Posts by llliiinnnzzz

shane82 how much FOOD are you consuming?? It doesn't matter how expensive it is, if you're spending that much on raw food (ie, you're not counting restaurants or takeout) that's OBSCENE.

I buy high end juices, bars and produce yet remarkably make do on about $30/week... I think your issue is quantity, not quality.

Edit:  To be fair I didn't include alcohol, but even that's less that $10 a week for, like you said, half a pack of beer or bottle of wine a week.

Thanks katieydid2,

Keeping snacks with me seems to have helped, but I think I will try to replace more simple carbs with whole grain as well.  Do you have any idea why this would have started happening to me all of a sudden though?  Mid-June I had about 6 serious episodes in 2 weeks, and since then it doesn't happen if I eat regularly, but I used to be able to eat a big breakfast and be not hungry for 8 hours, and I just can't do that anymore.

Btw I'm only 5'2 and trying to lose the last 5 lbs, and on workout days my total calorie expenditure is only about 2000 calories according to the site's meter, so I aim for about 1400 calories knowing I'll underestimate what I eat a little. 

It's exhausting being around people who are constantly "trying" to lose weight and judge their non-dieting friends for their eating habits-- throughout high school I was always very slim and my best friend was bigger, and self-conscious about it.  One night we went out for pancakes and she didn't order and, looking on at ours, said "You guys are going to get fat."  Now, I probably didn't handle it the best when I responded "No, I don't get fat", but I definitely sympathize that it's really hard to be friends with people who get so upset about food. 

I'm sure that your homemade recipe for granola bars is more economical than buying luna or kashi bars, but I'm certain it's less healthy-- they are probably about the same calorie count as luna bars, and more than kashi, without the protein, fiber and vitamins the store-bought ones have and with and a lot more fat.  You get what you pay for.

I did the same thing when I studied abroad and traveled most weekends and never had access to a gym.  I found it easiest to lose the weight by starting with diet and then easing into working out: 

   I pretty much went cold turkey on all junk food ( you think ou could never do that, but go three days with no dessert or fried food and you honestly don't miss it-- seriously I'm a ice cream and alfredo girl but all of a sudden I'm all about bananas and spinach).  Then after I lost a few pounds just from dieting I took up pilates and lost another 5, and now it's tennis season and I'm in great shape. 

The most important thing is to get all desires for high-cal foods out of your system so you don't sabotage yourself, and do activity you actually enjoy (or at least don't get bored with) so you'll keep it up.

How do you react when people say "Oh, you've lost weight!" with a tone that  implies Thank God, you needed to!  I gained a very noticeable  7 pounds while in Europe for four months, and have after 2 months home lost it.  Family keep telling me they can tell I've lost weight, but because I never should have gained it in the first place (I've always been pretty thin, and am a little ashamed I let myself go), I don't really know how to respond.

Saying I've lost weight just means they noticed that I gained, and I wish we could all pretend I hadn't...

I really, really disagree with the people saying you're not eating enough, which is why you gained weight back when you upped your calories.    I'm 5'2 as well and have been very slowly losing weight on about a 1250/day average, but in the past when i've been in the best shape I was down to about 700/day on days when I didn't exercise (considerably more when I did).  Larger women might not understand it but it really, really takes very little to fuel a small person.  Also, exercise is always what really burns the weight, not just diet:  After plateauing I've started losing weight again just by picking up a pilates class twice a week.