Posts by osainto

on the bless you note, I think that it is a combintation of all the answers suggested.

When you sneeze, you do scare away the evil spirits, but in doing so you cause your heart to stop, so we say bless you not only for thanks, but to bless your heart to start again as well.  Bless you is llike hitting two birds with one stone....

You can always reference the Eat this Not thaton the mens health website.

It doesn't provide complete nutritional info for every restaurant.  But it did go to the length of picking out the healthiest and the unhealthiest items that the top 60 restaurants in America serve.

I dont know, I recently found out how many calories I actually burn a day and based off what the sites guidelines said for activity level I thought I qualified for a level that I actually did not.  I burn about 2200-2500 a day, and according to the site, for my weight at a light activity level, it recommened something like 1900 or something like that.  So in my case my activity was higher then I thought, but it just goes to show that these are guidelines and as humans we make errors, especially when it comes to guessing and assuming... 

If your trying to lose weight go ahead and aim low, if your trying to gain aim high.

I said f the obsession today and made it all the way to the end before I tallied up my total, and I feel pretty good.  Had two krispy kreme donuts and didn't even know the caloric content of them at the time, didn't care either.  In fact, the only reason, consciously, that I can think of as to why I totaled my intake at the end of the day is because I am trying to track my weight gain. 

Haven't broke the habit yet, but all I can say was it felt good to eat those donuts and not know. 

 Well weigh yourself before you eat and after you use the bathroom.  But if you did eat and feel it necessary to weigh, consider the grams...  about 500 grams in a pound, so a 45grams packet of oatmeal plus 3/4 cup (6 ounces of water), plus a 170gram cup of yogurt, plus 20 or so grams of peanut butter....

6 ounce / /3/4cup = .375lbs

235 grams = .518lbs

so .375 + .518 = .893lbs

so you can account for anywhere from .8 to .9lbs of breakfast roughly, adjust as necessary....

*Note I don't account for food in the belly when I weigh, I am just a little OCD when it comes to numbers...

That was quite possibly one of the most interesting fitness related articles I have read in a long time.

Well I don't like to read posts like this, because the OP usually gets bombarded with a bunch of very direct messages saying that they are underweight and doing it all wrong, that their goals are out of whack.  Which very well may be true, but it can be discouraging if thats all you read post after post...

What was mentioned above is all correct information, I completely agree with what was metnioned in the other responses.  And judgeing from your picture, I really do think you wouldn't look better with further weight loss, you'be been told it before, but you are pretty skinny as it stands.

As for some of your original questions.  I think that your carb-fat-protein intake is pretty normal, unless your body building I don't think it would be necessary to increase the protein.  Fat is needed in the diet, the age old myth "if no fat touches my lips, then no fat will touch my hips..."  is just that, a myth.

Next only bad thing about the excess fruit, is that you are getting an abundance of antioxidants...  Seriously, fruit is simply not bad for you, dried fruit is a little less healthy then fresh raw fruit, but all the same.  The sugar in fruit is not the same sugar in a little debbie swiss miss roll.  The sugar in fruit is fructose and is negligible when calculating your sugar intake.  Now the sugar in the little debbies snack is refined sugar, or sucrose, which in excess amounts can be altered and stored as fat.

But please take the advice that everyone else above has given.  I do honesty think that if you were any smaller that you wouldn't look as good as you do now.  I think that you would even look a little better with a few more pounds on you, but thats just my humble opinion.  Take care and good luck.

lol

My goal is 140 by the beginning of August, preferabbly sooner, so I can tone up at the gym a little before I go see my family for the first time since christmas...  But that seems really unlikely.  I only skipped the breakfast lunch once, and that just had to be done, there was no way any more food would fit in my stomach...  Thanks for the addvice though abbie.

smoke smoke smoke, thats all I want to do,

I was drinking upwards of 6-10 cans a day for several months, slightly less then that for years prior.  It didn't make me gain weight, but it certainly affected my teeth...  I brush two-three times a day and pride myself in having a decent set of chompers...  But after a recent dental cleaning, my dentist asked me how much sugar I was getting?!?  I said next to none, that I don't really eat or drink anything with sugar.  But somehow my teeth were slightly yellowing. 

Anyway she used her Sherlock Holmes method of deduction and determined that the artificial sweetener in extremely large doses over an extended period of time has a similar affect on the teeth as sugar... 

I quit, immediately but now I drink maybe a couple of cans a week, for the caffeine, I need it as a diuretic...

I was not successful at entirly quiting, but was able to cut back from almost a 12pack a day to a few a week...

Yes, I don't know if I would trust the hrm's at the gym.  I did some eliptical in my day, and tested the hrm that some of them have.

I used multiple machines, of the same brand over 3 days.  I found that one machine put my hr at around 130-140, which is where I wanted it to be.  I went at the same level on another machine and it put me at 85-90...  and on the 3rd machine I went at a slightly faster pace and it glocked me at 165-170... 

All in all I wouldn't trust them.

No I did get a white LED front light, the red light I got was for the rear, sorry for the confusion.  For about an hour and a half of leisure riding, I don't know the distance, or the speed.  But I was biking at a moderate pace, anyway I burned  454 calories (thats a 95% accurate estimate).  So 400 seems reasonable

Yes the judges for the competition are ridiculous.  Usually you have to have some sort of background in pageants and or fashion/beauty to be a judge, I would assume.  As for the issue at hand, I don't necessarily believe that she lost for the comment on gay marriage, I think that she just legitimately lost, and might be using the overreaction from that guy perez, or whatever its name is, as a way to cope with losing. 

Anyway, I don't beleive that anyone was fairly judged seeing the list of actual judges for the competition.

To be honest and to help reassure you a little, I don't think that the two week stint of below 1000 calorie intake did any major or lasting harm to your metabolism.  The good thing is you caught it early, good for you.