Posts by apfelkuchen

roughly in order from most to least

1. Greek yogurt

2. melons (on sale right now and wow are they cheap right now)

3. blueberries (also on sale. I have tons of them in the freezer!)

4. Fiber One

5. salmon (also on sale!)

6. chicken breasts

7. random veggies on sale

8. eggs

9. whole wheat bread

10. soymilk/ Gu shots

other random foods on sale!    :]

Yes, it makes a huge difference, but you need to do some research on what types of fuel you need to add to your diet.  You need some carbs around 30-40 mins. before any kind of workout.  Just 75-100 calories' worth will do.  Then, you need something with protein, carbs and tiny little bit of fat afterwards.  The quantity seems to depend on how much, how intense and what type of exercise you do.  You should do some research about it. 

My own story is that while training for my first half marathon six years ago, I did not fuel (eat) properly before my training sessions and the actual half marathon and had a difficult time maintaining weight, performing well and had a lot of stomach problems, such as constant indigestion.  The next time around, I got smarter about taking the right types of nutrients (carb/ protein) before and after workouts, and feel a 1000% better and the workouts and daily life are so much better.  I also started at around 160-165 spring 2008, dropped down to 135 and maintained ever since then.  I am actually at 132 this morning because of good fuel timing and better nutrition.  I'm not perfect at all, but I can at least share this much.  :)

I love it.  You can't really take out 150 calories worth of fat from a food and expect it to have the same texture and taste.  But, PB2 is still really good.  I add a tsp of honey to it before mixing in the water to give it a better texture.  The honey adds very few calories but makes the texture a lot more like natural peanut butter.  Honestly, if you put some PB2 on All Bran fiber crackers with a little cinnamon, it makes the yummiest snack.

Thanks, Samantha81.

"Giving myself a break" for special occasions and making exceptions is how I gained weight in the first place.  I needed to find a way to truly work my lifestyle into every aspect of my life, including extended vacations. 

I didn't gain any weight and also didn't feel deprived.  I can't exercise much because I have a foot injury, so I measured my food as much as possible and stuck with plain salads and whole foods when eating out. I turned into the substitution queen and by the end of the trip though nothing of completely changing the listed menu item into something much healthier just through subbing things out, requesting items on the side or removed entirely.  Instead of ordering sweets and desserts, I ordered familiar brands of beer in bottles, because I know what the damage would be. 

My discipline actually had a positive effect on the relatives I visited, because we played active games outside most of the time and ate healthy snacks such as fruit and veggies, instead of cookies and chips.   We made some really good memories.  It was great! 

grief and then depression

moving and having a different lifestyle

Lot another pound.  Down to 132!  Only 4 more to go.  Yippee!  I am about to go on a long trip, though.  I am just going to maintain during the time I am away.

Original Post by tealparadise:

 

Original Post by apfelkuchen:

Life isn't fair.  Get over it.  You're a grown up and should be able to deal with people who have opinions that are different from yours.    You have the right to be offended, so be offended.  But you don't have the right to shut down other people's discussions, unless they violate the terms of the website by, say, verbally abusing someone.  This is a public forum, and there are threads for seemingly every opinion and belief.  If you don't like it, go to another thread. 

@ the OP, it's probably because of several reasons, just like the many reasons that people decide to be fat.  It's safe; for others, it's a distraction; meanwhile, for some it makes you feel like you are in control; furthermore, some feel like they are pleasing someone; thus, in a  gazillion little ways and for many reasons people decide to be what they are, in this case on the low end of the BMI scale. 

Also - why is it so mean in here?  Just when I thought that CC was past this.  I hadn't seen any skinny-bashing in like 3 months.   Guess I just wasn't looking hard enough.

 

apfel - hey, why don't YOU grow up and not butt your nose into other people's arguments to make meaningless and rude statements which don't contribute to the discussion except to personally put down one member?   Your post was even less critically argumentative than hers.

Glad to see you're exercising your right to free speech within the limitations of CC.  :) 

Look who's the pot calling the kettle black.   Aren't you being judgmental by calling my statements rude and mean?  Can you read my mind?  No.  By the way, allcaps represents yelling when used in online communication.  Please refrain from yelling.  Thanks.  :)

@ the OP, glad to hear that you are in a good place and happy with yourself again. 

Hey, don't beat yourself up, mutoko78. At least you are being honest about it and taking the time to notice and learn from it.  I used to do that more often, too, I think just because I was bored.  I am getting much better about it, but sometimes with soup or if too much time goes by between meals I eat until I almost feel uncomfortably full.  It's a process, so every meal is a learning experience, right?  :)

Wow, I ate so many tortillas chips yesterday that I went waaay over maintenance.  But I'm back to clean eating today.  Thank go.

Hello everyone,

I'd like to join, too.  I just have 6 more pounds to go.  I started last spring at 160 and am at 134 now.  I have a foot injury that is keeping me from exercising, so it is all diet for me.   I had my metabolism tested after the injury, and luckily I have a very fast metablism, so my burn rate is around 1850.  I am eating somewhere around 1500 cals/ day.   :) 

Thanks for starting this thread. 

Original Post by meganr:

That leaves the smart folks to remember that compassion gets you a lot farther than snark.

 Well said.

anxiety-I can't stuff my face when I am bored, and now I am alone with myself and don't know what to do.  I actually have to face what it is that I want and need to do.  Because I can't waste my time by stuffing my face with food, I now have more time to do what I say I dream of doing or need to get done. 

fear of rejection/anxiety- Also, I now feel anxiety and fear of rejection, because I am reaching out to new people and friends to chat every time I feel like snacking.  It really causes me anxiety, because these relationships are really not that strong yet and I always have that split second of fear fo rejection.  I am also afraid of letting them depend on me and know the real me.  It's as though they'll reject me if they knew who I really was.

fear-Now that I am not distracted by food, I feel fear about confronting the real me and finding out that some things about me might be a lie or different from what I real want or am.  What if I don't really want to do what I thought I wanted to do?  What if that is not what I really wanted? Was I avoiding this confrontation by sabotaging myself and using up my time with food?  What is that all about?  This is a completely new revelation for me.   This observation of self-sabotage via food is a new observation and probably sounds insignificant to you, but it is huge for me.   

out of touch-I felt and still feel like a child learning a new language-the language of my body.  It's as though I still don't know my body's ways of communicating with me.  For example, sometimes I feel hungry but a 16 ounce ground of water with ice and lemon makes the feeling go away.  That is just bizarre!  I can't tell you how many times I used to just reach for a handful of peanuts or eat a 100 or 200 calorie snack bar when I felt that way.   Also, the feeling I used to interpret as fullness was actually uncomfortable indigestiony fullness.  What was that all about?  Now, I am starting to learn that fullness is just the feeling of not been hungry.  It's a complete revelation, again.  It's like having a thirty year marriage and waking up one day and realizing that you don't know anythng about the person you married.  It's scary, humbling and shocking.

Although I lost 30 pounds using CC last summer, I am still learning so much and developing a much more nuanced understanding of myself.  I signed up again this summer to watch my calories while I recurperate from a foot injury that prevents me from exercising.   

I saw something last night about super tasters being able to detect the fishy flavor, so I guess I now have a new label for myself.  This is a good reason to eat the real deal, some delicious salmon or fatty fish.

Not to butt in, but I just want to add that people often visit sites that propound the beliefs they hold, so everyone on the site is just going back and forth reiterating the same opinion or belief.  There is no real debate going on.  If someone comes into the chat room and disrupts the echo chamber, people on that site are prone to being reactionary and responding as such.  Lots of people, including some prominent figures on this site, are guilty of such reactionary responses-not the likable ones, of course.  :)

I seem to remember that someone has studied this phenomenon recently.   I'm just saying...