Posts by xgregorio

From my neurobiology and endocrine classes, it can make a difference. When you eat, you increase insulin in your body which lets you absorb more glucose and then convert it to glucagon and then into your fat tissue. This happens any time you eat. However, if you eat late at night (and you arent going to do anything to burn it off, like say, sleep) you will have a lot of glucose in your blood and then most of it will go into your adipose tissue because you aren't doing anything to turn glucose into energy.

In other words, it's easier to burn the glucose that you just ate than to get glucose from your fat tissue. Therefore, you'd burn more calories. It's not something you should rely on though because if you have a net caloric input of -500 calories per day, I'm sure eating some of the calories later at night will not put you into a net gain of calories. 

Either way, its practically insignificant to a diet plan/exercise! 

Original Post by ainedb:

A medium banana is 110 calories each. If you eat two bananas and an apple a day, you can have 300 calories right there. You do need to count that!

 There are things that are called "negative or zero" calorie foods according to some doctors. To digest food, it takes energy; however, if you eat something (lets say celery) which has almost no calories, you end up with a net or zero calorie food.

 It is true, however, that everything you eat has calories, but imagine eating something with some calories but it being made out of cellulose (you cant digest that. Since you can't digest it, you can't convert the energy into calories and you just poop it out. Stuff like celery is hard to digest which expends more energy. A banana is really sweet, so i doubt that is 'zero'. celery is most cellulose and water i believe (kinda like bark lol).

anyways, if you dont count them even if it's a banana, who cares. it's only 100 calories. if you ate a banana everyday, it would take you more than a month to have a net gain of a lb.

hope this helps. 

Original Post by jazzygal:

Okay, so the past few days I have been trying some new bread recipes. One for pizza dough and one for a loaf of whole wheat bread. Both of these require yeast and some time to rise before baking. So I follow the directions to a T, but my dough isn't rising hardly at all. The directions do say that you should put the dough in a 'warm' place to rise however.

Being that it's 35 degrees outside and not exactly 'warm' in my apartment, I don't know where they expect me to put the dough to rise. Is this my problem? Also, FYI I am using Bob's Red Mill Whole Wheat Flour...it says right on the front of the package 'Perfect for bread made with or without a bread machine' so I know I am using bread flour. I have been letting my bread rise in turned-off oven so far. I let it sit for the exact time that they say too.

Any body know why my bread won't rise?

 A "warm" place just helps the yeast grow (the yeast eat the sugar you are adding into your bread- at least, i hope you are adding sugar because your bread wont rise). Therefore, if it is really cold where you are, the yeast will not grow as fast. I make my dough the day before and let it sit in the fridge for the next day.

Also, another factor could be that when you mix the yeast in water&sugar solution, the water is too hot and kills the yeast and therefore the yeast can not eat the sugar and bud.

Original Post by qaowk:

The info you guys are finding on your potato bags are all pretty close in nutritional values, but aren't quite what I need. clairelaine, I had actually done the search and turned up the same pages you did, but I took another look and decided my best bet is to use 2 of them, since I found no other possible comparisions. Calories in Potatoes, Baked, Skin ,Calories in Potatoes, Baked, Flesh

Here is the comparison:Baked, Skin Baked, FleshServing Size 1 skin (58.0 g) Serving Size 1/2 cup (61.0 g)Calories 115 Calories 57 total fat 0.1 g ---------------------------------0.1saturated fat 0.0 g --------------------------0.0 polyunsaturated fat 0.0g -------------------0.0cholesterol 0 mg -----------------------------0sodium 12 mg --------------------------------3total carbohydrates 26.7-------------------13.1dietary fiber 4.6 g ----------------------------0.9sugars 0.8 g ----------------------------------1.0protein 2.5 g -----------------------------------1.2vit. A 0 % --------------------------------------0%vit. C13 % -------------------------------------13%calci um 2 % -----------------------------------0%iron 23 % -------------------------------------- 1 % My conclusion: drastic reduction of 50% or more in calories, sodium, fiber, calcium & iron, just by removing the skin from a potato. The calorie reduction was a great surprise to me.

 

 Um, why do you need it to be exact? I'm sure if you are off by a few calories or what not it wont hurt you. If you are off by +/-100 calories everyday from your goal, it still wont hurt you drastically.

My goal is to fit into my old clothes which are mediums so I have more of a variety to wear and don't want to buy new clothes. I would rather spend my money on food and rent than new clothes, but I'm starting to have clothes that don't really fit me (^college student).

Good Luck on your goals. 

Did you have a resistance on it? That's another factor in burning calories. Anyways, when I run on an elliptical machine after entering my stats, I burn 250 calories on 3 resistance and maybe 6mph on average with a 6 incline (doesn't mean much to me because incline on elliptical machines feel like nothing) in 20 minutes.

On a regular treadmill, you burn more with incline rather than speed, however, with the stats you give, it seems like it's unreasonable. You probably burned ~150 cals.

http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/calories-bur ned.php

this gives you a good estimate. 

you need to know how many cups you made total.

e.g. if all that fit into 1 cup, you'd have ~1740 calories per cup.

if it were 2 cups, 870 per cup.

Moreover, if you split this meal up 10 ways, it would only be 174 calories per cup.

Veggies count though, unless you aren't putting in much.