Posts by shane_paladin

Well, losing weight this time around has been/is definitely more difficult.  Or, more precisely, losing it as fast as I did 4 years ago is more difficult. 

I did weigh-in at 182.8, which is good, overall.  The thing that is proving difficult, of course, is sticking to my goal of 1800 calories daily on average. 

I was looking at my April, May, and June spreadsheets of 2009; I noticed that I was maintaining in the low 170's on 2600 or more  a day.  Dang!  LOL!  I don't think that will be possible any more.  Something about age and metabolism, perhaps.

(1) Go to:  http://www.subway.com/Menu/MenuCategoryItems. aspx?CC=USA&LC=ENG&MenuTypeId=1&M enuId=35

(2) Choose your subway sandwich from the sandwich images.

(3) Then when you get a new picture of your sandwich, toward the bottom right is a prompt "Calculate Yours."  Click on that.

(4) Then you can click on the boxes for bread, cheese, veggies, and sauces. The new total will automatically show next to "Calories" under the Nutrition Information window.

I would offer this:  exercising burns calories.  So if someone runs for 6 miles at the same approximate speed as he/she runs for 3 miles, roughly twice as many calories will be burned.  If the person eats the same amount of the same foods for the day, regardless of numbers of miles ran, a person will lose more weight having run more miles.  Do this for an extended period, and one would probably see significant weight loss.

That should, in my opinion, be true for doing the elliptical, spinning, etc.  Exercising does burn calories; so if a person does not compensate by eating more (for example, if more exercising makes one hungrier), he/she will lose weight.

However, I agree that if one could, for example, stay the same weight, say, consuming 2000 calories and running 3 miles OR consuming 2600 calories and running 6 miles, the decision would have to be made if running the extra 3 miles is really worth it.

I suppose one consideration might be (even though the calories consumed - calories burned bottom line produces the same result) if the extra nutrients, vitamins, minerals are worth the extra exercising and food consumption.

"I'm on paleo, but I know I'm doing it wrong by limiting my food consumption to lettuce and chicken, but not sure how to go about it."

I'm curious, and certainly there is no reason for you to reply, as to how accurate you were when you put the above on your "profile" page.

I would suggest you add whole wheat and multi-grain items to your diet.

And add fruits and other vegetables besides lettuce, of course.

It's been awhile since I visited this thread.

Great variety, and I have yet to read a listed poem that I did not like reading.

I'm probably not going to make my June 1st deadline, but I have had 8 days of averaging 1800 calories.  I am doing something a bit different -- allotting myself 59,400 calories for 33 days (last 2 days of April and all of May).  Although there will be days I go over 1800, overall, I am keeping a running spreadsheet so that come June 1st, my calories will come out almost exactly 59,400 consumed.  My goal is still to lose 10 pounds in 33 days, but, more realistically, I will probably lose 5-8 pounds.  I would be quite happy with 6 or 7.

So Thomas Wolfe was correct, afterall.  "You can't go home again."
You being me and home being the Maintenance Thread.

I have had a back right hip/lower back "pain" for a few days.  The interesting thing is that it has not kept me from exercising over 3 hours a day.  However, the flip-side is that just getting in and of the car, or getting up from the couch or computer chair, is somewhat painful.  And walking is much more annoying than an hour or more on the exercise bike.

I talked to my health-wellness doctor, who told me regardless if I am not feeling pain while exercising, I should take a few days off and go see a medical doctor.

So the medical doctor told me to take a week off, see him again if there is no improvement, and he would set me up for an MRI, etc.

Z'ounds!  What sucks is that I had lost 6 pounds from April 1 through April 15. 

Thus, I am kicking myself off the Maintenance thread again until I can actually get back to maintenance weight.

Best of luck to all Maintainers.  No one ever said it would be easy...of if someone did say that, he/she was mistaken.

As I recall, the last time I was in an elevator, I had forgotten to wear my glasses.  I kept poking a 7-year old boy in his eye, until his mother finally pressed the elevator button for us.  I felt it did make the elevator faster.

Original Post by amylr:

I'm new to the site and have talked to just two people and both have warned me that people in the lounge are asses and like to cut ppl down (especially younger folks). Seems kind of juvenile and pathetic but society puts out all types I suppose... I haven't encountered anybody saying anything stupid just yet but I'm curious, Does anybody else seem to have problems here?

Yes, I am proof positive what happens when asses like to cut young people down.  I have had what has become both a terrifying and awe-inspiring experience.  I was 22, four years ago when I joined Calorie Count.  I made the mistake one day of posting in The Lounge.  Within 5 days, I had aged 40 years.  I had my lawyer email CC, notifying it of an impending law-suit.  She was told that I must have a notarized, official birth certificate showing my age, or I could make no legal claim.  Somehow, those Lounge bullies falsified my birth certificate, and now I am legally 40 years older than I should be.  

This came about because I had dared to post in The Lounge.

Original Post by releitse88:

Thank you for bringing this up. This is a personal pet peeve of mine, and I have restrained myself so many times from correcting the grammar mistake myself. 

Maybe it's because I'm both an English Teacher and a Grammar Nazi, but a little part of me dies whenever I see other simple mistakes such as  "they're", "their", and "there", as well as "your" vs. "you're". The worst one is the misuse of " 's ".  I once saw a sign that said "Banana's". Banana's? Banana's what?!

It's been a long while since I studied the rules of punctuation; however, if I recall correctly, I was taught that periods and commas go inside the quotation marks.