Posts by terricontrary

Team_malone posted this in another thread:

'I just got the one by Jerry Sienfeld's wife called "Deceptivley Delicious".It is made with kids in mind...and how to incorporate veggies into recipes by making a variety of vegetable puree's and adding them to things. I am enjoying the recipe's in it.'

It might work for you, as well.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I use a cookbook called 1,000 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, and then I just tweak the recipes a little bit by adding meat to the soups and stews and such, or using chicken stock instead of vegetable stock. It also has the calorie count for each recipe, so that comes in handy.

Cool Ranch Doritos, I eat entire large bags at a time, so right now, they are banned from my life. It makes me sad.

Original Post by chrissy1988:

1. favorite flavor cookie? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Homemade Chocolate Chip cookies-no it's an indulgence for me, I don't want to find something lower calorie

2. favorite type or cake? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Strawberry Shortcake, homemade not store bought-yes-angel food cake topped with fresh strawberries and occasionally a dab of homemade whipped cream

3.favorite type or candy? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Green Tea white chocolate truffles from this wonderful artisan chocolate shop in my city-no-but when I want chocolate I get Ghiradelli/Lindt 86% cocoa and have one square

4.favorite flavor ice cream? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Cookie Dough ice cream-yes-there's a homemade ice cream/frozen yogurt shop that has a wonderful oreo cookie frozen yogurt

5. favorite flavor muffin? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

pumpkin muffins-no-i just make mini muffins instead of full-size muffins

6. favorite calorific drink? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Red Wine Barolo-no

7. favorite pie? have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Pecan Pie-no-I don't think it exists

8. favorite cheesecake flavor?have you found a lower calorie recipe/store bought to satisfy it?

Not a fan of cheesecake, it's sacrilege, but it's true.

I just found this doing a quick google search for calories in cough syrup. You might find a better link:

Approximately 15 calories per ml...so if there is 120ml in a standard bottle of cough syrup then that means there are 1800 calories in a bottle.http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_calories_a re_in_a_120ml_bottle_of_cough_syrup

Dinner- Roasted acorn squash stuffed with a mixture of brown rice, nearly any leafy green (spinach or chard is best), cumin, salt and a dash of cayenne pepper. Then, topped with a tablespoon or two of fresh grated parmesan

or

Roasted brussel sprouts with some roasted salmon

Breakfast-Plain yogurt with strawberries and blueberries

Lunch-Fennel and apple or pear tossed in a little bit of olive oil and lemon juice on a bed of arugula or mache (pronounced mosh) 

Snack-I make a loaf of wheat bread on Sunday and enjoy a slice of wheat bread with some homemade preserves throughout the week

Akela,

I have to do the same thing, no dinner until after my run! However, if you like to cook vigorously (chop veggies in a sick OCD kind of way, use a whisk or spoon instead of the electric mixer, knead dough yourself, hand mash potatoes, etc) doing cooking prep work burns 140-200 calories an hour. I don't include that in my calorie count, though, because I am certain I eat twice that in calories "testing" my food.

Thanks everyone for the replies and the advice. I'm definitely going to check out a different material. I really like the idea of the seamless bra, because I feel like I get oversensitive when I am doing cardio. I think I can feel every seam and it starts to annoy me.

I'm also going to check out the Body Glide that was mentioned. And thank you for all the links. It looks a little like buying a house is less complicated than buying a good sports bra.

Terri 

Original Post by evie19:

Yeah, I agree , mirrors make a strong visual! ok so this is my rough draft so far:

(This is according to my content and the resources or the lack there of,lol)

 

shot opens with girl looking in the mirror .

pinches certain spots on her body.

close up to facial expression

walks toward a table

I get a shot of a diet pill bottle(Xedrine, Stacker, etc)

have her take out some pills,( one or two not sure)

cut to her crushing diet pills into powder follow her movement to

rolling paper and her  simulate a coke addict "sniffing" the powder

 

then have her go on a mini trip, (i dont have enough time to exagerate the effects)

then fall or lay on the floor with a whole bunch of cut out pictures of skinny models, fashion magazines, etc.

 

My message would be that the media portrays an unhealthy unattainable image of women  and the lengths some people would endure to reach this non existent goal.  The idea of weight loss as an  obsession due to the influence of the media and how it leads to an addiction similar to hardcore drugs.

What do you guys think?

Are you going to use someone who is healthy to barely overweight? Because many people assume people at a healthy weight should be happy to be where they are, but a lot aren't.

Plus, the perception of seeing someone who is already too skinny, people are going to assume that's how they got there anyway and you aren't going to move them emotionally. People who are too overweight some ignorant people are just going to snicker and say, "Well, that's what they deserve," and you have the same issue of not emotionally moving someone.

I don't know what edit platform you are using, so I am imagining this being done on Avid. I'm a video editor, so I haven't touched a camera in years. Brainstorms:

Here's my idea, videotape or get pictures of 30 people who are unhappy with their bodies. Then, just do one second shots with either a 20 frame dissolve over each one or have them melt into each other. Just one after another of unhappy body image people.

Or you could take shots of individuals and focus on the part of the body they are least happy with... Pan across the body part and then do a dissolve into the next body part.

Or you could get a group of people starting at very obese all the way down to super skinny and do a very slow 30 second pan across them, each in a different insecure pose, one covering their belly another covering their face. One in ultra baggy clothes to cover the weight, one holding a laxative, one screaming. This would really require no editing, unless you wanted to do a title over them saying something like "We're all different, but we share insecurities," or something like that.

You could also do a time lapse of someone sitting on a couch or something with 30 healthy foods or something and as they are sitting there, you take out a health food and replace it with an unhealthy food. YOu would put a camera on a tripod and every two or three seconds exchange a food until it's all junk food surrounding this person, then in the end they can knock it over and overcome their obsession. You would edit out the times when you walked into frame and you would want each shot to last 10 full frames with 20 frame dissolves.

I hope this helps.