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| The Lounge | Attacked by leash-less dog | Sep 15 2007 07:08 (UTC) |
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While I think pit bulls as a breed are misunderstood (my uncle has a pit that's the sweetest dog in the world), it's hard not to be nervous when one comes running at you full speed. Actually it's hard not to be nervous when any large dog comes running at you full speed. I know I almost wet myself with a rott. And I don't know about others, but when I own a pet I usually get emotionally attached. I would not be okay with standing by while my dog was attacked. Especially if my dog is a lot smaller than the attacking dog. Anyways it's possible that the dog was going for her and her dog got in the way. |
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| The Lounge | Attacked by leash-less dog | Sep 14 2007 01:02 (UTC) |
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| I think people covered most of what you should do and I'd definitely do it. Report them to the police and animal services. You need to make sure that the animals aren't sick and can't pass anything on to you. And to also make sure that they know that they NEED to keep their dog on a leash. Not only that but they need to be held responsible for any medical bills you might have. And I definitely agree that you should take pictures, of yourself and your dog. "Andddd like three weeks ago, I went walking in the desert behind my house, and two adult pit bulls started running towards me and barking. ZOMG. I've never been so scared in my life!" I can understand how scary that is. I was house sitting for a friend of mine and because I don't have a car I have to walk to the bus stop to get to and from work. I was walking back one day and their neighbors were out front. I saw their dog, which I'd noticed earlier, on the front lawn. Their dog is a rottweiler, probably the biggest damn dog I've seen in my life. It's head alone was like the size of maybe a chihuahua. I kept walking thinking that they'd surely have the dog tied somehow. As soon as I get to the edge of their yard, the dog looks up and sees me and comes running at me at stop speed. I don't think I've ever felt so scared an sic and just eeeeee in my life. Something that big barelling down on me. Oh lord. But yea, dogs are just not anything people should take so lightly |
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| Weight Loss | Nutrisystem vs. Jenny Craig | Sep 03 2007 20:03 (UTC) |
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| For me it's more what to eat, so that post should help. I could always use suggestions. Thanks |
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| Weight Loss | Nutrisystem vs. Jenny Craig | Sep 03 2007 19:40 (UTC) |
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| I have to find a starting point somewhere, that's what I was hoping one of those two could be. My mom did suggest to me taking a class that the local community college offered online. It's supposed to teach all about nutrition and calories and how these things affect your body, etc, etc. Unfortunately it was closed. I was thinking of getting a planner or something that's basically a log of all the hours in a day, days in a week and doing something like that. Planning out breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a schedule and working it around my job and school and the multiple buses I have to take. I just have to see if I can find a form or maybe I'll just have to create one. |
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| Weight Loss | Nutrisystem vs. Jenny Craig | Sep 03 2007 19:19 (UTC) |
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| Okay, thank you for the advice |
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| Weight Loss | Nutrisystem vs. Jenny Craig | Sep 03 2007 18:56 (UTC) |
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| I guess I should try on my own, I just can't seem to wrap my head all around everything. Putting it all together into something good. I know it's the easy way out but it's so much nicer when people just tell you what to eat :) |
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| Weight Loss | Back again- Any ideas | Aug 25 2007 01:02 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for the well wishes and the advice. I'm still trying to figure out my food thing. It's make me understand why people go for things like Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig, it's so much easier letting people tell you what to eat. Exercise is easier than working on my nutrition. | |||
| Weight Loss | Back again- Any ideas | Aug 21 2007 20:01 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for all the replies, they definitely help in giving me ideas on what I could try. I was thinking one thing I could do to keep myself more on track is to set up a schedule for myself to work around school and work. That's one issue I've had, trying to work around school and/or work and finding time to actually eat. I think I'm definitely going to have to learn to plan ahead and I hope that maybe a schedule could help me do that. | |||
| Weight Loss | Back again- Any ideas | Aug 20 2007 16:34 (UTC) |
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| That sounds relatively doable. I could manage the walk. I live right next to a school and they have a big field with a track that I could just try to walk around for an hour in the early evenings or the mornings. I spend my entire workday lifting heavy piles of books and such, would that count as a muscular workout :D? Probably not, I'd have to figure something for that. Maybe I can borrow my brothers dumbells or use some canned foods. I think my problem has always been figuring out exactly what to eat that would go along with how picky I am. Somehow it seems like pretty much everything healthy I can't stand. And even among the healthier things the unhealthy part of those is what I like. That and of course figuring a way to deal with my salt craving. That's always killed me. |
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| Weight Loss | College Student In Need of Cheap Diet | Aug 01 2006 18:32 (UTC) |
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| You mention pasta finewine, do you mean the whole grain/wheat stuff? Because I think I need a recommendation. I bought a box the other day and tried it, I had to throw it away, I could barely get through it. I'm hoping maybe it was something wrong with that specific brand and that it's not an issue that I'd have with all types. | |||
| Foods | How do you get a rock hard banana to ripen quickly? | Jul 14 2006 20:15 (UTC) |
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| I have never heard of a red banana before. Where would you find them? | |||
| Motivation | Being called fat | Jul 11 2006 01:10 (UTC) |
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| My brother's 30 but he's got the maturity level of a 2 year old, plus he hates me because for some reason everything that's wrong in his life is my fault. | |||
| Motivation | First Day | Jul 08 2006 02:40 (UTC) |
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| Good luck to you. I'm just starting out too and it's been hard getting started. My problem parent was my dad. My mom is pretty healthy and she's not big on any kind of junk food, but my dad's really bad. Or at least he was when I was younger, haven't lived with him since I was 4. But he set me up pretty young, he would take me and my brothers out every afternoon and buy us all this junk food. On my first day I got a B+ for my grade, since then I fluctuated between A and C. | |||
| Motivation | heartbroken... "i don't date fat girls".... | Jul 08 2006 02:33 (UTC) |
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| Some people are superficial pigs, you got to learn to let their crap just slide off your back. There's nothing wrong with the way you look. | |||
| Motivation | HK!!! I found the DDR Pad but.... | Jul 08 2006 01:00 (UTC) |
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| Almost everyone I know is obsessed with that game:) I should try borrowing it from my friend for awhile and see how well it works for me. I need something to do since I can't go outside to exercise, stupid Florida rain. | |||
| Motivation | Being called fat | Jul 08 2006 00:56 (UTC) |
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| My brother used to call me fat (in many different ways) on a daily basis. Luckily he finally moved out of the house, but every once in awhile he comes home and usually I'm the one who has to answer the door. If I don't come quick enough he usually starts calling me fat and saying things like "Stupid elephant takes so long to drag her fat a** across the house" or "Try eating less and maybe you'd lose all that blubber". But I'm a bit used to it, he hates me for some reason so he's made it his goal in life to insult pretty much everything about me and my weight's the easiest target. | |||
| Motivation | No wonder I weigh so much | Jul 08 2006 00:52 (UTC) |
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| That's one thing I faced at college, there was always free food somewhere and how can you turn down free food. It tastes so much better just being free. On my floor, the RA was always using floor funds to buy us pizza everytime we had a meeting. At the club meetings, they were always bringing pizza. And because I was always one of the last to leave, because I helped clean up, they'd shove all this food at me. And then I worked in the library and people were ALWAYS bringing food to the employees at the circulation desk. Cookies and pizza and chips and pretty much everything bad. It's just a bit hard to resist temptation when there's so much of it around. | |||
| Foods | Breakfast cereal | Jul 08 2006 00:41 (UTC) |
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| I like Total and the Vanilla and Almond Special K. | |||
| Foods | Question about pre-washed lettuce in a bag. | Jul 08 2006 00:37 (UTC) |
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| I think the years of dealing with my mom have made me paranoid because now I wash pretty much everything. Even when I'm making a sandwich, I wash the turkey I'm putting in it. | |||
| Foods | What's the one food you can't give up? | Jul 08 2006 00:35 (UTC) |
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| I have a lot of bad foods, so I think I'll just name a group as a whole. For me it's carbs. Pretty much all carbs. I love spaghetti and here in Miami they sell cuban bread in the supermarkets. It's so good. I eat a whole loaf in one day. I love chips, chips are good. And though I'm not really big on sweet stuff, my one weakness with sugary things is white chocolate. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE white chocolate. | |||
| Foods | Question about pre-washed lettuce in a bag. | Jul 08 2006 00:32 (UTC) |
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| I saw that same story on dateline and my mom talked about seeing something similar a few years earlier. It seems like while it may be convenient it could also be very dangerous. So it seems the best thing to do is to just take the time and make your own salads. | |||
| Weight Loss | ... | Jun 27 2006 21:59 (UTC) |
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| I have to say for me personally, body builders freak me out. The muscle is just too much. The first two are fine, but excessive muscle kind of scares me. | |||
| Fitness | walk, run or bike? | Jun 25 2006 23:15 (UTC) |
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| I personally prefer biking to running or even walking because I have trouble with my joints, especially my ankle. With the biking I don't have to deal with the impact against the ground, though I don't want to give up on walking/running completely. | |||
| Fitness | Slightly Odd Question | Jun 25 2006 01:57 (UTC) |
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| Thanks, I will check out the different options. | |||
| Fitness | Need Help With Accountability | Jun 21 2006 23:55 (UTC) |
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| I'd like to join this, I definitely need accountability because I make plans to do things and let them fall through constantly. I'm big one walking because I have problems with my feet and my ankle, if I go for too long (and too long really isn't that long) my feet hurt so bad it's hard to even stand up for short periods of time. So I wanted to try riding my brother's bike around, only problem is the tire's flat so I have to wait until (wow I've just started a long sob story now) my brother comes home with his car so he can take us to a store to get a pump to blow up the tire and to also get to a supermarket so I can get good, healthy food. So as soon as I get the bike up and going I want to start riding around the neighborhood for maybe 30min to an hour a day or so. I dunno, I have to see how it goes initially. So as soon as I do that, accountability here I come:D | |||
| Weight Loss | the freshman..50 or 15? | Jun 21 2006 20:43 (UTC) |
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| Stupid me, I saw the Nick Tahoes and stopped reading to ask the question and if I'd kept reading I would have seen the answer. I was at RIT too, for two years before it got so expensive. | |||
| Weight Loss | the freshman..50 or 15? | Jun 21 2006 20:39 (UTC) |
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| hkellick, were you in Rochester? I remember in my FYE class, the teacher talked about Nick Tahoes and the Garbage Plate and how much fat and calories were in it. And I got the impression from the way they talked that it was only in Rochester.
On to the OP, hmmm.....I don't think I'm the best for advice. I definitely fell to the freshman 50 (for me it was 50). I'd say if you go for cafeteria food, to make sure to avoid the bad stuff. At my school they had a salad bar and a health bar, and I probably should have spent most of my time there and not at the pasta bar:D. Definitely find out where the gym is and actually go despite how many people might be there. Me I avoided it because I would have been going by myself and I don't deal well being around a large number of people especially when I'm by myself and there's no one to distract me from the crowd. So I guess I should have probably searched out people to go with me since all the people I was friends with were lazy, skinny people. Don't let the stress of school get to you, I know that I started out relatively well but as the stress got me and I started eating more and more bad stuff. So despite my walking to and from class, and one weekends going to mall area and walking to get around instead of using the bus, I still gained lots of weight. I started college wearing size 12/14 jeans and ended at about a size 18/20. |
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| Weight Loss | Fat Loss Beyond Calories In & Calories Out | Jun 21 2006 20:15 (UTC) |
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| I think I'm a mix of Mesomorph and Endomorph. I definitely have the mesomorph body type, a lot of my fat is around butt, hips and thighs though I do stll have fat on my waist. But my waist is still smaller than my hips. But I hate sugary junk food items, I definitely lean towards salty stuff and I love carbs, my two big things are spaghetti and doritoes.
I think one of my major problems with dieting, or eating healthy, is that I'm a picky eater and I hate most healthy foods. I don't like most vegetables, I don't like most fruit, and I'm not big on yogurt and things like that because they're too sweet. Not enough salt in any of those things. Is there any way to get around this craving for salt or do I just have to deal with it? |
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| Weight Loss | Protein, Carbs and fats OH MY!! | Jun 21 2006 08:24 (UTC) |
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| I just went to a site I saw in another post: www.nutritiondata.com
I did the "Estimate your daily needs" thing and it gave me all of that info, so I'd suggest going there. |
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| Weight Loss | bad habits | Jun 21 2006 07:51 (UTC) |
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| Going to sleep late and waking up late, thus missing breakfast.
Skipping meals and eating once or twice a day for a period (maybe a week or two at a time), then getting something like a bag of Doritoes and eating at least half the bag in one sitting. On my computer waaaaaaaaaay too much. Not eating because I don't feel like making food and going for an easy, quick, unhealthy meal so I can avoid having to do so. I'm sure there are more (I'm full of bad habits) but that's all that comes to mind at the moment. |
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