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| Weight Loss | Cooking for other people all the time? | Jan 02 2012 08:10 (UTC) |
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Sometimes we have an interesting psychological relationship with food.
Mine may be similar to yours. I want/need to spend a certain amount of time with food. That can be time cooking, or time eating. If I cook for 2 hours, I'm not very hungry and eat only a little. If I cook for 4 hours, I may not eat at all. But if I just re-heat leftovers, I may find myself having seconds or thirds. |
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| Weight Loss | grams in a cup | Jan 02 2012 05:22 (UTC) |
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With some rounding:
28 grams = 1 dry ounce (gram and dry ounce are measures of weight). For water, 1 fluid ounce (a measure of volume) weighs 1 dry ounce. Not necessarily true for any other substance, but close enough for most fluids. And 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces (both are measure of volume). So that may help. But really it's best to simply spend $20 on a cheap food scale. |
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| The Lounge | Chopped my hair=some people are jerks. 2012 didn't start well | Jan 02 2012 05:12 (UTC) |
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It sounds like some or most of the "rude" comments came from men. So, being a man, I'll offer my two cents which may only be worth one cent but at least gives you a window into how many or most men think.
Prepare to be offended. My apologies. 1. Most men prefer long hair on most women. At least shoulder length. Short pixies and bobs can be head-turners but only for a very slim woman. 2. Most men never change their hair style. They settle on a cut in their 20's and that's it. Who has time to mess with a new hairstyle, we're busy dealing with receding hairlines and baldness. So when someone radically changes their hair, it seems like a big deal. That just has to be commented on. It'd almost be rude to not say anything. 3. Men are often blunt when offering their opinions. "Check out my new car. Cool, you shoulda got the six speed." "Great trade by the Blazers. Naah, he's a cripple." "Like the jacket? What are you, a girl?" So, combine a cut that might really not look good, with the person's compulsion to opine and a gender-based tendency toward bluntness. You may get, apparently did get, some unfortunate comments. What to do? If you got the cut for you alone and really, truly, genuinely don't care what others think, then ignore their opinions. I don't think that is the case, considering how upset you seem to be. If you do in fact care what others think, then it seems you've gotten a pretty clear negative reaction from friends and acquaintances. Well, not every haircut is a good one. Time to re-cut or grow out or whatever is do-able. |
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| Weight Loss | Working out without diet | Jan 01 2012 20:03 (UTC) |
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Oops, hit DONE too soon.
Anyway, 12 min on the elliptical is probably more like 100 calories unless you are pushing so hard that you practically fall off the machine when you're done. Walking at a normal pace for 25 min might be 100 cal, but a casual stroll might be 50 cal. The machines' calorie burn reports are unreliable. You can measure your heart rate during the activity and use a calculator like the one below to get a rough estimate. http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/ca lculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calcu lator.aspx The point is, your activity may be actually less than 300 cal. Which is about 1 bagel, 1 large muffin, a few slices of bread, etc. 90 minutes' exercise can be negated by 5 minutes' eating. But, as you've seen, moderate amounts of exercise are ineffective for weight loss if diet isn't controlled to a caloric deficit. In a world where highly calorie-dense, easy-to-digest, sugary, ready-to-eat food is available everywhere for very little money, our bodies cannot out-exercise their ability to eat. If you don't carefully control your intake and cut out most of the junk food, you won't lose weight. Period. |
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| Weight Loss | Working out without diet | Jan 01 2012 19:45 (UTC) |
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| Weight Loss | So how do you measure lettuce? | Jan 01 2012 00:11 (UTC) |
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Shredded but not packed down. But it doesn't really matter, 3 cups of lettuce has about as many calories as a friendly kiss. |
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| Weight Loss | Advice needed about dramatic weight loss..Please | Dec 31 2011 17:01 (UTC) |
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| Fitness | Need Help With Pullups | Dec 31 2011 14:30 (UTC) |
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How will shoulder presses help with pull ups? One is a push, the other is a pull.
You can use a resistance band to help pull yourself up, if you can figure how to loop it around the bar and yourself. There are pull up machines that include adjustable spring help. Same principle. Otherwise, how about standing on a step and doing pull ups with your leg helping - that is, using ONE leg only. It'll be easy at first, but as your leg gets tired your upper body will do more of the work. As a bonus, it's not bad for your lower body either. |
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| Weight Loss | skinny legs and thighs | Dec 31 2011 04:42 (UTC) |
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There is a "don't wanna be bulky" thread almost every day on CC. It is sort of weird.
I am starting to think the reason this constantly comes up is that people have a very wide range of definitions of "bulky". Some people, usually women and usually women who don't do a lot of exercise, appear to think that almost any hint of definition of some mass that is not bones, ligaments, fat, or skin, makes one "bulky". Others, usually women who lift weights, or men, think that you need a significant mass of muscle to be "bulky". Enough mass to make an 8 ounce steak, at least. See this article - it suggests what most or many women consider to be "bulky". There is a part 2 as well. http://www.leighpeele.com/bulky-muscles-and-t raining-females-the-definition |
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| Fitness | Women - lean muscle building NO BULK WANTED!!! | Dec 31 2011 04:24 (UTC) |
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Maybe there's a disconnect in what people call "bulky", as well as some slight exaggeration?
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| Weight Loss | I only eat once a day | Dec 31 2011 04:15 (UTC) |
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OP, I suggest you get a $20 kitchen scale, learn to use the calorie logger part of this site, and very carefully measure how many calories you actually eat per week. Count everything, no matter how minor or "healthy".
Maybe you are under-eating with a damaged metabolism, but maybe you are over-eating on snack food (it is not hard to do), maybe there is some other issue. |
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| Weight Loss | Realtor needing to lose 100 lbs. | Dec 31 2011 00:34 (UTC) |
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| Weight Loss | something cool...I've lost close to 15lbs~ but I'm kinda bummed...nobody seems to notice:( | Dec 30 2011 19:05 (UTC) |
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From observing a small number of men who have lost substantial weight, no-one seems to notice until the man loses at least 10% of body weight. I don't know if that holds true for women. Remember, before losing weight, we all tend to dress in clothes that conceal those extra pounds. And everyone is wearing winter clothes now anyway.
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| Weight Loss | Will my face get thinner? | Dec 30 2011 18:57 (UTC) |
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To the OP, don't do anything. You are young and at your age, your face is naturally the shape it is. To make a big change, you'd have to do something pretty unhealthy to yourself. If it is hard to accept that age has such an influence on our facial features, consider this. Little girls, <10 y/o, often have full faces with round cheeks and baby fat. Could you get their faces lean and cut? Sure - by putting them in a concentration camp. There's not a healthy way to do it. Your situation is analogous, albeit you are at a different point on your lifeline. Assuming you maintain your current slim BMI, then time and age will lean out your face, make it more angular and harder. It will also eventually give you wrinkles, frown lines, age spots, dry skin, thin lips, gray hair, and the other things that go along with a lean, hard face. You may not want to accelerate that change. Enjoy life in the present.
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| The Lounge | Can we talk about...resolutions??? | Dec 30 2011 18:38 (UTC) |
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Resolutions for 2012 - Finish my vintage French carbon fiber road bike, come in <17 lbs, and ride until I get rocky hams, cut calves, and a 40 bpm resting pulse - Build a carport, remodel both bathrooms, paint the garage, and fix whatever else is falling apart - Finish installing home gym in the basement, work out, get a bikini-ready body by summer - Finish install wife's pottery/art studio in the basement, sit back and enjoy the new dishware and etc. - Build the darkroom my daughter wants in the basement (it is a 1,100 sq ft basement, which is the only reason why all this is possible) - Start my long-planned kitchen remodel and make more money than in 2011 (these go together, alas) - Push and pull my daughter to an "A" GPA and a 99% SAT, oh and teach her to drive
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| Fitness | Caloric equilibrium | Dec 30 2011 14:21 (UTC) |
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There are sometimes threads here about "when should I eat XYZ" where people will recommend that certain foods be eaten around the time of certain exercises. E.g. protein shortly before/after lifting, carbs before endurance, etc. Is that an example of "micro" cycle? |
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| Weight Loss | How to get rid of hip fat? | Dec 29 2011 19:39 (UTC) |
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5' 5" and 125 lb at BMI 21 seems on the slim side of normal, to me. It isn't clear to me if you actually have what other people would call a lot of "hip fat", or if your perceptions and expectations are too demanding? Admittedly, I'm a man and therefore am not really acquainted with saddlebags. If you said you had a beer gut then I could relate . . .
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| Weight Loss | How to get rid of hip fat? | Dec 29 2011 17:52 (UTC) |
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This is a weird thread. Without knowing the OP's stats (height, weight, body fat %, etc) and just what she perceives as too much "hip fat", I don't see how anyone can say how she might reduce her hip measurements, what the rest of her might then look like, or if it is possible to do it in a healthy manner. Seems like one of these "more data required" situations. |
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| The Lounge | I'm Getting a Home Gym... | Dec 29 2011 15:24 (UTC) |
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That seems like a very good price for the condition and what is included. I'm expecting to spend $400-plus just for iron (bars, plates, dumb bells). Then maybe another $100 in materials for the cage and bench. But it won't be a do-everything machine. The Free-Spotter looks interesting. Does anyone have more feedback, user experience, etc? Does the rope ever get hung up in the clamps? Is it hard to get plates on and off a swinging bar? When you are done, do you just walk away and leave a couple hundred lbs of weight hanging on the ropes all night? Or should you also have a squat rack to rest the bar and plates on? |
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| Weight Loss | Sweet/Salty Cravings. | Dec 29 2011 12:15 (UTC) |
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