.  Asian girls "pretend" they eat alot (because if one can sit and maintain a slim frame, they are probably worshipped as a goddess!), but many actually either throw up their food, engage in other forms of purging or go to slimming centres, take diet pills, etc. asians have a big thing with being "kawaii" and being "kawaii" means having to look thin, or you won;t fit THAT image.

I'm Asian myself and am 5'2 and about 123-125lb, am planning to lose 20 lbs to return to my original weight, pre-bingeing on junk food. at this weight, I can hardly find clothes that fit my size. I even wear XL smost of the time!! even when I was 20lbs lighter, I was often laughed at for having fat thighs and such. it was horrible. you walk on the streets and you see all this stick-thin, and yes, I mean stick-thin asians. and how horrible does it make you feel, even when you're at a perfectly healthy size.

the media in asia always promotes a heathy BMI as 18.5. but come on, almost all Asian girls have the notion that a BMI of 16 is the minimum they must be at.

This is one of the "cream of the crop" that really disgusts me. celebs like her in Asia look anorexically thin, and yet the media glorify them. note: looking like THIS = being a beautiful Asian female. how screwed up is that!

 http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0 &tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%CD%F5%D0%C 4%C1%E8&in=11683&cl=2&cm=1&sc =0&lm=-1&pn=104&rn=1&di=26885 73776&ln=2000

http://image.baidu.com/i?ct=503316480&z=0 &tn=baiduimagedetail&word=%D1%EE%D8%A 9%C1%D5+2008&in=32556&cl=2&cm=1&a mp;sc=0&lm=-1&pn=100&rn=1&di= 2157762696&ln=1391

don't give me **** about metabolism, small frames or lifestyle. I'm a true-born 21 year old Asian, and this is the **** I have to face with everyday. Asian people in this forum who have "stick thin friends who can eat alot and stay skinny" let me tell you, there are many things going behind closed doors.

I'm ready to move out of here anytime! someone save me.

there is one of the female celebs I actually admire in the taiwan entertainment circle. she's called 小甜甜 because of her size she is often ridiculed and called a pig/alien on shows. she is often made to perform the role of the monster which no guy would want to be seen with. yet she still remains true to herself. and to me, this is real beauty. in the first place, she isn't even obese to begin with, but some many Asians "hate" her because they deem her an eyesore having to see such a "pig" on screen. how superficial are Asians!

I bike 60min per day, which ends up causing me to binge more.

so sorry, i don't think that's gonna help. any constructive criticisms pls?

so it means i shld change my activity level to light?

so heyy girls, I finally took the courage to weigh myself today and it came up to 119.7LB.

well, it wasn't so bad, judging on the amount of bingeing I've been doing everyday. gained 0.22LBS.

so question..

what are your plans?

daily calorie target allowance?

activity level?

Name-Jas

Age -20

Height-5'2

Weight-121lb, goal: 102lb

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cheers

actually 1 hr of light biking only burns 300 calories

up?

the weight is NOT too low. in fact, it is a BMI of 22. I think you perhaps got some calculations wrong. furthermore, I am veryveryvery small framed because I'm Asian. and agreed by others on this forum, 120lbs may seem too much for a petite woman with a very small framed. furthermore. I have always maintained my weight around 102lbs, till the bingeing started coming in. so my natural weight should be around there. thanks for your concern. anyway.

I stay in the home 24/7. basically sitting at my computer. so that's really very sedentary

up?