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| Weight Loss | I need to look good in two weeks! Help! | Feb 07 2008 14:29 (UTC) |
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Spanx, got it! And a massage, I can do that. I'm hoping if I exercise maybe it will make me more energetic and that will give a good impression. Thanks for the advice. I would be thrilled if I could lose 4 pounds in two weeks. I have never lost that much. I have made permanent healthy changes and kept it up all winter, and I feel great compared to before. However, the results just aren't so visible. I took my measurements and they are exactly the same as a month ago, no difference even though I eat healthy and have been getting more exercise. I've made big changes but with minimal results. I'm hoping I can do something like start exercising or a detox diet (if they work?) that would also maybe set me up for better habits in the future. I don't want to do a fad diet that will backfire. |
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| Foods | I don't understand why people think healthy food is more expensive | Jan 23 2008 05:44 (UTC) |
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I used to be very low income and had $10-15 per week to spend on food, probably a lot like ajja. It's not impossible, but hard. If you spend $100 per week feeding your family, could you do it on $50 and still maintain a healthy diet? The US dietary guidelines have been criticized because the food allowences are too expensive for lower income families to follow them, due to the expense of produce. |
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| Foods | Help! Can't stop eating bad carbs! | Jan 23 2008 03:51 (UTC) |
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When I get tired of spaghetti and sliced bread, there aren't many options. I can't get any of the healthfood grains people talk about on this site. I like beans, but not every day and I can only get a few kinds. My solution for now is to have healthy cereal or oatmeal for breakfast, and fruit or eggwhites if I want them. I allow myself refined carbs for either lunch or dinner, but not both and never twice in one meal. So if I have ravioli for dinner, I can't have baked potato or a bread roll as a side. I also measure out one serving size when I eat carbs. It's not perfect, but it's better than how I ate before. |
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| Weight Loss | MUST BE SKINNY! - help! | Jan 23 2008 01:53 (UTC) |
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http://whfoods.org/foodstoc.php ; Log what you eat, does it say you are getting enough protein? Vitamins? Calcium? Find out what you're missing and eat food that will give you what you need. Isn't there any way to find out what kind of fitness regime your idol is on? Maybe you could take dance lessons instead of sports, the stretching would keep you from bulking up. Maybe you don't move gracefully or have bad posture, that could influence what you see in the mirror. |
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| Weight Loss | Green Tea | Jan 22 2008 13:22 (UTC) |
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| I went years drinking about 1.5 liters of green tea every day, no side effects. It's delicious but I didn't feel healthier. | |||
| The Lounge | What would you do if you read an email you weren't supposed to read and it had to do with your spouse/partner? | Jan 22 2008 09:42 (UTC) |
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This has happened to me, only the email I found sure wasn't about Bible study! I wasn't snooping, it was just mild curiosity, like "oh, what's this?" I wasn't expecting to find anything I'd have to hide, I thought we were open about everything. I read that email with an innocent heart, and I've never been as shocked by anything in my whole life, either before or since. After that, I did snoop and realized that email was the tip of the iceberg. My advice for the friend is to ask her husband where he was or what he did at the time of the Bible study. Not accusingly, just in conversation. If he lies, she will know something's up. It wouldn't hurt to come clean and say she read the email by mistake - if he freaks out, gets defensive and tries to turn it on her for snooping, I'd take it as a bad sign. People get angry when their privacy is violated, but not that angry. |
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| Weight Loss | "Eating back exercise-burned calories" seems to be causing a lot of people to plateau and/or gain | Jan 21 2008 13:45 (UTC) |
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I think I'm going to go back to 3 meals a day then, with a healthy snack if I get hungry. I like working up an appetite and feeling ready for lunch. Snacking all day makes me feel cranky, eating to satiate real hunger is one of the pleasures of life, isn't it? If I don't let myself get hungry, then I don't feel like eating at all. It's like how people say you should never go grocery shopping when you're hungry. I've followed that advice, and came home with breath mints and aluminum foil because I didn't want anything. And the original topic: if you're working out a lot then up your activity level and don't add calories for anything that's part of your weekly routine. If you're exerting yourself beyond the usual, then eat extra if you're hungry and need it, but not as a reward. |
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| Weight Loss | "Eating back exercise-burned calories" seems to be causing a lot of people to plateau and/or gain | Jan 21 2008 09:58 (UTC) |
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Original Post by strikez: Can you explain why that's not true? I'm on a 1,200 diet, so my understanding was that I should eat six 200-calorie meals instead of three 400-calorie meals. It's really inconvenient and difficult to split it up into six meals because it just feels like I snack all day, I end up missing the feeling of sitting down to a nice meal. If there's no point in dividing my calories up like that, I'll stop now. |
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| Motivation | It's my birthday! meaning Cake, alcohol, food!!! Advice please... | Jan 21 2008 08:48 (UTC) |
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Happy birthday! I had a special occasion myself earlier this week, and it certainly threw off my calorie average for the week. But so what? In the long run, it doesn't matter. Have fun, eat up and enjoy the party. Don't try to make up for it later, just get back on track the next day. And if you're like me, you may find the unhealthy food to be not nearly as good as you remembered. I was really happy to get back to my diet. |
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| Weight Loss | Studying Abroad and Weight Loss. | Jan 19 2008 14:32 (UTC) |
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Try to accept that you may gain or lose weight while you're there, but don't let it be the focus of your experience. I'm not saying to go crazy, but it will be such a whirlwind at first that it's easy to lose sight of your health goals. Do your best until you get settled into your life routines and then take stock of your resources and limits. Studying abroad is incredibly fun, but it's also really challenging and stressful in a way that's hard to comprehend when you're actually going through it and almost impossible to prepare for beforehand. A lot of people's weightloss or gain has more to do with their emotional state than with diet plans. |
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| Weight Loss | at least 1200/day is BULL!!!!..for most people | Jan 19 2008 02:24 (UTC) |
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Original Post by jengrutzius: Our stats are very similar, that's my situation too. And since I'm just starting to exercise, I really can't throw myself into those long work-outs. As for the comment above about feeling cold if you have a slow metabolism: well, it's January. I prefer not to crank the heat up too high, so I'm always grabbing a sweater or wrap and my hands are often chilly. But is it metabolism or just cold? This info makes me feel like I should just give up now. I don't even have the money to buy an extra meal's worth of food every day. The 1,200 diet just feels right, I have lots of energy and feel like I eat plenty. |
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| Weight Loss | I need help!! ...Anyone have good tasty recipes that are 200 cals or less? | Jan 19 2008 01:53 (UTC) |
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| Make a big pot of vegetable soup, you can add a couple of beef or chicken bullion cubes if it needs extra flavor, and lots of herbs or spices. For 200 calories you could have a couple of big bowls of that with a few whole wheat crackers crumbled in, or even a little cheese sprinkled over the top. | |||
| Weight Loss | Women... Would you stay with a guy if he wanted you to lose weight? | Jan 19 2008 01:38 (UTC) |
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Don't divorce your husband just because he'd like you to lose a few pounds. Divorce him because he's an insensitive jerk with an ego problem. |
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| Weight Loss | my recent experience... Koreans and their weight standards... | Jan 16 2008 10:06 (UTC) |
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Original Post by udokier: Not really. Any American store will have size small, medium or large. Most will have xs and xl, and a few will have smaller or larger sizes. Most Japanese stores only sell size medium. Even if most US stores didn't carry your wife's size, they still carry a wider range. The US also has people of many ethnicities. It's not at all unusual to see white people, black people and asians shopping in the same store. Korea and Japan lack ethnic diversity, so the clothes really are only made to fit slender asian people. I'm not saying it should be any different, just that it isn't really the same in reverse. |
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| Foods | One of my biggest pet peeves - teaching kids to cook | Jan 15 2008 19:20 (UTC) |
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My mother did teach me how to cook, she explained recipes and methods to me as she made dinner and we made cakes and cookies together. Of course she stressed kitchen safety. But she never actually let me practice. If I made any kind of mess at all, like leaving a dirty measuring cup in the sink, she'd go nuts. Even if I cleaned up the kitchen so it was spotless, better than it was before, she would be sure to make some comment about how filthy it was, or if a friend dropped by she'd apologize that the kitchen was a mess because I'd been cooking. She'd ask me if I remembered to use dishsoap when I did the dishes, then pointedly rewash them all. And even days later she'd come to me asking 'where did you put the tarragon?' or 'I wish you'd told me you'd used up all the flour,' and of course nothing I'd made included any of the items she mentioned. On the plus side, to this day I do not sit down to dinner until I've scrubbed every pan and utensil I used, totally rinsed any cans, etc. I'm not a tidy person otherwise, so that's saying something! |
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| Weight Loss | This '1200' number... | Jan 15 2008 07:59 (UTC) |
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@annarap: The 1,200/day figure doesn't come from subtracting work-outs, but it is for a sedentary lifestyle. If you're even moderately active, you aren't on a 1,200/day diet, or at least shouldn't be. You are eating 1,558/day, based on what you said, and you don't fit the profile for a 1,200/day diet.
@sauvignon: Like everyone says, talk to your doctor. If you can't or don't want to, then just try to maintain a very balanced diet and focus on getting enough nutrients instead of going for the calorie count. If you feel full and energetic on less, I'd say listen to your body rather than follow a website formula. |
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| Foods | Commercial-Brand Green Tea | Jan 14 2008 09:05 (UTC) |
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If you want the benefit of green tea, you need to be drinking it pretty often. You do NOT want to drink Airzona every day, that would be really unhealthy! The sugar and preservatives in that drink would far outweigh the benefit of the green tea. It's like if I ate a pint of Hagendaaz every day because I wanted the calcium from milk. What you want is a really light tea, you may have gotten the really bitter stuff used for the Japanese tea ceremony. If you can, go to an Asian supermarket and ask the staff for a recommendation for iced green tea. It has no sugar and has a light, refreshing taste. Try it ice cold and see if you like it. Green tea is not a sugary drink, it's meant to be served without sugar or milk. If you normally drink sugary tea or soda, you probably won't like it. If you are really set on incorporating it into your diet, make it as weak as you can and slowly get used to it. |
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| Vegetarian | How can I get enough iron? | Jan 13 2008 14:13 (UTC) |
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Try to get as much iron from your diet as you can, but if you can't get enough, just take a good multivitamin that includes iron. Liky bipolypesca said, do not take iron supplements unless you actually have a deficiency. The only exception might be if you are female, you could take an iron supplement when you have your period because your body loses iron due to the blood loss. I have struggled with a severe iron deficiency off and on for years, and I get the same symptoms as anemia. It comes back if I don't take the supplements, even if I seem to be eating fine. My problem was diagnosed by a doctor though, most people will not need to take supplements. |
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| The Lounge | New Canadian Airline Policy re Obese and Disabled Travellers | Jan 12 2008 03:30 (UTC) |
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It's been a while since I checked this, but I believe when you buy a plane ticket, you aren't buying a 'seat', you're buying the service of being transported from one place to another. I guess they're saying one person shouldn't have to pay double for that service. But I agree with everyone else. If an obese person gets an extra seat free, I think they should have to provide a medical certificate saying they have a gland disorder or something. I think if the disabled person is VERY disabled - unable to feed him/herself, unable to use the toilet, etc - then it's a good idea to allow the care provider to travel free, otherwise the flight staff might be expected to deal with situations they aren't qualified to handle. I don't think changes like this will result in disabled people deciding to take extra holidays around the world. But with the population becoming more and more obese, everyone is going to pay if fat people get extra space for free. I'm fat and I still fit in the seat. Sure it's cramped, but you'd have to be huuuuuuge to need two seats. |
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| Maintaining | night shift | Jan 11 2008 11:08 (UTC) |
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I worked the graveyard shift for years, and I think most daywalkers can't really imagine how hard it can be. Sleeping schedules are really hard to maintain because you probably still have stuff you have to do in the daytime: see friends, mail stuff, shopping, etc. I actually don't think the body adapts well to changing sleep schedules, I ended up eating when I wasn't hungry (work breaks) and starving when it was bad timing for a big meal, like right before bedtime. My advice would be to just have many small meals and healthy snacks and break the 'three meals a day' mindset, because it's easier to say 'ok I haven't eaten in 3 hours, I need something,' instead of 'Dinnertime! Or breakfast, whatever.' |
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| Vegetarian | Fish Eating "Vegetarians" | Jan 11 2008 10:54 (UTC) |
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Original Post by sunkissedbliss: If people don't want to be labeled, fine. But if they choose to use the label 'vegetarian' in reference to themselves, shouldn't they actually be one, or at least aspiring in that direction?
Fish are animals and eating them is an active choice, so why lie about it? There's nothing wrong with the label 'pescetarian' if it fits. It's not a judgement call, it's just a factual label based on food choices. |
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| Vegetarian | Why do you consume dairy? | Jan 10 2008 13:20 (UTC) |
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I eat a mostly vegetarian diet, but not 100%. Meaning, I don't intentionally eat meat but don't keep track of by-products like geletin. I love icecream and pizza, but those aren't exactly on my diet. I hate milk, butter and just about all dairy products anyway, but sometimes they're used as ingredients in other food. I don't make an effort to eliminate them because the small amounts I eat don't add up to enough to worry about. Also, my access to soy milk or other substitutes is minimal. I can't get any kind of veggie burgers or meat/egg substitutes besides plain tofu, and I don't want to limit my diet more than I already do. I don't like eggs, but I force myself to eat them because I think they're good for me. If I could develop a liking for hard-boiled eggs, that's something healthy I could order when I have breakfast with friends and they're loading their plates with fatty foods that gross me out. Personally, I wouldn't worry about isolated soy protein at all if it's just something you have now and then. You need to find your own balance and set realistic goals for yourself. Ultimately, it's not so important where you draw the line, just so long as you draw it somewhere. |
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| Foods | Ice cream problems!!! | Jan 09 2008 14:58 (UTC) |
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I'm an icecream-holic too. I agree about the low-fat icecream and sorbet. A few ideas: NEVER EAT OUT OF THE CARTON! If you have to keep going back to the freezer every time you want more, you will realize how much you're eating. Buy small icecream cones. They're fun and only hold so much. They're cheap too, and the calories aren't so bad, especially compared to icecream. Use a cheap plastic spoon. If the icecream is hard, you can't eat it as fast with a plastic spoon or it will break. If you practically inhale icecream like I do, this will slow you down. |
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| Weight Loss | What if you're not hungry? | Jan 09 2008 13:42 (UTC) |
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I am having the exact same problem. I need to lose 50 pounds, but without all my high-fat treats, I just can't eat enough to stick to my diet. This week I'm averaging 1,175 calories and today I only hit 497! Which is rediculous, so I made myself some pasta to reach 949. I haven't got the money to buy so much food, I don't want to eat all day, and I don't see how I'll ever be hungry enough to eat this sheer volume of food I have to eat in order to get those calories. It was so much easier when 1,200 calories was just a small cheesecake! Sorry I have no advice to offer, I just share your pain. I never in a million years thought my problem would be not eating enough.
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