Posts by umiryuuzaki

Stats: I'm 17 (turning 18 in January), currently 90lbs and am exactly 5'2" on the dot.

Calories: Around 1200 a day. I can't say for sure, because my parents cook my dinner and they never bother to weigh their meat and vegetables. We also eat this mysterious Chinese bun once in a while that I don't know the stats of. But we don't fry and I stay away from stir-fry as much as possible, so I'm pretty sure the dinner calories are around 400.

Foods: high-fibre cereal/oatmeal and granola bars in the morning, home-made sandwich with whole wheat bread for lunch, water-based soup or noodles for dinner, something like 3 apples (or other fruits) thrown in throughout the day.

Exercise: I run on the treadmill for 45 minutes 4 times a week at approximately 6.5 miles per hour. Sometimes I replace one of the sessions with interval training (which is supposed to be good for weight loss), but I'm thinking of cutting that out of my routine because I just need to maintain and I really hate doing it.

The thing about metabolism is that it's still pretty much a mystery to everyone. It depends on your genes, really.

I have a friend who's still skinnier than me even though I eat 1200 calories a day and exercise 4 days a week, and she eats at least double that with barely ANY exercise. I've read magazine articles about people who can't seem to get a healthy BMI reading no matter how healthily they eat or how much they exercise.

Of course, there are things you can do to improve your metabolism (ie. exercise, eat fibre, break meals into smaller, more frequent meals). But other than that, the bottom line is that you're basically stuck with what you've got.

I'm 17 and have never been kissed. I used to be really anxious about it. All my friends seemed to have some sort of experience (one of my friends rotated through 5 different boyfriends in one school year). But I stopped worrying about it and letting it bother me. When it comes, it comes :)

I enjoy the arts, but being a painter doesn't really earn you a living, so I'm planning to go into a career that's nice and relaxing and, at the same time, can reel in enough money for a nice condo, nice car, and weekly shopping trips. SO, I'm going into pharmacy :) If that fails, I'll probably be a teacher or a nurse.

I'm planning to go to a university in the city where I live. I don't mind commuting and don't want to have my parents fork over extra money for residency fees just so I can have an "on campus experience". Oh, and I don't want their greasy cafeteria foods either.

I guess it depends on how much you're obsessing about your weight. Before, I never cared about my waistline, never cared about how I look in the clothes I buy, never cared about what size I wear in stores. But once you start noticing, you just can't stop. I used to be perfectly happy with who I sure; sure, I was aware that I wasn't skinny, but you know, it didn't matter, right? 'cause it's the inside that counted, right? But then one little comment kind of threw me off-balance, and since then, I just kept obsessing and obsessing. Usually, my self-image goes along with what the scale says, though. If I'm experiencing a trend of decreasing body weight, I feel skinny and happy. When I have a day where there's a "natural weight fluctuation" or a wonky scale reading, I just feel like crap, suck in my stomach the whole day, keep on checking my reflection in every shiny surface I see. Yeah, I find that ever since I started dieting, I never stopped watching my figure. Even during periods when I don't restrict my eating, I feel utterly depressed at the increasing reading on the scale; it just makes me feel so vulnerable and out of control. But yeah, long story short: my self-image pretty much rides on my scale reading, and I'm happier dieting than not.

Chinese steamed buns and the weird fermented tofu mush (also Chinese.) It's not as gross as it sounds. Really, it's not.