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| Foods | Herbs and spices - which do you use most often? | May 05 2008 22:28 (UTC) |
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| I put garlic and onion in everything along with curry spices and cayenne. |
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| Foods | How do you eat healthy on a budget? | May 05 2008 06:13 (UTC) |
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| Im a college student paying my own way, so am definitely a budgeter. I am vegan so I don't deal with the cost of meat. I have been living off black beans lately ($.69 a can or probably a dollar a pound dried). They can turn into a super good soup thats really good for you. A block of tofu is around $1.20 and can be turned into anything. Lately I have been crumbling it, marinating it slightly in soy sauce and adding curry powder and onion to it and cooking it like you would scrambled eggs. Marinated and baked it can be thrown into salads, ate just as sticks, put onto sandwhiches Salads are the miracle meal, especially if you can get to a farmers marker. The more colorful the salad, the better, but lettuce and baby spinach is a really cheap salad and with garlic, apples and some basalmic vinegar you wont' eat anything else for a week its so good. Cabbage is really versitile Hummus is really easy to make, is super good for you and a great replacement of cheese and meat on a sandwhich. Smoothies are also really cheap to make, if you have access to Trader Joes or something of the sort. Frozen mangos and strawberries are around $2.00 each a bag there. They are a great subsititue for other desserts or for breakfast and if you need extra protein or something, throw in some almonds or peanut butter (weird yes, but surprisingly good) |
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| Foods | ideas for beans | May 05 2008 06:01 (UTC) |
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| Split pea soup is extremely easy to make and super good, as are lentils. I have been making a lot of black bean soup lately by just taking a can of black beans and blending about 1/3 of it and then letting them all simmer with onions and cayenne. I used throw pinto beans in a crock pot and let it cook all day then add onions and greens, but the crock pot I have now i way to big. Dips are also really easy to do (hummus, white bean or black bean dip) Bean salads are also really good (garbanzo beans, kidney beans, black beans or any other kind that doesn't get super mushy and then vinegar and onion. |
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| Foods | How much do you spend on groceries per week | May 05 2008 05:55 (UTC) |
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| I do about $60 a month, so I guess its around $15 a week. Its just me and Im a college student though. |
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| Foods | Trader Joes | Apr 10 2008 03:50 (UTC) |
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| Definitely worth checking out. There are some things that probably arent cheaper and they do have lots of packaging on their things, but as a college student I couldn't survive with out it. In San Diego it is WAY cheaper than Ralphs, and for most things cheaper than grocery stores. If you are a coffee drinker they have good coffee for about 1/2 the price of normal stores. I usually find their produce cheaper than other places, but now live in an area with a farmers market so don't get it there. They have really cheap canned things (beans for $.69 etc) |
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| Weight Loss | College Girl Getting Back on Track | Oct 15 2007 08:27 (UTC) |
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| I have tried studying at the gym before, and then realized that it is really important to have that time to NOT think about homework, and to just exert yourself into oblivion. I was really stressed out last year, and going to the gym was my one constant, my one thing where I could escape all the school stress, forget about my surroundings, and just run. I wasn't unhealthy about it or anything, but well, you get addicted to the dopamine your body releases. I would come back from class and HAD to go. And then could come back and deal with school. Too bad I wasn't like that in high school. My cross country coach would have loved it :) Try ignoring the other people. Most of them are trying to ignore you also. My gym at schoolw as never filled with athletes, always just random students. Unfortunately the times I always wanted to go were the same times everyone else also wanted to go, so it did get pretty crowded, but if you find the right time, you can have the place virtually to yourself. |
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| Vegetarian | Poor, busy, college vegans!! | Oct 04 2007 07:43 (UTC) |
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| I am a vegan college student, and I bet I spend less money on food then any of my friends and roommates on food. I guess the fresh fruits and veggies might get expenisve inother places (I live in California, so I guess its prolly cheaper), but I have been eating mostly raw for the past month, living off of smoothies and salads, and haven't spend more that $2 on lettuce, spinach or a pound of fruit the entire time. Granted, a lot of the fruit is frozen, but frozen is still good for you. Look for seasonal fruits and vegetables. Non seasonal stuff is going to be more expensive, because it takes more time and labor to get the food to where you are at. If you don't already, cook your own food. Buying food already cooked or mostly precooked is where it gets expensive. If you are worried about the time, prepare a whole bunch at once and eatleftovers Beans. They might be the cheapest thing known to man. A pound of lentils is like a dollar. Tofu. A tub for a dollar will last at least two meals. Lettuce and spinach. Make your own salad. Don't buy preprepared. Try to buy as much bulk food as possible. Not only is it more ecofriendly, it is cheaper. Oatmeal is like $0.40 a pound in the bulk bin at my store and be WAAAAY more ways that hot cereal. If you are eating AMy's frozen dinners ever day, yeah, it is going to get expensive |
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| Vegetarian | college... help | Sep 27 2007 23:12 (UTC) |
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| Most schools allow george forman grills, and even if they don't, just hide it when your not using it I made tons of things on it last year in the dorms (sandwhiches, tofu, apple cobbler.) Also, crock pots or rice cookers. You'll get sick of the dorm food, but so will everyone else. You;ll have to try experimenting with stuff. One of my friends had a hotplate and could make basically everything. | |||
| Fitness | How does everyone stay on the elliptical so long?? | Sep 10 2007 19:14 (UTC) |
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| I get bored after about 20 minutes if I am going slow. I like going fast or at a really high level so that I kinda can't think about other stuff, which makes it go a lot faster | |||
| Fitness | -> Should I Do Sit-Ups Before or After Lengthy Cardios?? | Sep 10 2007 19:10 (UTC) |
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| I don't know about what is better in terms of workout, but I find that doing situps after cardio, I have a lot more patience for them, so tend to do more and do them better | |||
| Weight Loss | Any females 5'3, how many cals do you eat a day? | Sep 10 2007 19:08 (UTC) |
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| I am almost 5'3 and 118-122 lbs. I haven't been on calorie count over the summer, but I am estimating I was still eating around 1200 calories, but I have a tendency to go under 1200. I guess I am one who should eat more to loose weight, because I am pretty active and move around alot, but haven't been losing weight. | |||
| Weight Loss | upping calories when you are up longer? | Mar 22 2007 04:33 (UTC) |
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| I know mine definitely get upped to help me stay awake and concentrate. I am thinking you should up them. | |||
| Weight Loss | College Students | Mar 17 2007 20:32 (UTC) |
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| I am almost jealous of all of you who had the buffet style all you can eat, because at least you have an excuse/know why you put on the weight...We have meal points, and actually pretty good food. No variety, but doable. I am a vegan so by defualt am forced to eat healthy, because in our cafeterias the only vegan stuff is hte healthy stuff. I am blaming my 7 pound increase on ankle injury and not being able to exercise or do anything really for 6 months. And then just living with so many people who always want someone to go with them when they want to get something to eat. Luckily when it comes to alcohol I am a lightweight, and am not a beer fan, so tend to not rack in the calories on weekends with eh, liquids involved. |
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| Weight Loss | Stuggling to eat enough! | Mar 14 2007 23:47 (UTC) |
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| I am having the same problem, but luckily i have a peanut addiction. I think my problem stems from that fact that I don't really eat meals, just snacks throughout the day, and with an oatmeal addiction, my snacks aren't that high calorie. Try adding peanut butter to your fruit, tofu and nuts to the salad. |
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| Weight Loss | Younger dieters | Mar 12 2007 02:33 (UTC) |
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| I am 19 and go to school. School and homework is ALL I EVER do. I am 5'3 and 120 pounds. I want to get back down to 110, but this quarter is making it impossible, because it is really hard to find time to go to the gym. Luckily, it is all over in 2 weeks... | |||
| Weight Loss | is there a delay period before I see a loss? | Mar 04 2007 20:54 (UTC) |
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| I usually see it in spurts. I'll be the exact same weight for what seems like forever, then BOOOM, minus 7 pounds. Unforunately, it works the other way as welll | |||
| Weight Loss | 3,879 calories from peanut butter. | Mar 04 2007 20:53 (UTC) |
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| Oh god. Peanut butter is like the devil. I never used to eat it, but now I guess I am a bit more protein starved then before... One of my friends had reduced fat peanut butter. I don't think I could bring myself to stray from all natural, but at that rate I go threw it... |
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| Weight Loss | For people 5 foot 3 inches | Mar 01 2007 05:38 (UTC) |
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| I am inbetween 5'2-5'3 19 years old 120 pounds I want to get back down to 110 |
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| Weight Loss | so i am having people over to drink tomorrow.. | Mar 01 2007 05:27 (UTC) |
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| Hm. I have the opposite problem with drinking. I have an extremely hard time eating anything, and eh, well, as a light weight that ain't exactly a good thing... |
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| Weight Loss | blood donation | Feb 28 2007 11:16 (UTC) |
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| It is not necessarity because you are a vegan/vegetarian that you shouldn't give blood, it is that you run the risk of being anaemic/anaemic by there standards. Go and try. They run all the tests there to make sure it is safe. I have gotten turned down everytime... My blood is just too good for them I guess. |
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| Weight Loss | In the RED! A couple of questions.... | Feb 28 2007 11:11 (UTC) |
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| Wow. Google might have some competition with toolbars for world domination. | |||
| Weight Loss | 120's/110's club anyone? | Feb 28 2007 05:23 (UTC) |
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| I am in the similar boat as you two above me. I am 19, almost 5'3. These past few months I jumped up to 120 and want to get back down to my normal 110 and maintain it. I decided this quarter in school it is basically hopeless to think I can make it back down. Last quarter I went to the gym about 5 days a week, but this quarter is just beyond ridiculous. I was previously under the conclusion that there was always time in the day to take out 40 minutes to go the the gym, but well, that is diffinitely a WRONG conclusion. I average about 2 days a week now...not satisfying at all because I am a bit addicted to running! |
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| Weight Loss | Calories vs. nutrients on binge days | Feb 25 2007 00:01 (UTC) |
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| I would try to get the nutrients and make up for the calories by exercising a bit more in the next few days. Try a salad or cliff bar or something. | |||
| Weight Loss | depression | Feb 19 2007 05:57 (UTC) |
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| I am in a similar position to you, though still different. I am barely 5;3 and 120 pounds. I have battled body image issues basically since I can remember. It has never been that serious, but always there, constantly comparing my body to the bodies of my friends. It is not that I cared about what other people thought, it was what I thought. I have always been the smaller of most of my friends, and have had them all telling me that (none of them knew about my issues), but it didn't help, because MY eyes didn't see it like that. I don't even know how many times my boyfriend would try to convince me to wear swimsuit bottoms instead of shorts, how often I would see girls many sizes larger then me smiling and laughing in their sting bikinis while I sat there trying to shield as much of my body as possible. It is a pain in the butt to analyze this. As a freshman in college I should be spending all my time studying about the physics test, but instead it is lamenting over not having time to go to the gym, reading endless articles on this addicting website about calories and what not. I have found that it helps to instead read depressing articles about anorexia and weight loss, read about all the healthy foods, instead of thinking about the foods that I can;t eat because they are too high in fat, look up really healthy foods and think abotu eating them over the greasy french fries in the cafeteria. I put on 10 pounds in the past few months and it just refuses to come off. I accept that, and instead of trying to lose the weight, am trying to tone my body. I ran in high school for track and cross country, but was never really into it. Now I am. Now it is the stress relief, that time of the day where I can't think about anything else because I am pushing myself, that time dedicated to running and music and that is strictly it. And I found that when I get back from the gym, I don't feel bad for the rest of the day. It doesn't matter what I eat, it doesn't matter if I see a bad image of me in the mirror. Try it. Even if you don't like running now, you can get into it. Would you rather be a toothpick who looks like a WW2 victim, or like someone who could run a 5k at the drop of a hat and beat up an attacker? I found that self help books and books like that trigger it for me, making me worse. I can't hear other stories about anorexia and depression because it sends me into a spiral. If your mind is anything like mine, don't read them. Read health books instead. Eat healthy and start exercising. Maybe the weight won't come off, because you are in a healthy range, but you can tone your body, and it helps. The flabbiness that is so bad to see in the mirror will become muscle, and it is so much better. Running is my suggestion to basically everything right now (I didn't run all this week and it was the worst week in a LONG time). |
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| Foods | Can dried fruit have an effect on weight loss? | Feb 17 2007 08:01 (UTC) |
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| Just get all natural kinds. Stay away from the ones with added sugar and sulfur. Dried mango is one of my favorite foods... | |||
| Weight Loss | What are the effects of slipping on weekends? | Feb 15 2007 00:10 (UTC) |
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| I found that if I give myself the weekends to let up a little bit, it keeps that random splurges down. Like when you are working out, you need to take a day completely off, need to have that recovery day after a hard day. Weekends are kinda that "ok, fine. Eat the damn ------- and get it out of your system becasue once Monday comes...." | |||
| Weight Loss | college students? | Feb 14 2007 22:47 (UTC) |
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| I am college freshman also, majoring in environmental studies. I definitely put on a few pounds since school started, but I am hoping a foot injury that had me benched all summer is the culprit. As far as food goes I have it a bit better. We have meal points instead of meals per week, so it isn;t buffet style. The salad bar is really good, the sandwhich bar is pretty decent. I am vegan and there are very few vegan choices, but luckily I don't get sick of foods easily. I am loving have a gym right by my dorm, though this quarter I don't have time the first part of the week to go. |
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| Foods | 400 calorie lunches | Feb 12 2007 08:14 (UTC) |
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| It is all about the hummus. HUmmus with bread, hummus with tortillas, hummus off your finger... I live on campus still, but am vegan so the cafeteria isn't too friendly for me. I eat a lot of oatmeal for lunch, along with bagels (with hummus:) ) Beans and rice is a good one (I am weird and am ok with it cold). If you aren't so skilled in the making of beans, Zatarans makes them. Pasta is another good one. With spaghetti sauce, or I am a fan of Italian salad dressing |
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| Weight Loss | when will I "see" the results? (help a college kid out...) | Feb 12 2007 08:06 (UTC) |
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| I have had a similar problem. I am almost 5'3 and have always been at the max 115 pounds. Though I have never really admitted it to anyone and feel weird even thinking it, I do battle a slight ED. At home it was extremely easy to eat healthy, and we never had snack foods around, so I didn't snack. I am a vegan who never wants to spend money, so I was never really tempted to by food when out with friends. Now, instead of having access to my healthy kitchen where it is only me and my parents, there is the cafeteria 200 meters away and two roommates who eat way more than me and don't like going to the cafeteria alone. Then you throw in a torn ligament in my ankle it is no wonder all the sudden I jumped up to over 120. I was able to start doing the elliptical in November and was pretty damn good about it. Due to time constraints and the popularity of th elliptical I was never able to go for as long as desired, but I got in about 350 calories burned on average 4 days a week. Sometimes more calories, but almost never less, but no weight loss at all. I started noticing I was never feeling actual hunger becase there were always so many people trying to get me to go eat with them. I started getting better about that, but the damn weight won't come off. I think part of it is I could be in border line starvation mode so my body is conserving, but I have also always been the same weight-sameweight-same weight-MINUS five-stay-stay-stay-stay-UP type of body. I am hoping that one of these days I;ll be in for a pleasant surprise when I get on the scale. I am learning that the less food in the dorm=better and when randomly eating while studying sounds good, try water and tea first. I hate eating after 8, but I am battling a bad sleeping habit that has me up until 3 or 4 am, so I figure that eating at 10 or 11 kinda evens it out. Plus, though it looks nice to see that I only ate 900 calories that day, I know 1200 is what my min should be. I have noticed weekends are the harder ones to keep the healthier foods, so have kinda decided that those are going to be the days that I let myself have the frenchfries or eat later, as motivation to stay better during the week. |
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| Foods | To the PB addicts... | Feb 12 2007 07:36 (UTC) |
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Oh dear. I do believe peanut butter is the culprit to the recent weight gain... I don't even know how many pounds of it I have ate in the past 4 months... I am a fan of good old peanut butter and bananas. I I also addicted to oatmeal though, I found mixing peanut butter, honey with dry oatmeal and eating it with banana (apples and celery work also) is extremely good/dangerous. Or by the spoonful Or with some chocolate chips I am intrigued by the reduced fat peanut butter, but I don't have it in me to stray from all natural. |
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