Posts by jester602

Original Post by amanda666666:

I ate some apple slices with peaunt butter spread on them. then i looked at the calories in peter pan peaunt butter and it said 2 tablespoons is the serving size and the calories are 190. But it said the container's serving size is 15. Well it defintiley looks like there are more then 30 tablespoons in that jar. So does that mean that 190 isnt the actual amount for only 2 tablespoons?

And if 190 is the amount for only 2 then is it still ok to eat a lot of peaunt butter because its good protein and fat?

Well, you shouldn't be LIVING off peanut butter but, yes peanut butter is good to have. It is good in protein, and high in healthy fats that are good for you and your heart but be weary of some peanut butter brands adding things other than just natural peanuts. :] Enjoy your peanut butter, but just watch how much you are having! Keep in mind it can add up REALLY fast. Also, I would go more for the actually measurement of serving sizes than just the amount of servings in a jar, better to get accurate measurements than just estimating about one thirtieth of a jar for your serving size. ;-P 

Original Post by sheilaphysio:

Hi everybody,

I am doing my PhD and I have to finish my thesis in October. I have gained 51 pounds in 5 years. I can not fit in any of my cloths, I keep delaying my diet to November but I am afraid that I will not have any thing to wear if I gain any more pound. I have tried to count the calories that I eat but I can not follow everyday because of my study plan. I would love to hear someone experience about how to deal with the weight gain in situations of stress like that.

Thanks

I'm not nearly to the situation you are in yet, but I do have a couple suggestions that may help you out.

• First off, I'm guessing you have been gaining this weight from the stress of the study plan and having to do lots of studies and basically no time to be able to do your own thing and just heading off to McDonalds or some other fast food place. What I'd suggest is if you have a good sandwich place, like Subway nearby it could help boost your weight loss without the stress to count. Buy a foot long for five dollars and maybe only eat half for lunch if you are able to and save the other half for dinner. Saved you a trip to MickyD's and maybe a bit of money if you are able to do that. 
• Keep fresh fruit, ready to eat vegetables, nuts, good food to be able to snack on while continuing your studies. When having some free time you might be able to buy these in bulk at a nearby convenience store, grocery store or whatever suits you best. Cutting out pre-packaged processed foods or potato chips might help clean up some of those extra calories you may be consuming while studying. 
• Last, but not least, keep in mind that counting isn't everything to the key to weight loss. You don't have to count but keeping the concept of portion control in your mind is a great thing to do. If you have the free time, look up some of your common dinners, lunches, breakfasts, whatever you eat and see the calories. Then, decide a good number to settle for each meal and you can figure out how much of each thing you should be having. For example, if you usually get a Big Mac with small fries, and you only should have five hundred calories, you can maybe estimate half the big mac and maybe finish up your fries can net you a good amount around five hundred and save the rest you didn't finish for dinner. Estimation is the key. 

Original Post by linda23:

Hey everyone!!  Just a pretty simple question for you guys....

I'm insanely tired of having just normal sandwiches for my lunches.  I have an office job and rarely any extra money, so I pretty much always bring my lunch with me.  But even when I was trying to buy better bread and add toppings to my sandwiches, they still just weren't cutting it.  I'm TIRED of them. lol

Anyone out there have any suggestions for other things that are good for lunches, but still stay around 300-400 cals a meal?  I'm trying to get back into making myself some salads too, but I can only do so many of those....little cracker sandwiches like Lunchables I wouldn't mind, if there's something a tad healthier.....I'm just kinda stuck.  Even a lunch that I just kinda snack on during the lunch hour would be great, but it's hard for me to think of healthy options with that....

So, any suggestions for any good, reasonably low cal, filling lunches??  :)  I'd sure appreciate any help I can get!!

It may not sound like a lunch but maybe you can make some kind of dip that incorporates some beans for your protein, avocados for some good fats, and some vegetables and you can dip some vegetables into it or spread it upon your bread for a good lunch. :] I do that a lot and if you choose the right foods to pulverize or mix together for your dip, it can be a very good and filling lunch. You can also make some fried rice if you like rice which is always a great choice since you can pretty much add any leftover sausages, eggs or anything leftover from the night before and still make it taste good. Good luck!

Original Post by aloysius:

As it would seem, I'm new to the community, and I've stumbled upon this webpage as I'm sure many others before me have as well: To adopt a healthier lifestyle, in some way or another.

 

To begin, I've always been a very unhealthy eater. Influenced by my family, generally, whom are all overweight, I've been eating fried, frozen/microwaved dinners, fast food, etc, with very little fruit, vegetable, and other healthy foods intervening.

I THINK I'm about 150 pounds, and I'm about 5'10". A week ago, I moved in to a new house, and during the entire moving process, for about five days straight, I had nothing but fast food for lunch and dinner, and it made me pretty sick. Sadly, but thankfully, that was the breaking point for me. Now I'm swearing off fast-food, microwaveable dinners, soda, and what-have-you. Now I'm incorporating vegetables, fruit, and hopefully other healthy meals in to my diet, daily, and what once was a life consumed by the computer and videogames, will now be replaced with some planned activity.

I'm a relatively skinny kid. Or at least I appear as such with clothes on, outwardly. I'm slim but chubby - I've got deposits of fat on my lower-back, hips, thighs, butt, etc, that I wouldn't mind burning off - a lot of it is loose skin and such from when I used to be slightly overweight(not sure what offset this.)

Anyhow, my goal is to, oddly enough, gain weight - but lose fat and gain muscle. Soon, in a couple of days here, a friend of mine and I are going to start hitting the gym to see how we like it - and coupled with my new eating habits, I'm hoping to gain some tone and overall, look and feel healthier.

Anyhow, that's a mouthful. Or five. Nice to meet you all. This website and community in general is a very neat idea, methinks. :P

 

PS: Can somebody offer and tips/hints to get started? I'm a horrible cook, infact I don't know how to, and I'm 18. The rest of my family is unhealthy, and overall overweight, so it's difficult to rely on them, and they never cook dinner, thus I'm usually left with canned and frozen alternatives. Either I need to learn how to cook, and quick - or I need some healthy alternatives. Any suggestions? Thanks. :P

Heh, I didn't really know how to cook either when I started (a bit cheating in a way, I watch my mother work hard at the stove every day with the things she puts in it and how she makes things) but a good way to start is once you know the basics of how to get meat cooked well and know how to do it well, reward yourself with some herbs & spices. Can't go wrong with oregano or basil leaves, smells delicious along with some other herbs that are great additions and very tasty. Experimentation is always great; there are also great sites to find in Google for anyone. :] The internet is a great place. Have fun adopting your new lifestyle, and always nice to see some guys around here. < -- :] Boy speaking right now.

Original Post by alibsam:

you can turn the flash off on your camera.

I mean like, if I do then you wouldn't be able to see anything. :[

@schnooder

hehe, thanks. fixed now.

Original Post by agruskin:

i was wondering if there was anything i could actually mix into the batter?  i was thinking an apple and cinnamon type addition, but maybe id have to precook the apples before adding them?  or maybe something w PB or chocolate?

thanks!

I'm not an EXPERT at making pancakes, so sorry in advance if I don't have ones you might like hehe. Putting in some cinnamon would be great with your pancakes and maybe if you want some pumpkin pancakes I saw a recipe that added some canned pure pumpkin and some pumpkin pie spice. Vanilla may bring out some good vanilla flavor into your pancakes. Blueberry pancakes are also good, no need to pulverize them in the food processor or mash them or anything, whole blueberries will work fine and dandy along with a good yum into your pancakes. I have heard of sweet potato pancakes along with pecan, it all depends on you. :] Let your imagination on pancakes go wild.

Original Post by thax:

According to CC, bread and toasted bread have the same calories..  Wouldn't a blackened almost burnt peice of toast have less calories? Seems like you could "burn" off the calories.

But a blackened piece of somewhat burned toast may have effected the amount of nutrients that you can find inside it rather than having it heated up and just a bit crunchy. ;-P Or, you can just find a "light" bread if you are really wanting to get to the nitty gritty on your bread calories somewhere around your local markets.

Be careful, this has Aspartame in it it will make you a bit bloated depending on your reactions to Aspartame or artificial sugars.

Original Post by katiemac2188:

My mom is extremely understanding and supportive of my healthy eating. She is very weight-conscious and she tries to be healthy she just lacks some knowledge. She and her boyfriend laugh at me in that "Oh that's her being healthy!" sort of way when I talk about health food, but they certainly try to learn from it. When I'm home from school I always shop with mom to spend time with her, and she's taken to asking me to go through ingredients with her to help her make the best choices which I think is really sweet. She always buys health food for me and her, but I often shop for myself because I have two younger siblings who definitely do not appreciate health food and I feel bad if mom spends more money on me.

My siblings eat terribly. My brother understands why I eat well and doesn't give me a hard time, but he doesn't join. My sister, though, actually complained to my mother the other day saying she was starving because all we had was health food! We all have a really fun, joking relationship though so everything comes out in the wash!

Your family sounds JUST like mine, like, exactly! My mother is a very healthy eater and she never eats the processed and junk things; but occasionally when she makes breakfast for my brother and my father, she makes like banana bread, muffins and things, she usually has one with cereal (etc.) and some other fruit and healthy snack. I go shopping with her a lot and we choose out a lot of healthy food we can cook and I feel terribly bad because a lot of the time she has to pack on double the shopping cart because we eat differently than the other half of the family. Exactly like yours, my brother knows that I eat healthy but he has a stint of eating healthy but he eats what he wants. ;] Nice happy family, eh?

Oh, my father eats basically what he wants. He's a landscaper so he's outside all day, working really hard [he skips lunch] and he eats my mom's homemade cooking and has huge portions of it.

Original Post by thhq:

My favorite for dim sum in Seattle Chinatown was House of Hong, but I don't know whether it's still around.  I'd suggest going somewhere else for dessert, maybe down to Pike Place for a coffee drink and a pastry at old #1 Starbucks.

I've eaten a lot of natto in sushi places.  It's fermented crushed soybeans mixed with raw egg and some finely cut green onions.  A lot of people don't like it because it's stringy and has a texture a lot like snot.  The flavor is kind of bland, but it makes a good sushi topping - a little bit like flying fish roe (tobiko?).

Hehe, thank you for the suggestion of the dim sum place, I'll suggest it once we get there; Pike Place or Starbucks sounds wonderful, pastries sound good at the moment. ;] Hmm, sounds interesting; I guess I might search around and find a package. Thanks for the information about natto, haven't got much replies about natto when I asked about it in other places ;P

Original Post by mercy_bobcat:

WOOT WOOT thanks so much guys, those two posts helped me A LOT. i feel better knowing im not the only one. and you're both right, now that i ate that junk food i feel better knowing i just got those cravings finished with. kaput! and kaybug i love your sense of humor. lol thanks again!

Haha, yoour welcome. All in a days work. :] I feel so sick at the moment eating more would make me ugh. :[ Don't even want to think about it! I just want to get back to my healthy lifestyle the next day and I kicked my cravings right to the curb when I ate a Korean "Pancake" filled thing. It was so delicious. x]

Original Post by malaika99:

I hope this is a joke - your language usage is not at all like a 13-year-old. Just in case, in answer to your questions, you need some starch in your diet - about 55% of your calories should come from carbohydrates. So if you cut out refined carbohydrates, replace them with unrefined things like brown rice, wholegrain cereal, oats, wholegrain bread, etc. Remember that your body needs a bit of sugar for quick energy when you exercise. So fruit is not bad - you can happily have 4 or 5 a day if you want.

In answer to your rant, remember that a healthy lifestyle allows you to have small amounts of 'junk' food. No food is forbidden. Learn to listen to what your body is telling you it needs. Stop calorie counting completely. Go cold turkey - do it all in one go. The first week will be scary. Maybe the second, too. But your body will soon start telling you what it needs - you'll find yourself craving omelette after exercising, or craving fruit to wake you up in the morning. Hide the scale for at least a month. It's so much more fun to just be a kid, and not have to worry about what you're eating.

Hehe, thank you for your reply; I am currently on the computer a lot during the days since it is summer and I practice my grammar and much else, I'm used to typing professionally (or so I think. ;-)). I do have a bag of brown rice my family is finishing up and they'll be happy I'll be finishing it up most likely, my family is mostly Chinese and their main staple would happen to be the ever-so-smelling jasmine rice; I have been including oats into my diet, those regular flavored, instant pack oatmeal you can get pretty cheap at Albertsons. I'll take note of the sugar from the fruit, I guess I might have some fruit during the day anyways; I had some watermelon today but I was just curious about the sugar content and how much I should be having. 

I guess that having junk food every once in a while (or at least, eating out in my case, my mother doesn't buy much junk food anyways :-)) will be fine for me. I'm afraid I can't stop calorie counting though, for some reason I've gotten so addicted or obsessed with calorie counting I just can't get it out of my head; when I do try to get it out, the day I do try to get it out, it just comes right back in the next day or during the day because I keep thinking I'll get fat or something. It's been getting to be part of my lifestyle and getting kind of big in it. :[ I guess I'll try to loosen up a bit; I thank you for your post. Thank you for your effort to post nicely and politely, I really appreciate it. :] I'll take these tips to mind and hopefully into heart. Have a wonderful summer day, hopefully it won't be as thunder-stormy as in Tacoma, Washington as it has been today. :[ It was horrrible.

13, 7th grade. Started last year. :3