Posts by kungfu17

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Foods	Almond Breeze	Sep 19 2007 17:35 (UTC)	14
i'm a vegan and have used it in lattes. pretty good. never used it as a creamer though. but instead of milk, it's my favorite.
Foods	pasta cooked/uncooked equivalences	Sep 19 2007 17:32 (UTC)
thanks!
Weight Loss	I just binged AGAIN.... now what?	Sep 19 2007 16:47 (UTC)	15
to katethegreat, i've had a binging problem and eating celery when i've had the urge to binge has helped me. not everyone is the same, so keep an open mind? when i reached for celery, i was reaching for nourishment instead of foods that would hurt me more. while eating the celery the first time, i was put off the idea of all that chewing just as a reaction to stress and tough emotion. the toughness of the celery made me reconsider my need for nourishment and the likelihood i was hungry at all, which for me is something that's hard to actually distinguish. that it's really quite impossible to binge on celery struck me. i put the celery away and have been without a binge for more days in a while.
Weight Loss	I just binged AGAIN.... now what?	Sep 19 2007 16:42 (UTC)	16
try to go a week on maintenance calories without binging. then try to reduce calories. often doing these two things at once doesn't work.
Weight Loss	Stuck and Frustrated.	Aug 20 2007 00:58 (UTC)	4
you might want to talk to someone about this. otherwise all i can say is that the aim should be health, not a certain weight or look. sometimes the latter are impossible, not worth a struggle against yourself - all that work should be for you instead, because you're worth it.
Weight Loss	please tell me! before-after picture!	Aug 20 2007 00:55 (UTC)
wow - big change. but you are very pretty either way!
Health & Support	Question about Anemia/Iron/drinking lots of water	Jun 11 2007 23:39 (UTC)	5
I don't know about water, but I have heard that tea prevents the iron from being absorbed. But vitamin C supposedly helps it. Facts, anyone?
Vegetarian	Out of the closet	Jun 10 2007 18:34 (UTC)
I was talking with my parents when I was considering becoming vegan. They find the thinking behind it different and interesting, but will never change themselves. My dad would suggest I throw bacon into things until that joke got old, but both he and my mom have been surprisingly supportive. I will live with them for a few months before school again, and cook my own meals, so there aren't any problems. At family gatherings, it should be fine. Those are rare and I think I've a cousin who is vegan and her partner is also vegan or at least vegetarian I think. What shocked me was that my mom even looked at ingredient lists for me! And I think she'll even eat the vegan french toast I promised to make...I actually for the first time want to cook for them to show them that veggie meals can actually be satisfying and delicious...but yeah, I suppose I do see it as a sort of challenge!
Vegetarian	Veggie burgers = lots of money	Jun 10 2007 18:24 (UTC)	1
I really want to try to make raw (slightly dehydrated) burgers...alas, no dehydrator yet.
Vegetarian	Hard for veggies to lose lbs?	Jun 10 2007 18:21 (UTC)	4
I lost 25 pounds gradually by replacing meats and heavy pasta with vegetables for dinner with vegan sauces. I wasn't trying to lose weight, just eat a balanced diet with more vegetables and then I didn't see a point to eating meat or trying to eat more of it when I saw these results. Lentils were my protein saviour. Low in calories for beans and one of the best out there.
Vegetarian	Vegan roll call?	Jun 10 2007 18:19 (UTC)	93
My diet has been vegan (strict vegetarian, I say however, see next paragraph for reason) for 5 months maybe. I went from meat-eating to vegan accidentally by phasing more vegetables into my diet after being sick and I liked the effects. I was buying soy milk and cow's milk alternating weeks, but the cow's milk didn't taste so good after a while and I wondered if it really wasn't as healthy as I thought. Then I read about the ethics, watched some gruesome video and decided that never again would I eat a sick animal. If I've just eaten one such animal in my lifetime, it's too many and I'm sad that I've probably eaten several. It can't be healthy and anything involving tortured beings is not fit to be food and is doing the environment, animals and people no good, was my logic. But I don't believe you can call yourself a vegan if it's only a strict vegetarian diet you follow. There is already enough confusion about what is vegetarian. Fish? Chicken, anyone? People don't get it. For the moment, I tell people I am becoming vegan (gradually getting rid of animal products I have and not buying any more) and then what that means...
Weight Loss	Curvey women or stick thin women?	Jun 10 2007 18:12 (UTC)	31
Thin is now a status-symbol. Higher-class means personal trainers, psychotherapy and higher-quality food, as well as dining in restaurants with notoriously small potions. Sad.
Vegetarian	Mcdonalds	Jun 03 2007 09:35 (UTC)	11
Actually, supporting McDonald's vegetarian options might promote a change, at least for the animals. In capitalism, only demand will do this - and it would ensure that people who don't eat meat or animal products will have somewhere to stop when traveling through West Virginia or the South, where it's beautiful but not particularly vege-friendly. However, I would rather starve than give them money. Because I hate how McDonalds spreads its garbage all over the world and is pretty much the Ambassador of Obesity wherever it goes. A public health nightmare. So I suppose I do boycott them due to ethics no matter what. Carry on. Just wanted to point out the potential good one can do by supporting fast food vegetarian options, if one must.
Weight Loss	Addiction to sweets	Jun 03 2007 09:21 (UTC)	2
I feel like quitting cold turkey like a real addiction - because it is! - is the only way it's ever worked for me. That includes even jam. Replace with fresh fruit with lots of fiber like apples or pears. Try even lemon juice cut with water. After 3 weeks, the cravings will be gone - I know from experience. It's just hard to last the 3 weeks without the bad sugar and I've not been able to do it for a few months.
Vegetarian	Taste Buds Changing?	May 31 2007 01:20 (UTC)
I feel like I can tell now when there's a lot of saturated fat in food. I almost thought once that the Thai food I had had butter in it...but no, it was vegan. I was just tasting the sat. fat in the coconut milk! When I was first starting out and experimenting, I actually forgot what cheese tasted like...I used to say I loved bacon and cheese and could never be a vegetarian but after even a month of eating more vegetables I wasn't impressed with cheese and didn't even want bacon. So much for the myth of the closet jerky-munching vegetarians.
Foods	Tazo Iced Tea	May 31 2007 01:16 (UTC)	1
ask them how they make it. sounds good to me and calorie-free, but ask to make sure.
Foods	Does Green Tea Do The Trick?	May 31 2007 01:14 (UTC)	3
I hear both green tea and oolong tea prevent fat absorption when after a meal. Just don't be fooled by "Wu-Long" tea as online for 40 bucks...oolong is the same thing, and that's the common name you'd find at most regular grocery stores for cheap. One problem with teas and meals though is that it also negatively affects iron absorption. So if you're anemic, it's probably not a good idea.
Foods	What foods would help me GAIN weight?	May 31 2007 01:11 (UTC)	5
complex carbs w/ protein - beans and legumes and products made from them.
Motivation	this whole calorie counting thing is taking over my life...	May 31 2007 00:01 (UTC)	11
try stopping for a week and eating smart - correct portions, good food, etc. if you can't stop and have abnormal fears you will gain weight (even if you can stop and don't gain weight but are still afraid) then I'd get some help...
Motivation	unhelpful comments	May 30 2007 20:54 (UTC)	6
Real life? Oh yeah...well then tell the person it's none of their business. Again, keep information private. I guess if they can see you losing weight its difficult...try not to talk about weight loss at all, etc. and esp. in front of your daughter in case that's what's setting it off.
Maintaining	everyone here is so thin!	May 30 2007 05:09 (UTC)	8
BMI is for those of us who aren't intuitive. Why do colleges rely so much on SATs? Frankly, it's easier, even if not very accurate a measurement.
Motivation	unhelpful comments	May 30 2007 05:06 (UTC)	14
why is your daughter on this website? and why do people know so much about your private lives? perhaps take some of this information off of here and be sensible about your daughter's health.
Weight Loss	Water, water, water	May 30 2007 04:51 (UTC)	15
To me, tea and especially herbal tea is water. I realize the caffeine in black tea could be a problem, but I find myself drinking probably a liter of herbal and then a liter of green or white or both. And then I drink water on top of that.
Vegetarian	Busy, busy new pescetarian! help!	May 30 2007 04:46 (UTC)	6
Lentil soup. Don't even need to soak the lentils beforehand, but you can if your want. Put them in the boiling vege broth for 15 min. while you chop up the other veges like celery, carrots leeks, onions whatever and they'll be done by the time you cook the other stuff as well. Add whatever spices you have. Very simple.
Health & Support	~~Bingers Anonymous~~	May 20 2007 19:38 (UTC)	650
If I were to replace high-cal foods with say, celery and low-sodium salsa, just so I can munch on something, wouldn't that be reinforcing the behavior to eat under stress. Granted, it's better than the other stuff I could be eating, but I am still focusing on food as a way to feel better...I just want to stop thinking about food...this is madness!
Health & Support	What can cause Painful Bloating?	May 20 2007 03:53 (UTC)	5
Try giving up certain foods and replacing them with others...maybe you'll be able to recognize what's causing you the problems...
Weight Loss	disproportionate weight loss	May 20 2007 03:51 (UTC)	10
If you took a photo of my lower body, you would assume I am overweight. If you took a photo of my upper body, you'd probably say underweight. It's that extreme.
Games & Challenges	The person below me!!!	May 19 2007 23:26 (UTC)	6,172
False. But I did eat a lot of peanut butter... TPBM lifted weights today.
Weight Loss	I've decided to cut out sugar..	May 19 2007 00:09 (UTC)	20
My rule is no added sugar. Fruit is sweet enough on it's own, and contains enough sugar...
Weight Loss	Is Fasting good or bad?	May 18 2007 23:54 (UTC)	5
I'm a proponent of fasting - but the right way. Done too often, it can prevent weight loss and harm muscles, but if done 5 days or so 2-4 times a year, it can really be helpful regarding cravings, addictions, etc. It also helped me figure out what hunger even was...a lot of people, I suspect, don't really understand the feeling. Vegetables taste really good afterwards as well, so good habits are reinforced. Just be sure not to eat ice cream or something afterwards...

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