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| Weight Loss | Need some help: College starts in the morning! What do I eat? | Jan 11 2007 19:27 (UTC) |
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| A lot of times the chicken is breaded and fried, or grilled with oil. And it would probably come with lots of low grade, high fat parmesean cheese. Also, ceaser dressing is pretty much just fat I think.
Does your school have a gym or athletic building on campus? Or is the art department open to all students? Gyms sometimes let you use a locker on a permenant basis for a fee. And art departments always have lockers for their student's art supplies. You can usually just slap a lock on an empty one and keep your lunch in there. |
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| Motivation | Dieting for two! | Jan 11 2007 18:31 (UTC) |
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| Thank you everyone for the advice. And thank you for sharing your story shaknquaker. I hope that he can decide to make changes before he develops problems. I'm happy for you that you've made changes for yourself.
I guess I'll just try to stock only good tasting, healthy stuff in the house and hope that everything will be ok for him. I'll see if I can talk him into getting some tests done next time he goes to the doctor. Also, thanks for reminding me not to be a nag about this. Its hard not to be when you love someone. |
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| Motivation | 150's group...daily updates | Jan 10 2007 19:58 (UTC) |
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| Hello! I just hit 159 today, and then my work threw me a going away party where I managed to eat only two bbq chicken wings(which is two more than I'd planned on eating).
anyway, just saw that this post was called 150's group, and I'm just so excited to see that number again. |
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| Motivation | Dieting for two! | Jan 10 2007 19:20 (UTC) |
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| Yes. He is very lazy. I'll use that as an advantage! :)
Do you have a hard time discussing his weight without his self esteem taking a hit? Just curious. I feel like I'm really on strange ground between reassuring him that he's attractive and convincing him that he's on the path to heart disease. |
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| Weight Loss | Need some help: College starts in the morning! What do I eat? | Jan 10 2007 19:13 (UTC) |
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| I'm about to be faced with the same problem. I work full time over breaks, but both my husband and I are going back to school this semester.
I PLAN to make some cold pasta salads with veggies and put them in containers in my book bag to eat for lunch. I'm a grazer, so I'll also have some fruits and veggies already cut up. I've tried this before however, and it all fell apart a couple of weeks into the semester. Since so many people are doing atkins now, a lot of the cafe style places on campuses make these wrap things. Our school has something called the Ellicotville. Its any kind of tortilla you want, like tomato, wheat or spinach, with black olives, the shredded lettuce they have left over, bell peppers, etc. basically all their salad and sandwich toppings. I tell them to hold the mayo and just add vinegar and black pepper. Its ok. You could probably get one of the places to whip up something like that if its not on the menu. |
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| Weight Loss | Calories In. Calories Out. | Jan 10 2007 19:07 (UTC) |
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| I agree with nomoreexcuses about meds. Since starting mine, I gained 30lbs in 8 months! Which is why I'm here.
I think that it is calories in, calories out. However, different things work better for different people. In the fall of 2005, I had issues where I couldn't eat fat. Even 5 grams per day would cause big pain. I'm a 5'6" woman, and I was eating something like 2000 calories per day, but because of the complete absence of fat, I lost an unhealthy amount of weight in a very short time. (Probably made it much easier to balloon out later). Although my issue was medical, I was thrilled. I ate all I wanted and shed pounds like crazy. It seemed too good to be true. It was. |
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| Weight Loss | Anyone at 1200 cal/day? | Jan 10 2007 19:00 (UTC) |
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| I do the same thing at resturants, chrisq. Its nice because when you're dieting, you generally spend more money on the healthy stuff. (Tuna steaks cost more than Ramen) But when it comes to eating out, you can actually save. Of course, I'll be nibbling at carrots an hour later. :) | |||
| Recipes | Recipe conversion | Jan 10 2007 18:39 (UTC) |
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| OMG! That sort of figures though. I'll look up his new stuff. Its funny, but growing up in the midwest with pork everwhere, butter was literally considered a fancy health item to cook with in my family. I remember my grandmother boiling water for corn and getting a big spoonful of bacon grease out of a jar she kept in the fridge. :o | |||
| Motivation | Dieting for two! | Jan 10 2007 18:33 (UTC) |
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| Thank you. That is very helpful. I already make some meals in advance. I'll try making up some fast food style items as well. I think that you're on to something with the gas station theory. He works construction, and buys a 2 liter of pop at the gas station every morning. I'll just start keeping 2 liter bottles of something like lightly sweetened lemon water or iced herbal tea for him instead. | |||
| Motivation | Because It Makes Us Feel Good | Jan 10 2007 17:32 (UTC) |
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| I've lost 5lbs in 2 1/2 weeks and my skin looks better! | |||
| Motivation | Plateaus | Jan 10 2007 17:27 (UTC) |
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| Have you recalculated your calorie requirements based on your most recent exercise plan and weight? | |||
| Recipes | Love Mashed Potatoes but hate the fat and calories?? | Jan 10 2007 17:13 (UTC) |
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| I tried a recipe (that I slightly modified) from Rachel Ray's 30minute show for dinner last night. It is a pasta sauce made from mashed cauliflour. I basically just steamed the chopped up head, added garlic and onions and some nonfat plain yogurt. Served the whole mess over whole grain pasta. Really good stuff. Even the hubby liked it. | |||
| Recipes | Looking for Chinese food recipe help | Jan 10 2007 17:10 (UTC) |
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| If you want a really flavorful vinegar to use for chinese food sauces, try buying some unseasoned rice wine vinegar and putting some ginger root slices, a clove of garlic, and a couple of red pepper flakes in the bottle. The longer it sits the better it gets. | |||
| Weight Loss | Anyone at 1200 cal/day? | Jan 09 2007 20:22 (UTC) |
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| I am a very hungry person, and although I'm new to this, I'm finding its better if I'm eating almost every waking moment :)
Here's how I'm looking today at 1,223 if all goes as scheduled: Breakfast Banana, hard boiled egg, coffee, fat free flavored cream-204 Snack Radishes-6 Snack Serving chunk light tuna-60 Snack Lemon(Cut up to flavor water)-17 Lunch Sandwich with portabella mushrooms, red peppers, grated parmesan cheese on Light Whole wheat bread-225 Snack Apple-55 Snack Salad with Escarole, alfalfa sprouts, a bit of avocado and fresh lime juice for dressing-97 Snack Orange-45 Dinner Whole wheat pasta with a sauce made from cauliflower and fat free ricotta-189 Snack Tomato w/ black pepper-33 Snack Skim milk-83 Snack 6 Brown Rice Cakes-209 |
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| Recipes | Looking for Chinese food recipe help | Jan 09 2007 20:03 (UTC) |
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| Was the ginger-soy sauce thick, or thin like regular soy with little bits of stuff floating in it? If it was the second, you may try a potsticker sauce recipe. Here is a pretty good sauce 1 1/2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp rice vinegar 1 tbsp chili-garlic sauce 1/2 tsp finely grated ginger root Finely chopped green onion for garnish For peanut sauces, I like to do something similar, only instead of chili sauce and ginger, whisk in some crushed garlic and a dab of diet peanut butter. |
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| Recipes | Recipe conversion | Jan 09 2007 19:54 (UTC) |
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| Thank you so much for the remodel. I'll try making it that way this week and let you know how it turns out. Good call on the butter flakes. I've never actually heard of them before, but I'm assuming that they'd be in the spice aisle somewhere.
Thanks again! |
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| Foods | The power of Pineapple | Jan 09 2007 17:22 (UTC) |
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| shakti, Ross Geller on Friends was allergic to Kiwi and had to go to the hospital to get a shot when Monica made Kiwi-Lime Pie. -how lame am I? |
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| Foods | Cottage Cheese...Gross? | Jan 09 2007 17:09 (UTC) |
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| Don't let them bother you. You should remind them that all of the fast food and processed junk has a certian amount of rat hair, critter parts, etc that are allowed to enter into the product.
Next time your coworker is eating a hot pocket, tell them that they wouldn't eat it if they knew how much rat hair was in there. :) |
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| Recipes | Recipe conversion | Jan 09 2007 16:35 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for the tip, drea. And thanks for the link hkellick.
Ok. I'm almost embarrassed of this recipe, but here it goes.... http://www.calorie-count.com/recipe/15730.htm l |
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| Foods | Airline meal | Jan 09 2007 14:35 (UTC) |
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| I can commiserate. I was living in New Orleans for Katrina, and all we had to eat when we finally got help was MREs(Meals Ready to Eat). I ate so many of those and found out at one point that each meal had between 2000 and 2500 calories each! Apparently they're meant to be a one per day meal for a very large man, as opposed to a two per day meal for what used to be a relatively small woman! | |||
| Foods | I need help with cravings | Jan 09 2007 14:09 (UTC) |
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| ooooooooooooooooooo. A food dehydrator. A new toy. What fun! | |||
| Foods | BBQ Pork Ribs | Jan 09 2007 13:36 (UTC) |
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| This probably sounds a little lame, but I like to do a bunch of cooking once per month and freeze everything. I LOVE to eat out, but like you said, bbq is terrible. So I get cute little chinese food boxes and other neat containers (Check places like the Dollar Tree or another 99cent place) and put a serving in a freezer bag inside. Then when we want to eat out, it at least feels like we've gotten take out. Also, if I've made the food weeks ago and the dishes are already done, and all is forgotten, the meal still has all the carefree fun of someone else's cooking. | |||
| Foods | I need help with cravings | Jan 09 2007 13:27 (UTC) |
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| Those are great suggestions. Last night I did succumb to cheese, but it was a very small amount and I mainly ate a serving of chunk light tuna very s-l-o-w. I also tried dusting the woodwork way up high by the ceiling. I figured that if I still caved in, I'd at least have burned off some calories.
I'm going to make a list of eating alternates since that did seem to work last night. Who knows, maybe my house will sparkle in the process. Also, rdgatewood suggested beef jerky. Does anyone know of any low sodium jerky? (Or at least lower than the standard product) That sounds just yummy. |
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| Foods | I need help with cravings | Jan 09 2007 01:02 (UTC) |
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| Thanks guys. I'll try those things tonight. (So far the dog is safe!) | |||
| Motivation | Eating from boredom | Jan 08 2007 20:15 (UTC) |
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| I find that litterally picking at my food helps in situations like these. When I'm at my desk looking from my sad little salad to the clock to see if its snack time, I'll open the container (down low where no one can see) and use my fork to twirl the greens into little pieces. Its a game. I can't stop and eat the salad until its all 'cut up'. By the time I'm done, its usually past time for my snack and I acutally eat slower since its in a million little bits. Sounds dumb, but it works for me. | |||
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