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| Foods | Favorite "Fake" or diet food | Nov 01 2008 21:57 (UTC) |
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Original Post by madetoshine: When I was growing up (in the 70s/80s) Morning Star Farm only made the Breakfast Patties, fake bacon (Stripples), fake breakfast links, and fake Canadian bacon (which the stopped making years ago, much to my chagrin). I haven't really dabbled too much in the newer MSF products, except for the corn dogs. I guess old habits die hard, and I'm just really into the flavor of the breakfast patties. I think their newer products lack the depth of flavor. |
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| Calorie Count | How does the Trend value work in my weight log? | Oct 25 2008 02:50 (UTC) |
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I thought it was something like that, but I lost weight four days in a row, with the fourth day being the biggest loss. The trend was also slowly dropping, but on the fourth day, the day I lost the most weight, suddenly the trend jumped UP to be higher than it was at the start of the four day period! Why would the trend shoot up on the fourth consecutive day of weight loss? |
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| Calorie Count | Date chooser control | Oct 25 2008 02:47 (UTC) |
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Good to know. Thanks. |
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| Calorie Count | How does the Trend value work in my weight log? | Oct 24 2008 23:09 (UTC) |
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I'm going to take this as a sign that nobody really knows how this thing works, and that the person who wrote the algorithm for it doesn't look in on these forums. |
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| Weight Loss | a beer a day keeps the bikini away... | Oct 24 2008 23:04 (UTC) |
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I have a single can of Boddingtons in my fridge. It's been in there for almost two months now, and I just keep waiting for that "perfect evening" to pop it open and pour it into a nice pint glass. There are days when I try to plan a meal around that lonely Boddingtons. There are also days when I go to the fridge and see it sitting there and I feel my hand moving towards it. But I stop myself. Oh, the moment it's gone I just know that four more cans will appear in its place. |
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| Foods | Any oolong tea drinkers? | Oct 24 2008 22:48 (UTC) |
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I'm a big fan of Oolong teas. I don't want to scare you off, but there are many varieties (depending on where they are from, what time of year they were picked, the way they were processed, etc). It's a lot like wine, actually. Until about a year ago I didn't pay any attention to tea. I would try it from time to time, but I never really saw the appeal. Then a friend introduced me to whole leaf teas. Suddenly I understood why millions of people around the world love the stuff. If you are drinking Oolong in tea bags, the best way to drink it is to heat the water to boiling, then let it sit for a minute or two in order to cool down a bit. Then pour the hot water over the tea bag and let it steep for about 2 minutes (if you are lucky enough to have whole leaf Oolong you can steep it for 1 minute and get all the flavor). Don't steep tea too long or it gets bitter (except Pu-erh teas, but I'm getting ahead of myself). I've tried a number of Oolong varieties, and most have a pleasant, roasted flavor. Some have hints of caramel or butter. But again, I don't think you'll experience this with the shredded teas in the bags. I've never thought about putting anything in the tea. I think a whole-leaf tea has enough flavor to speak for itself. (Try "Silk Oolong" if you have have a chance. It's so good I only treat myself to it on special occasions.) As for dieting, Oolong is thought to have great appetite suppresant qualities. I can't be certain, but I do feel like I think less about snacking when I'm drinking some nice Oolong. It is also fairly high in caffeine among the teas, so it helps keep your metabolism up. As a side note, because I love talking about tea, there are four major categories of teas:
Each claims its own health benefits. Each comes from the same leaf of the same plant (Camellia sinensis) only picked, or handled, differently. If the beverage does not contain leaves of this plant, it is technically not tea.
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| Weight Loss | WTF | Oct 24 2008 09:05 (UTC) |
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The Trend line is crazy. Here are my last four weigh-ins: Date ; Weight Trend So what the heck is happening with the Trend? It jumped up to 246.25 from 244.80 on a day that my actual weight was down by two pounds, after three days of decreasing weight and Trend. |
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| Foods | Oh my god, its a miracle food | Oct 24 2008 04:27 (UTC) |
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Awesome. I know they are in season now. I saw a ton of them at my local produce market. I've always been leary of trying to cook squash of any kind though, and I don't have a microwave (gasp). Thanks for the oven directions. |
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| Foods | salt allergy anyone?? | Oct 24 2008 04:23 (UTC) |
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I agree with ssutton6, it's very unlikely that you are allergic to salt, because salt is a chemical your body requires, and it is a simple molecule. An iodine allergy is possible, although I think you would experience more than just a swollen spot on your tongue. I wouldn't try to diagnose that myself. Probably best to talk to your doctor. It may be a cyst or just a sore that the salt irritates.
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| Foods | ounces to grams | Oct 24 2008 04:11 (UTC) |
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Google has a fantastic conversion algorithm. Just go to Google and enter: 4 oz in grams Google will return a result. You can do it with all sorts of measurements: 5 feet 11 inches in meters 15 USD in Yen And then there's... Local time in Pune, India I'm sure there's other stuff I haven't even tried yet. |
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| Foods | Are you feeding your kids the worst breakfast possible? | Oct 24 2008 04:05 (UTC) |
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My girlfriend is from Japan. Whenever she comes to the US she is shocked by the things we eat (or don't eat) for breakfast. I tried to explain to her that salad is just not a breakfast side dish here. But the more I thought about it, I couldn't explain why the idea of vegetables on the breakfast plate seems so alien. She insists on preparing a salad with breakfast. And if not a salad, then some other form of vegetable or vegetable soup. Now I've gotten quite used to a breakfast of fried egg, rice and salad. My children are going to grow up thinking that vegetables are fair game at any meal.
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| Foods | Favorite "Fake" or diet food | Oct 24 2008 00:11 (UTC) |
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Morning Star Farms sausage patties It's all fake meat (vegetable protein) so you can eat them if you are vegetarian. Only 80 calories per patty with 10 grams of protein. They taste great and you can use them in all kinds of recipes where you would usually use ground beef. (I like to make burritos with them.) Plus they score a B+ in the Calorie Count nutrition database. |
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| The Lounge | I hate haiku - aka Moonikins rant | Oct 24 2008 00:04 (UTC) |
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Hmmm...to follow up on my previous post, I don't think English works nearly as well in this structure as Japanese. There are pretty major differences in the expressiveness of the two languages. Japanese really lends itself to this form. I've never really appreciated Haiku too much myself, although I do have a favorite: Bill Bixby at home That silly little Haiku makes me both happy and a little sad at the same time, since I heard it shortly after Bill Bixby died. /If you're too young to know who Bill Bixby is, that's what Google is for. |
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| The Lounge | I hate haiku - aka Moonikins rant | Oct 24 2008 00:00 (UTC) |
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That's what happens when you take something from another culture and language and try to shoehorn it into your own.
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| Foods | What did YOU eat today? | Oct 23 2008 04:58 (UTC) |
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Breakfast: Some homemade beef and veggie stew with a little sunflower-seed butter mixed in instead of miso paste. Lunch: More stew, a mixed-greens salad with sliced figs and Kinnogomadare dressing (that stuff is like crack, probably because it has MSG in it). Dinner: Wow, stew yet again! Snacks: Apple with sunflower seed-butter, Kettle corn I guess I went a little crazy with the stew. |
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| Foods | This cooking thing is for the birds | Oct 23 2008 02:57 (UTC) |
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I hear you. Back when I used to cook for guests I wound up spending considerably more than if I had just taken them out to eat, and add to that a half a day in the kitchen before even starting the clean up. But bear in mind that there are simpler recipes out there. They may not be glamorous, but they are satisfying and taste pretty good. Last night I made a nice beef and vegetable stew. I spent $3.50 on stewing beef (organic, grass fed blah blah). I spent $8 on celery, carrots, potatoes, yams, onions, garlic and a Fresno chili. I may be lucky in that there's a great produce market near my place with amazingly low prices on most locally grown produce. It took me about 30 minutes to cut everything up (because I stopped to weigh everything). Then just heated everything in a pot (starting with the onions, garlic and meat) with some sesame oil until the meat was starting to cook through and added water to cover it all. Then some salt, pepper and bay leaves. Let everything simmer for 30 minutes while I did other stuff. And now I have enough stew to last for a few days. My point is that there are other healthy recipes that don't require so much time and expense. I've learned to make simple foods, like roasted chicken and a simple salad with figs. Most of the ingredients aren't too expensive, and when you are just roasting or stewing meats, you don't really have to invest too much time in the preparation. I'm sure you just wanted to rant and get it off your chest without someone giving you advice or feedback. I feel the same way sometimes, but just rest assured that I can relate the craziness of spending more on food I make myself than it would cost to eat out. |
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| Calorie Count | Are ALL the foods on the database wrong?! | Oct 22 2008 23:42 (UTC) |
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What bothers me sometimes about the database is that so much of the food in it is branded. You want to up a basic food and half of the time your only choices are branded by a manufacturer or store. "Wegaman's stew beef" comes to mind just from today's experience. I forget whether I was able to find just plain "figs," for my salad today, but there was definately no "mixed greens" that didn't have a company's brand attached. It would be really nice to offer "super-user" accounts to a few of the more dedicated users here, and allow them to act as data stewards on the database. |
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| Foods | Can the sugar craving be beaten? Should I try? | Oct 22 2008 23:33 (UTC) |
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That's great advice. Already today I planned on 2200 calories. And I'll be back to my daily 9-mile bike ride (-600 calories) by the end of the week. I'm allowing myself to snack on fruit today, whenever I feel a little hungry. I think it's kind of nice to start out for a few days with a lower calorie limit, just so that you can see how much more you are eating when you go up to a healthy calorie limit. Then when you look at what you were eating in the past, you realize how much you were over-eating.
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| Foods | lunch meetings? | Oct 22 2008 20:15 (UTC) |
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You can't go wrong with a salad, as long as you ask for the dressing on the side and pay attention to the extras on top (croutons, bacon, blue cheese, etc.) Try to figure out the calorie content of whatever dressing you prefer and practice at home to get a sense of how much a tablespoon looks like when it's in a little side cup. |
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| Foods | What is safe to order at a restaurant??? | Oct 22 2008 20:02 (UTC) |
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Is Culvers that chain in Wisconsin with the butter burgers and the frozen custard? Man, I used to go there for a treat when I lived in Appleton. It looks like you'll be OK if you stick to ismile67's suggestions. If you are just starting out, I'd really warn against indulging in anything yet. It's a big step onto a slippery slope. Be prepared for the fact that the smell of all that food cooking is going to be very distracting. Just concentrate on the people (person) you are eating with. Try to be as engaged as possible in the conversation and then really focus on your own food each time you take a bite. Good luck! |
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| Foods | Can the sugar craving be beaten? Should I try? | Oct 22 2008 19:20 (UTC) |
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Thanks for all of the feedback! I really enjoyed reading all of your coping mechanisms and thoughts on sugar. I got a lot of good advice from all of you, and more importantly, I feel like I'm not alone in this. I think I'm like many of you, and the sugar cravings are exacerbated by the reduction in calories my body is experiencing. I think I should probably take in more calories per day, as I've been losing about a pound a day for the last three days (eating ~1500 calories as a 250lb, 5'11" man is probably not hacking it). I guess I should be shooting for 2000-2200. But I have to say, seeing the weight drop so fast is pretty nice (but I know it's not healthy). meganr, I appreciated your comment about "being sure to savor" when you eat your chocolate. I think this is very important. If I watch a movie or surf the Web while I'm eating, I find that the food is gone and I didn't really experience consuming it. But if I stop everything and just sit down with my food, think about every bite and pay attention to the flavor and feel of it in my mouth, I feel much more satisfied after the meal. qmwillcand I was taught to make Su Jung Gwa by a friend, but I found a great video at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEXQko6yBg0 It may be difficult to find dried persimmon depending on your location. I find it at a Japanese market near my house, and it doesn't look exactly like what you see in the video (what I get is flattened on its side). And I was taught to slice the persimmon up and use less, because it's pretty expensive. |
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| Foods | ugh! eating out! --help? | Oct 22 2008 02:00 (UTC) |
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Any idea what sort of oil it was? If it was olive oil, and it was about 1 tbsp, that would be 120 calories: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-olive- oil-i4053?size=2 |
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| Foods | Can the sugar craving be beaten? Should I try? | Oct 22 2008 01:46 (UTC) |
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Actually, it's just a few minutes later and I feel the intense craving subsiding. I'm guessing it will come back again later though. I try not to eat after 8:00 PM, but I tend to stay up until at least 11:00 PM, leaving a number of hours when I want to eat something. I'll forego the brownie with icing and the ice cream with chocolate syrup, thanks! Actually, I could be in Ghirardelli Square in a matter of minutes, if I were so inclined, but luckily they have the chocolate at my local grocery store down the block. Whenever I find myself near Ghirardelli Square I wind up ordering a crazy sundae. I've been making a Korean dessert drink called Su Jung Gwa, with cinnamon, ginger, (black) sugar and dried persimmon. It usually knocks the craving out, but I'm just wondering if, as you mentioned, green_tea_turtle_baby, the craving isn't my body telling me something that I actually might need. I'm going to try to go through the end of October without eating anything that primarily a sweet and see how I feel on November 1st. Hmmm...then again, with Halloween right around the corner, that might be tricky. |
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| Foods | favourite condiments???? | Oct 22 2008 01:23 (UTC) |
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Three condiments I can't live without:
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| Foods | Can someone do me a favor? | Oct 22 2008 01:14 (UTC) |
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Last time I checked, yellow mustard had 0 calories! I guess it's just vinegar and crushed mustard seeds with yellow coloring. I remember thinking "I can eat all the mustard I want!!"
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| Weight Loss | Censored Tea comments? | Aug 18 2008 09:12 (UTC) |
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| Yeah, that's it.
It's not showing up in my posts when I check my profile, even though posts I made nearly a year ago are listed there. Very confusing. But I know that the last post I made is gone...Because I made it just 15-20 minutes ago. |
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| Weight Loss | Hey has anyone herd of 2 day diet japan lingzhi | Aug 16 2008 00:50 (UTC) |
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| Lingzhi is the Chinese name for a certain mushroom. The lingzhi mushroom is said to have a number of medicinal qualities, but weight loss is not one of them. But because it is so highly prized as an herbal remedy in Asia, it would be easy to see why the name "Lingzhi" might be used to sell a product. Also, it's weird because the linghzhi mushroom is called "reishi" in Japanese. So why would they call it the Japan Lingzhi diet and not the Japan Reishi diet? I suspect they are combining two strong Asian images for marketing purposes. The medicinal power of the Lingzhi and the stereotype of Japanese women as being desirable wives (a common idea in South East Asia). Even if this herbal mixture contains lingzhi, there's no suggestion that lingzhi will help with weight loss. I think the claims of this product are dubious at best. |
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| Weight Loss | Fat in grilled food | Aug 15 2008 01:03 (UTC) |
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| If you have the resources to experiment, you could grill a few pieces of meat over pie tins to catch the fat that melts out.
Then you can weigh the fat and compare the weight to the cooked meat. The assumption is that the difference between the cooked meat + fat and the original piece of meat is the weight of the water that cooked out. Then you could try to determine cooking ratio that could be applied to all grilled meats. |
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| Weight Loss | Waaay too much sodium today | Aug 15 2008 00:47 (UTC) |
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| As someone who's been dealing with hypertension since adolescence, I'd suggest a serving of alcohol after drinking quite a bit of water.
The alcohol acts as a diuretic, and helps you to flush all of that water out of your system after it's done its work to dilute the sodium. Beer is particularly effective. Of course, I'm not a doctor, but my doctor has suggested a little alcohol on a regular basis for this very thing. |
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| Weight Loss | How long does it take for a binge to turn into fat? | Aug 15 2008 00:40 (UTC) |
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| I bought some new pants for work a few months ago when I was about 15 pounds lighter than I am now (I've been stress-eating).
In mid-July I started eating stupidly, basically a binge a day. I noticed that it was only a few days after I settled down and started eating reasonably again that my pants started to feel tight. I'm wondering if the wieght takes some time to distribute itself to the waistline. I sure regret my lapse. Now I have to sit at my desk and feel my belt digging into my torso. But that's a great motivational tool to stop eating like I don't know any better. |
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But those are BREAKFAST sausage patties?? Why not get the non-breakfast Morningstar Farms grillers crumbles (in a bag) for this purpose? Seems strange to use sweet breakfast sausage in place of ground beef.
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