Posts by starbunny

I believe many people would agree with me when I say that thats inherently unhealthy for a goal.

I've heard it said by someone on these CC forums that the rule of thumb is 100 for 5 feet, and then 5 pounds for every extra inch.

An ideal weight for you would probably be 120-140.

I don't know how old you are, but either way, that would be ideal for you.

103-104 would be good for someone from 4'10-5 feet.

Seriously. And this site is about staying healthy..

What I'd suggest is to up your calorie intake so that you don't accidentally fall into starvation mode (which may screw up your metabolism), and instead of just dieting.. excersize.

Afterall, muscle weighs more than fat does, but its also leaner. You want to get and stay healthy, afterall, not just rule your life by a number.

As for how long it would take.. CC has its own counter estimate, so you can punch in those numbers and figure it out.. but seriously, 106 for 5'4 is on the lowside in itself.

Original Post by dnrothx:

Original Post by starbunny:

 

 Ah, the Internet, where we can be anything we want to be, rather all we can be.

dnrothx, what exactly is that supposed to mean? O___o;

I fabricated an identity for myself? Well, I certainly could have, but what use would it be for me to be admired on an online forum anyway? It isnt as if I am striving for admiration from people I will never encounter in my life. im simply defending myself against presumptuous people.

(the parenthesis are just notes)

MY ESSAY-- draft:

Filial love, platonic love, and romantic love allow people to believe that they are needed by someone-- that they would be missed. Perhaps love is truly the thing we are most dependant on in order to survive; it keeps us from feeling lonely and it gives us a reason to keep living. In a world where you are small, lost, detached, and alone, what reason would you have to keep living? This dependancy on love and companionship is an evolutionary result of man's psychological development; a need to attain happiness and consequently fill a void. It is said that love equates happiness; any poet may say that a life without love is not truly living. This is under the assumption that living constitutes happiness, and that consequently, an unhappy life devoid of love will end unfullfilled. However, this definition, created by humans, is simply to prove the significance of a four letter word having been created to identify a feeling. 


The word love was derived from nothing more than our irrevocable human tendencies to try and remove ourselves from our animal instincts by making them seem different. However, the concept of love shows just how animalistic we truly are. The only purpose of the concept of love, is to further justify our absurd existence on this earth. We don’t want to admit that such strong feelings are just functions like urinating and breathing. Our egotistical brains can’t reconcile with that. (

Although humans have attached so much to a simple four letter word, even they themselves do not respect the word as much as they claim it's significance to be. Walking through the halls of any high school, at any given second you may hear several different people exclaim exchanges of affection such as “I love you,” to best friends, significant others, and even mere acquaintances. This renders the word love as insignificant and common, because it is simply another verb in the english language. Love is now a superficial ideal that has already lost all fantastical value, because the humans that have built up it's significance with praise, do not treat with the respect they claim it deserves.


True love, if you must assign a meaning to the word, is simply a instinctual mechanism that humanity has latched onto and assigned additional meanings to. It is, in fact, nothing more than a series of chemical reactions and interactions designed to make quite sure that we reproduce.  Particularly strong hormonal surges can influences human thought patterns and physical behavior-- a light-headed feeling, sweating, or that warm fuzzy feeling you get. Love at first sight is simply “an extremely strong physical response to the subject in question,” parallel to Webster's definition for a hormonal surge.


In Shakespeare's play, Romeo is angst-ridden and sulking because Rosaline has rejected him, so he goes to Capulet's party because he has heard that Rosaline will be there. Suddenly, Romeo sees at Juliet and it is supposedly true love at first sight. He starts flirting with her, and they kiss several times, without knowing one another's names or clearly seeing eachother's faces. Their second encounter constitutes Romeo climbing over the Capulet wall for the famous balcony scene. It is not as romantic as common-belief claims, considering that his climbing the Capulet wall for Juliet, is comparatively equivalent to his sneaking into the Capulet party for Rosaline. Climbing the wall for Juliet, is more physically straining than the task of sneaking into the Capulet's house—a more underhanded task that he had done for Rosaline. In the scene following the climbing of the Capulet wall, Romeo asks Juliet to let go of her chastity, stating that followers of the Goddess Diana are fools. Is Romeo not the quite lusty teenager, asking a 14 year old girl for sex? ( Romeo is at least 16 or 17, because he owns a sword).


In general, I think the basis for the play renders the plot overrated. It will only be considered a romantic story from those who truly believe in the fantastical notion of soul mates. In any other assuming person's perspective, Romeo is simply a guy who becomes infatuated with his rebound girl, and Juliet is just another girl who has decided to rebel against her parents. Besides their supposedly destined love for each other, both Romeo and Juliet have other reasons of incentive to fall in love with their sworn enemies. These reasons seem more significant to the basis of their love, than the concept of love at first sight. ( Of course, I understand that the whole point of the play is for us to believe in love at first sight. Without such a belief, the whole tragedy of Romeo & Juliet would seem sheerly stupid to the reader. And It does).

Original Post by misskady:

Are you to answer the question "what is Love" in the story of Romeo and Juliet or in real human life?  Don't you think love is just quiet acts of kindness, charity, empathy etc.?  

We have to explain what love is, in OUR opinion and then comment on Romeo & Juliet's love in comparison.

ridiculous..

i wanted to be a lawyer up until i was about 11.. thats cause i wanted to go to Yale.

i was 11 when i realized that Yale isnt simple to either get into nor afford. and that theres a whole technique to debating and how many years it takes, and how much money it takes to get a good job or make a successful firm cause it takes money to get a good degree, regardless of your grades.

...sounds pretty &$*$)@# hard.

so yeah. now im 14, and all i want to do is be successful when i grow up..

to a party like that, i would just carry huge sacks of fake cash.. o__o;

I was in second grade at the time, but I remember it vividly.

I could see the smoke coming out from the World Trade Center from the windows from my classroom windows.

I'm pretty surprised to see all these responses with people saying they were dismissed early..

I live IN the city, and we weren't dismissed early, although many kids were picked up early from school.

I think that everyone can recognize what an awful day this was, but being right up close is a completely different story than just thinking about this stuff.

I remember for days afterwards the streets were all empty and stuff, it took ages to kill the fire and stuff. They had cut off all MTA transportation, and I remember watching footage of people actually WALKING the fah-reaking bridges to queens and brooklyn. And those were only the daring ones. Everyone else was too scared to walk into the building or stay on the street, but much less get on a bridge that week.

FOOUUUUURTEEEEEEEEN! =D

add me if you want to, or if you need some support message, email or whatever ;]

I'm 5'0, lol i look like I'm younger than 14 so i guess it suits me, and in the morning I'm 95, but I'm late 97ish by the end of the day. Haha.

My highest weight was 104, so I lost around 7 pounds..? yay. =]

I want to lose some of the fat of I've got (haha, i AM 96 pounds of pure fat), and BULK UPP with some muscle!

I dont have any specific weight goals, but I would love to get taller, and not go past 101 pounds until I have enough muscle to run an 8 minute mile nonstop.

^___^

hahaaa, my typical afterschool "snack" was just abouuut anything i wanted.

like going to the deli around the corner from the subway station after school let out with my friends, and gorging on sugary drinks, COOOOOOOOKIES (finished a whoole packet of chips ahoy within 40 minutes!), bagels, cereal cereal ceral, cookies cookies, mutiple sandwiches.

aha. i have NO clue as to how the freak my highest weight is only 104. xD

it just egged me on to not care about how much i ate anyway =P

now, im looking to bulk up though. lose all the 104 pounds of fat that makes it hard for me to run a 9 minute mile, and replace it with muscle. ;]

omg, you just totally made my day!! XDDD

id been eating out of the cool whip container in my fridge every 2 hours last week, and i was so depressed about how much gunk i was eating, (cause i didnt bother to accurately measure the serving size i was swallowing), and now i feel so much better! XD

i shall go out and buy s'more cool whip riiight now, just cause i love and i was depriving myself cause i thought that the serving size was much smaller than it really is! =D

You know, evolution says that people like you need to die,

ideally before spawning.

i am SO lazy.. X___X

i havent been to the gym or counted calories since the beginning of August...

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.. im too scared to check my weight now!

all these back-to-school/end-of-summer/beginning-of-hig h-school parties, and my sister's birthday, and hanging out with friends after everyones back from vacation.. stressing about school starting in 15 days. has got me seriously got me distracted.

sniff. failure. =.=