Posts by jazzislove

I'll gladly be a motivation buddy! 

I joined this site years ago, but am recently back after a 2 year break.  Just looking to reign in my habits again...already at a decent weight, I just don't like the out-of-control feeling creeping up again!

By the way, I'm 22 and currently in my internship to finish out my degree :)

Original Post by floggingsully:

Oh, I think AmethystGirl and I both understand what your saying about the whole "net calorie" thing.  What we're trying to say is that it's a useless calculation which serves no useful purpose and is not supported by any scientific research.  It's worthless dribble that get's spewed all over these forums and it needs to stop.

There is no reason to treat the calories you burn during exercise different from the calories you burn sitting on the couch.  If you subtract the calories you burn at the gym from the calories you eat you are treating those exercise calories differently.  Add up ALL of the calories you burn, subtract it from the calories you eat to calculate your deficit (which, by the way, is the same as your "net" calories if you use the term net correctly).

 This is what I was trying to portray...All the calories you burn (which CC figures out in the way I mentioned earlier; i.e. you cant just add calories burned at gym + daily burn) - what you ate would be your deficit yes.  I was never arguing that point.  I was simply pointing out that you dont want that deficit to get too low...

If you burn only 1400 in a day, and eat 1200, and dont do any exercise, yeah 200 will be your deficit.  I got that.  days I eat 1200 and burn 1400 (daily burn) + 400 (in 40 minutes) at the gym, for a total daily burn of 1760 (as according to CC), my total deficit would be 560.  I don't see how our views are differing on this topic.. Are we perhaps differing on the amount that should be eaten? I feel like, for me, that deficit may  be too high.  This is all I've been trying to say....

I in no way ever implied to count calories sitting on a couch differently from gym calories....of course they're no different! What I did say, was that CC already takes into account those sitting-on-the-couch calories (if you're set at sedentary) but not the gym calories.

It's true what I said.  I'm not counting calories burned at the gym differently.  CC does what I mentioned if you ever take notice.

For me, I burn approximately 1 calorie a minute...1440 a day or so.  Thus, if it takes me 40 mintues to burn 400 calories at the gym, I have NOT burned, for the day, 1840 calories.  Nope.  I have to subtract those 40 calories that were already included in my 1440 daily burn.  CC would show that I burned about 1800 for the day.

Haha I definitely feel the same way!

As others said, I think we all tend to eat more on the non-exercise days as a result of boredom.  Also, a certain amount of exercise (not over-doing it) supresses appetite...so you've got two things working for you there.

I have no problem keeping under 1400 or 1200 on exercise days, but on days I don't exercise, I tend to stay around 1400-1500 lol.  Not a big deal, but still perplexing.

If your finding it to interfere with your weightloss...instead of going to the gym, take a walk outside (if it's nice weather where you live) and just do a relaxing stroll. 

What helps for me is to really  not dwell on those snacky foods and such.  You ate it, oh well, life goes on.

Also, you mention "Now imagine if I hadn't eaten that cookie"....that says to me the snacks you are chosing to eat aren't that amazing...if you're going to treat yourself to an indulgence (which I do recommend), at least make it something that's going to make you say "Wow I almost just missed out on the most amazing indulgence ever!" haha.

For me, if I travel out of the states (often to China Town area of Toronto, Canada) I will allow myself some of the local sweets...an indulgence that is tasty, home made, and rare.  Then my line of thinking is always "I'm glad I tried that and ate it while I could, it was delicious!"

Pick your weapons wisely ;)

I agree with what everyone else has said already.  There's a lot of good stuff in those egg yolks!

with my breakfast I tend to have 2 hard boiled eggs, but I take the yolk out of one of them; so I get the protein from both egg whites, and the vitamins and such from at least 1 yolk.  I figure it's a decent balance haha

That's a really good point that ddugan^ made.  Some foods are just trigger foods for people, point blank.  For me, there's just certain things I always try to keep in my dorm room to snack on in reasonable amounts..it just hardly works.  My one weakness: really salty nuts.  I've found if I buy the unsalted, I can eat them in a healthy way though! haha

That being said, I can see where you're coming from and definitely relate.  You mentioned it often occurs around TTOM...that's just an unfortunate thing in general!  I'm on BC and for about 3-4 months had skipped the placebo pills and things had been going good, I hadn't had any of those intense cravings for months (in the past years, I've had periods that were a bit out of control!), then I took the placebo pills last month..holy moly, I wanted chocolate and salt and I wanted it NOW! haha.  So, forgive yourself during those times (forgive, but don't use it as an excuse )

I never really ate out of control until I got to college (granted, my highest weight was 137...not horrible at 5'3"...but eating 700cals of vending machine food was not controlled).

But here are a few things I've learned that have started to help me:

If I go too long on a deficit, I just get way too hungry and that's when binging happens (yes, even if it's a healthy deficit of 300-500cals).  So when I visit home or eat out with people (about once every 3 weeks) I take those 2-3 days to eat normally, without counting calories.  It helps every time

Sometimes it's just better not to open that can of worms  (or pringles, or soda...etc) in the first place

If you find trigger foods, replace them.  for me, salted nuts -> unsalted nuts. Brownies -> Dove dark chocolate squares. Ice cream -> (literal) frozen yogurt cups.  etc.

And biggest of all, forgiveness.  As I'm sure you've noticed already, we treat our bodies better when we feel better about them.  If you feel fat that day, ignore it. Don't pinch and poke at the roles of fat, don't wear tight pants, etc.  Do your makeup and hair, looks nice.  Take great pride whenever you do avoid that bad snack. And if you mess up and eat half a loaf of bread, oh well.  You're human, humans mess up occasionally.  Move on and eat healthy for the rest of the day.

Sorry for the long message, but I hope it helps a bit :)

I've also never actually seen this show before...but I can see completely where you are coming from.

Basically, someone at an unhealthy weight should not be complacent in the sense that they just sit idle-y by being unhealthy.  However, on the flip side, I know I certainly have a much easier time motivating myself to go to the gym and eat healthy when I already feel good from the inside out.

Being comfortable with who you are all around may give some people an excuse, but I think it gives many more a reason to achieve a healthy body that they can feel even better in

Thanks guys :)

I think I'll attempt just a light exercise session tonight then...just a jolly little stroll on the elliptical and a pleasant bike ride to nowhere in the gym haha.

Thanks again!

These all sound like delicious ideas!

I've recently discovered a delicious recipe that I use every day and it's about 250 calories or so

For mine (amounts can be adjusted):

1/4 cup dry oats (75cal)
1 6oz container of Dannon Light n Fit, any flavor (60cal)
1 TBSP of honey (i use flavored honey) (60 cal)

Mix that all, let it sit over night.  Next day:
I heat up some frozen berries, about 1/2 cup (35ish cal) in the microwave until they get warm and juicy, then mix that into the oatmeal.

It's delicious, sweet, and creamy :)

Haha feeling guilty in the dream!? how sad :(

I had a dream once where there was this gorgeously delicious large mountain of an ice cream parfait style thing with oreo crumbles and mint chocolate ice cream (typically not my choice icecream..but it worked) and I ate the WHOLE thing, without a tiny bit of guilt, because it was a delicious dream!

I woke up, feeling completely satisfied in my sweet tooth craving, and hadn't devoured so much as 1 calorie :)

I feel your pain..my face is in a constant battle..I'm on two different prescription pills to help w/ the acne, right now it's in it's perfect stage and it's pretty darn clear lol. 

I sweat a whole lot too...not just in the gym, but walking around between classes (in this darned humid heat of Miami!).

I don't know what your full skin care routine is, but do you wear makeup and wash it off before you work out? (I never understood people who wear makeup to the gym...)  Also, I'm assuming you have bangs from your picture (if that's you in the pic that is..), do you keep your bangs back while you exercise?  Do you have product in your hair that could be clogging up your forehead pores?

Otherwise I have no idea lol.  sweat is just lovely that way...Just keep washing, occasionally with a scrubby wash if you want..if it keeps getting worse, possibly make a trip to a dermatologist if you can :)

I'll chime in here and say that it really is most likely that you're just not lubed up enough.  Trust me...I would know!

My boyfriend and I have had a few nights where we just try...and I'm not lubed up enough, so then he attempts to get me there, and then he loses it, and then I lose it..and we just end up laughing and revert back to manual for that night!

Like others said, you can try the KY stuff, though it's kind of liquidy...we refer to it as "the goo" lol.  It does work though. 

Worst case scenario, I don't know if you plan on/are currently at a college, but I avoid the whole parental awkwardness thing by going to the health center here on campus...much easier that way.

Good luck ;)

*haha more side note

4 autoharps?! wow. Q-chords are pretty cool--they make good music therapy devices too.  but autoharp...ugh, regular run of the mill types are just...kind of frightening haha.

Perhaps you could work out your muscles more by doing repetitive, really annoying, constant strums on your autoharp? ;) haha

Original Post by soliwit:

hmm I wish, I take birth control AND have all of the above......*grumble* I think even when you take bc your body still goes through a cycle

I've actually wondered about that ^^^

Does your body still go through a cycle if you're on a pill like Yaz? (as opposed to Ortho tricyclin..which clearly goes thru 3 cycles lol).

To answer the original  post, I think that's a fairly normal thing...it never happened to me much (no PMS symptoms did either) but being that it's a pretty important time in the cycle, I'd say it's fairly normal that your body would go haywire a bit

...interested to hear other input