Posts by lafoutloud01

That's one of my favorite combos! It tastes like a really good veggie dip - much better than ranch if you ask me.

Try some tzakatki! It's a savory sauce made with greek yogurt, garlic, and olive oil - it's kind of maynoaisy but much tastier. This health restaurant near me serves chickpea burgers with tzakatki and it's one of my favorite dinners :)

Try club soda with lemon or lime...it'll still give you the bubbles with none of the calories and sugar (of regular) or artificial sweeteners (of diet)

I'm 4'11" and 115 pounds and I just want to let you know that at that weight you will be a normal slim girl who most people refer to as "tiny" or "thin". You'll have body imperfections and a little bit of pudge...but you'll have that at any weight, so don't worry. My goal weight is between 105 and 110.

I started out at 140 pounds when I was a few years younger...it's so funny to think how heavy that looks/feels/is on a little person. There are girls whose goal weights are 140 or 150 and they'll look hot! Your bmi right now is 30.7 which puts you as obese but barely....you aren't obese, just overweight. BMI calculators are not quite accurate for shrimps like us.

What foods is she refusing to eat? If you're trying to get a 10 year old to eat bland tofu than I could see where you'd find a problem. If your 10 year old refuses to eat anything except frozen pizza and chicken nuggets then that's a seperate problem in and of itself that needs to be corrected. There's not "healthy food" and then normal food....make flavorful and nutritious meals and you should be good!

A smoothie I particularly like is a banana, some cottage cheese, a touch of skim milk and either unsweetened cocoa powder of cinnamon depending on your tastes - yummy! Tastes just like a milkshake.

Actually GI Jane for very small women maintenance numbers can be quite low. I'm 4'11" and currently 115 pounds and young (19 years old) and if I were sedentary my maintenance number would be 1500 calories. To lose weight I need to eat 1500 (under 21 minimum) and then exercise the rest off. I had a professional metabolism test.  2000 calories isn't right for everyone just like 1200 calories isn't right for everyone. 2000 is just an average. My maintenance now is currently 2200 (which I've calculated by keeping very very good track of my calories and average deficits) and I work out at least 1 hour 6 days a week.

edit: to answer the OP - weight gain and loss is based on average. Heck, plenty of people naturally maintain healthy weights without ever even learning what a calorie is. Do those people eat the same number of calories everyday? No. Some days they cut back and some days they indulge - it's all part of a natural cycle. If a person eats too much one day they may just think of it as being "less hungry" the next day. As long as you're not radically switching between undereating and binging it's just a natural way to eat. People who eat very irregularly (800 calories on day, 3000 the next, and so on) may experience weight gain but neither 1400 or 2000 calories is ridiculously high or low number.

Bas: I started out at 126 and I've lost 10 pounds! I'm moderately active, 1 hour of exercise 4-5 days a week, I also live in a 5th floor apartment and I pretend like elevators don't exist (I don't make them an option. ever.). I also don't have a car so I do a lot of day-to-day walking. I eat on average 1700 calories and lose about a pound a week. When I started dieting I started eating a lower amount (1200-1300) while keeping up the activity and then slowly upping it by about 100 calories a week or so until I found a happy place where I could be satisfied. I do a calorie average so I eat at around maintenance levels on weekends (2200 friday and saturday) and sometimes thursday as well depending on what I'm doing. Then on the other days I eat 1400-1600 and it averages nicely :)

I also didn't go by any calculators to get my burn rate. I started out eating a small amount and then looking at how much weight I lost each week and then doing some math to figure out my average deficit. I do this every week and I almost always come out with a number that makes sense....around what CC tells me I burn between moderately and very active.

I'm close!

19 years old, 4'11", 115 pounds, goal weight is between 105 and 110

Ok, my question is not how should I cook my oatmeal? I actually really enjoy oats cooked in water and I especially love the lack of calories. Since I feel no more full when my oats are cooked in something else. I prefer to add cottage cheese to the top because then it's like MORE food.

However, I cooked my oats in soymilk today and the texture was funny - am I supposed to use less? Cook it for longer? Does anyone know?

i have blood pressure around 80/50 most days as well. If I haven't had enough sodium on that particular day or wait too long to have breakfast I feel faint. Sometimes I need some pretzel sticks or something just for salt in my blood! It's just hereditary - my mom is very very overweight and her blood pressure is still about 100-110/60 ish

I'm mostly just scared because I gained the freshman 15 SO quickly last year - like by October I was about 15 pounds heavier. 

I'm so scared I'll just stop paying attention for a little bit and wake up and have gained 10 pounds!

Thanks for the kind words though - now I have to deal with the weekend which in college is ALWAYS difficult

I gained the freshman 15 within about 5 minutes of moving into my dorm room - I swear to god. Anyway, my best strategies avoiding it are giving myself a couple days of "indulgence" - and by that I mean I allow myself to eat and drink like my friends, who all seem to eat tons and tons of food, drink tons and tons of alcohol, and maintain their weights (some higher than I'm sure they'd prefer, but still). I work out 5-6 days a week. My school gym offers really good fitness classes but my major strategy is working out early in the morning before which is the only time when it doesn't interfere with homework or my social life, and also doesn't force me to take like 18 showers throughout the day. I eat a lot of things which I can count the calories of really well and not a lot of things that the college prepares. I stick mainly to fruit, vegetables, turkey sandwiches, prepackaged things like fat free yogurt and fat free cottage cheese, soups, salads, and oatmeal. Honestly, sunday-thursday this is what my diet consists of. Then on friday and saturday I eat a piece of pizza, some pasta, half a calzone, some fried chicken, whatever I'm craving that day and some candy or ice cream. So far I haven't gained any weight (been here 3 weeks) - on the contrary, I've actually lost 2 or 3 pounds.

Good luck! losing weight in college is one of the biggest challenges I've ever had to face

From my nutritionist:

2 servings of grains (2 oz or 150 calories for each serving)

2 servings of protein (150 calories for each serving)

2 servings of dairy (100 calories for each serving)

2 servings of fat (50 calories for each serving)

5-6 servings of fruits/veggies (50-100 calories for each serving)

EXAMPLE:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese, 1 apple, 1/3 oz sunflower seeds (1 dairy, 1 fruit, 1 fat) - 250

Lunch: 2 eggs scrambled in half a whole wheat pita with spinach, mushrooms, and onions (1 protein, 1 grain, 1 veggie) - 350

Snack: 1 banana with 1/2 tbsp peanut butter (1 fruit and 1 fat) - 150

Dinner: 4 oz salmon with steamed brocolli (1 protein and 1 veggie) - 200

Snack: 1/2 cup oats prepared with 1 cup skim milk and some blueberries (1 grain, 1 dairy, 1 fruit) - 300

Days total: 1250 - add more snacks as needed :)

Do you eat a lot at night? If I go to bed a little hungry (not full) by the time I wake up I am very hungry for breakfast!