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| Weight Loss | Must have protein... | Dec 17 2007 03:08 (UTC) |
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| have you ever tried texturized protein? it sounds gross, it tastes amazing. i know you can get it in grocery stores in new york in flavors like thai chicken.
it is around 300 calories a serving for 50 grams of protein! |
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| Weight Loss | i don't normally eat like this...bad! | Dec 05 2007 05:57 (UTC) |
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| no, i mean i wasted calories on unhealthy foods. that bagel could have given me lots more vegetables and fruits.
and the muffin! jeez! |
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| Weight Loss | Question for diabetic people | Dec 04 2007 07:26 (UTC) |
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| have you had sex recently? sometimes that will make your pee smell sweet.
gross. i know. but you're the one that brought urine up. |
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| Weight Loss | waist to hip ratio | Dec 04 2007 07:15 (UTC) |
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| Weight Loss | ...but I hate vegetables | Oct 11 2007 23:50 (UTC) |
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| i've always liked vegetables OK but was too lazy to cook them. however, i've found a really delicious way to get lots of vegetables in!
i buy whole wheat wraps (80 cals) and usually stir fry eggplant and zucchini, mushrooms, onions, peppers, spinach, whatever I have, mix in some salsa and chicken, and make a delicious burrito! also ratatouille is good. i like eating lots of vegetables together. |
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| Weight Loss | i am menstruating! | Oct 06 2007 01:50 (UTC) |
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| no just pain wise. my periods used to be fairly light and painless and now they are much heavier and...ouch!
i actually haven't noticed any weight gain on either, although i am afraid of gaining weight on another pill (i was on estrostep a few years ago, i think i gained a little weight, i'm not sure)..... |
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| Weight Loss | judge me! is there an ideal diet? | Oct 04 2007 01:25 (UTC) |
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| i don't think i'm being overly defensive. it never hurts to clarify.
one cup of dry oats is 150 calories. These aren't Quaker Oats. It is McCann's Irish Oatmeal which is 150 for a half cup dry. Also I had some extra fruit after dinner (berries and melon).....maybe when you saw lunch as celery and egg, you guys panicked....but that was actually only half of a lunch. My snack was more like the second part of my lunch. I think I'm well over 1200. |
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| Weight Loss | judge me! is there an ideal diet? | Oct 04 2007 00:22 (UTC) |
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| oh i don't know, i'd say it's over 1200, easily. one cup of dry oats is 300 calories, probably another 100 calories with the almond milk. similarly greek nonfat yogurt has many more calories than normal nonfat yogurt.
again, five foot seven and 120 sounds thin, but on me, it is more like slender....distributed very oddly! since i am an apple shape, i need to be very careful about my weight as i have a body prone to diabetes and heart disease when overweight....what i like to call "death fat"...it is also very aesthetically unappealing! i think i'm going to start another thread but of interest: a photo shoot with women and their BMI's was done....technically "obese" people just looked plump, "overweight" people looked very healthy, "underweight" people looked fat.....just height/weight is a very very flawed basis of judgement! |
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| Weight Loss | judge me! is there an ideal diet? | Oct 03 2007 20:59 (UTC) |
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| yeah, but considering it's balanced by a pretty heavy snack (lunch is eaten around 1 and snack is around 3h30....basically it's two small lunches)
I don't know, I don't really count calories. How many do you think it is? I don't work out, but I walk a lot. I am 5 foot 7 and 120 pounds. I am looking to maybe lose, maybe maintain, mostly just firm up my stomach area (please no one give me **** about BMI, we all know it is a very flawed system) |
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| Weight Loss | fruit is the worst snack | Oct 02 2007 14:11 (UTC) |
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| i don't think many of these responses are very nice. no one is arguing fruit is bad for you: just that for some people a high sugar snack isn't the best idea.
why is everyone so dogmatic about their diet ideas here? everyone's body works differently, jeez! i personally try to avoid having fruit too often as a snack: it often makes me hungrier or even jittery from the sugar. i much prefer to get my servings from fruit in as a desert after meals, when I have protein and other things to balance out the spike in sugar. finally guys: be nice! |
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| Weight Loss | watching carbs! | Oct 01 2007 02:31 (UTC) |
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| oh nburgan, you were perfectly clear. i was addressing orenji who said not to watch carbs at all (sounds crazy to people with/at risk for diabetes such as ourselves!!!)......
what do you think about those food decisions? for someone watching sugar is nonfat soy or skim milk better? also, what about stuff like whole wheat pasta with tons of carbs but very little sugar? or a luna bar which is supposedly "healthy" but has as much sugar as a candy bar? what about "natural" sugars versus fake ones? what are your ideas, guys? |
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| Weight Loss | watching carbs! | Sep 30 2007 20:44 (UTC) |
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| nburgan, glad to hear it!
i think watching sugar levels is always a good idea! |
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| Weight Loss | weight gain after indulging in 4 beers? | Sep 30 2007 19:03 (UTC) |
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| i don't think one night of beer (mmmm, beer) will really have any effect, except for feeling bloated. eat normally and healthily today. on 1300 calories and 5 beers, i would have been pretty drunk, but i'm also pretty small. so no hungover junk food for you! have lots of vegetables and water. | |||
| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | Sep 28 2007 00:44 (UTC) |
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| oatmeal and strawberries
nature valley peanut butter bars, nature valley honey and oats bars (bad bad bad) non fat greek yogurt, non fat cottage cheese, non (low?) fat dannon yogurt thai style tofu one egg and one egg white with spinach, pepper and lox five strawberries, three little apples carrots |
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| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | Sep 28 2007 00:44 (UTC) |
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| oatmeal and strawberries
nature valley peanut butter bars, nature valley honey and oats bars (bad bad bad) non fat greek yogurt, non fat cottage cheese, non (low?) fat dannon yogurt thai style tofu one egg and one egg white with spinach, pepper and lox five strawberries, three little apples carrots |
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| Weight Loss | Help! Going to India - how can I stay on my diet? | Sep 27 2007 06:12 (UTC) |
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| dysentery! | |||
| Weight Loss | two questions?! | Sep 27 2007 04:51 (UTC) |
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| i wish i was a pear!
i am officially jealous of your body shape and your apparently amazing exercise skillzzz. you will be alive much longer than i. |
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| Weight Loss | Below the belly button fat..... | Sep 27 2007 04:36 (UTC) |
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| i'd like to know too! | |||
| Weight Loss | exercise won't make you skinny! | Sep 27 2007 04:36 (UTC) |
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| i think exercise is great. but i know plenty of plump people who stay plump, and run every day.
when i ran i never lost weight. i felt good, but i didn't lose weight. when obese people lose a lot of weight exercising/dieting it is often because they're making changes from grossly unhealthy lifestyles. they were going against nature before.... i'm starting to think genetics is playing with loaded dice.... |
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| Weight Loss | how many calories do you think this is? | Sep 25 2007 23:33 (UTC) |
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| aw let's add in an apple and a cup of nonfat greek yogurt
so, amended: breakfast: oatmeal and nonfat soy milk lunch: whole wheat tortilla, chicken, onion, spinach, guacamole and salsa snack: cup of lowfat greek yogurt and apple dinner: broth and grilled zucchini with a little chevre after dinner: glass of red wine |
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| Weight Loss | can someone help?? | Sep 25 2007 05:12 (UTC) |
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| remember how gross you feel after a binge....write down everything you ate........and get back on track tomorrow!
i had a terrible binge last night, so I am in the same position! never see any flux in weight when I do it though, so maybe it is true that your body jolts up its metabolism to accomodate your piggyness... |
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| Weight Loss | The No-Binging Challenge!!! | Sep 25 2007 05:09 (UTC) |
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raw spinach with a little smoked salmon and carrots miso soup oatmeal with nonfat soy milk |
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| Foods | French Cuisine... | Jul 22 2007 09:30 (UTC) |
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| isn't it equally a generalisation to say americans are fat? these things have truth, friend. how long were you in france? | |||
| Foods | French Cuisine... | Jul 22 2007 07:32 (UTC) |
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| well pgeorgian, i lived in france for more than a year, I'm still living in France, and I have no intentions of making excuses for Americans in any sense, certainly not their obesity. But, I'm sorry, go to Paris. Look at the pharmacies. Go to a dinner. Do you know any French people? Have you ever been to France?
All I'm saying is there's a lot of stuff to be said for small portions, for walking, for a lot of European habits. I do that anyway. The reason the French get credit for being skinny is because they add a lot of unhealthy habits on top of that, not just smoking. They're very image conscious, very weight conscious....like I said, go into a French pharmacy, and see what they're advertising, what the women buy.......obviously, I'm being slightly glib when I say they're all bulimic but let's just say it all ain't baguette and Camembert over here..... |
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| Foods | French Cuisine... | Jul 21 2007 17:54 (UTC) |
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| the French have a nation wide eating disorder. all the women are bulimic. go to a french pharmacy, they're coated in advertisements for weight loss pills....contrary to popular belief, frenchwomen work quite hard not to get fat! there are also the usual explanations like chain smoking, smaller portions, walking, but this is normal in most european countries. the French just get credit because in addition to these normal things, the women here are neurotic about staying skinny..... | |||
| Weight Loss | Uncontrollable binging | Jul 13 2007 06:48 (UTC) |
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| i find it ironic that I wrote that post yesterday, probably whilst shoving three brownies and an elephant in my mouth......
I think it's good to remember how bad you feel after a binge: write it down in a journal, how your tummy hurts or you feel gross and full of sugar or just guilty. |
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| Weight Loss | Uncontrollable binging | Jul 12 2007 15:45 (UTC) |
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| I've had the same problem too.....the thing is, I follow a pretty strict diet, so once I give in and eat that one ice cream bar, I get depressed and very 'oh i've screwed it up for today, better eat the whole house!'......in fact, having a binge day right now. I'm sure I'm over 2,000 calories.....
Do you think you might be depriving yourself of nutrients? Or just tasty things? I sort of necessarily have to deprive myself of sweets and chocolates (because if I have just a little it sets off a sugar craving)....but it's a vicious cycle because then it just seems more forbidden and delicious! Do you have your period? Are you upset? Please message me whenever you like....in the past few weeks I've been binging a lot and am kind of disgusted with it (I think it's because I went off antidepressants and I had a sudden drop in seratonin....)......all you need is support and willpower! |
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| Weight Loss | harm caused by binge? | Jul 11 2007 14:21 (UTC) |
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| and except for the binges, which are probably triggered by other things as well, i've been doing fine. i've been very careful to wean myself off. i live in a foreign country where I do not have health insurance. | |||
| Weight Loss | harm caused by binge? | Jul 11 2007 14:20 (UTC) |
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| i don't have a doctor anymore. | |||
| Weight Loss | harm caused by binge? | Jul 11 2007 12:36 (UTC) |
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| thanks a lot for that. it's curious because I've just taken myself off antidepressants this past month: perhaps the drop in seratonin from the antidepressants triggered these binges? | |||
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