Posts by thejabronisayz

I appreciate the responses but i must point out that 1) all of my pictures in my gallery are not recent, the most recent one is my default which is from over a year ago, and 2) this is NOT an issue about my BDD. Throughout the entire course of the summer I felt great, and I thought I looked good and was happy. It was only when I saw the pictures of myself from just last week, thought to myself that something did not seem right, and then put them SIDE BY SIDE with the pictures from one year prior that I saw a visible difference. This is not me looking at one picture and thinking I look fat, it is me comparing my appearance from one year to the next. Once I get my scanner working I will scan the pictures in so you can see what I mean. I repeat, this is not an issue with my BDD. Even throughout the cruise when I looked in the mirror I thought I looked great, and then looking at the pictures themselves was like I was looking at a different person. My main concern is not about my BDD, it is about how I can gain weight when I eat healthy and exercise so much

Substituting sugar free syrup saves 20 calories. A light frappucino is made with one pump of syrup. Each pump of regular syrup (according to Starbucks nutritional info) is 20 calories. The SF syrup has 0 calories. I have worked in a Starbucks and know this to be the case.

Giabash is right. I love spinach and spinach salads. I have an obscene amount of raw spinach when I make my salads, but I figured out a trick. I take all the spinach I want (dining hall), and then microwave it. Doing that gives me extremely little to no gas at all. However, if I ate like 1/10 of the amount of spinach I normally eat RAW instead of cooked...there's trouble.

Well the only difference I can think of is that yesterday in particular I just did cardio. I run in the morning and then in the afternoon I either do weights or run more. Yesterday I only ran more and didn't have to use the bathroom all night.

The thing is - I heard that weight training causes your muscles to retain water. Therefore, it doesn't make sense in my mind that on the day I DIDN'T weight train, I didn't go to the bathroom (since perhaps my muscles were retaining water)? I don't know, it doesn't make sense to me.

I run on the treadmill everyday. When I need to run outside for whatever reason, I think that it's a lot easier. Therefore, the opposite is happening to you: you're used to running outside, so the treadmill seems harder. As stated above, it's due to the different motion. You're not propelling yourself forward.

By removing the fat they remove a lot of taste. They need to replace it somehow. The result? More sodium, carbs, sugar, and calories.

Just went today - got double roast beef salad with vinegar, sweet/banana peppers, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, pickles and carrots. Really good.

I used to eat: hot pockets, mcdonald's, lunchables, pizza, hamburgers, french fries, ice cream, brownies.

I used to exercise: never.

NOW I eat: whey protein powder, hummus, broccoli, spinach, grilled chicken, white fish, cottage cheese, egg whites, PB2, bananas, apples, tabouleh.

I NOW exercise: Either running 7 miles on the treadmill or my swim practices for college, which is D1.

Personally I think I look better after I work out. However, in your case, I suspect that perhaps before you work out you don't expect to look good or you don't necessarily care how you look because let's face it you're going to work out and it's not a beauty contest at the gym. However, afterwards, you're happy your workout is over and you in a way expect to look good because you feel as though you should since you worked out. This heightened sense of "I should look good now" or higher expectations to look good might explain then why you don't think you look good.

It sounds weird but it happens to me all the time. When I'm at school I don't care at all how I look. I don't shave really and I just wear sweats and stuff to class. When my parents come up to visit me though I want to look good. I shave and dress nice for them and even though I then look 100 times better than before, I normally don't think I look good since I now EXPECT to look good, whereas previously I had no expectations to look good and therefore could not care less.

How often you change your routine is a matter of opinion so it's completely up to you. Cross training is very beneficial since it keeps your body guessing as to the type of workout and as you mentioned it helps when your main workout gets too easy. If you like your workout routine and it's tough, then just do that. If it gets too easy, then change it. You could also do tae-bo 3 times a week and then weight training or cardio 2-3 days a week.

If you're on a weight loss diet and start incorporating work outs, then it is perfectly normal to lose a pound a week. Therefore, in 2 weeks you could probably see a little difference if you lost weight each week.

Lastly, I don't know what you mean. Normally people who start working out when they never worked out before LOSE weight because of the added level activity. The only difference is if you normally "work out" by doing cardio and then start weight training and eating more protein to gain muscle, which would result in weight gain. I honestly have no idea why you gained 5 pounds your first week. No offense but you certainly did not gain 5 pounds of muscle, but since you were working out you definitely did not gain 5 pounds of fat either. Maybe someone else can answer this.

I recalibrated today and that seemed to do the trick, thanks for the advice, I didn't realize that calibration had to be like a monthly thing.

I don't know your stats so this number will not be accurate, but for argument's sake, let's say that the body burns 1500 calories a day naturally. If your hike supposedly burned an additional 1450 calories, that means you burned 2950 calories and ate 2000, for a deficit of 950 calories, which is probably too large for weight loss purposes. A deficit of 500 calories will suffice, whereas 1000 calorie deficits could cause starvation mode.

Thanks for the responses. I think Gi-Jane's analogy clearly applies to the dilemma. I ended up getting the chicken dish over whole wheat penne and there was honestly not much there. I ordered the pasta because I was hungry and I thought that getting the side of pasta would be more food than the side of "zuchinni marinara" that I could get (I have a choice of either the zuchinni or pasta). However, it was actually such a small "bed" that I second guessed my decision and started to think that the zuchinni would have been more. The portion was comparable to the portion of cooked pasta as pictured on this site: http://www.forceofnature.ca/nutrition.php. I wouldn't say as a rule of thumb though that this is always the case - my parents have ordered their entrees over beds of pasta in other restaurants and in those cased the portions were gigantic.

Thanks a lot for all the replies. To the moderator - if I somehow violated the rules then I'm sorry. I was in no way promoting being unhealthy. Since this is a support forum I was just desperately seeking help and I in no way intended to infringe upon any of the terms/conditioning of the site.

As I said, I've gone to therapists, priests, and talked to my parents about this and nothing has helped. I was in reality very fat about eight years ago. I was teased mercilessly for it by girls (which would explain why after 3 semesters in college I have NO friends who are girls). In addition, my parents are extremely harsh when it comes to judging other people's appearances. They in no way say that I am fat; if anything they call me "count chocula" (the vampie guy with the ridiculous skinny face from the cereal). But they are critical of other people which makes me even more self conscious about my own appearance. They ALWAYS say that "it looks like [insert name here] put on a few" when we cross paths with someone we know. They have also described Miley Cyrus as having a "moon face" and have called Beyonce of all people fat. That's clearly why I am so nervous about looking good for them.

Looking at pictures sometimes helps. If I look at pictures from a few years ago then I can clearly see that my face now is much better looking; however, I just for the first time a few days ago got to look at the pictures from our vacation in August and there were numerous pictures where I was absolutely appalled at how fat I thought my face looked. So even though sometimes I can see in pictures how crazy I am, other times pictures just seem to reinforce my beliefs.

I once again appreciate the advice and I wish luck to anyone else who has the same horrible illness.