Posts by sneakytiptoes

Granola is really easy to make.  You just put oats, a bit of honey or sugar, and some coconut, nuts, or whatever you want (dried fruit is better added later) in a bowl and mix them together, then spread it out on a nonstick pan and toast it in the oven until it looks good (you have to stir it around every once in a while).  You can easily fiddle around with the recipe analyzer to come up with a recipe that fits your diet.

My toes frequently go numb when I do repetitive motions with my feet - walking, cycling, elliptical.  I've never tried pushing with the heels on the elliptical, though.  I have very wide feet though, so I think that's most of the problem.  I usually can't find normal shoes that are wide enough.

I got to see him on the day after my birthday this year.  He was so great <3

That basically made my whole year.

Original Post by thehealthieryou:

I agree with the responders who say that is is NOT the same thing. As a Nutrition counselor I tell people it is ok to go over your calorie level a little but just pick up on the activity level to burn off what you eat. At the end of the day our body assess what has been taken in and what needs to be stored. If you ate too many calories it will know it and start storing it as fat for the day. This means that when you wake up you have a little more fat in storage that you need to burn off. Sometimes we store extra carbs( glucose) and this is converted into glycogen, this is saved for when you need a burst of energy adn it gets converted back into glucose, about a 30 min supply, on top of that every thing else gets stored as fat, not protein.

Yeah, but even if you did store some energy as fat but had an overall deficit or broke even for the week or month or whatever, wouldn't it not make any difference in the long run?  Cos with that deficit, you're burning stored energy, am I right?

Unless you're 100% perfect on your calorie counting, which no one is, I'm sure you're storing and un-storing energy all the time.  When you look at it like that, isn't the OP correct?

Yes!  It makes me start thinking about what I want to eat next and I get so excited about eating healthy foods that I start getting hungry for all the delicious food I have planned for the day or the next day.

"Oh, my gosh!  Where did the other half of you go?!"

Ooh, I must look pretty good then!

I got one of these today because I saw that the Vegetable Beef is only 60 calories and I was sooooo excited because I knew that soup would fill me up for lunch even though it was low calorie, but it was disgusting!  It was basically like drinking metallic salt water with little meaty bits floating around!  I looked at the ingredients and they have all sorts of awful-sounding preservatives and stuff.  Next time I want soup at school I'm going to make and freeze portions of my own soup beforehand, especially since it costs almost three dollars!

YESSSS!  I was just watching that!  It was awesome!

Have you tried eating your BMR?  A general rule is to not eat under your BMR, since that is the minimum amount of calories your body needs to function properly.

I had been dating my SO for 3 years and we've lived together for a little over 2 years since then.  It's pretty much perfect; there's no one I'd rather live with.

I never used to do this until I started here because everyone's posting "fat" pictures and "skinny" pictures, comparing themselves to celebrities and talking about the differences in their bodies now that they've lost/gained weight.  For example, I read that someone noticed that they now have definition in their collarbone and I go, "Do some people not have a defined collarbone?  I'll have to look at people's collarbones."  People ask things like, "How do I get rid of stretch marks?  I have like two!" and I think, "Hey, I've been covered in stretch marks since puberty!  Am I supposed to care?"  Then people start threads that are like "what size are you at this weight?" and "what's your weight at this size?" and I'll start trying to guess the size/weight of people I meet.

It's not like I care about people's sizes; I just notice them more.  I feel like it's kind of a bad habit.  Maybe I should lay off the forums.

Original Post by tmck99:

The virtual model isn't as customizable as I'd like.  I remember one from before (that I can't find anymore) where you could actually input your measurements.  My virtual model didn't look much like me since I carry my weight in different places. 

 

 

I remember doing one of those!  Wasn't there something like that on the Land's End website?  I don't think they have it any more.

First of all, you'll be fine!

Second of all, the calorie count in the domino's pizza on this site is a little misleading because you enter the crust and the toppings separately!  I've done the same thing and didn't notice until many weeks later.  I still lost weight, though!

sooooo cuuuute :3

and you look like Scarlett Johansson in your new profile pic.

Your body is going to burn the calories it's going to burn no matter when you consume calories, so why would it matter when you eat?  So "when we don't BURN energy it gets stored as FAT!!"?  Well, we're burning energy all the time, so you just have to not eat more calories than the calories burned in order to not gain weight.

The "large breakfast, medium lunch, small dinner" suggestion keeps you from starving all day because you're barely eating then pigging out at night.  Of course you're going to gain weight if you starve yourself all day and overcompensate at night.