Posts by milehighwalker

When my dad had to make weight (when he was in the military) he would only eat dinner and nothing else.

I've wondered about that, too.  If I get up early I usually end up eating an extra mini-breakfast, so I've wondered if those calories balance out.  (Not worried, just wondered.)

I did Level 2 for the first time yesterday afternoon.  Wow! I was wiped.  It was good, though.  How I felt when I did Level 1 the first time.  Level 1 had gotten to the point where it was still a good workout but not as hard as when I first started.  Level two had me back to where I was breathing really hard and really feeling it.

I think you calculated this wrong...it has 15 calories per 1 cup popped, and 3 servings per bag, but one serving is not 1 cup popped, it's more than that - something like three or four cups I think. The label defines the serving size. :)

That's the thing I think is so tricky about the popcorn labels.  They list the servings based on unpopped kernels, but then they give you the calories in a cup, and most people would assume the one cup corresponds to one serving size but it doesn't.

Oh, also, just fyi some people will still take offense to the word flexitarian.

Honestly, the labeling debates get so heated I just refer to myself as someone-who-tries-not-to-eat-much-meat.

I don't call myself a "laid back vegetarian" but I think I eat similarly to what you have in mind.

Basically, I don't buy meat at the store and I don't order it in restaurants.  I do eat it if I go somewhere and there's not a reasonable option otherwise.  So, this week I ate some chicken at a meeting where dinner was provided and the only veggie option was white rice (I had assumed there'd be a veggie option for the group or else I might have just eaten beforehand) and I know tonight I will be eating a buffalo burger since we are going to a friend's for dinner. 

In other catered situations, say a work event I went to this summer with hot dogs and burgers for lunch, I made a sandwich on a hamburger bun with the "fixins": cheese, lettuce, onions, and tomatoes. So, it's not that I eat meat at every event I go to, only if there's not really a good option otherwise.

I could ask my friend tonight to make me a veggie burger, but since I'm not a vegetarian, I don't feel justified in asking other people to make special arrangements for me, if that makes sense.

Am I a vegetarian? Absolutely not.  Am I positively impacting my health, the environment, and the welfare of animals? I absolutely am.

I did south beach a few years back, and after a few weeks I took a bit of a doughnut and did not like it.  I had gotten so used to eating dense foods (meat, cheese, veggies, and whole grains) that even a piece of white bread tasted like cake to me, way too sweet and fluffy.

I have worked out the past twelve days in a row!

I learned it as chicken, airplane, soldier.  Wouldn't superman be hands outstretched above you?

You really can't stress out about the day to day weights.  I hopped on the scale this morning, and then, because I was curious, I got back on an hour later and I was down half a pound.  I know I didn't burn an extra 1,700 calories for breakfast, so I'm not too worried.

Just get back on your plan.  Watch your calories and work out.

Make sure you're looking at the popped amount and doing the math carefully.  One cup of air popped pocorn, without any butter, oil, sugar, anything, is 30 calories.  A normal size microwave bag (not 100 calories kind) will make about five cups, so 150 calories without any flavoring.

Nutrition facts on microwave popcorn are notoriously confusing.  I just pulled the box out of my pantry (safeway organic butter flavored) and it says a serving size is 3 tablespoons (36 g) unpopped and there are about 5 serving per container.

It then lists calories, fat, etc for one cup popped, but nowhere does it say that the three tablespoons produces one cup of popped corn. 

It also lists calories for "Packaged" whatever that means.  I'm guessing it's supposed to be for the whole bag, but I'm not sure I'm buying it.

A "better start" Thomas english muffin with a Morningstar fake sausage patty. (These are so good.  I don't eat them as an alternative to sausage, I eat them because they're amazing.)

180 calories, 5 grams of fat, 27 grams of carbs, 9 grams of fiber, 16 grams of protein.

Those high fiber english muffins keep you full. I had a sourdough one the other day with only one gram of fiber, and I was starving two hours later.

On days when I'm feeling more ambitious, I add a fried egg to this sandwich, but I have a barbecue to go to tonight so I'm trying to keep the calories light until then.

Original Post by soshorereject:

Haha! As a CSS/HTML person, I love the use of the term "hack". Totally fits!!

And yeah, this sounds real yummy. Thanks for posting!

Haha.  My boyfriend is always sending me links from lifehacker, so I guess hack is a verb that gets used frequently in this house.

Make sure you read those labels carefully.  The popped and unpopped numbers will be different, and a lot of times the number of servings per bag will be different so the math can be tricky.  For a while I thought I had these bags of popcorn that were 100 calories in the whole bag, but I was doing the math wrong.

To make any of your chili more low calorie, just add more veggies.  I always use black beans as a "base," but beans are denser and more caloric than veggies, so to "water it down" add chopped celery, bell peppers, anaheim pepper, onions, tomatoes, even finely copped broccoli and spinach.

I also love diced sweet potato in my chili, and it's also ounce for ounce fewer calories than beans.