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| Foods | Pumpkin options... | Oct 29 2009 14:54 (UTC) |
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I mix it with protein powder, water, and a bit of baking powder, cinnamon, and allspice to bake muffins with! |
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| Vegetarian | What am I? | Oct 28 2009 20:08 (UTC) |
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I think any name you would give to that lifestyle would not originate from your dietary habits, but your eco-friendly agenda. I am not sure if there is a name for that though! tree-huger? |
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| Vegetarian | "cage-free" eggs... | Oct 28 2009 20:03 (UTC) |
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I am struggling with this myself. I have chosen my diet not based around ethics but health benefits. I am a vegetarian but I eat about a 99% vegan diet. I am pretty anal about what I eat on a regular basis, but I don't beat myself up if I decided to have a spoonful of whipped cream or something once every other month. I am struggling to eat eggs if they are hormone/antibiotic free. I think they would nutritionally be beneficial to my diet, however the snag point for me, after making a point to have a mainly vegan diet and thinking about where my food comes from, is that you are eating from the reproductive system of an animal. If I could convince myself that is normal behavior, I could probably eat them, but despite the fact that they are a staple in most peoples diets it seems gross to me. |
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| Weight Loss | 3 pounds away from a healthy BMI but.. | Oct 27 2009 14:45 (UTC) |
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I found that in the ten lbs I have lost since reaching a healthy BMI I have seen much more of a difference than in the thirty I lost before reaching a healthy BMI. You're doing a good job! Keep going and you'll get there! |
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| Motivation | Has your journey influenced those around you? | Oct 15 2009 19:52 (UTC) |
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I met a coworker in a training class and long story short, I gave told her about my weight loss journey and gave her a list of my resources including this website. I am not sure if she ever got on here, since she works in another building than me and I don't want to bug her, but I wish her the best! Some other coworkers got really concerned and thought I was sick, so they asked my boss if I was ok and he told them I was losing weight on purpose. They came over to ask me how I did it, but when I told them diet change and exercise I think they wrote it off haha. |
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| Weight Loss | Controversal topic, by Tony Horton(90x guy), on weight loss | Oct 15 2009 19:45 (UTC) |
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I think this is an argument of whether the ends justify the means or the means justify the ends. If your goal is to get a body like he promotes, then you're going to have to be that strict and do things right, where right is defined as a strict diet/workout routine. If your goal is that body and you don't follow a strict routine, then yeah, you're doing the wrong thing FOR THAT GOAL. If that isn't your goal, then those means aren't what you need to get you to your ends. |
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| The Lounge | My religion class is making me question my religion | Oct 14 2009 20:13 (UTC) |
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Sorry this is so long. I am sure I have left something crucial out, and I'd be happy to discuss any of this at further length, but as with everything, learning is a process and ideas/understanding are evolving. If you don't understand something I say, I urge you to use it as a launching point and investigate it! I have been doing a lot of thinking and research on spirituality. I think, like theories in science, our understanding of religion becomes more refined over time as our minds become more open and aware. Take all the different variations there were of what the atom was comprised of. Until we had the tools to investigate it, no one could prove or disprove their beliefs. But before they could do so, they had to make up plausible explanations for these things. The important fact is that they all believed the atom was made up of SOMETHING! It is the quest to figure out what it is that drives forth out understanding! With regards to spirituality, I have found that while I may not agree with exact interpretations, I can agree with overall ideas of most things. Take the typical Native American for instance. They believed a rain god made it rain. Well, I know that there is not a rain god, but there are energies in nature that come together when it rains. What you call the rain god, I call condensation/evaporation and the energies involved in the process. Are these ideas mutually exclusive? Not in my mind. One is just a more primitive understanding of the same truth. (OK yeah if you're going to make human sacrifices to the rain god, that's a little extreme, but it's just a perverted misunderstanding of a concept.) If we believe in the scientific theory of the big bang, then we all came from the same energy source at one point. I believe that spirituality/religion is getting in touch with the energy we all have that ties us to the universe and one another. I believe there are more than our 3 (4 with time) dimensions we live in, and there are energies outside the dimensions we typically interact with on a day to day basis. I believe the human brain used to be more attuned to these energies, but over time we have evolved this receptiveness out. Through meditation and some psychedelic means we can open our minds up to attaining glimpses of what we have lost in this regard. I have come to believe that God is a name for the Will of the Universe. There are right and left hand religions. Right hand religions (Christianity, Islam,..) are based around following the Universal Will, while left hand religions (Wicca, Thelema,..) focus on your personal will. I was learning much about the occult, then I did an investigation into the concept of original sin. I do believe in a reason for our separation from the energies that reside beyond our physical existence, whatever you want to call it, and this investigation into what that means and our role as physical beings on this plane the led me to Christianity, not as the end all be all to my spirituality, but as the best way to connect/believe/worship with the tools I have at this time to understand my spirituality. Actually, I hate labeling my faith, but if I had to put a name to what I believe in order to communicate ideas with someone on the same level, I would say I am Christian. I believe there are many spiritual entities/energies out there, but as humans I think God as the God of Christianity/Islam is the right God of us to align with and is our interpretation of the Universal Will. (yes, I believe the Norse gods or whatever are real in a sense, but they are like empty calories ;) ) Sure, I have a drastically different interpretation from classical Christianity, and I find most Christians to be spiritually immature and unaware, but everyone has a different level of understanding and if that is the interpretation that they can get their heads around at this point, then fine. They will gain a greater understanding in the next life, until the world ends or they can gain a deep enough understanding to unite with the energies of the universe (God/heaven). And for the Christian to come back and refute anything I've said here, I believe that God embodied and sacrificed a facet of his untainted energy as Jesus, and this sacrifice was necessary according to the Divine Will of the Universe as a guide post to those looking for the truth, and through investigation of why that happened you can find grace, but only after fully understanding why it happened, what it means, and aligning your personal will with the Universal Will. Religions can be either translative or transformative. Also, one persons translative religion and be another's transformative, and vise versa. Translative religions help you gain an understanding of an idea or get you from one idea to another. This is what Christianity was for me growing up. Transformative religions blow your mind and rework how you think about spirituality as a whole. I can't pinpoint one exact religion this was for me, but I do not practice them now. You can learn from the ideas of a religion, and move past them. Everyone is at a different point on their journey, and not everyone is ready for the ideas of a religion to be dropped on them. And if you just want to say I am bat-crap crazy, that's fine too. I'm not here to push my beliefs on anyone, I'm just open to discussing them. If scientists kept their discoveries to themselves, what would the world be? tl;dr, religious doctrine should be taken with a grain of salt. It imparts the necessary message in a way that can be digested by the people of the time. It is not necessarily wrong, just lacking "maturity". |
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| Vegetarian | New Vegetarian | Oct 07 2009 21:56 (UTC) |
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I will vouch for the book being amazing! I was thinking about adopting a more vegetarian lifestyle before I read the book, but it put the final nail in the coffin. I guess you could interpret the tone of the book 'angry', but it is so over the top in your face that I found it amusing, refreshing, and kept my interest. If it was a dry nutritional book I don't think I could have stomached reading it in one sitting. I thought it kept the book more 'real' and it was like having a conversation with a friend and not a nutritionist. But then again, I am a guy and my friends and I are cure and vulgar anyway! Yes, the language is harsh, but I am desensitized to that enough that it didn't bother me. An with the title 'Skinny Bitch', you gotta be keyed off as to what you're getting into! I think the tone is less angry 'MEAT IS MURDER!' and more angry 'Dude wtf, wake up! The food industry is not looking out for you and you need to look out for yourself!' |
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| Vegetarian | dipping situation | Oct 07 2009 21:12 (UTC) |
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I couldn't live without them myself. Just plan for them in your budget! |
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| Vegetarian | Vegan Sandwich ideas? | Oct 07 2009 21:11 (UTC) |
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I use these base ingredients for my pitas and wraps: Avocado, Red Onion, Lettuce, Red Pepper Slices, Bean Sprouts, Tomatoes, Chipotle Humus, Boca Burgers, Boca Spicy Chick'n Pattie, and most importantly, BBQ sauce! I usually dice the burger or chick'n patty and put it in a wrap with the other ingredients or spread the humus inside a pita and put in the other ingredients. IT'S DELICIOUS! |
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| Weight Loss | My weight dropped significantly, What Happened?!? | Sep 03 2009 17:09 (UTC) |
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Yeah, this is normal fluctuation due to water weight. This happens to me a lot. I will work out and not see anything for two weeks or so, then drop 3-4 lbs over night. Just weigh again tomorrow and take it all with a grain of salt. |
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| Health & Support | Gall Stones and Diet | Sep 02 2009 15:00 (UTC) |
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Yep. I have had three major attacks since July 5th lasting anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 days. The last one lasted only 10 minutes but was the most intense and sent me to the emergency room where they did a ultra sound and found the gall stones. I am looking to get my surgery in about 2 weeks if insurance clears. Everyone I have talked to has said the gallstones formed because of the weight loss. Before I started losing weight everyone said I would be healthier, not having loose skin and gall bladder attacks! I guess these are more manageable than complications from obesity though! |
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| Fitness | I do 50 min on Ellyptical and then 100 pushups and 20 mins of Ab. Is this wrong? | Sep 02 2009 14:45 (UTC) |
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From what I have found, you should do resistance before endurance for best results. I would reverse it if I was doing that. Maybe some one else can explain this better... |
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| Weight Loss | Feeling Fat | Aug 17 2009 21:37 (UTC) |
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Hey there. I am in a similar situation. I've gone from 180ish to 165. Everyone around me is telling me not to lose anymore, but I look in the mirror and I am still dissatisfied. For me, I know it is that the fat is still have is in my loose skin making my belly still droopy even though it wouldn't be at this weight without the loose skin. I want to lose about 10-15 more lbs of fat, but if I did that right now I would be really scrawny for my frame and I think my body would fight it a lot. So I think the big thing once you get to the point we are at is to look at it in terms of changing your body composition instead of losing weight. By this I mean increasing your muscle to fat ratio. My plan is to focus on resistance training and maintaining my current weight to help get my metabolism back up to speed and gain some muscle back, then alternate phases where I will cut back calorie intake to use stored fat with eating more and targeting muscle growth. Maybe you want to look at a similar approach? |
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| Weight Loss | Depressing... (I just needed a place to pour my heart out) | Aug 17 2009 16:29 (UTC) |
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I am a 5'8 male, started at 280+ and have lost almost 120 lbs. Over this process, I found the only one thing makes people notice: new clothes! I lost the first 80 lbs and didn't buy new clothes and no one said anything until I got new ones. Also I think when people are really big others do not like to make comments about weight to you, positive or not. It's running the same kind of risk as running up to a lady and saying 'OMG WHEN ARE YOU DUE?!?' haha Good job on the first 40 and good luck with the rest! |
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| Motivation | Ladies... do you find this complimenting or distracting? | Aug 14 2009 14:39 (UTC) |
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Original Post by vejitarian: OK, a guys perspective on this... I am not sure what kind of guys are hitting on you, but I would not consider myself a 'creeper' or anything. Just an ordinary decent guy. First, it is rude and inconsiderate to hit on someone while they are in the middle of a workout. That should not be done. But as far as the 'makeup' girls are concerned, I personally am turned off my these girls. We are all at the gym to work out. If i was going to approach someone, why would I want to approach someone who is already presenting themselves as sleazy and fake? I'd much prefer the girl who is 'real' in mixed sweats. If a guy is after you and not the dolled up girls, it is probably because he can see through the fake girls and knows what to look for in a girl who is worth while. Since I am nearing my goal weight and have gotten into respectable shape, I was hoping to find a nice girl at the gym because I want to find someone who respects their body, but if girls think that all guys who want to talk to them at the gym are annoying creepers, then maybe I shouldn't bother trying there. |
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| Weight Loss | Calorie deficit through diet vs exercise | Aug 11 2009 20:53 (UTC) |
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You can lose a large amount though either method, however if you restrict your diet and don't exercise you will lose more muscle than if you exercised as well. |
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| Vegetarian | Let's swap stories! | Aug 07 2009 20:39 (UTC) |
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Original Post by fiddler32: I know I could eat crackers and hummus all day long... =D |
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| Weight Loss | If you lose a lot of weight slowly, will your skin go back to normal, or will it still be loose? | Aug 07 2009 18:36 (UTC) |
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I've read that if you work very hard to drop to a low body fat percent (I want to get to ~8%) and do lots of strength training and build muscle to replace the fat that was lost to give the skin something to 'cling' to, it will help. That is what I plan on doing. I have lost ~115 lbs in the last 14 months and I have a droopy pooch that I am hoping to minimize. But I still have 10-15 lbs more to lose I think, so that will help to. Don't expect it to be fast though. Now that I am getting to the end of the fat loss portion of my journey, I am prepared to work hard at weight training for the next 3-5 years to get where I want to be. I spent 22 years neglecting my body, but now it is my priority and I plan my life for my body, not abuse my body to live my life. If that makes sense... |
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| Vegetarian | Let's swap stories! | Aug 07 2009 14:17 (UTC) |
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I am new to the veg scene. I have been vegan for about 6 weeks, and it is funny to see people's reactions as they come to terms with what that means. For instance, my brother in law kept asking me different foods I would eat and finally comments "Geeze that's so confusing... how do you keep track of it all?" Last weekend I was out and about with my parents and they wanted to go to a fish fry shack and my father, with good intentions, was trying to find something I would eat that was on the menu. His ultimate suggestion was corn chowder. I did not say anything because I wanted to see how long it would take him to realize the corn chowder was dairy based. XD
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| Weight Loss | Not so smug now | Aug 05 2009 15:00 (UTC) |
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My personal rule of thumb is that I do not drink when I am obsessing over results, and when I do drink I make sure to wait about two weeks to compare my weight to my log to see if I am on track or not. |
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| Weight Loss | how much do you think about food/your body? | Aug 04 2009 15:58 (UTC) |
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Constantly. =/ Original Post by tealparadise: That's me exactly. I never cared what I put in my mouth. That's how I was raised. Then I moved out and was responsible for my own food and I made a point to learn about it. Now after 14 months I am 110+ lbs lighter, still not in a 'healthy' BMI (need to lose about 10 more lbs), pretty sure I have developed and ED, and have a flabby belly of loose skin to boot. I think I feel worse than when I started... |
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| Vegetarian | Suggestions for foods, reintroducing dairy/eggs. | Aug 04 2009 14:56 (UTC) |
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You could get something that has milk/eggs cooked into it. I know many vegetarian 'meat' products have egg in them such as some vegetarian sausages and burgers. And lots of cookies have milk and/or eggs in them. I am in a similar situation to you and freak out over these foods and can't eat them just because they aren't 'safe' in my mind. I know they won't hurt me and I am struggling to mentally allow myself to things with small amounts of eggs cooked in them. |
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| Weight Loss | 28 day Low Fat vegan challenge anyone? | Aug 03 2009 18:21 (UTC) |
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That's AWESOME! Keep it up! It is worth it! Through all my research about food, nutrition, and chemicals we use in farming, I got sick of all the stuff we as a society put into out bodies without thinking about it, even "healthy" foods. I adopted a vegan diet for health not moral issues about 5-6 weeks ago and I feel amazing. It is the best thing I think I have ever done for myself. After 28 days I think you might feel so good you might want to continue. After going through the transformation I have, I see almost everything I used to live off of as disgusting and I would not want to turn back.
Don't beat yourself up if you have something non-vegan. Like our diets in general, if you are out and stuck eating something not vegan versus not eating at all, just try and get something healthy and continue on the next day. Just think about the food you put in your body as fuel. You want to put good fuel in to make you run better. If you put crappy fuel in, you'll run like crap.
And make sure to keep your calories up! It is easy to not get enough. I wasn't until I started having some soy ice cream daily. There are some really good flavors! There are tons of great foods you can discover. Experiment and have fun! |
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| Weight Loss | whats the fastest way to loss weight? | Jul 10 2009 19:38 (UTC) |
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Intoxication... the other people, that is. |
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| Weight Loss | What's your weight loss pet pieve? | Jul 08 2009 14:47 (UTC) |
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I hate struggling to justify every calorie I put in my body. I hate when people tell me how much better I must feel after losing so much. I mean, come on. It's not like this happened over night. The change is so gradual I don't really notice it and I still feel like a cow.
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| Fitness | The HIIT thread - Post all questions, routines, and experiences here | Jun 29 2009 18:40 (UTC) |
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Original Post by vyperman7: I think we need to be careful suggesting that people who are just getting back into working out give 100% off the bat. If you are not in decent shape starting this, DO NOT PUSH YOURSELF TOO HARD! You'll have plenty of time to give 100% after you work up to it. Don't blow something out now and get set back in your goals (like I did lol). To be COMPLETELY honest, 75% really isn't a HIIT work out, but is still a good work out! Build yourself up and give a little more each week until you are confident giving 100% on your sprints. There is a program on a HIIT website that builds you up over a couple weeks. I can't find it right now but I am sure someone would have it handy... Here is a good information website: http://www.intervaltraining.net/Interval_trai ning_for_beginners.html
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| Fitness | I know I'm very awesome, BUT DO YOU NEED TO WORK OUT RIGHT ON TOP OF ME | Jun 23 2009 20:59 (UTC) |
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Original Post by spirochete: Wow. I read this while I was on a conference call with a customer problem and almost lost it. |
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| Weight Loss | You can tell you've been dieting too long when... (just for fun!) | Jun 21 2009 20:15 (UTC) |
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When people stop commenting when you pass up pizza for salad. |
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| Motivation | Shame, guilt, and personal responsibility - the effects on weight loss | Jun 19 2009 17:48 (UTC) |
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minda, this site is for people who have admitted they have a problem, are working to fix it, and looking for support towards those goals. Your embittered posts revolve around how the world judges us and trying to make us feel better for being fat, which is something we don't want to be. Furthermore, w hat you fail to realize is that when we are no longer overweight we will continue to be judged, but by even more stringent standards because we will be compared to the 'beautiful' skinny people. It's just the facts of our society. If you really want to use this website to lose weight, I suggest you make a new profile and start over. Otherwise, please join a fatty activist group or start a blog to contain your ramblings. While I see your point and can empathize with it, I believe this is not the proper outlet for you. |
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So you can keep track of what you eat - which enables you to analyze your foods and receive the following:
- Health Score of your overall diet
- Warning when you approach your daily calorie limit
- Overview of the good and bad nutrients
