Posts by colorado_sunshine

Original Post by tessa178:

You can use the New Recipe tab in Foods - add the recipe yourself number of servings and ingredients (using their instructions) and it will give you the information you want.  Then tag it so you can use it again in the future.

I second tessa's post.  I use the "New Recipe" tool all the time for my home cooked meals :)

If it won't find a match for an ingredient you put in there, find it yourself in the food database, and look at the number at the end of the URL for the food you need.

Then put that number in square brackets behind that ingredient in your listing.

Like this:

2 tbsp butter [1145]

You can also put in how many servings your dish will serve and tweak that to your needs.  It will also tell you how many grams and calories in that serving, so you can weigh it out if need be, or just guestimate.

HTH!

502/1250

Changed my mind - pearls before swine and all that .

say your favorite and least favorite

sit-down restaurant- Outback Steakhouse/Bono's BBQ Pit

thing to get at an icecream parlor- Mint chocolate chip/umm... ?

salad dressing- FF Ranch/ANY dressing that's too heavy and too much of

fruit- peach/don't have a least favorite fruit.  I LOVE fruit!

breakfast- Farmer's Breakfast/Grape Nuts

bread- any homemade bread/storebought rye

veggie- oooh.. I love veggies.  Carrots/Okra (gross!)

cold drink- Lemonade/cheap cherry flavored sodas

hot drink- tea and coffee/can't think of a least favorite

cake- homemade cake with cream cheese frosting/any store bought over-frosted dry tasteless cake (ha.. maybe I'm just a snob in some things?)

soup- chicken noodle/tomato

meat (if you aren't vegetarian)- tough call... beef t-bone steak/any kind of liver

cereal- Honey Bunches of Oats/Grape Nuts

chip- Kettle's salt & vinegar/any loaded with MSG

fast food place- Subway/McDs, BK, KFC, Wendy's (the list goes on!)

sandwich- turkey breast with cheese, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and a touch of mayo/any of my kids crazy combinations, like PB and cheese!

nut- mixed/never met a nut I didn't like!  LOL.

spread- Marmite/fake cheese spread

type of food (ex. indian)- indian (curry!)/chinese

cookie- all/sorry, can't think of a cookie I don't like!

condiment- vinegar/?

candy- ooh.. candy.  I love candy.  I love any candy except those made from marzipan.  Gross.  My favorite candy would be Wether's Original Butterscotch hard candies.  Least favorite, those gross orange candies shaped like peanuts.  Yuck.

twilitwing, I'm the same height as you, but quite a bit older.  Personally at your age I think you should be eating more calories, so I'm glad you're upping them to 1,500 on your workout days.  I would think that even on non-workout days you could eat that and it wouldn't hurt you.

Having said that - I've also plateau'd (rather solidly!) at 125 in the past.  What I would suggest (and this is only if you have the willpower to get back on the wagon once it's done!) is to stop counting and exercising for a week.  Give your body a complete break.  Don't go hog wild on calories, but stop counting. 

If you can't (or don't want to) do that, then change things up completely for a week.  Get yourself some workout DVDs from the library and try something new.  If you find you're always eating the same thing each day, swap it up completely.

I guess what I'm saying is... shock your body out of the plateau!  :)

Friday - 60 minutes
Monday - 90 minutes 

367/1250

157/1250

I had similar stats, at an inch taller.  I'm now 119 lbs. but expecting that to spike before it goes down again.

I keep my cals around 1300.

How about chicken breast, cut into strips.  Stir fry with veggies and eat on a low carb tortilla?  You can add cheese/sour cream and even salsa, just watch the sodium amounts in the salsa.  You can also do this stir fry over rice or barley.  All fairly quick and easy to cook.

Grilled chicken breast with veggies and a baked potato?

If you log your cals, look at your food analysis and see what your sodium intake has been with the boxed dinners.  When I've gone over my sodium by quite a bit I know I'll see a big number on the scale the next day.

Get some Mrs. Dash spices... lovely spices with no salt!

I didn't make it last month, so I'm trying for the same number again:

47/1250

1060/1250

+ 60 minute walk
+ 27 minute 30 Day Shred
+ 15 minute ab workout

= 1162/1250

1000/1250

If you're going to eat the skin - weigh it with the skin.  I really don't think it's going to make such a huge difference, you'll drive yourself crazy for a tiny fraction of calories, LOL.

If I'm going to eat an apple, I wash it and weigh it, and log that weight.  I don't first remove the core and then weigh it.

If it was something really calorie dense, it would make more sense to be more vigilant about it.

860/1250

Just throwing this out there.. I make "pizza" for myself thisaway:

1 low carb tortilla (180 mg sodium per tortilla)
1 serving low fat part skim mozz cheese (170 mg sodium per serving)
cooked, diced chicken
sliced mushrooms and sliced peppers (get all the colors, makes the pizza pretty!)

Top tortilla with cheese, add diced chicken and the veggies, bake 'til hot and bubbly, and voila, you have a wonderful tasty pizza.

Or.. just make your own crust.  That way you can control the amount of salt you add into the dough.  I use "Beth's Pizza Crust" on the recipezaar website, tweaked to my liking.

Reggie, use this calculator:

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calc ulator.htm

Once you have put in your info and hit the "calculate" button, look at the bottom of the box for the "7 day calorie cycle" link.  Hit that and it will automagically zig zag your calories over a 7 day period for you.

HTH.

PS.  I would STRONGLY suggest no one follow the "extreme fat loss" calorie guidelines.  That would just be bizarre and detrimental to your weight loss plans.