Posts by mageeg

I'm basically maintaining now but want to lose 2 lbs I regained--sometime, though I don't really have a set date. The idiot tool tells me I have to eat 1200 calories too. I think it's a standard number or something. You'd think they'd up it a bit, considering they say in the next breath that 1200 is the absolute lowest any woman should go.

Original Post by belugabear:

Here is one of my all time favorite Indian dishes, it requires no special ingredients (unless you consider salmon colored lentils special).  I just put it in the recipe section as "Lemon Dal" if you want to use it.  Its pretty fattening if you eat a good size bowl of it.

Ismail Merchant’s Passionate Meals

Nimboo Masoor Dal

p. 102

1 ¼ cups vegetable oil divided...

My other all time favorite is barely edible, given the amount of butter that goes into it, Palaak Paneer.  I have made it without the butter, and you might as well just eat steamed spinach, still yummy, but not the same at all.

 Whoa, 1 1/4 cups of oil??? This must be a deep-fry recipe?

As for the palak paneer, are you thinking of Butter Paneer? That calls for a few tablespoons of butter, but the recipe I make for palak paneer just calls for 1 T of ghee (I use olive oil) and it tastes delicious.

Amen to those words of wisdom!

Definitely inches. I'd rather wear several sizes smaller clothes and *look* like I weigh less than simply weigh 20 lbs less. I consider inches lost muscle gained--a good thing.

(And FWIW, it took me a LOT longer than 20 weeks to lose 20 lbs--like a year or more. So kudos to you for that 20/20!)

Original Post by puh8suwrux:

Oh, I loved that rhyme!

How about the cinderella rhyme while jumping rope:

Cinderella, dressed in yella,

Went upstairs to kiss a fella.

Made a mistake and kissed a snake,

How many doctors will it take?

I remember that one! And then the 2 kids on either end swinging the rope would go really fast... There was another one but I can only remember the beginning:

Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue

Fourteen hundred and ninety-two...?

How about "free from fleas forever" or am I dating myself now? Heck, why stop there..."the fickle finger of fate" with the appropriate hand sign.

I used to just boil it with about 1/2 cup lemon juice added to the water, but then a fellow CCer turned me on to roast asparagus, which I then spritz with lemon juice when it comes out from the oven--yum! Better than french fries.

Well, what comes in has to come out! I found I was peeing a lot, AT LEAST once an hour, when I was making sure I drank 2 litres (8 glasses) or more/day. Annoying, but I figured things were being adequately flushed!

I have whacked out feet too only I have fallen arches, so I don't know how relevant this will be...it sounds like you're really giving your feet a beating, though, which isn't good, down the road. I suggest you go to your doctor, have him/her refer you to a podiatrist, and see if there is some sort of custom orthotic (shoe or insert) that can be made to help your feet. If you have insurance it will be covered (at least the appointment, perhaps a portion or all of the orthotics), and you'll be grateful for the extra expense in the long run--I've been wearing orthotics for years but hadn't been wearing them this winter because they didn't fit in my boots properly--now I've damaged my left foot further so it's excruciating to walk--which makes it really hard to exercise if walking is your main form of exercise!

Hate to depress you all, but I've been stalled since last September, bouncing up and down everywhere between 141 and 137 but not going any lower than 137 and that, only rarely, despite doing everything I should be doing. If I can plug away with nothing but blind faith in physics and determination for 6 months, then I'm sure all of you can manage a few weeks! Hang in there.

It's the right forum. Where else would you post a question about weight loss?!

I'm a strong believer in The Little Engine That Could, or whatever story included the line "I think I can I think I can I know I can I CAN!" In other words, if you don't like something, change it. Giving up gets you nowhere. It's automatic failure. Take charge, get determined, and JUST DO IT. I'm proof positive that you can change yourself and/or your circumstances, but you have to take responsibility for that change. I hit rock bottom when I was 32, ended up sharing a hospital room with an elderly, quietly wise woman after a suicide attempt, and was shamed into taking charge of my life, changing anything I didn't like. You have to decide what you really want and make it happen instead of making excuses. Stress is part of life. If you took a year off, you'd still have to come back to the stress, without the mental tools to handle it. So get a grip, get another job, but get proactive.

Original Post by pengy:

I like the new analysis, can't say I like the weight chart as much though. It looks cleaner but you can't see the individual days and weight in detail as the last one, at least on mine.

 I'm with you on the weight graph. I was tracking monthly spikes, but now I'm being shown a chart with 4 month increments, which makes it absolutely useless to me. I know I've been gradually losing weight, I want to see its weekly/monthly pattern, not the big picture. The 3D pie chart also throws me off in terms of proportions. It's a pie chart, for pete's sake, not artwork. I'm not here for pretty graphics, but informing tools.

I also wish there were an option to choose the old or new graphics.

Wear a bra. I didn't wear a bra from age 16-32 because I was small-chested and didn't think I needed to support something so bitty. But guess what! I'm 49 now, and even the bitty ones SAG as you get older. And that's despite being into hardcore weightlifting for 5 years in my early 30s. WEAR A GOOD BRA.

I'm pretty sure the white areas are fat--so yeah, the red--the meat--areas would have less fat.

I recently spent 3 1/2 weeks in Japan and came away with a new appreciation of their diet--but what the girl in that YouTube spot didn't mention is that the Japanese have a thick curry stew served with rice that's basically their version of a heart attack on a plate (and unfortunately, delicious). Then there's tempura--battered/fried vegies, anyone? And the Japanese woman who took me to a tea ceremony said her favorite part of it was the sweets they serve--and they are sweet--like eating icing! Most of their everyday sweets are made of bean paste and aren't very sweet (and are probably healthier); everywhere we went, if there was a sweet shop, it was packed with Japanese customers--so they do have their own variation of sweet tooth. Serving sizes are smaller--you come away feeling "just right." And the flavors are delicate and subtle, a nice change from the extreme overdoses of flavorings everything in NA seems to have now. People eating out seem to be there more for the socializing than the meal. But--MacDonalds has invaded! ARGH! It's like polluting the fountain of youth...

But it's true--we were in Tokyo most of the time, and in a city of 12 million people, I counted 12 overweight Japanese.