Posts by betl5

protein bars, room temp fruits like apples,oranges,bananas, nuts, kashi golean cereal. water and salad from cafeteria.

eat nuts, beans,more soy milk. use a low cal/low fat/low carb dressing for your veggies, not soy sauce.  mix different beans, nuts with the rice/pasta dishes you're eating.  eat nuts throughout the day with your fruit.  stay away from canned fruit, drenched in sugar and fat. eat ezekiel bread and kashi golean cereal. worldwide protein shakes -- 170cals, 35g protein, 1-3g carbs, 1g fat and i promisethe chocolate and vanilla ones taste good.  try meat alternatives like morningstar farms, trader joes, etc. try for yogurt with lower sugar content, lower cals, but same amount of protein, and eat more of it.

I'm a vegetarian -- protein comes with carbs, I can't separate them.  High protein grains, protein bars, beans, etc... the only thing that isn't carb heavy is fake meat (soy protein), but that's not supposed to be consumed in large quantities, and it's exensive.  I don't eat anything besides fruit that's not combining protein w/ carbs (and some fat) except for fruit, which fills me up, and the once-a-week 200cal, 30g carb dark chocolate bar.

I don't do much cardio.  This is my entire activity log, though i don't usually log the walking around the city or to and from the gym, but it's not cardio.

Bicycling - Stationary, 200 Watts, Vigorous Effort 30 371   Total Calories Burned

371

Wed, Jul 16 2008       Mins Cals Stretching - Hatha Yoga 60 179 Bicycling - Stationary, 150 Watts, Moderate Effort 20 167   Total Calories Burned

346

Fri, Jul 18 2008       Mins Cals Pilates 25 105 Calisthenics - (e.g Pushups, Situps, Pullups, Jumping Jacks), Heavy, Vigorous Effort 10 95 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 20 59   Total Calories Burned

259

Thu, Jul 24 2008       Mins Cals Weight Lifting - (Free Weight Nautilus or Universal-type), Light or Moderate Effort, Light Workout, General 10 36 Bicycling - Stationary, 150 Watts, Moderate Effort 15 124   Total Calories Burned

160

Fri, Jul 25 2008       Mins Cals Bicycling - Stationary, 200 Watts, Vigorous Effort 45 560 Pilates 75 311 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 60 178   Total Calories Burned

1,049

Sun, Jul 27 2008       Mins Cals Stretching - Hatha Yoga 50 142 Pilates 15 60 Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface 20 75   Total Calories Burned

277

Mon, Jul 28 2008  

  Mins Cals Walking - 2.5 Mph, Slowly and Carrying Light Objects Less Than 25 Pounds 30 102   Total Calories Burned 102 Fri, Aug 01 2008  

  Mins Cals Stair-treadmill Ergometer - General 4 41 Weight Lifting - (Free Weight Nautilus or Universal-type), Light or Moderate Effort, Light Workout, General 10 34 Calisthenics - (e.g Pushups, Situps, Pullups, Jumping Jacks), Heavy, Vigorous Effort 5 45 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 40 114 Walking or Walk Downstairs or Standing - Carrying Objects About 25 To 49 Pounds 30 170 Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface 40 150   Total Calories Burned 554 Sat, Aug 02 2008  

  Mins Cals Walking - 3.5 Mph, Level, Brisk, Firm Surface, Walking for Exercise 15 65 Walking - 3.5 Mph, Uphill 15 102 Running - 6 mph (10 Min/mile) 15 170 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 20 57   Total Calories Burned 394 Mon, Aug 04 2008  

  Mins Cals Walking - 3.5 Mph, Uphill 30 205 Rowing - Stationary, 150 Watts, Vigorous Effort 5 48 Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface 40 150 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 50 142 Pilates 10 40 Weight Lifting - (Free Weight Nautilus or Universal-type), Light or Moderate Effort, Light Workout, General 15 51   Total Calories Burned 635 Tue, Aug 05 2008  

  Mins Cals Gymnastics - General 40 182 Pilates 15 60 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 45 128 Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface 35 131   Total Calories Burned 500 Wed, Aug 06 2008  

  Mins Cals power yoga 60 230   Total Calories Burned 230 Thu, Aug 07 2008  

  Mins Cals dynamic flow yoga 60 220   Total Calories Burned 220 Fri, Aug 08 2008  

  Mins Cals slow flow yoga 60 200   Total Calories Burned 200 Sat, Aug 09 2008  

  Mins Cals Running - 5 mph (12 Min/mile) 12 112 Stair-treadmill Ergometer - General 5 53 Walking - 3.5 Mph, Uphill 5 35 Weight Lifting - (Free Weight Nautilus or Universal-type), Power Lifting or Body Building, Vigorous Effort 10 70 Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface 30 116   Total Calories Burned 386 Sun, Aug 10 2008  

  Mins Cals Stretching - Hatha Yoga 60 175 Running - 5 mph (12 Min/mile) 12 112 Walking - 4.0 Mph, Level, Firm Surface, Very Brisk Pace 30 175   Total Calories Burned 463 Mon, Aug 11 2008  

  Mins Cals Stretching - Hatha Yoga 60 175 Pilates 15 61   Total Calories Burned 237 Tue, Aug 12 2008  

  Mins Cals Pilates 15 61   Total Calories Burned 61 Wed, Aug 13 2008  

  Mins Cals Pilates 50 205

Mon, Aug 18 2008       Mins Cals Running - 6 mph (10 Min/mile) 10 117 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 100 292 Walking - 3.0 Mph, Level, Moderate Pace, Firm Surface 30 116   Total Calories Burned 525 Tue, Aug 19 2008  

  Mins Cals Running - 6 mph (10 Min/mile) 10 117   Total Calories Burned 117 Thu, Aug 21 2008  

  Mins Cals Running - 5.2 mph (11.5 Min/mile) 17 182 Running - 8 mph (7.5 Min/mile) 1 16 Stretching - Hatha Yoga 60 173 Walking - 4.0 Mph, Level, Firm Surface, Very Brisk Pace 20 115 Weight Lifting - (Free Weight Nautilus or Universal-type), Light or Moderate Effort, Light Workout, General 15 52   Total Calories Burned 538 Total Calories Burned

205

Today I ran a 12:21 mile and wasn't really tired until the last .23 miles, when I was going at 7.5 MPH.

But how could a 10 minute mile be average..??  With so many obese people and overweight people who can't walk without losing their breath??  And office workers of normal weight who lead a sedentary lifestyle?

No, I like the weight which says 125, which I guess now would be 135, which has been my goal now for a while (133).  But I just want to know the accurate amount of weight i want to lose to look the way i want to look, and it could be anywhere from 10-30 lbs... which is a big difference.  i just don't know what I will look like at these weights, so it's hard to know if I will still be dieting in a month, or in 4 months....

Weird, I thought it was wishful thinking.  The first one is me at like, 158 (weighed with clothes on) at 5'6, and the second one... I think, with the same clothes on, is around 153 or 154... not sure because I don't weigh at a consistent time each day, and the other day it was 160 because I had a lot of fluid in my system, and oly a few days before that it was 151.5, but I didn't have clothes and I'm pretty sure I was carrying very little food, if any, in my body.

So that's like, 5 lbs. difference.  And the pics in my profile are like 10 lbs lighter than that (145 ish) from a year ago.  I wish I knew what I would look like at 135, 130..

I think light is good.  Lots of walking is what light activity is, then record the running.  I personally don't know if I'm sedentary or light... I don't have a set schedule, job, etc. right now, I'm a teen so I'm out of school, but I live in the city so I walk a lot, but not every day, and I spend a lot of time reading during the day.  Plus I'm a teen so my metabolism is different, so I really have no clue... I would put it at light but I don't want to overestimate.

Yeah, I have very small hands with very short fingers (so wrist measurement is inaccurate), but when I wrap around they just touch, which puts me at medium.  so if i had normal sized hands, i would definitely be a small.

....but even when I wasn't packing a few extra pounds, and was very lean and athletic as a child, you could still tell I was "big boned"...  my huge hip bones would poke out of the top of my jeans, my shoulder blades jutted out of my back when i picked up something, and i've always just had a solid build.... there is no way in hell i'm small boned. maybe medium-large.

look at my pics.  i'm solid.  i do not have a small frame.  no chance in hell.

step into the sun for 10 minutes.

I'm craving bran... a few nights ago before I got my period I ate 3 bran muffins (750 cal) an now i'm eating a whole box of total (like 800% my daily dose of iron)... I guess my body recognizes bran a the only source of iron I get so now I crave it??  i'm a vegetarian.

Did I hear Albertsons?  Well that's your problem.  Switch to a different grocery store and I guarantee a 30% reduction without changing any of your habits.

Also, if you live where I lived in Southern California, groceries are much more expensive than anywhere else in the country because we have unions, etc. and the workers are better taken care of.  I go to school on the east coast and was surprise at how cheap food was for the rest of the country.  At Albertsons, a pound of butter was like $5 in LA.

Also, my family has always lived in wealthy neighborhoods but my mother is a very smart shopper and knows that traveling one zip code away changes the market completely.

Also:  Trader Joe's.

Now I live alone in the city (talk about markup) but have been doing fine, and I don't cook for myself, but that's my lifestyle.  I live off of produce from TJ's and the farmer's market, and Kashi/Powerbar/Luna bars, Kashi cereal... and various TJ oddities.

Average for all weight loss is 75% fat loss, 25% muscle loss.  But I will be strength training and eating adequate protein and lots of glycogen after I workout to recover the muscle.  The fitness expert I met will said my lean mass should stay the same.

I'm a vegetarian, practically vegan.  The only non-vegan products I eat are like, the chocolate on top of my protein bars, and every now and then if I go out some cheese on a burrito or something.

We're more conscious of what we eat (especially hardcore vegans), but we have to work harder to get low-calorie protein (not just protein -- that's easy) while dieting.

So ridiculous.  If you're using your msucles, if you strength train, your body will eat fat and glycogen to build and restore the muscles.  otherwise, average is 75% fat, 25% lean mass lost.