Posts by azura_maemi

Original Post by gg80:

I'm boooooorrrreeeeedddd

all friends in real life - you know, the ones you can see and hit you when you say something wrong - all live far far away

 

all my on line friends - you know, the ones who type at you aggressively when you say something wrong, aren't on bloody line.

 

my dogs are busy licking each other, no love there.

bf is licking the xbox, no love there either.

 

sigh

Just like me!

Everyone that I have met who has been a member of one of these groups has either left without the desired results or has joined repeatedly, still without the desired results. I personally feel that it expensive and doesn't work.

I also don't understand the red and green days. I don't think the calorific value comes into it? If not, I don't understand how you track how much you have actually eaten.

My colleagues and I took part in a weight loss thing at work, we all were weighed once a week and all put £1 in each week. The person who lost the most weight by the agreed date was given all of the money that we had put in. We had the social aspect of it and the added bonus of possibly 'winning' your money back plus more.

Oooo yes, I'm with tomatotomata. Retro 50's glam/rockabilly style.

The little figure is what you will have been expected to burn by the end of the day (midnight) and is based on the information you put into the settings (activity level etc) So mine, for example, says Total Estimate: 1840 cal. The big number will keep changing throughout the day as it is clocking up the amount you are expected to burn as the day goes on. So mine at the moment is showing as 934 cal as I am about 1/2 way through the day.

I wouldn't worry about the bigger burn number as it is the total for the day that is more important. So long as, at the end of the day, there is a deficit between the smaller burn figure and the bigger eat meter figure you should lose weight (or alternatively, if you wanted to gain, the eat meter figure is higher than the small burn meter figure).

I've noticed this morning that mine is working again :) What I have done is to go into the tagged item, click the 'values per 100g' before putting the weight in, and then it reduces the values down to match the weight before I add it to the log.

I've not tried to add a new tag, but my stored tags aren't how they usually are. I can't click through the pages and the values of my tagged items are being increased loads when I click 'values per 100g' (because I tagged most things in 100g values).

Original Post by cellulitedelight:

We pay taxes for trash pick-up.  We don't have dumpsters available to dispose of our trash whenever we want and driving it to the land fill once every few weeks would leave our tiny Honda stinkin' to high, high heaven.  To make life so much easier on us, we pay taxes so the city will collect our trash once a week provided we lug it out to the curb

In England it's similar, you have to pay Council Tax which covers rubbish collections, amongst other things. The 'rules' differ between the councils. In ours, it used to be collected once a week, you'd put your bags out in the street, they'd come with their rubbish truck and they would take it away.

A few years ago the government gave a big push to recycling. We were issued with a wheeley bin for 'household' rubbish and a little green box for glass. Red bags are for paper, green for food tins/drinks cans and plastic bottles (and ONLY bottles, any other plastic is a no no). Everything else goes in the wheeley bin in black bags.

They still come every week, except now they only empty the wheeley bins once a fortnight and only the recycling once a fortnight, on alternative weeks. Recycling, you can put out as much as you want as far as I can tell, so long as it is in the right bag/box. Household is another story; if the wheeley bin is too full and the lid wont fully close, it doesn't get taken. If the bags are on the ground and not in the wheeley, it doesn't get taken. If the bin isn't positioned right on the boundary of your property, it doesn't get taken. If you put it out too late, it doesn't get taken. Not a problem, until you realise that you then have to somehow fit another two weeks worth of rubbish into the bin.

And to top it off, they regularly 'forget' to collect it. So then you have to call the council, explain it all, then they check their list to make sure that you weren't reported for any of the reasons why they wouldn't collect, and then they tell you to leave the bin in the street for someone to collect in the next working 48hours - which stretches to Tuesday as our collection day is Friday.

It's all ok though, because at Christmas you are allowed one extra household rubbish bag which can be tied neatly and placed next to the wheeley. That's the Christmas Spirit!!

It is advised that you shouldnt lose more than 1% of your body weight per week, so based on your info you should only lose up to 1.45lbs per week. To do this, you should be ok to burn off around 725 calories more than you eat each day to be considered 'safe', but you shouldn't eat less to make the deficit bigger, you should eat what you're aiming for, say 1400 cals, then exercise more to make the deficit bigger.

Your green meter is the eat meter and as you add your food to the log, it will increase. The little number at the top of this is your daily goal for the number of calories that you should eat by the end of the day.

The blue meter is your burn meter, the little number at the top is what you should have burned off by the end of the day. The big number in the blue meter will keep going up during the day to show you how much you have burned off as you go along. It will have the average amount for the settings that you gave when you filled all your details in, but if you then went walking for an hour or went on a bike ride and then logged that, the total burned will go up even further because it is an 'extra' exercise.

If, for example, your daily eat goal was 1500 cals, but you actually burned off 2000 through your daily activities and additional exercise etc, you will have a deficit of 500 calories. It is said that a daily deficit of 500 cals per day will give you a 1lb per week loss of weight. If you want to lose weight, you should keep the amount you eat less than the amount you burn off, not necessarily by 500. The smaller the deficit, the longer if will take to lose the weight, but it is better to lose slower and steadier over a longer period than quickly.

I saw the other post with you age/weight etc on it. Obviously, you are still young and still growing, so be sensible with what you are eating. Make sure you are eating enough calories, lots of fruit and veg etc, and that you are getting enough exercise. It is healthier to burn off the calories by exercising rather than not eating enough to begin with.

I hope that this helps make things clearer?

I am the same, things that I eat without the peel, I try to weigh without but it can be difficult.

I have banana on my breakfast every morning, I peel it, chop it up and weigh it when i put it with my cereal. Normally, the banana's in the bunch are all about the same size so I can pretty much guess the weight it I don't have access to scales, if say I took a banana to work with me.

If I were you and were eating a lot of fruit on the go, I would do a bit of a trial at home. Eg. weigh an orange/banana etc before, peel it and weigh afterwards and see what the difference is. If you can work out a rough % per fruit, then you could weigh the whole fruit in the morning, take it to work/where ever and take off an estimated amount when you log it based on your % findings.

Or you could log the whole weight, but then it would over calculate as you said.

:)

Thanks for the replies everyone

running_man - I get in a flap a bit when I run, I don't enjoy it  I wish I did. Maybe it's some thing that you can learn to love?

dkn - Rollerblading isn't a big thingas far as I know) where I live (UK) expect for more stunt kind of stuff. Although I think I'd enjoy iceskating but the nearest rink is about 25 miles away, I went when I was younger on the odd birthday party trip.

jef9up - I'm completely lacking in interests! I just feel I work, come home, cook, laze around, go bed. I don't feel I achieve anything, but at the same time I can't think of anything I want to do! I get so frustrated with myself.

frokusblakah - I'm sort of an on/off gamer. I go through phases. Had a quick go on Left4Dead with the bf earlier but that'll probably it for a little while.

jenningermany - I don't think I could ever sky dive!! Haha! I do enjoy travelling, but that'll have to wait as not much money at the mo! The places I really want to go to tend to be expensive places! I enjoy reading but I don't know, I think because you do it on your own, I don't feel like doing it. I was thinking of learning a language, I did French and German at school, but remember only very small bits.

kysserminfrites - What kind of dancing do you do? Just round the house or salsa etc?

Original Post by spirochete:

Your mii yells at you during Wii Fit? That's sorta funny

Yes :( "You are going too fast, slow down otherwise you might injury yourself" or for stepping "You are too fast, follow the rhythm as you step on and off the wii balance board". It's annoying!

That link doesn't work for some reason :(

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silva-Radio-Pedometer %20%20-with/dp/B000K2U4JK/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8& amp;s=%20electronics&qid=1238699231&s r=8-7

I've tried again, if this one doesn't work, just copy and paste the whole line into your browser and it should bring up the one I mean :)

Hi Erik

On a different forum topic, there was a link posted (http://www.phord.com/cc/) which I thought was very useful.

You input your details and it will advise you on how many calories your body will need etc.

From my understanding, the 'EAT' cals are the amount your body needs to survive, the 'BURN' cals are based on the activity level you set and indicates what you can expect to burn in the day. It then shows the amount you can expect to lose on a weekly basis if you ate the 'EAT' figure and burned off the 'BURN' figure on a daily basis.

It says below that you shouldn't lose more than 1% of your body weight per week, so you should be ok to lose 2.9lbs per week, but as a general rule, the recommendation to maintain once you reach your goal is 1-2lbs per week whilst you are losing.

It also says that a deficit of 500 cals per day between the amount you eat compared to the amount you burn should result in a 1lb a week loss. You should eat the amount your body needs to survive and then exercise more to burn off the deficit.

I would recommend that you work out the amount of calories you should be eating a day, then have a look at the types of foods you eat on a regular basis and see how many calories are in them. It might be a case that you just need to reduce the portions (this is what I found).There is also a recipe analyis thing on this site, if you go into Foods then New Recipe, pop the no. of portions and ingredients in and it will give you an indication of the calories - Very useful if you cook from scratch rather than using prepacked stuff.

Not sure where you live, I'm in the UK and frozen veg is cheap cheap in comparison to fresh. I eat a lot more fruit now, compared to before joining CC, but it is expensive.

Then there is exercise. I'm rubbish in this area, I have to really force myself to do this as it is something that has never interested me. Maybe involve the kids? Bit of football in the garden, swimming if you have time at the weekends, have a bit of a dance around the house (no one will see!)? It's one of those things, if you don't enjoy it, you'll struggle to do it.

Anyway, I hope that you find this info of help and good luck! :)

:) Brilliant