Posts by tetramerces

I shop on Friday night/Saturday morning and stock the fridge with lots of cleaned veggies and fruit for the week.  Then on the weekend I'll cook a batch of meat (chicken, pork tenderloin) and a big pot of soup/stew/chili/casserole/whatever as well as a batch of slow cooker steel cut oats to put in the fridge.  I'll portion out the oatmeal for easy grabbing in the mornings.  And every night I'll assemble lunch and snacks for the next day (cut up veggies, fruit, containers of yogurt, whatever in the fridge/pantry) while I'm making dinner.  In the mornings I just grab the pile of containers for the day out of the fridge and head to work.

I've had some Teaopia teas before, I wouldn't imagine they would have any calories, but check the ingredients list, if it includes something like chocolate (a rooibos mocha cappucino one I had) or coconut shavings I might count (but probably wouldn't actually count) a mugful as 5 or 10 cals since the amount would be very small and you're only soaking them in water to extract the flavour, not actually eating them.

First of all, pg doesn't count, I'm guessing she lives in the part of BC that benefits from ocean currents converting snow to rain.

Second, there wasn't a spot of new snow on the ground this morning when I came to work (just what was already there yesterday)....that is no longer the case....I'm not looking forward to the walk to the bus stop later this afternoon, or the trip to and from an xmas party tonight

Third, at least the rest of my family got a snow day (parents are teachers) freeing them up to drive slowly and more safely (~100km) to the airport tonight (through areas that are supposed to get 30cm=12 inches due to lake effect)...and I'm guessing their flight will be delayed...but the website is down so I can't check.

lucky me is flying out tomorrow, hopefully long enough after "snowmageddon" to have an uneventful trip

They were probably listed as zero calories for a really really small serving size, I've seen that on those noodles before (like 1/10 of the pack).  You can search on the internet or in the store for different packaging of the same kind of noodle to get the actual nutritional info.

There are a lot of classic Christmas movies that I've never seen but every Christmas that we're at home (as opposed to travelling on holidays) my brother, sister, and I get up, open our stockings, and watch Home Alone and The Santa Clause (I <3 Bernard).

5'8" currently 223, size 14 started out at 319, size 24

Breakfast: Slow cooked steel cut oats made with vanilla Almond Breeze, cinnamon, and nutmeg

Snack: Spinach and egg white omlette

Lunch: Salad made of whole wheat rotini, baked salmon, avocado, and fat free sour cream

Snack: Pear and clementines

Snack: Kashi GoLean Crunch Honey Almond Flax (dry)

Dinner: Spinach salad with white fish and edamame

Dessert: YoPro Vanilla frozen yogurt, softened and mixed with some cocoa powder

It's not so much weight difference, it's water content.  A cup of boiled should weigh the same as a cup of baked, but the boiled squash will have the same water or content, or perhaps more water content than the raw squash.  The baked squash will have less water content than raw squash (because it evaporates in the oven).  So the same volume of each squash will have different amounts of water.  Since the baked quash has less water, it has more "other stuff".  Since the "other stuff" has the calories, one cup of baked squash will contain more calories than one cup of boiled.

All the other nutritional facts will scale up or down by the same proportion as the number of calories.  The baked squash says it has no fibre simply because that entry in the database does not include all the nutritional info.  Fibre doesn't disappear when you bake something.

Breakfast: Steel cut oats made with skim milk, wheat bran, stevia, and spices

Snack: Apple

Lunch: Eden Refried Black Beans, avocado, red and orange peppers, and turkey pepperettes

Snack: Banana

Snack: Carrot and Cucumber with Asian Silk Salad Spritzer

Dinner: Whole wheat rotini with salmon, peas, tarragon, and Liberty fat free plain yogurt

Breakfast: Steel cut oats made with skim milk, wheat bran, stevia, and spices

Snack: Liberty nonfat plain yogurt and (thawed) frizen wild blueberries

Lunch: Roasted pork tenderloin, with chopped up raw red pepper and tomato, steamed broccoli, and Eden refried black beans

Snack: Apple and pear

Snack: part skim mozzarella Cheestring and Nature Valley Trail Mix Fruit and Nut granola bar

Dinner: last of the pork with salad in a whole wheat pita

Breakfast: Steel cut oats made with skim milk, wheat bran, stevia, and spices

Lunch: Roasted pork tenderloin, with chopped up raw yellow and orange peppers, tomato, and carrot

Snack: Apple and pear

Snack: Two slices homemade blueberry bran bread with Nut N' Budder and blueberry/concord grape jam

Dinner: Mexican-ish salad with Eden refried black beans, tomato, cucumber, avocado, cheddar cheese, Liberty nonfat plain yogurt, and chili powder with flax tortilla chips for dipping

Dessert/Snack: Vanilla Pudding with craisins

Needs more green....

haha, I look at mine and thought "Woah!, What happened to my fat?"...and then realised it was green, and green means carbs, which get a much larger percentage than fats...

And the weight graph looks like it was made using the new Microsoft Office, those graphs are indeed always prettier....

I'll hop on the bandwagon...

Breakfast: steel cut oats cooked in a slow cooker with sweetened vanilla almond breeze, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin spice

Snack: peanut butter on whole wheat bread and two hard boiled egg whites

Lunch A: edamame and red pepper with laughing cow light cheese

Lunch B: apple and grapes

Snack: two whole hard boiled eggs

Dinner: soup made with homemade turkey broth, buttercup squash, spices and TVP and a spinach salad with tofu and orange juice/sesame oil dressing

Snack/Dessert: holly nog

What an almost vegetarian day....wasn't really trying for it though...

I was on accutane almost 6 years ago (I'm 22 now).  I had no idea why people used lotion until I went on it, and then I made liberal use of the stuff (body butter = awesome).  And definitely get your self some really good lip balm (I think I was using blistex ultra protection and the body shop hemp lip balm).  Though I could still peel off an entire layer of my lip at a time....

My skin was amazingly smooth by the time I finshed (six months) and I didn't even have to wash my hair every day.  Unfortunately those benifits faded, but now my skin is still much better that before.  It's a little oily and bumpy again but I don't get any more huge pimples, just a few small ones.  But I don't do much to try to get rid of those few pimples (just antibacterial face wash every night and face scrub with salicylic acid once or twice a week) so if I really tried, they may go away.  A couple of my cousins had to do two courses of accutane...it's a genetic thing.

I assume you're going to be having monthly blood tests like I did.  One month one of my liver enzymes can back slightly higher than usual.  My dermatologist said the difference was so small it was likely just a lab error but she still reduced my dosage for the last few months to be safe.   Other than that nothing horrible happened.

EDIT: I forgot to mention to be careful about getting cut/scraped/hitting things.  Your skin will be much more fragile, I have a couple little scars from scrapes I got when I was on accutane that I don't think would normally have scraped or scarred.

Settlers of Catan is an awesome game, though it's only good for 4 people (or teams, there's also an expansion pack that lets 6 people play).  There are also variations of the game like Seafarers of Catan