Posts by aigirl14

Breakfast: apple walnut instant oatmeal, 2 cups coffee with half and half (then the filter broke a ruined the rest of the coffee... :/ )

Lunch: small apple, baby carrots, low carb wrap with turkey, lettuce, and cheddar cheese

Snack: six inch turkey sub on ww from subway, nonfat yogurt

After run snack: handful nilla wafers

Dinner: schezuan (sp?) shrimp and pasta, 1/2 cup greek yogurt

Snack: 2 cups coffee with half and half, apple walnut instant oatmeal

My day ended the exact same way it began. :)

Breakfast: apple walnut raisin instant oatmeal

Lunch: light vegetable soup, large apple, baby carrots, low carb english muffin

Snack: double chocolate odwalla bar (seriously tastes like a brownie!), fage 2% yogurt w/ cherry

Dinner: nonfat cascade farms strawberry yogurt, coffee with half and half, apple walnut raisin instant oatmeal

Snack: mini organic brownie cookie + 200 calorie snack that I haven't decided on yet

Today was like amazingly healthy for me lol. :D I figured out that if I add a lot more low calorie, water filled foods to my lunch I feel full soooo much longer (though I have to go to the bathroom between every period afterward) D:

hey everybody i only had half a slice of bread today and i kno that's only like 35 calories but the whole 1500 calories thing only applies to everybody else!!! I hope everybody will leave me lotz of commentz like, "Oh you have so much willpower!" and "I wish I could eat like you!" to reinforce my self destructive behavior!!! K thx evrybody.

Lol okay I definitely eat more than half a slice of bread per day, and I'm probably being kind of mean. But it gets really annoying when people post knowing 100% that they are eating too little, but they post anyway because they are presumedly trying to get attention or praise for their eating habits. But that particular comment has been deleted, which is a good thing. :)

4hgirl: congrats on the weight gain!! you should be really proud of yourself. :)

breakfast: oatmeal w/cranberries and almonds, giant orange

lunch: can of reduced sodium minestrone soup, giant fuji apple (lol my mom always buys fruit that looks like its on steroids. No joke.)

snack: oatmeal w/ cranberries and almonds, couple slices of deli turkey

after workout snack: grande skinny caramel latte

dinner: caramel fiber one bar, half cup of plain yogurt, can of chicken noodle soup, four strawberries

snack: mm probably hershey's dark chocolate cocoa. :) It's supposed to be really chilly tonight. :P

4hgirl: That is a little creepy lol. But it looks like you are a fellow coffee lover as well. :) I'm trying to use less artificial sweetners as well, but I haven't gotten to where I can cut them out completely. :/

teaandtrifle: I've had yellow cauliflower too! It's so much prettier than the boring white kind. :)

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 mugs of coffee with cream and stevia

Lunch: yogurt tube, lean cuisine pasta with chicken and vegetables with some little apple dessert on the side (lol idk if it's just me but I love when frozen meals come with little desserts. I think it's so cute!)

Snack: two hershey kisses, frozen strawberry bar, fruit snacks

Dinner: yogurt tube, strawberry milkshake poptart, 2 caramels (from the candy bin at kroger ^.^), can of minestrone soup

Snack: chocolate caramel kashi bar, lovely ambrosia apple :)

Laaate night snack (working on a project :/): weight control oatmeal (blegh I hate the name but it's yummy and cheap), indian tulsi tea with 1/2 cup skim milk (totally destresses me)

I ran about four miles today so I was hungryyy as you can probably tell lol. :D

the mattar paneer is to die for. The enchilada meal is also pretty good

Yeah I learned the 1500 calories thing from using this site. :)  I know you say that you are maintaining and don't want to gain weight, but you are technically underweight. You have a bmi of 17.4, and anything under 18.5 is considered underweight (here is a link with a bmi calculator if you don't know or understand what a bmi is). To gain a healthy amount of weight, you need to be eating at least 2,500 calories a day...since you are underweight, the 1,500 calories is definitely not enough for you.

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/

Your original weight of 120 pounds was perfectly healthy! :) Like it was seriously perfect. I promise. I'm not sure of the reasons why you chose to lose weight, but you really didn't need to. I suggest that you gain at least ten pounds...just to be back at a safe weight. I know it's scary to gain weight...my lowest weight at 5'7" was 108 pounds, horribly unhealthy, and I was convinced that I didn't need to gain weight. Twenty five pounds later, I am much happier, healthier, and I look better too.
So I suggest you head over to the weight gainers forum? There's a lot of good info and people over there who would be morrrreee than willing to help you. :)

Btw, lingering eating disorder issues, I have a really hard time eating in restaurants since I don't really trust other people making my food. So I totally understand the fear thing you are talking about. But when I relax and just try to enjoy it, I actually like Mexican food. :)

I would have a free day...your birthday is once a year. :) Eat what you want, just don't stuff yourself because then you'll feel yucky and sluggish and have a birthday filled with indigestion lol. :D And if you want to kinda eat healthy anyway, Olive Garden does have a healthy portion of their menu called "Garden Fare" (kind of cheesy I know). Here's the link if you want to have a quick look:

http://www.olivegarden.com/menus/garden_fare/

 I've never tried it but it looks pretty good. :) Happy early birthday!

I think my poor stomach will kill me if I decide to wait another week to eat healthier...stupid indigestion. D:

1.) Age? 17

2.) Height? 5 ft 7 in

3.) Weight? 132

4.) Goal Weight? 130 but don't really care about making it there

5.) What is Your daily/weekly exercise? running long distance 3 or 4 times a week

6.) About How many calories do you eat a day? 1700-1800 on days I don't do anything and up to 2500 on running days

7.) What is the most you've lost in a single week? idk I like never weigh myself

8.) How much have you lost since you started losing? 8 pounds

9.) If you have any VERY useful tips on losing weight... make the majority of what you eat healthy, nutritious foods, but also make room for not as healthy foods that you love! :)

oatmeal + coffee

Really bad combination if there's no bathroom nearby, good combination if you would like your digestive system to become unstuck lol. Idk it could just be me though. :)

Next time they walk by you could be like, "Ahhh my cubicle is shaking, I think there's an earthquake!" *look over* "Oh it was just you walking by. Sorry."

Only works if they're overweight. Plus I would never, ever, ever have the guts to say that to anybody's face lol.

Good for you! :) Heck, if it looks good, I say try it. Thanksgiving is the most food centered day of the year, so eating treats is pretty much unavoidable. :)

I think they're a waste of money (like $2 for a can!), taste awful, and have a lot of chemicals in them. Once in a while is fine for sure, but I think a daily habit could get you addicted to the mix of caffiene and sugar and whatnot. I would say drink coffee (in moderation of course :]) or eat complex carbs that will give you lots of natural energy! :)

It's a logical fallacy to conclude that because one event happened after another, the first event caused the second. So it's possible that the artificial sweeteners caused those side effects, but it's also possible that they didn't.

Personally I have been cutting waaay back on artificial sweetners so that I all I have is the occasional packet of splenda in my coffee (I usually use stevia). I found that "sugar free" food products never satisfied me and just left me craving junk. :/