Posts by cesty8

I have a Sherpani Rumba that I got off of ebay that I use to carry him in.  I looked at the ergo's but it would have been too difficult to load him on my back by myself, and he is getting  too heavy to carry on my front any more.

As far as excercise equipment, I think I got a solution for now.  I went to a sports store and bout a bike converter thingy.  It converts my regular bike into a stationary bike.  Now I can use my bike daily!  It was on clearance which is always nice, and lots less expensive than a treadmill!  I used it for 5 minutes then my son decided that he was done eating dinner and I had to get him up.  Ah, to be a parent.  But in that five minutes I worked up a small sweat! 

Thanks for all your advice.

Original Post by smw:

I've used it to replace up to 1/3 of the flour in a regular recipe without any problems.  Some things I'll replace it entirely but cookies can come out with a very nutty flavor if you do this.

I've done quite a bit of experimenting with baking and beans.  Black beans make terrific brownies.  In cake mixes use a can of white or black beans and 1 cup of water pureed together, it comes out great.

I recently tried cookies with white pinto beans instead of butter, they tasted good, but not quite as good.  I also tried some with coconut butter and they were fantastic so next time I'll try half of each.

 Whole wheat flour tends to make baked goods heavier.  However, I used a recipe this morning for whole wheat buscuits and was very impressed.  It was made exactly like regular buscuits except of course whole wheat instead of white, and it used baking power AND baking soda.  Regular buscuits only use baking powder.  I could hardly tell the difference.  I am thinking that may be the trick, use some soda as well as powder when using whole wheat to give it some extra lift. 

As far as black bean brownies, I made some and wasn't impressed, they were wierd.  I personally didn't like them.  I may have did something wrong though?

However, I did find a recipe online for flax seed muffins that were really really good.  That is a  new staple at my place, love to have  a couple with breakfast every morning.

I know I am a week late, but I would like to join.  Maybe this is the motivation I need?  I have been trying to loose weight but keep falling off the bandwagon.  In three weeks, I think planning to loose 5 lbs is a good goal by the end of the month.

Name: Chris
Age: 33
Height & frame: 5' 6", small frame
Highest weight & date: April 15, 2011: 180lbs
CC start wt and CC start date:April 15, 2011: 180lbs

Goal Weight (by April 29, 2011): 175lbs

Start Weight in Apr, 2011:
Week 1; 08-Apr: -
Week 2; 15-Apr: 180lbs
Week 3; 22-Apr:
Week 4; 29-Apr

Original Post by k2catew:

stop eating sugar, i use to eat ice cream but once i had started keep going back to the freezer for more. i felt like i completely lost control.

for the past few months i have stopped eating all sugar, ice cream, lollies, biscuits, chocolate, anything that is processed and sugar added.

Now i don't even crave it anymore. i think sugar is addictive

 This is 100% correct!!!!!

If there was a CA (carbohydrate annonomous) club, I would be a memeber.

Hi, my name is Chris, and I am a carbohydrate addict....

I tried the "carb addict diet" and am failing misserably.  It read up nice, to break the addiction eat three meals a day, two low on carbs, the third is a 1/3 carbs, 1/3 protein, 1/3 veggies.  I do okay for about 3 to 4 days, then I binge on carbs.   I am wondering if I am restricting my carbs too much and that is why I binge?  Last night I binged on carbs, then I get so made at  myself!  I have NO idea how to break the addiction.  I feel your pain.

I am not really counting calories.  I tried that a few times, and I am WAY too lazy for that!  It lasted a day, got so tedious that I quit.  I am not counting grams either.  According to the book, it is just eyeballing.

Three meals per day, two of them are pretty much zero carb, 1/2 veggies, 1/2 protein, then the third meal is a "reward meal" where it is 1/3 veggies, 1/3 protien, 1/3 carbs + a salad.  Any carbs you want as long as it is eaten in proportion to the other things, 1/3 of each.  No measuring, no counting, just eyeballing.  If I have to measure or count anything I won't stick to it. 

This diet is great because I am eating WAY less carbs then I was before, I don't go hungry, and I am eating WAY more veggies.  Before my diet was like 3/4 carbs (breakfast was usually 100% carbs) with each meal. 

This is why I think I can actually stick with this diet, it is easier, and it is something I could stick with for the rest of my life, it is just changing a habit. 

The theory is that if you are addicted to carbs (as I was!) then when you eat carbs you over eat habitually because the carbs make you do that, well they did me at least.  When every I ate carbs I would stuff myself beyond being full.  But when you limit your carbs to just one meal a day, and then only a limited amount and take in equal portions of veggies and protein it prevents insulin spike and the body stops needed a carb fix, and stops binge carb eating.  So far, the books seems to be dead on, because I find that I eat a lot less when I don't eat carbs, or only a limited amount of them.  I also don't seem to crave them anymore.  Now I feel full and happy just eating some green beans and fish, or something of the nature.  And I eat maybe half of what I ate before and get full, and when I do get full, I stop eating with no desire to eat anything else. 

It is creepy how dead on accurate this book has been for me so far, like they know me personally. 

I think a good way to think of amino acids in proteins is like thinking of ink cartridges in printers.  Each protein that we need is a different ink cartridge.  Each of us use some proteins more then others but we do use all of them but not all at the same rate. 

I can't remember all the amino acids we need but to simplfy I am going to generalize.  Say we need 3 amino acids to make a complete protein.  (we need something like 18, but I am just simplifying).  x,y,z.

You have level indicators of x, y, z.  You eat beans which are high in x.  So after that meal, x level catridge fills up to 100%, but y and z stay where they were, say at 75%.  Next day you eat rice which is hight in y.  So then your level indicators are now at x= 75%, y=100%, and z=50% (assuming that you use 25% of x, y and z a day).  The next day you eat some whole wheat bread, which is high in z.  Then you stand at x=50%, y=75%, z=100%...get it? 

So you do not need all your amino acids with every meal every day.  just eat a varied diet and you will be okay.  It really is not all that complicated.

Be prepared to do a lot of cooking.  I have to pack my son's lunch everyday for daycare.  They have "vegetarian" options but that is veggie burger and grilled cheese, NOT what I would consider healthy.  So I pack my son's lunch everyday.  To make it easier it is leftovers from the previous nights dinner most days, works pretty well, but at first it was kind of hard to get used to it. 

Also you have to be flexible.  Workers make mistakes, son will eat other kids foods, etc.  So it is next to impossible to be hard core unless you are a SAHM. 

Good luck!

Okay, I loved Austin Powers 2, and all the Shrek movies were great, and I love Monty Python (actually the skit about the black knight who gets dismembered and the killer rabbit in the Holy Grail bothered me, it wasn't funny at all but the 3 headed argumentive guy, and the Knights who say "nee" was funny as all heck, the best is the frech guy guarding the castle who says "I will fart in your general direction", love that guy!), but I love slapstick.

What I DON'T find funny is things where it shows someone getting hurt like in "funniest home videos".  I mean, yeah, that person may be an idiot, but even idiots can feel pain and there is nothing funny about getting hurt.  The audience would be laughing at a guy who is skateboarding on a rail, falls and knocks between his legs on the rail and the audience is rolling in laughter and I am sitting there thinking, boy I sure hope that guy is okay! 

I guess I am too much of a softie.

Original Post by neanderthin:

Also Humans as we know them (Homo Sapien) that populated the planet as we know it today was done believe it or not during an ice age and we've adapted 3 systems within our body to produce glucose for survival, and it's the reason why carbs aren't an essential nutrient by todays standards, and why humans have not only survived but thrived.

 Now I admit, I may not know much about this stuff, but I was under the impression that we could not survive on a diet totally devoid of carbs. I learned in my neurology class that carbs is the primary source of fuel for our brains hence why people on a strict Atkins diet have problems (mood swings for example). 

What are those three systems?

moiratiger : I LOVE your avatar, your baby is so cute!