Posts by ssdevine

Original Post by shane_paladin:

Original Post by moarpotatochipsnao:

I'm trying to eliminate anything man-made from my diet for the sake of being healthy.  However I still get cravings for some stuff, like a Snickers bar or potato chips.  Will this feeling lessen over time?  I cut out wheat a while ago and I'm not craving it anymore, so that's something...

Yes. Definitely. If that is the route you chart for yourself in life.

The question will come many years later...do you feel good about giving those things ups.  If the answer is yes, then you made the right decision. 

For some of us, we prefer generally eating healthy, with some occasional lapses.

If a person sets his/her mind to it, he/she could quit watching TV or reading newspapers or throwing bricks at the neighbor's pet skunks, etc.  It is definitely doable to give up consuming junk food.  The more important question...is it necessary?

My position is here ^^. I don't want to go the rest of my entire life without ever having a chocolate bar or a chicken wing. I much prefer to find a way to control the cravings rather than forbid myself from having anything "bad" ever again.

This works for me and I have learned to control my cravings so as not to over do it. Obviously its not going to work for everyone. Some people need the strictness of eliminating food completely so they don't eat it.

I could be strange but my cravings NEVER go away. They say if you crave chocolate have some fruit or something for the sweetness or if you crave chips try carrots or something for the crunch but NOPE! If I want chocolate I want chocolate. If I crave chips...I want chips!

I usually will allow myself some chocolate or chips or whatever I'm craving (moderation of course). I could have a square or 2 of dark chocolate for 120 calories or try to substitute with fruit and end up eating 300 calories in fruit PLUS still end up eating the chocolate because the fruit didn't do it for me. It just makes more sense to treat myself.

ETA... I do find that letting myself indulge now and again actually decreases my cravings... I always want what I can't have so if nothing is off limits my cravings are not as strong.

Hypothetically speaking... I would think this would be an extreme form of calorie cycling and would just balance out. You may lose some water weight when you fast that would likely come back when you ate normally.

But I suppose it would also depend on how many calories you consumed on the "Binge" days. If one needs say 2000 calories a day (14000 per week) to maintain but ate say 10000 calories on a binge day you would still be over your total calories for the week even with the 3 fast days and would actually gain.

Personally I don't think I'm capable of a binge large enough to justify a 2 or 3 day fast. It would have to be quite the binge.

I agree with THIS ^^

Alot of the multivitamins in stores can't actually be fully absorbed by your body and so your just flushing your money down the toilet! Literally!! So its best to really try and get everything you can from real food.

Unless you have a deficiency in something you probably don't really need to take one anyway.

Have you heard of the Sneaky Chef?

My son is a VERY picky eater. He won't eat ANY fruit and for vegetables he will only eat corn (only on the cob) and potatoes.

The Sneaky Chef makes purees out of vegetables and adds them to other foods. The great thing about her purees is that she seems to know what to combine so they almost cancel each other out and don't taste like anything! For example, the purple puree is spinach and blueberries but it tastes like nothing! It's crazy. She's got a few different purees that you can add to soup, meat, even brownies to add fruits and vegetables to picky kids diets. Well the intent is for kids but hey, even grown ups need their veggies too!

Her website has some recipes on it or you can buy her books at any bookstore and online.

Check it out. It might work for you.

Just a thought because this was happening to me....

Do you have any custom foods in your food log that you had to manually enter the nutritional info for?

When you manually enter them the individual vitamins and minerals don't get entered so don't get included in your day like iron, calcium, vitamin A and D. I live in Canada and a lot of the foods in the database are not the same as the ones I buy in the store so I would just enter them manually but always came up short on things, especially calcium but I was drinking a fortified almond milk and eating a greek yogurt that were manually entered. When I looked at the details of my day, they said 0 for calcium for these food items when in fact if you look at the nutritional value on the packaging, I was probably getting like 300mg of Calcium from it and actually meeting my daily requirement.

I would take a look at the breakdown for each item you entered in your food log and see if those nutrients are recognized. You may actually NOT be lacking anything.

Original Post by cellophane_star:

Original Post by ssdevine:

I ordered the Crockpot Lunch Warmer! Hot soup is in my future 

You should probably check with your employer to see if you're allowed to have personal appliances in your office or cubicle. I used to have a coffee maker in my old office and it was considered a fire hazard. I kept it a secret so I could still use it. Shhh... but then we moved into a cubicle office and I had to give up my coffee maker and personal heater. So cold...

Thankfully we are allowed. We have space heaters and what nots. Some people have microwaves in thier offices but no one will share : (. So rude. Anyway, this little guy is cheaper than a microwave and too small to share so pooh on them! lol.

wtfrail: What?! I looked around a few stores here and didn't see them anywhere. Would've been so much better to just buy one instead of having to order online!

Original Post by littlesimongeorge:

Original Post by ssdevine:

I have to agree with you irishgirl49!

Flexibility is not just whether or not you can touch your toes! It's the ability to move your joints through a particular range of motion and EVERYBODY can benefit from that.

Flexibility work doesn't have to be yoga. Any stretching will do.

I don't do yoga very often but I do like to make sure I involve flexibility work by making sure I spend a good 10-15 minutes stretching after each workout. I'm not super flexible, never have been but I'm also not LESS flexible than I was when I was younger and I think its because I pay attention to my stretching routine.

That's mobility, not flexibility.

That actually is the definition of flexibility.... I kid you not! Google it. Mobility and flexibility go pretty hand in hand so working on one's flexibility can only be good for us

I have to agree with you irishgirl49!

Flexibility is not just whether or not you can touch your toes! It's the ability to move your joints through a particular range of motion and EVERYBODY can benefit from that.

Flexibility work doesn't have to be yoga. Any stretching will do.

I don't do yoga very often but I do like to make sure I involve flexibility work by making sure I spend a good 10-15 minutes stretching after each workout. I'm not super flexible, never have been but I'm also not LESS flexible than I was when I was younger and I think its because I pay attention to my stretching routine.

Thanks ladies,

wtfrail: I don't know why I didn't think to check Canadian Tire! Duh!! One stop for gadgets like that!

Thanks ladies, my son's thermos is metal and I do heat it with boiling water but its a novelty type of thermos (he's in elementary) so it was like $6 and I'm sure not a great quality.