Posts by snoekem516

Mustard and Pickles.  I am the least picky person I know (at least I was until I stopped eating pig and cow...) and these are the only two things I can't stand.

It also happened yesterday when I was running...

On wikipedia "flexitarian" is basically the catch-all word for people who choose to not eat some meats and eat others or who have their own special set of rules.  I eat fish and poultry and call myself a flexitarian but that's only when I must explain it to other people.  I just eat what I want.  Pure vegetarians probably do find this "marketing friendly" and that's so true.  I don't think I'm a vegetarian, it's just complicated to explain.  No flexitarians have the exact same set of rules probably, because they are flexible.

6 grams of sugar is not a lot.  With the good fiber and protein you get from the kashi bars (LOVE THEM!) without all the crazy calories, the 6 grams of sugar is a balanced enough.  In most bars like this there is a LOT more sugar.  Eat up that KASHI! 

I used to work in a smoothie place in a mall.  One quite memorable customer came up to me and asked if the smoothies were high in fat.  I said no, but that they were kind of high in calories.  She said, "Aren't calories fat?"  SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT CALORIES EVEN WERE!  I had to explain that they're the energy in your food that your body uses to run itself.  She seemed dumbfounded.  She was mid-twenties and I am 16.  I think she was a little embarassed as she well should be.  OMG!

Thursday is always a high calorie day for me.  Not because I plan it that way but because on Thursdays we have hot lunch at school (pizza, subs, chicken sandwich, etc.) and I tutor at my church so we have lots of variety and tons of good yummy hot stuff (last week it was meatloaf, coleslaw, potatoes, grapes, you can see how I went a little overboard (1000 calorie dinner does not equal a little...) and this week it was pasta with breadsticks and salad, and there's always DESSERT).  Since I went so overboard last week I decided to try something different today and make sure that I wasn't ever really hungry, especially around dinner, because last week, even when I got full to the point of pain, I still had an unbelievable urge to gobble up everything in sight.  So this week I made sure to eat at 8:00 (my usual breakfast time), 9:30 (my usual snack time), 11:30 (my pre-lunch), 12:00 (lunch), and a big snack at 3:00 to stem off uncontrollable hunger urges.  It definently worked.  I could control myself better at dinner and although I ate too much chocolate pudding and a little too much pasta, I didn't go wacko overboard.  This is my brand new plan.  If I could control not going crazy for dinner and still being full now (8:17) so I don't feel the urge to snack, my plan for next Thursday is to even stay around 1400-my daily goal.  This is my new plan for all days because I always feel super-hungry right before dinner.  Since I eat what my parents are eating I think that I have to save lots of calorie room for dinner, but then I end up snacking before and after because I'm not maintaining my hunger level, I'm letting it teter-totter up and down.  If I'm not uber hungry for dinner, I won't eat way too much and need to save the calorie room!  This is my lightbulb moment.  Hopefully this works out and my bulb doesn't burn out.  Does this sound smart to anyone else?

Today:

Breakfast -Meijer brand Special K (Essential M), it tastes better than Special K.

Snack -Pea Pods

Snack -Nectarine

Lunch -2 slices Hungry Howies Pizza

Snack -2 slices Wasa Crispbread with 1 Laughing Cow cheese wedge

Dinner -1.5 servings pasta with marinara sauce, one breadstick with no butter, 2 servings salad with 2 tablespoons french dressing, 4 meatballs, and chocolate pudding

The day will end up being about 1700 calories.  Not TOO bad.

Daily Goal: 1400

Daily Burn: 1890 w/ no excersize

Lo siento para el libro! 

Those super-delicious tortilla strips from Costco made with mediterannean sea salt.  9 Chips=140 Calories.  Not worth it.  So impossible to only eat 9.  And you need them with salsa.  Whenever my parents buy them I eat them.  ARG!

Cookies.  If they're in my house, I'll eat them.  At least 4 of them.  The weird thing though is that I only eat them the first day they're in my house.  We had vanilla oreos and I ate 9 in one day (450 calories), haven't had any since and they're still in my house.  We had homemade cookies, I ate 4 in one day and then only one the next, it was easier to control.  We had chocolate oatmeal cookies, ate 4 the first day, none since.

Also chocolate and pretzels.  We have a bag of milk chocolate chips in my house and a bag of pretzels.  I will get out both bags and take some of both.  The sweet to salty ratio never gets right and so I will keep eating more of each in an attempt to achieve the right ratio.  Yes.  Definite bad idea.  Yes.  I should measure out one serving of each.  Yes.  I should throw these foods away.  Yes.  They are both not filling enough for their calories.  But boy oh boy is it good.

If you're excersizing too close to beddy-bye time then your heart rate will keep going and that could prevent you from falling asleep.  If your mind is constantly keeping awake thinking about what you're going to eat or do tomorrow, right before you turn out the light write down your food and other schedule plans for tomorrow.  That way your mind will turn off better.

You seem like you want us to convince you that it's wrong and that you should skip work.  Because of this I'm led to believe that it does make you feel that awful and that you really hate it.  Here is what I would recommend.  First off, what time of the day is it at?  If it's around lunchtime, go out for lunch.  If it's there the whole day then think about how gross it is getting sitting out there with so many people picking at the frosting.  Choose one.  Either ice cream OR cake and allow yourself to eat it; this way the rest of the day you won't just be thinking about it all the time.  If you really feel like you can't control yourself.  Schedule a doctor's appointment or tell your boss you have a doctor's appointment and go out and take a walk.  This way you won't be around it.

Everyone thinks my fiber one is rabbit food pellets.  They litterally think I eat food made for rabbits.  How dumb can you get?  They say it tastes like it too, but I think it's sweet.

Whatever you do, don't go to Burger King.  I was at a day-long forensics tournament last Saturday and ate bad all day so I was gonna only get a salad and fruit at dinner.  I wanted fruit SO bad.  Burger King apparently doesn't HAVE fruit.  Oh my gosh I was SO mad!  This week I'm packing all my own food.

usually i aim for 1400, my BMR.

I'm 16, 5'3'', CW:122, GW: 108, I'd be fine with 112 though

I don't usually excersize during the normal school year because I have so many activities going on: theatre, forensics, schoolwork, job...

 Excuses, excuses I know : 0