Posts by meleba

Buffalo Jerky.

Name/Nickname: Melanie

Age: 17

Calorie Goal: 1600

Favorite Fruit: Strawberries and grapes

Favorite Vegetable: Broccoli

Favorite Meat: Bison

Favorite Dairy: Fage 0%

Favorite Carb: Oatmeal

Favorite Baked Good: Cookie

Favorite Nut: Does peanut butter count? I hate nuts.

Favorite Frozen Treat: Ice cream

Favorite Dinner: stir-fry

Favorite Guilty Pleasure: Ice cream with toppings.

Old [Pre-Diet] Favorite Food: Pasta

Current Favorite Snack: Fage

Favorite Comfort Food: Cereal, out of the box

Favorite Herb/Spice: Cayenne pepper

Favorite Salty Food: Jerky

Favorite Sweet Food: home made custard

Favorite Spicy Food: Salsa

Favorite Warm/Hot Food: Oatmeal with maple and pumpkin

Favorite Soup: tomato

Favorite Sandwich filling: Tuna with lettuce and olives

Favorite Restaurant: hate restaurants.

Favorite Dish at said restaurant: 

Favorite Beverage excluding water: diet soda.

Favorite processed food: Jerky

Favorite processed food brand: Trader Joe's

All time favorite food: ...grapes?

I love cayenne on everything. It's my favorite spice. That would be interesting if it had fat burning benefits. I hope someone who knows how it works posts here!

Probably restricting. Say you eat 1800 calories and burn 600, you have an intake of 1200 but get more nutrients, and get to enjoy more food and be less hungry. Eating 1200 wouldn't be as satisfying.

You shouldn't exercise like crazy, though. Be gentle with yourself and your body. The best way to lose binge weight is by just pretending it didn't happen, and continuing your diet as normal the next day. Drink lots of water, get lots of sleep, and avoid stress to help yourself not binge in the future.

They look gross to me... But they aren't bad for you or anything. Everything a baby eats is safe for an adult. (Doesn't work the other way around.)

So go ahead, if you want to, lol

I think if you're going to pull a stunt like this off, you should do it without chemical aids. Drinking caffeine while simultaneously depriving yourself of sleep is like taking money out of a bank, (by which I mean your adrenal glands,) and not putting any back in. 

So, yeah. It's crap for you either way, but worse with the drugs. What are you doing, anyway? Do you really not have time to take even a three hour cat nap? I once stayed up 48 hours finishing a study project for my Japanese class. By the time the classtest I'd been cramming for rolled around my thinking was so muddled I had to physically hurt myself-- dig my nails into my skin, bite my lip, snap a rubberband,-- just to stay awake and alert. My eyes kept closing on their own. And guess what: I got a C on the project, and a D on the test.

He needs to get help, quick. I'd worry about him fainting.

If he won't go to a therapist for eating disorders, take him to family or marriage counseling with you, and start from there. There's a stigma around mental illness, and I think it's especially strong about male anorexia. Let him know that it doesn't make him weak or a bad person, and that you want to help him get better.

I'd say a mix of protein and natural sugars. Nothing to heavy or fatty, that can make you more tired as you digest. Grapes, a banana, or dried fruit like Jane suggested are all good; they'll give you energy quickly. Protein will help give you strength, so try and include some of that, too. 

I find colder foods make me less tired than the hot ones. Sometimes after I eat something warm like oatmeal or soup I feel like crawling back into bed and being cozy. XD 

Anyway. Grapes. I think they'd be perfect.

Oh, thank you so much for coming back. 

I'm not too scared about the portion sizes. I can eat a whole plate of veggies and be fine. The idea of eating fat is the worst. I haven't had any in a really, really long time. They don't start you off eating pats of butter, do they? Just thinking about it has got me panicking.

It's funny... I'm trying to think of foods I don't enjoy eating. I can think of foods I wouldn't touch, but they're all bad foods, not foods I actually dislike. That sucks about the lima beans. Were you forced to eat them anyway?

What was the policy on phone calls and visitors where you stayed?

Um... does someone wanna take pity on me? Please? x_x

Bump.

I know! It's so great. The low sodium one tastes like peanut butter frosting. 

When I first discovered it I was eating at least a quarter cup per day on all sorts of foods. Try it on a banana!

With fruits and vegetables, I eyeball it. Occasionally I weigh it, just to make my eyeballing more accurate in the future. I'm less strict about fruits and veggies since they're low in calories, so if I'm eating a little too much there's not a lot of damage.

I weigh or measure everything else, unless I'm in a hurry. 

I never eat bread, unless it's banana bread, lol.

It's not because I think it's bad, I just think it's a boring use of calories. For the 100 calories in one slice of bread, I could eat a large tasty apple or a fudgesicle. Everything that's a sandwich could be a wrap or a salad; the bread itself doesn't serve much of a purpose. It's like rice, more of a carrier food. Who needs it?

You should definitely try newmen o's if you see them. They've got a lot of really yummy flavors.

Hershey's 100 calorie packs, the ones with cereal. 100 calories for a handful of chocolatey kibbles. Not worth it. 

Yeah, a lot of walden farms stuff tastes like lake sludge, lol. I've found some good ones, though. The asian salad dressing is great.