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| Weight Loss | My mom just diagnosed with Breast Cancer, I need a little support!! | Aug 21 2008 05:20 (UTC) |
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| I'm in the same situation (just my mum, me and my little sister; mom got diagnosed a week after I came home), except I've been extremely numb to the entire thing and I have to leave my mum on her own after friday when I head back to college. I've been having odd binging, too. I wish I could offer you more support, but as I said, I've been quite numb to it. Such a great daughter I am.
*virtual hug* All I can say is good luck and don't beat yourself up about it. Try to find a pattern in your binging and put a stop to it. I know my weaknesses and I know I'm going to drop a lot of weight without trying once I move back into college, but right now I'm just exercising to compensate and hoping for the best. The same goes for you - once things go back to a state you find mostly normal, so will your eating habits. Probably. In the meantime, I find that drinking a LOT of tea helps. Whenever you feel like you might begin binging, put on a pot of water and set up a bunch of cups and take your time doing it. Chewing gum can also help. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | another ques for college students.. | Aug 14 2008 04:06 (UTC) |
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| It'll probably depend on your college, schedule and what you consider a 'meal'. Also depends on the meal plan at your college, kitchen facilities and rules and regulations in the dorms themselves and how close your college is to the nearest supermarket (the bus takes 40 minutes to get there because of the genius who designed the route, I suppose. It's also 40 minutes walking, so next year I'm just doing that...). Last year I was really happy to be on the meal plan, I think it takes away a lot of the stress, and the meal plan included points for a-la-carte places, cafes etc that were university run - many of them had 'healthy' options, or at least just coffee or something. Dunno about protein shakes. The salad bars in the dining halls were FANTASTIC, too, and usually there were plenty of lighter options, like soups and steamed veggies and tofu dishes, so I have no trouble keeping weight off/losing weight in college. Usually I have time for three meals, and a snack or two, usually one between dinner and bed sufficed. Because I usually take the max number of credits per semester and skate 3-4 times a week, last semester and this coming semester I have no break on wednesday for any sort of lunch or snack, unless I pack it myself and eat it walking between classes or during class (I went from 9am-4:25pm with no break...). Also, it's a 20+ minute walk from my classes back to my dorm, and down and then up a huge slope everytime I go to the dining hall next year, so I have that to consider - you might have class right next to your dorm, so maybe you'll be able to go in between classes and make yourself your shakes. I don't have that option :/ That was a lot to type to say that it really depends on your own eating habits, college and schedule. No matter what advice I give you, you'll have to wait and see when you get to college to find out what's going to work for you. | |||
| Weight Loss | are all GREEN TEAs equal? Should I stay away from supermarket ones and only purchase from organic stores? | Aug 03 2008 07:51 (UTC) |
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| I drink about 3 glasses of tea a day, mostly green, sometimes black or oolong, almost always loose leaf. Some of it is pretty high quality stuff, too. I just love tea. I haven't noticed any real difference in my metabolism, but then again, I've been drinking it for awhile now... My suggestion for tea is buy loose leaf - it tends to be slightly less bitter, better flavor, a bit more 'depth' to the flavor (imho), more variety (besides artificial flavoring, like you find in packaged tea leaves). If you can't find it for some reason, break open the bagged teas so the leaves at least have a little room to expand. I've actually heard that oolong or pu-erh tea is actualy the best for weight loss, but who knows. Sticking with green tea for the moment - I'm not sure why franchellb recommended not buying from China - a couple of my friends have brought me teas back from there and they are great - one especially is FANTASTIC. Anyways, a nice, everyday green tea you can drink is Japanese, called 'sencha'. It's an 'everyday' green tea and you can get it loose leaf in most any asian supermarket. I've seen it in Wegman's too. Just put a small spoonful in the bottom of your cup, add water that is just about to boil but not boiling (165-180 degrees fahrenheit, I suppose) and steep for about 2~3 minutes (I'll admit, I steep until I feel like the tea is cool enough to drink). Steeping much longer or with hotter water will result in tea that is a bit more bitter. I'm also a fan of gunpowder, jasmine green, rose green and one I keep forgetting and can't read the package of... After for the lipton stuff - the bottled stuff I just don't trust. It's probably a bit more watered down, in terms of egcg and caffeine and other helpful things, and for many of those sorts of beverages it's essentially tea extract in sugar water. I think they taste pretty awful, because I love 'real' tea. As for artificial sweeteners, I'm wary of them for several reasons (cancer, formaldehyde, later calorie compensation, etc), and I find all versions to be waaaaay too sweet. |
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| Foods | Another foods survey! | Aug 01 2008 05:43 (UTC) |
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| 1. Favorite red vegetable/fruit: Bell peppers/Close between strawberries and raspberries :)
2. Favorite orange vegetable/fruit: sweet potato/canteloupe!
3. Favorite yellow vegetable/fruit: summer squash (or pickled daikon, if that counts)/peaches 4. Favorite green vegetable/fruit: broccoli!/kiwi 5. Favorite blue vegetable/fruit: pickled eggplant is often blue/blueberries 6. Favorite purple vegetable/fruit: Eggplant?/Blackberries? perhaps plums... can't think of much that's purple 7. Favorite white vegetable/fruit Another foods survey! white_sakura Jul 04 2008 20:22 Surveys are so fun to make and fill out : D 1. Favorite red vegetable/fruit 2. Favorite orange vegetable/fruit 3. Favorite yellow vegetable/fruit 4. Favorite green vegetable/fruit 5. Favorite blue vegetable/fruit 6. Favorite purple vegetable/fruit 7. Favorite white vegetable/fruit: cauliflower!/lychees 8. Favorite nut: Almonds! But hell, I love all nuts 9. Favorite seed: sunflower seeds! Fennel seed is also quite nice 10. Favorite meat type (poultry, game, seafood, etc.): Hmm... when I ate meat, I think I preferred poultry 11. Favorite food within that meat type: Chicken I suppose... preferably in a delicious, tangy sauce. 12. Favorite type of bread: Thick, whole wheat with all sorts of grainy stuff... I really love bread that 'tastes' healthy XD 13. Favorite type of cereal: raisin bran, kashi go lean crunch and corn pops are tied, though I've been known to eat cinnamon toast crunch and fruit loops for dessert on occasion 14. Favorite type of noodle: Udon!! 15. Favorite grain in general: I quite like brown rice, but quinoa is amazing 16. Favorite source of dairy: Ice cream and maybe cheese. Other than that, I hate dairy XD 17. Favorite type of milk (2%, skim, etc.): Soy? Haven't drank milk since 5th grade, but when I did it was skim milk losded with chocolate syrup 18. Favorite cheese: Pepper jack, maybe brie... goat cheese is great too 19. Favorite ice cream flavor: strawberry <3 20. Favorite type of oil: hmm... hot chili oil 21. Favorite fried food: veggie tempura 22. Favorite condiment: barbeque sauce 23. Favorite diet drink: Hmm... diet ginger ale 24. Favorite non-diet drink: TEA. |
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| Foods | is gatorade bad? | Aug 01 2008 05:32 (UTC) |
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| As the person above me said, it has electrolytes and other fun things that you lose when you exercise and are good to replenish. One of my friends a few yeas ago was training for... something or other. Basically, her coach made her drink gatorade, but he claimed there was too much stuff in it. So, she had to drink watered down gatorade - like, 1/2 gatorade, 1/2 water. She tells me the mixture tasted pretty horrible, but I suppose it makes sense. Gatorade does have a lot of stuff, including sugar, floating around in it. And I agree with the artifcial sweeteners thing as well, but I'll spare you my rant~
Also - I was reading a psych magazine (Psychology Today?) and apparently, due to all the gatorade advertising, you have been conditioned to respond positively while working out if there is a gatorade bottle in view, at least more so than just seeing a plain water bottle or something. I suppose we have been conditioned to associate gatorade with power and stamina, as people who have gatorade bottles in their view tend to work out harder and longer than when they can only seen water and such. Random, but interesting. |
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| Foods | Giving rejected foods to loved ones | Jul 31 2008 04:29 (UTC) |
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| I do the same thing^^ Usually I try to give it away to people who I either don't care much about (whoops!) or people I do care about but don't 'need'/want to lose weight. Some of my friends, while eating something unhealthy, will give me an odd look if I'm watching them eat and say 'I don't want to know [the calorie count, etc]...' They are the ones that get my cookies, hahaha | |||
| Foods | Mmmmm.....cake | Jul 23 2008 05:37 (UTC) |
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| My favorite cakes are spice cakes, strawberry cakes or chocolate cakes. I love carrot cake too, or gingerbread of spice or any cake that has some sort of zing to it, as long as that zing is not lemon or cream cheese... >.> I don't understand cream cheese frosting and I never shall.
I don't particularly enjoy white/yellow cake, anything with banana or citrus though. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | Is it unhealthy if I WISH I was underwieght?? | Jul 23 2008 05:30 (UTC) |
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| I know how you feel. And like cassrd05, I also get offended but those terms. I hate it when people say that I 'have curves' and mean it as a compliment - immediately after such comments I make a little note to myself to up the exercise, haha. | |||
| Weight Loss | 5'8" to 5'9" | Jul 23 2008 00:53 (UTC) |
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| I'm 5'9'', 154... trying to get down to 145 or so, but nothing too far below that. My bone structure is pretty huge (you should see my wrist/hip bones, it's odd >.>) and I'm rather muscly for some reason, so I don't think going below 140 would look good on me at all. But eh, we'll see~ | |||
| Health & Support | Unhealthy family....breaking my heart | Jul 21 2008 02:39 (UTC) |
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| I'm having some trouble with this myself, but mostly in relation to my sister. She gained a lot of weight recently because she has now stopped growing (she's turning 15 in two weeks). All she eats is mac&cheese, microwave cheese pizza, pasta with butter or sometimes pesto, plain white rice, spaghettios, french fries, mozzerella sticks, and occasionally apples, carrots, celery, iceerg lettuce and cucumbers. Sometimes she eats ice cream too, or just whip cream out of the can or in a bowl like one would eat normal ice cream. It's kinda disgusting. She gets upset about her weight, but she refuses to eat anything else :/ I had a similar problem after I stopped growing, but when I started disgusting myself I changed my ways. I figure that when she wants to change, she'll do it... | |||
| Health & Support | Except for pregnant women, why do people say they "crave" a food when they really just want the taste of it? | Jul 21 2008 02:29 (UTC) |
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| I get random cravings all the time and I believe mental cravings count as "real" cravings. I'll just be sitting around, or maybe I'll be in class and suddenly the thought hits me - I really want (insert food) and I want it NOW. NOW NOW NOW NOW!
I doubt mine are caused by any sorts of deficiencies. I remember I once got a craving for toast and used an extra meal I had (I'm at college) to just make a pile of toast... Right now I'm experiencing two very strong cravings; one for falafel and one for coffee cake. I have no idea why, I've been craving those things all week. |
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| Foods | Vegetarian Japanese food | Jul 21 2008 00:51 (UTC) |
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| Btw, to all vegetarians/vegans, miso soup stock is made with bonito flakes most of the time, as are most of the soup stocks for all the noodle dishes and many of the dips. This includes most veggies stewed in a stock. Bonito is pretty much salt #2 in Japan. Even the sweet rolled omelette (used in nigiri) is often made with a stock containing bonito :/ I love Japanese food, so when it comes to those items I usually just make my own^^ | |||
| Foods | college food | Jul 21 2008 00:41 (UTC) |
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| My school also is supposedly rated very highy in the food department and likes to brag about it (I go to Cornell U., btw) But UMass Amherst and Cornell have a couple things in common, namely lots of drinking (don't do it!) and a big campus that requires a lot of walking, so a lot of people lost weight. Honestly, I loved some of the dining halls because I could eat a ton of salad and veggies without the work of cutting everything up. At the end of all my meals, I would steal a piece of fruit... or five, whatever. I tried not to keep much in my room because I had a tedency to snack if I know it's in my room and no cravings whatsoever when it's not. That said, keep peanut butter out of your room! It's so tempting~ I could not keep my spoon out of that peanut butter the first and only time I put a jar in my room.
Besides fruit, I often had a box of cereal or two - usually not extraordinarily healthy ones. Just cheerios or something to munch one when I got the munchies, sometimes dried fruit, LOTS AND LOTS of tea and instant oatmeal packets. The instant oatmeal was probably my staple snack. Towards the end, when I had a ton of points left for the eateries outside dining halls (like, cafes, campus 'supermarkets') I'd buy a tub of hummus or some fig newtons, but usually I kept junk food outside of my room. I'd advise against too much food that goes bad easily, such as regular sized loaves of bread, full-size packs of snack cookies or chips, etc. Mindless munching and stress-eating where big problems when I had full bags of food, and it goes bad. If you buy an entire loaf of bread, you only have a week to eat it and with dining hall meals, you probably won't be able too and you might be tempted to finish it before it goes bad when you're not completely hungry. This semester I'm living far from dining halls, going down to a lower meal plan and cooking my breakfasts, so I'll have some applesauce, a bit tin of oatmeal, soymilk and some spices in my room as well, but that's all I'm gonna keep there. |
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| Foods | I have the absolute WORST craving.... What is your weakness? | Jul 20 2008 23:40 (UTC) |
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| Chocolate (especially kit kats) and peanut butter and cheese - not together, of course. Also pastries - anything with a flaky pastry component is irresistable to me.
I've been getting really random intense cravings lately, too. Most recently, I would kill to have some coffee cake and some falafel. I gave in at various points last week, but oh, I want more! |
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| Young Calorie Counters | What are your measurments. | Jul 16 2008 05:34 (UTC) |
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| 5'9'', 154 lbs, 18yrs old
Bust: 35 Waist: 27 Hips: 40 Thigh: 23 I'm working on it... I really wish I could do more about my hips, but part of it really is the hip bone itself :/ Side-to-side I look pretty small, then as soon as I face someone *bam*, I am pretty wide |
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| Vegetarian | Dreams about eating meat | Jul 13 2008 02:29 (UTC) |
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| That happens to me occasionally, but it's usually more of a nightmare and in the dream I usually freak out a bit XD
The only dream I actually remember of this sort involves me eating a hotdog. Someone just handed me a hotdog and, without thinking, I just ate it quickly and mindlessly before remembering five minutes later that I'm a vegetarian. I think this may be from my fear of doing this in real life. I'm always worried someone will give me something and I'll just gnaw on it for a few minutes before I realize it's not vegetarian or have them te me, 'Oh, by the way...' |
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| Weight Loss | Anyone missing their fat? | Jun 28 2008 01:05 (UTC) |
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| I'm the exact opposite, actually. I hate how my arms/stomach/etc looks when they're 'soft', I hate how it feels quite a bit. I really love it after I've lost a bit of weight and I see/feel some of the bones that weren't all the visible before. I hate using the scale, especially since mine is half-broken and freaks me out occasionally, so I judge weight loss on how my collarbones and cheek bones and knees are looking.
I'm sure you'll get used to it, it'll just take some time :) Like a new haircut, only... a bit more radical. Btw, congrats on the weight loss! |
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| Vegetarian | ok, i am a vegan now...what happens to my old leather purses, shoes,... | Jun 24 2008 05:09 (UTC) |
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| I'd say keep it, unless the thought of wearing it really disgusts you. No sense in wasting the clothes. Especially since the animal is dead anyways, you may as well put it's body to waste immediately if you still have another 5 years out of it. That was worded oddly, so I hope you can get what I'm trying to say XD | |||
| Young Calorie Counters | Red Bull | Jun 18 2008 03:31 (UTC) |
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| I actually *love* how redbull tastes. I don't have it that often at all, but some days I find I've woken up late, no time for breakfast, I have to be at my skating practice in 15 minutes... and then I grab one of those diet ones (which probably makes it worse for me than the ones with actual sugar), drink it and go and I feel pretty good, at least until lunch :) But yeah, Ive always liked how it tastes. | |||
| Vegetarian | inadvertant bacon ingestion | Jun 14 2008 01:24 (UTC) |
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| I know EXACTLY how you feel. I feel psychosomatic things very, VERY strongly for some reason. Actually, I began getting the same psychosomatic symptoms of nausea and what not while I was still an omnivore and it's actually the reason why I am a very strict vegetarian. | |||
| Young Calorie Counters | College Students!!!! Munchie help! | Jun 12 2008 02:36 (UTC) |
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| I have an easy way of avoiding that. Even when intoxicated, I think of the money >.> It's one fo the ways I manage to not spend much on food and not have a dorm room full of junk or anything. I think 'god, 4 dollars for milanos?' or 'do I really want to spend 6 dollars on pizza?' The answer is usually no, especially when I know those six dollars could buy me amazing tempura when I get back to Boston. Because I'm cheap, the only time I usually eat take out is when my friends have ordered it, ordered too much and need me to take care of some veggie dumplings :P
If you can't get motivated the way you're attempting, this is what I use XD Can't guarentee it'll work |
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| Young Calorie Counters | College Students | Jun 12 2008 02:15 (UTC) |
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| I actually lost weight last year (I'm now a rising sophmore). I skated 4 or 5 days a week, as usually, and walked the 20 minutes from the res. halls to class every day, and then back. Sometimes more than twice. And there are lots of places to walk and lots of nice natury stuff to do. Also, the dining halls were pretty good. I usually had a huge spinach salad with lots of veggies and no dressing (I hate dressing), whatever steamed veggies were available and a veggie entree or so. So, because at home I'm too lazy to make really decent salads, and I adore veggies, I lost weight. Now I'm at home and kitchenless, so I'm having trouble...
But actually, the first month was odd. I would eat until I was totally stuffed and uncomfortable and I had no idea why. The food wasn't bad at all, but it certainly wasn't great. It was hard to get myself out of the same mindset you use for chinese buffets at brunch though... Alcohol wasn't muc of a problem, because first semester I never drank and second semester when I did drink I usually hadn't eaten much that day or didn't eat much the next day or something, so I never had any problems ^_^ |
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| Vegetarian | Restaurants | May 29 2008 17:20 (UTC) |
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| alibuch - I think I know which one you're talking about. Do you have to go down a set of stairs so it looks like you're going into a cellar? It's called Veggie Planet. Veg*n pizza ftw.
I was about to say, though, I've never had much trouble eating in Boston. Plenty of the restaurants I frequent, maybe because they're in Cambridge which I suppose is more 'progressive' have a list of what's vegetarian on the menu. And there are plenty of Indian restaurants too, which is usually code-name veggie. If you go back to Boston and want some good places to eat, I could tell you a few I like. Of course, they aren't fancy restaurants or bars - I'm just became a college student who now spends most of the year in upstate NY last year, so expensive restaurants and bars don't exactly interest me :P I think there are quite a few great options, provided you know were to look and are ok with "ethnic" food. |
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| Health & Support | face masks --> a question for the ladies | May 21 2008 18:22 (UTC) |
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| I sometimes use an egg-whites mask, as much as I HATE egg, because I hear it tightens your pores and lightens your skin. An egg yolk one is probably better for hydration and overall skin health, because the egg white mask is somewhat drying, but I'm kinda hoping for the natural skin lightening that the whites may provide. *shrug* | |||
| Health & Support | Scoliosis | May 21 2008 18:11 (UTC) |
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| They usually don't put people in back braces after they are done growing. From what I gather, braces turn you into something like a bonzai tree or those square watermelons - your shape gets changed as your grow. I also had a back brace, from when I was 11 or so in 6th grade until I was 14-15 in 9th grade. But I actually had three curvature's in my spine. (8-10-13 degrees when discovered, went to 15-21-11 6 months later - which is a fairly rapid change, so in a back brace! but now only the middle curvature is measureable and it's like, 4-5 degrees or something negligable.) My back has started hurting again too, but I've been trying to blame it on finals...
Physical therapy may help. They'll just make you do back strengthening exercises, and that extra strength may help with the pain and prevent the curvature and pain from getting worse. You probably will not be in a brace though, I'm 95% sure of that. |
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| Vegetarian | Miso Soup | May 17 2008 03:22 (UTC) |
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| Just one note: you may already know this, but please don't add the miso to boiling water, it destroys the miso and much of its beneficial properties. If the flavor is totally off, this might be the reason. Just add the miso right after turning off the heat. I also usually find it helpful to mix the miso I'm going to put in the soup with a bit of the soup stock in a seperate bowl immediately before I add it - it helps it mix in more quickly and more thoroughly.
I usually make my stock with 'kombu/konbu', also known as 'dried kelp'. I just boil it in some water for awhile, remove it, continue with soup making. |
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