Posts by octopusqueen

I have been so worried about this lately. I read an article that said like, if you drink even ONE can of diet soda you are like 35%-45% more likely to become obese. I have lost a lot of weight already while drinking diet soda, but for some reason, for days and days I couldn't stop freaking out about it everytime I drank one. And I understand that apparently it makes you want to eat more food after, so thats why you gain the weight, but if I don't eat, how can it really hurt me? I drink kind of a lot I think, normally 3 cans a day of either Sprite Zero or Diet Cherry Coke. Now having read this thread I feel better about drinking it.

In my opinion, I would eat something, even if all you have is a candy bar. You will continue to burn more fat if your metabolism is going, if you don't eat more, you will obviously burn less. So it's wise to eat something.

Sorry but, if you think this way you are going to end up having an eating disorder, or at least an unhealthy relationship with food. One meal is not going to mess you up by any means. I do it occasionaly, just yesterday I ate a Big Mac meal from McDonalds, yeah I don't feel good about it, but I'm back on my diet and healthy eating and plan to burn off those extra calories over the next few days. No worries. It's ok to mess up now and again! =)

Sorry but... isn't everyone like this!?? I don't know anyone who doesn't have an occasional bingefest, lol. Usually once or twice a week for me, I try to tell myself to eat a small amount or until I am no longer hungry, but I slip up and eat and eat until I just can't anymore. We are human, and I know we all do it, I think it's ok to slip up now and again, aslong as it's not a habit, then you will gain weight eventually.

1200 calories is ok to eat occasionally, sometimes I forget to eat or don't have time, and end up eating like 800 calories, but the next day I'll eat like 2000, or something. It matters in the long run, aslong as you don't make a habit of it, nothing bad will happen.

Original Post by nannoogrl:

Wow wow wow! That's incredible. If you don't mind answering, how did you do it? How many calories did you/do you eat?

 It's changed overtime, but currently I consume 1500, burn about 2500. I have a personal trainer now, but I only have had her for about a month, before then I did all my own cardio. I have some areas I need to work on though, my gut and arms are pretty flabby so that's why I hired her to tone me up a bit, but the weightloss is all on me. To be honest, I don't focus on anything but calories, people try to complicate eating healthy, by saying things like... you need to have this much protein... and you can't eat this much sugar.. or other carbs... I ONLY look at calories, I don't pay attention to sodium or anything else, I have yet to care about those things, and I've lost a lot of weight. Obviously it's smarter to eat something like an apple, rather than chips, but aslong as I stay at 1500 a day, I allow myself to eat whatever I want, as much fat as I want... cholesterol... whatever, it doesn't matter to me. And doing it this way makes things easy and allows me to eat a lot more of a variety, and I still have been losing 2 pounds per week my entire weightloss.

Thank you for your nice comment!! Anything else you would like to know, please ask!

I would log if you are at sedentary.. I have mine set to light activity and I still log exercise and such. Congrats by the way! I bet you feel good.

Figuring out your body fat percentage online is terrible! For my height and weight, gender, age all that, it says my body fat percentage is close to 27%, but I hired a personal trainer a few weeks ago and she took all my proper measurements, and my body fat percentage is 32%!!! I was shocked and upset. Even she was shocked, I only weigh 165 pounds, and 32% fat is alot for weighing so little, that means I basically have no muscle and a lot of fat! Oh well, I am working on getting rid of it once and for all!

I don't know, it's so hard to tell how much calories I burn during the day, I guess that on work days I burn about 3000 total, so i consume nearly 2000, on days off I imagine I burned close to my BMR since I don't do much on those days, so I eat a lot less and exercise a bit more. I find losing weight and eating healthy is easy, but I have yet to figure out how much I burn, its so hard to figure up.

Lost 112 pounds so far.. about 20 or so more to go!

Of course, that happens to most women who use birth control, it has to do with hormones, your boobs get bigger when you start on it, and will get smaller if you discontinue use.

Happened with me too, I'm lost over 100 pounds, and oddly enough, no matter how proud I am of the loss, I still feel and look fat. I stay confident, and I feel I am much more confident than before when I was obese, but I just don't see the weightloss, I see it in pictures, but I dunno, it's hard to explain.

I had this same issue, I think it's all water, no one loses one pound of pure fat in a day. It depends on your salt intake, I think someone above mentioned, and your water intake together, consuming less salt will make you weighloss, although you are not losing fat, just water.

I like them occasionally. I think they are good and well-portioned, but they make me constipated, lol, so like I said, I don't have them too often.

Original Post by flashdance9:

http://forums.dietpower.com/topic.a sp?TOPIC_ID=715&whichpage=66

 

that's the site that got me paranoid and worried octopus queen.  Thanks for telling me what happend to you when you had gallstones though.  So are you all better now that you had them removed? Like you dont experience abdominal pain anymore and your weight has stayed off?

 Yes, it took about a month and a half to get my body back to normal, but yes, I do not feel anymore pain, the surgery was totally worth it, and the weight loss was nice, although I lost a lot fast. I was also scared I would gain weight, but things ended nicely, and I'm happy. =)