Posts by angeliclovegal

Oh wow. That sure helped. Thanks a lot abcynthia! <3

Don't deprive yourself during the week. Eat what you want, but in small portions and work that into your calorie count. Depriving yourself always makes your body crave more forbidden foods and eventually you'll succumb and binge, which does you more bad than good.

Okay, I sound so nice and sensible but that's kind of what I suffer too, except that I don't starve myself during the week.

Actually you really sound like me.. Sometimes I'm unable to stop eating in the mornings too, and snack on bars, cookies, bread.. until I have more or less eaten my full calories for the day and am bursting full. I'll want to purge as well, but can never do it properly. This happens when I'm up early and am at home with nothing to do. So my advice would be to go out, take a walk, go shopping.. anything to keep you away from the food at home. Or try to sleep in.. another thing I have trouble with because for some reason I cannot sleep beyond 8am even when I pull an allnighter. I can sleep at 5am and wake up at 8. So I stretch, go brush my teeth, eat a slice of bread and an apple, then sit down at the tv and put in my DVDs. When I get sick of my DVDS I call a friend or neighbour to go out shopping. that takes up a few hours without eating. We'll have lunch (healthy, not fast food) and walk around some more.

Well basically just try to find ways to occupy yourself. Go to the library, walk the dog, clean up your bedroom.. anything to prevent yourself from thinking about food.

Lastly.. if you feel like you really want to eat more than you should, you can always drop me a pm or something. I'll.. make you go take a walk or something, and stay away from the food. =P

Yes Coke Zero. (:

When you feel the stitches hit, try slowing down and jogging on your tiptoes. It sounds weird I know but when I was running my 1.6km physical test in elementary school I used to get stitches all the time. My teacher told me to run on tiptoes and the pain actually did go away. I can't remember if it comes back when you go back to running normally but it sure helped me pass the test. =P

I don't know if you actually burn more calories running on tiptoes but it takes more effort (i think) so no harm giving it a try. =D

Also probably don't drink water right before you run. Give it a good half hour after you drink water (you still have to drink to hydrate yourself) before you start running. I find when I drink water less than ten minutes before running the stitches come more often than not.

Good luck!

Hey that's what I (stupidly) did too. The starving myself part. Mine wasn't that extreme.. I'd eat three meals a day but tiny ones and go to bed on an empty stomach, actually relishing the growls my stomach made.

When I started eating normally again after school started and I was exposed to more food, I gained like hell. What can I say.. starvation mode.

But now my metabolism's sped up more than I can imagine.. when I actually started eating till I was full again. Now trying to up it further with drastic increasing of calories to give the metabolism a good shove in the ass. I also lost all the weight I gained back when I started to eat again, not by eating less but by walking more and basically moving more.

And yeah, I was still reading up to the part where you talked about your new CC goal. 6% body fat is a bit of a mission impossible, lol. But you're doing great and who cares if no one notices, you do. So do the scales =D

I think I've heard almost everywhere that aspartame when exposed to high temperatures ie baking, breaks down into a poisonous substance.

Not sure if this is true or not, but better safe that sorry, right? So try to avoid using aspartame sweetened diet coke. Go for Splenda (sucralose) sweetened coke instead.

Aspartame is also said to slow down metabolism while Splenda has absolutely no effect on our bodies. So I guess Splenda would be the better choice in any situation =D

I'm a dancer at 5"0 and I dont really have your problem but maybe you could try hulahooping. The movement of your waist added to the resistance the hoop provides helps to slim the waist/define it further. Apparently with a heavy hoop you can burn up to 110 calories per 8 minutes!

I like a square of milk chocolate lightly melted over sushi rice. It sounds weird, like sweet and savoury combined but I've always had a weakness for that.

Dislocated my right knee joint during cheerleading. I dont really know how I did that, though I think it happened when I slipped and fell from the top a human pyramid around 3m high. Hurt like urggggh!

Almonds, peanuts, cashews, macadamias, any kind of nuts. Chips, fries, fried chicken, giant calamari/onion rings. Peanut butter, nutella, all kinds of jam. Chocolate by the familysize bars/packs. Pepperidge Farm softbaked cookies! LOOVE! Omurice (japanese egg omelettes stuffed with ketchup-flavoured fried rice), sushi, teriyaki chicken. Rice in any form. French toast. Full fat ice cream. Hawaiian pizza. Spaghetti. Spring rolls. Brownies. Cakes. Quiches. Pies. Muffins. and many more.

All full fat of course.

And whole milk!

Just tried baking a single serving today and it was a success =D 1oz devil's food mix and 1oz diet soda, microwave for 1.5 min on high. What's strange was that my cake rose and then detached from the sides of the glass cup I used to microwave it. And I didnt spray with nonstick or anything. Does this usually happen? I'm kind of an amateur at this, zero experience lol.

PB&J sandwich =D

Holy cow it works! I tried it out cos I was baking a mini cake for my friend's birthday and it wasnt exactly pretty but tasted amazing. I mixed Coke Zero with Betty Crocker Devil's Food and stuck it in the microwave for about 2min on high. Comes out kinda soft but hardens once it cools. It does rise a lot though, watch out for that and don't fill the dish too full.

No trace of Coke at all, instead super fudgy and stickysweet. Just as I like it =D

It can kinda be made pretty with instant sugarfree Jello pudding as icing I guess. didn't try it though cos there's no time, I used Waitrose Belgian chocolate sauce as topping instead. Added a few Maltesers as decor too. Highly caloric but blehh it's my friend's birthday =DP

Oh and btw, one mantou can be up to 500 calories depending on how its fried. Most of the time yeah, 500 calories. No sheeete, I used to love that.

Its true about the Chinese not liking unrefined grains, my grandma only ever eats white rice, white bread and noodles made with white flour. Egg noodles occasionally. Actually egg noodles aren't bad at all, just that wholemeal would be better yeah. Not many Chinese restaurants actually serve brown rice.. well at least not in Singapore.

Maybe if you dine in Chinese restaurants you could ask for less/minimal oil to be used. Some sauces are also killer, like sweet&sour sauce. I think you could cut out a hell lot of calories just by skipping sauce.

Dim sum can be good and bad. Like I said the charsiew buns are full of fatty meat unless you make them yourself with purely lean meat. I guess that's possible though I've never tried it. However steamed dumplings ie. wontons, shrimp dumplings, potstickers etc are usually relatively low calorie. So feel free to indulge. Just don't get fried dumplings, please, PLEASE.