Posts by danilk

It is good to have nearly clear pee.  You people... sometimes...

Anyway, during cross country a girl on the team got dehydrated (like really bad and she couldn't keep anything down) so the doctor told her to drink slowly and eat saltines do her body would start retaining water.

The deal with salt is, watch your daily intake of it and get plenty of water.  Drink how ever much makes you feel good.

Original Post by udokier:

If they have chicken fajitas, that would probably be the healthiest option - go easy on the sour cream/cheese-type toppings.

 I second the fajitas.  They come with lots of vegetables and you can control how much extra crap you want on them like guac and sour cream instead of having something smothered in cheese.

Original Post by alanbates:

...I haven't really heard anything consistent on an allowance of saturated fats.

My rule of thumb with sat fat is this:
I have a personal "allowance" of 0 g of saturated fat in a day. However, that doesn't mean that I eat no sat fat. It means that I apply different rules to it. I multiply the count of saturated fat grams by the caloric content of whatever I ate, then divide that in half. I add this many calories on to my cardio workout for the day (or for the next day if I've already done my cardio)

Using your iced honey bun as an example: (using stats from calorie-count.com

430 Kcalories

5 g of saturated fat

(430 x 5) / 2 = 1050 Kcal

Becomes a penalty of 1050 Kcal that I have to burn extra(about an hour of moderate-high moderate intensity on an elliptical for me....or about an hour 15 minutes rowing, or about an hour run.

....It might make you want to cut your honey bun in half and save some for tomorrow ;)

 

Edit:  I consider meals with less than a gram of saturated fat to be negligible.  I might add them up at the end of the day if I haven't had any sat fat rich snack, but my regular workout is more than enough to absorb a little.  I make my allowance well below what is "unhealthy"  If you put a luxury tax on your sweets, it keeps them in bounds for your diet, but might make you think twice about the portion that you eat.

I won't give up wine for water all together, but  I don't drink it all the time anymore.  Light bread is a switch I've made.  I've also gone down to 1%milk from 2%... even though that is a small change.  I still use real butter, but I buy the unsalted kind now.  I also refuse to replace olive oil with Pam or any other cooking spray.

Atleast you don't smell like farts...

The first poster is full of lies!... it def won't slow you down.  Do factor it in however.

On a little side story here- My mom's trainer told her whenever she gives up wine for lent, she actually gains weight becuase she ends up eating in place of the wine.  I'm sure she might have sweets instead of wine if it really causes her to gain weight, but still.  Factored in, no problem.

just eat healthy calorie dense food, like avocados or peanut butter or nuts etc...  or a cookie?  Tempting...

Original Post by finchcat:

I think, techraven, you might have a slightly distorted vision of what sizes on a woman that tall look like. I wear a size 8 in pants and a 10 in dresses, and am 5'11''. I am not 'a bit curvy' I definitely look on the skinny side. Now, as to what size she currently is and what she weighs, I don't know, nor do I really care, I just had to step in and speak out for tall women and how annoying talking about the numbers involved with size and weight are when people are used to women much shorter than you.

 Yeah I don't think an 8 or 10 is too curvy either, (Except for my butt maybe :) ) But boys are dumb (in a cute way?) and they never seem to say things the way they mean them.

Yeah but these people need more help than a forum or blog spot... they need a freaking psychiatrist.