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| Maintaining | Seriously need help please | Oct 01 2009 23:55 (UTC) |
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3 meals and 3 snacks seems like a good idea...at your age you can could probably do 500 calories a meal and 200 calories a snack. You are only 17 so you still need those extra calories to grow and develop. Typically, when you see something that says "ABSOLUTELY NO SNACKS" they are referring to unhealthy junk food snacks. You also don't need to stress about how many calories are in a particular "meal" If you focus on your calories overall then you will be able to make better choices...like perhaps one day you wake up and have a hearty breakfast and then at lunch you decide to go lighter...but you don't have to be tied to that routine everyday. There are plenty of web resources that will give you an idea of how many calories you should eat a day. It's up to you to decide how you would like to spread them out! Good luck on your nutritional journey~ |
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| The Lounge | how many calories does punching today in the cooter burn? | Sep 23 2009 07:37 (UTC) |
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Cooter Burn...that doesn't sound pleasant...but seriously...it's 17 calories. |
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| Motivation | what to do after a binge? | Sep 23 2009 07:23 (UTC) |
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I noticed that when I binge eat it's not because I'm hungry. It's almost like a trance....but i eat and eat until I'm well passed full and in pain. Something that really helps me is writing. If I feel a binge coming on I go get my laptop and write. I start out just typing "I feel like I'm going to binge eat"...I'll go on about what I want to eat and why...and then I start writing about the possible outcome. It really helps to sort of get your mind back into reality. For my own personal experience binging doesn't happen when I'm feeling deprived of food. It happens when I feel lonely or depressed. When your eating your brain is occupying itself with all the things that are happening while you're eating...chewing, swallowing, tasting, smelling...everything else takes a back burner...it's like a drug. It's a struggle to not let food run your life. However, when you start writing you start to understand yourself a little more. |
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| The Lounge | Would you agree with.. | Sep 22 2009 19:08 (UTC) |
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Original Post by alibsam: The fining I mentioned would be a proposed punishment for parents that didn't take the class. So you basically proved my point that if parents are going to be abusive it's going to take more than a class, being arrested, or jail to straighten them out...I just think have a government run, Mandatory class, is not something that will work or is a good idea. If private institution want to continue offering optional classes...I'm all for that. But no one should be forced to do something just because some one else thinks they know best |
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| The Lounge | Would you agree with.. | Sep 22 2009 10:16 (UTC) |
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Original Post by alibsam: Parents that are physically/sexually abusive are not going to learn from a basic government run course. When you make something like a Parenting class mandatory by government regulation you are going to have people that don't follow the rules. So then there is fining people or doing what ever it is that the government will do to punish them for breaking the rules causing the problems to greatly outweigh the benefits.. |
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| The Lounge | Would you agree with.. | Sep 22 2009 03:18 (UTC) |
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The government regulating any MORE aspects of our personal life is a bad idea. |
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| Motivation | 14 pounds gone! | Sep 22 2009 03:06 (UTC) |
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Original Post by dxtreme45: Fat/sugar/sodium...I limit them by never adding fat, sugar, or salt to anything. So I may eat chicken which has fat...but i won't add the other two to it. :D |
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| The Lounge | Please give me your opinion for a survey | Sep 17 2009 03:06 (UTC) |
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Yes...I say legalize it completely...the benefits of having marijuana is sooo great...there are so many things that it would help. |
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| Health & Support | Horrible Itch...I'm going INSANE! | Sep 17 2009 01:12 (UTC) |
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I'm definetly going to try that when I get paid...Thanks everyone! |
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| Health & Support | Horrible Itch...I'm going INSANE! | Sep 16 2009 17:18 (UTC) |
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Guess I'll get my will together...:( On a more positive note...I lost my first 10 pounds!!!! |
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| Health & Support | Horrible Itch...I'm going INSANE! | Sep 16 2009 04:59 (UTC) |
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Went to see a doctor...he said he'd give me some benadryl. I told him I'd been taking benadryl...he looked at me...said "okay"...and then left and the nurse came back with benadryl. He barely looked at me. Now I remember why I don't go out of my way to see doctors...I still itch :( |
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| Health & Support | Horrible Itch...I'm going INSANE! | Sep 12 2009 18:45 (UTC) |
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I don't have the means to go to a doctor right now...:( I was just curious to see if anyone else had experienced something similar. I haven't done anything differently....I dunno...maybe I'll try to save up to go to an urgent care for the next couple of weeks...I itch but that is all...I have no other symtoms. I've been trying today not to scratch...Everyone that's close to me is getting tired of hearing about it...I'll figure something out though. |
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| Motivation | Diet Anxiety Dream!! | Sep 12 2009 15:55 (UTC) |
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I had a dream like that this last night. I was at a party and loaded my plate up with all kinds of things and remeber thinking in my dream....'how I'm I gonna remember to log all this'...it was strange but i was soooo relieved when I woke up. |
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| Motivation | I went to Planned Parenthood today for my depo shot AND.......... | Sep 11 2009 21:27 (UTC) |
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CONGRATULATIONS ON 4O POUNDS... I can't wait until i can wear the regular blood pressure thing! |
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| Games & Challenges | World Longest couplet Poem! | Sep 10 2009 05:54 (UTC) |
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3000 shillings or a gold penis spear divvy it up or you'll be thrown outta 'ere! |
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| Motivation | I don't know how you all do it. | Sep 09 2009 11:26 (UTC) |
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Original Post by synergy317: This made me laugh out loud a bit...considering I have smoked crack (always looking for something to fill that void) and had a run with heroin for a bit but food has been a harder addiction to break. I don't long for food...it's not the taste or boredom or even my physical need that makes me overeat, it's something that's totally different...part of my journey is finding that out. Sure the science behind weight loss is a really simple fomula...but pushing yourself through the pain of working out everyday and the will power to stay away from something that puts you at ease when nothing can is hard....If it wasn't we would all look like super models because everyone would do it. Granted weight loss is not caparable to having a tragic disease or disfigurement that you have to deal with on a day to day basis...but it is still a difficult journey. |
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| Motivation | This Is Why You're Fat | Sep 05 2009 17:19 (UTC) |
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Oh geeze...That stuff is crazy...but I got to admit I probably would have eaten some of it...the Double Down KFC thing is real but they are test driving it in Nebraska and Rhode Island...so crazy...
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| Motivation | Eating Problems. | Sep 05 2009 16:54 (UTC) |
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This website gives me a calorie target of 1800 or so. I don't exercise enough to eat a bunch of calories. When I did this the first time I lost 40lbs eating about 1500 calories a day. I do plan on adjusting as I go. But eating 1400 calories doesn't bother me at all. I don't feel hungry. That' the weird thing about this "Food Addiction" thing...is when I ate the huge amounts of food before it wasn't because I was hungry for it...I just wanted to feel something. I welcome all advice from anyone and I really appreciate it. If things don't work out for me at 1400 calories for the first month or so then I'll reevaluate my routine. For now I feel fine and energetic...then again it's only day 5....but again thank you to EVERYONE...your support will be part of the reason that I WILL SUCCEED! |
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| The Lounge | GOD......whats ppls beliefs.... | Sep 05 2009 07:58 (UTC) |
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I'm not a big fan of religion. I like science...science makes sense to me...I'm rather opposed to religion...it causes all kinds of problems. It's a big money making industry like anything else only a lot of people die...I think that religious text should be looked at as stories...not history or rules. A |
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| Motivation | I don't know how you all do it. | Sep 05 2009 07:26 (UTC) |
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Reading your post, I felt as if someone had hacked into my brain and wrote everything I was thinking down. I know exactly how you feel! This is my 3rd time back...The first time I lost 40 lbs and then I just quit because of a new relationship...the second time I was trying to go vegan to lose weight...that turned out to be more hurtful than helpful and I didn't lose any weight...now I'm back trying to get into the swing of things and not cutting anything out 100% I'm staying away from things like chocolate, cheese, redmeat, and refined sugar...but I'm telling myself that there will be a day when I can handle eating these things in moderation...but right now it's best that I stick to practicing to eat. I to find it hard to get motivated. I look at my 350lb figure in the mirror and just don't think it's gonna happen. Sometimes my mind even makes up reasons why I shouldn't lose weight...I tell myself that'll I'll never be able to get rid of the excess skin or that I'll look strange thin...But I overcome those thoughts.
Like you, I have a lot of weight to lose...and it's hard to look at the large number and feel like it's never gonna go down. But I can imagine what it will feel like to be thin (I've been overweight my whole life)...no more thighs rubbing, enourmous rolls hanging over my jeans, getting winded walking up a flight of stairs, strategically posing for pictures to hide my double chin...no more having to settle for clothes that I don't really like. No more feet pain from just standing around for a couple of hours, no more wondering what obesity will do to my health in the future, no more setting the car seat at the furthest position from the wheel or panicing in line at an amusement park wondering if I'm going to be turned away from the rollar coaster because the bar won't go all the way down...(that has happened to me twice). I want to be able to wear shorts without the them riding up my thighs....geeze...I guess I could go on forever. Clothes is one of the big ones for me...I LOVE FASHION...but not really anything for the plus size lady...I swear if I see one more "Proud To be Cuddely" Pooh bear shirt I think I'm gonna scream! But we can do it Kindal, it's gonna take time but I know we can do it. |
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| Motivation | Eating Problems. | Sep 05 2009 06:47 (UTC) |
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Thanks for sharing yummy_kitty. I started again on 9/1/09 too! This is the first time that i've went into this looking at my eating as an addiction that needs to be dealt with. So now I'm investigating why I feel the need to eat so much. I've been keeping my calories under 1400 and not eating any unhealthy foods. It's only day 5 and I already feel a ton better. My face is clearing up a bit because of all the water and not having stomach pain is great too. It makes me feel good at the end of the day to look at the calories I logged and know exactly what I ate...like I have some control! |
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| Games & Challenges | World Longest couplet Poem! | Sep 04 2009 17:34 (UTC) |
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Sounds like someone's tossin' a salad, want this to be dirty? Well continue the ballad!
1000 LINES! |
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| Motivation | Eating Problems. | Sep 04 2009 17:30 (UTC) |
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Thanks Downdeep for your story...I'm on day 4 now and doing okay...It means a lot that you shared that with me. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one that eats like that. I did try mentioning it to my mom but she seemed totally blown away...I'm the only one with a weight problem in my family, so no one else really looks at food like I do...Everyone else is just like "Food...eh...I'll eat when I'm hungry" and that's it...But food it's like my best friend and my worst enemy.
But thank all of you for everything I'm glad I don't have to go through this completley alone. |
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| The Lounge | NO Meat NO Men NO Sugar NO Dairy For a year... | Sep 04 2009 01:24 (UTC) |
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That is really good advice...I've also found that if I really like something that is high in fat there is always a substitute... I was really gunho about the no dairy and meat and animal products at the beginning of the year...i read that book "Skinny Bitch" and I guess i got a bit over excited. But this time I'm not going to go by someone else idea of what a good diet is...I'm doing my own research and looking at my own resources to develop a personalize plan that's best for me!!~ |
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| Motivation | Eating Problems. | Sep 04 2009 01:08 (UTC) |
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I've always known that I have issues from my past that need to be dealt with in a professional matter...sometimes I just feel like my problems and feelings aren't important enough to bother someone with. It's day three of counting calories for me...so far everything has been good...writing it down does help and I'm so glad to have support. I've been trying to busy myself with hobbies. I keep thinking if I would have just stuck with it the first time I would have been thin by now. Even still I can feel this tug in the back of my head telling me that I'm going to fail. Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to sabotage myself. Hopefully I can stay on track this time. I'm really trying to get into the mind set that the eating is an addiction and if I don't control it I will die from obesity....
Thanks for your kind words! |
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| The Lounge | NO Meat NO Men NO Sugar NO Dairy For a year... | Sep 02 2009 23:52 (UTC) |
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Update...it's been like 9 months since I made this thing...and what have I done...fell back into dirty traps...I made it without meat and dairy until April...then just went back to normal eating habits...blah...
I did have one small sexual encounter...and I mean small...I'm not sure it even counts...
Anyhow I've decided that I must lose weight. So here's a new pledge. I will eat no more than 2000 calories and no less than 1200 calories a day. I will drink only water and exercise....luck be wished upon me :( |
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| The Lounge | NO Meat NO Men NO Sugar NO Dairy For a year... | Sep 02 2009 23:47 (UTC) |
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Original Post by heather84clear: |
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| Games & Challenges | World Longest couplet Poem! | May 17 2009 08:49 (UTC) |
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Like weather the thong or the grannies are your panty choice you can decide with ease what panty will strengthen your voice. |
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| The Lounge | NO Meat NO Men NO Sugar NO Dairy For a year... | Jan 13 2009 03:56 (UTC) |
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yeah sex is only good exercise if its vigorous...and i can't be hanging from any chandaleirs at my size... hopefully 100lbs from now i can be doing the loop de loop in the nude...i'm nuts! |
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| The Lounge | Sex | Jan 13 2009 03:53 (UTC) |
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I"m 24...and i've been with 24 people... on average one a year....i was quite the ho in my toddler years..j/k |
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