Posts by danalmighty

I dunno, I am also in about.com and a lot of things are quite different, but I guess ppl always overestimate how many calories they spend, and I noticed something odd, when I log all my data her http://www.phord.com/cc/ ; (less the bodyfat%) it says about the same calories than cc but when I log my body fat% it seem to be catually lower!!

I got the blood test and my level of TSH is 2.1, I know it's tagged as "normal" but isn't to low for a yung lady 20 years old who is pretty active and had lost her period because of this???

hello curly girl, I dont know if I have Hypothyroidism but I have lost my period for over 6 months now, yesterday I went to a blood test to find out whats wrong with me, and the nurse said the most probable thing is that I had thyroid issues, so as you see its quite normal to get unpredictable periods because of it, (htere is something inside me that tells me its all about thyroid) but the worst is that I didn't noticed it till I stope taking birth control pills because they make your period regular... so it can cheat you sometimes..

If the pasta it's dry 2 ounces is actually 1 cup, another way to measure tha kind of portions is readig how many serves has the container and then if you are cooking the whole content you can measure it easly by knowng the number or if don't you will know that if you prepare half container it will give you x portions which has x amunt of cals.

I must say I already message the help team and they never answered me, so don't ya even try it, waste of time.

thats prolly, becuase today I tagged some rice and hummmmm it doesn't show up, whats odd is that when I go to look for it in the "show all" list it does appear but WITHOUT the tag I asigned to it, when I try to re-tagg it the tagging space is all blank... this is really pissing me off and what's worse: they never answer your complains

Well I must adimit I have felt way better by eating more and I have healed my relationship with food, I eat things I would never even tasted a year ago, and there where a time when I got so hot and sweety at night and had no more chills and there I thougth I were outta starvation mode, I have gainied average a pound per week I know, but gaining with the amount of cals supposed to be for MANTAINANCE so that is not a good sing and I am afraid my body is not used yet to the cals I have been given it, even if I have eaten them for 3 moths or so, I am not trying to make feel bad someone, I was just looking for help and to get better how this were going to be, I needed to make myself sure this is not abnormal and wash away that feeling that gaining will never stop, anyway my apologies for everyone in the forum if I said something unaopropiate

is the same for me, I wnet from 95 to 110 but just by eating 1700 cals a day, its not fear at alla, being on starvation mode makes you gain just by eating an extra potatoe everyday, I can't imagine myself eating 3000 cals a day and I don't know why I still have not my peroid back.

Original Post by jeff1968:

7/5/2009 at 1:53 pm EDT

I tag items but they don't show. Tag counter does increment. Is there a limit on how many tags one can have?

 

Jeff

Yes it's true!!!! I tagged long time ago, a canned salad with a different kind of tag to open a new category in my food tags and guess what? it never showed up! and the bad new is that I did that like 2 moths ago, and it stilll doesn`t appear, today I added some rice and jam and guess what NO SHOW UP.... I don't know what is happening with CC but I am getting pretty much jaded with all of this...

ok, thats great, HIIT it such a fat blaster, but still eating more cals than what you need to build muscle will make you gain fat no matter how clean your diet is, I told you because I know many body builders and as a rule they know there is no way to gain 100% clean muscle, even if you were eating barely 10% of your cals from fat cuz your body will become fat anything, even prots! I guess you should grow up an they vanish your fat, I have seen that's the way how body builders does it

Original Post by coreyander:

I am SOOOO glad that I am not the only one having these problems.  I depend so heavily on the 100 gram tag thing and I genuinely wanted to cry when I realized that it wasn't working anymore.  I am NOT willing to do the math on all my non-database foods!  I don't know what to do now!! :(

I wrote a complaint using the Contact form; hopefully if enough of us pipe up they will realize that this was a feature that some of us really depended on.  I can't for the life of me figure out how the new 'feature' is helpful at all -- why would you want to automatically calculate the values per 100g of an item, anyway!  It makes much more sense to allow people to adjust quantities to their preference than just allow them to arbitrarily convert things only to 100g.  Sigh...

I agree to the max with you!... and I am affraid it was not a mistake or a problem... they actually changed the way it worked!!! I am so pissed of because it's taking me like forever to log my foods! if this keeps going this way I rather leave the site before re-doing my whole HUGE database again!, besides I would have to do one tag for any quantity of the same food I eat which is not usually the same. I thought it will work this morning but It doesn't... why they have to change something that was working pretty good and there were no complains about?

Original Post by vyperman7:

Fitnessgirl,

That is awesome!! I am impressed. There a lot of guys that can't get down to 12%. You continue to impress me. :) Just out of curiousity, which method do you use when getting it tested?

My history :

Three months ago I was only eating 2000 calories a day. I was doing 5-6 hours of cardio a week easy, and weight lifting 4-5 times per week. I was busting my ass in the gym. However, my strength wasn't really increasing. Just for the hell of it, I got my bodyfat tested at the gym with the callipers and my bodyfat was @ 19%. When I saw that I was dissapointed to say the least. I went to my doctor and she told me that I wasn't eating enough. So I completely re-worked my nutrition and started eating 3000-3200 calories per day of the right types of foods. I hit the weights with intensity three times per week and cut my cardio way back to three HIIT sessions per week.

Three months later according to this computer test : http://www.healthcentral.com/cholesterol/home -body-fat-test-2774-143.html?ic=4004 ; (which is supposed to be very accurate) I have 7.8% bodyfat. I want to believe that this could be true considering the fact that three months ago my bodyfat % was @ 19%.

However, I know for a fact that it isn't that low. I mean, it couldn't be. I have a lot more definition than I used to, and I can finally see my abs. However, I don't have the amount of definition one would have with bodyfat @ 8% or under. I am most likely in the 10-12% range. My goal has always been to get down to 6%. If anything though, my success proves that sometimes you have to eat more and do less cardio the right way to get results.

I dont want to dissapoint you but if you gained weight you no matter how clean was your diet then you gained also fat, It could be you gained less fat and more muscle mass and it could be that having the amount of fat you had before plus the new muscle gained you lowered your fat % but I am affraind it is imposible to lose 10% of fat and gaining weight at the same time, besides those online calculators arent accurate, they mark me with 13% of fat and with caliper I mark 17 to 21% so they must me mistaken

I have, but I am not sure if it was more kind of a laxative effect, so I would ask to my doctor fisrt, what my nutritiosit said was that flax seed was quite good not to let you store bad fat in your body and I took it during all my process, about your 100 clas plus per day, I dont know if it will have the same effect becaus I did not try it, but there where weeks where my total plus intake was 500 cals and nothing wrong happend so why not? just try it or do not let nobody press you till you still eat a little bit more every day, the first sings you will notice from recovering its no more purple finger, no mor chills and being cold all the time, midnight heats, more energy and so...

hope you keep doing well.

I completelly agree with you and it happens the same to me, when I started going to the gym and the trainer measured me she said I had 15% of bf!!!! that I should gain a lot of fat and so, online it baiscally says the same to me, between 14 to 16% of bf, and then when I went to my nutritionist and she measured me with the skin fold method she said I was normally with 21% it was after 2 monts of hard lifht weighting, a lot of cardio and NO WEIGHT GAIN at all.... so whats wrong????

how many time you were eating 1200 1400 cals? and how much work out you used to do? and how much weight have you gained? were you on starvation mode?