Posts by 12345670

Original Post by cajunrider:

How much TV do y'all watch?

I average around 20 minutes/day

haha I think I watch a lot of TV/Computer shows. I can watch anywhere from 1-4 hours on a typical weekday night.

Original Post by kathygator:

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Original Post by caverlady:

Hi Numbers!

I was just trying to think of something to do with brown rice.  I've got chicken breast thawed and I thought I'd bake it and serve it with gravy (canned of course), but I'd really like to have some rice. 

Yeah, the cream of chicken soup was canned too (I know....it's bad >.<) I had it last night over a chicken breast and it was yummy ^_^

Not bad, silly. Many's the meal all across the country prepared with a can of soup for a base. We are not food snobs in here, darlin'.

So my slight fear of cans poisoning me or giving me cancer is irrational? My mom taught me never to eat canned foods so I always feel a bit guilty/freaked out when I do.

I avoid them for salt more than anything else. Once you learn how to make a white sauce from scratch, you'll feel less inclined to use can soup, certainly, but it won't hurt to use them sometimes.

Yeah, if I do get things in a can I normally try to get things without salt added or at least lower in salt. I'm pretty good about staying well below my sodium intake for the day....unless I have an Amy's frozen pizza...those are kinda ridiculous with the sodium......but they are soooo good. I should learn to make a white sauce from scratch, I've never actually tried lol

Original Post by kathygator:

Original Post by 12345670:

Original Post by caverlady:

Hi Numbers!

I was just trying to think of something to do with brown rice.  I've got chicken breast thawed and I thought I'd bake it and serve it with gravy (canned of course), but I'd really like to have some rice. 

Yeah, the cream of chicken soup was canned too (I know....it's bad >.<) I had it last night over a chicken breast and it was yummy ^_^

Not bad, silly. Many's the meal all across the country prepared with a can of soup for a base. We are not food snobs in here, darlin'.

So my slight fear of cans poisoning me or giving me cancer is irrational? My mom taught me never to eat canned foods so I always feel a bit guilty/freaked out when I do.

mmmkay, wtf. For lunch today I ate 1/3 cup of cooked brown rice mixed with 1/4 cup of cream of chicken soup and like 1/2 cup of cantaloupe, which is only 160 calories. Yet, I feel like I just ate a horse (bones and all) I am SO full. I had brought more to eat but I couldn't even THINK about eating it. What on earth is it about rice that makes you feel so full? Sheesh.

Anyhow.... HI EVERYONE!! *waves* I miss you guys.

Original Post by mollymouser:

Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

Here's one of his daily menus

Breakfast - Total calories: 376

• 1 double espresso, black
• 2 cups Kellogg's Corn Pops
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1 Centrum Advanced Formula multivitamin

Lunch - Total calories: 540

• 1 Hostess Twinkie
• 1 Little Debbie Star Crunch
• 1 Muscle Milk Protein Shake

Snack - Total calories: 150

• 1 Hostess Twinkie

Dinner - Total calories: 688

• 1 Little Debbie Zebra Cake
• 1 brownie (Duncan Hines mix)
• 3-4 baby carrots
• 1 Muscle Milk Protein Shake

Snack - Total calories: 75

• 6 chips, Cool Ranch Doritos

Total Calories for the Day: 1,829

 (gasp) He ate carrots! He ate carrots!!! LOL

Who the heck eats only 6 Doritos, anyway? This prof sounds like some sort of healthnut extremist. (grin)

Honestly? I do. If I'm craving chips I will grab a half a serving sometimes....*shrug* is it that weird? lol

Anyways, none of this surprises me. He ate less calories a day and loss weight. Losing weight usually = lower cholesterol etc.... I think that this would work for just about anyone. I wouldn't recommend it though, it cannot be healthy for your body long term and eating junk food all the time cannot be very satisfying.

Original Post by lilsammi23:

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Original Post by 12345670:

It's been a crazy few weeks for me here lately. What have I missed?

 Lily's pregnant, Cajun used to have colorful walls, SLO and SSS made it to the meet-up after all, the kiddos are all cute, jars and coffee tins are useful, and I'm an onion (you know, lots of layers)

Awesome! Congrats to Lily!

 I just realized that you may not know that that's a running joke...  Everything else is true though.  Though I'm more like a parfait than an onion.

Oh man....I suck.

It's been a crazy few weeks for me here lately. What have I missed?

Original Post by hksquared:

Original Post by purespark:

I'm pretty sure those heart rate monitors are wildly inaccurate, Numbers.  I usually just take my pulse for 10 seconds and multiply by 6 to figure out my heart rate.

This works too (though I can't do this while working on The Elliptical, or I teeter and potentially fall off)

*giggles at the visual of this in her head*

So anyone here ever had trouble with the elliptical heart rate monitors before? I was cold here at work and thought I'd jump on for about 5 min or so and it shut down on me saying my target heart rate is too high (like 200 O_O). At first I freaked out but then I read cold dry hands can do this. My hands are always like ice cubes so I put on some lotion and rubbed them together for a few seconds and it finally read it to be around 125,which still seems rather high/inaccurate for just starting out, but at least it wasn't shutting down on me....

Yup. It's a good thing though, after experiencing what it does to my body, I don't crave it at all anymore.