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Original Post by meagollum:

India's culture is one of repression. As a girl, its drilled in you, what you can do and what you cannot/should not do. Its hard to shake it off. Even if you want to, the community has strong feelings about how a woman should be, anyone who doesn’t conform is first mocked, then harassed. 

While I agree with everything else you said, calling Indian culture as one of repression is slightly unfair. While our culture dictates certain norms and social mores, it is their adaptation by generations of men that threw things astray, not the dictate itself.

Yup!

Original Post by spoiled_candy:

You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

I do this all the time. People call me weird for it, I got laughed at for it,but for me that's where the love starts. The antiquity. The preciousness. I can't even put it into words.

Im reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoykevsky. Its religious insight is wonderful, but the characters can be a little overdrawn. It's hard to believe reactions/expressions like that are of real people, and the story is just meandering without purpose as of now.

Anyone else who read this?

I remember how I was the most impulsive eater on the planet-I would chug nearly a pound's worth of potato chips, sweets and other fried stuff late at night. I'd finish jumbo packs of crackers and biscuits till it felt like I was the sole inhabitant of the kitchen larder.

That's changed now...I'm a hell lot more conscious about how I eat. Even though I've far from COMPLETELY stopped eating at midnight, I make healthy choices most times.

I bake...cinnamon rolls, baklava, you name it, but I realised I eat a lot less of it than I used to!

I exercise harder. I used to frequent this sissy gym where I worked harder than the others but it was surely not enough. I push myself harder now.

I have inches to lose now too, but I'm not wimpy about it, like I have to lose everything in a month or something. Being a lot more realistic this time around.

Guess that's it!

I'm not big on breakfast, but some days I will have a fruit-fibre yogurt shake with a slice of toast. Other days I will have an Indian breakfast called idli, which is made by steaming batter made from soaked white lentils and ground rice. An idli has roughly 50 calories, and you can have three of them with lentil soup(called sambar)/mint chutney and feel full. You'll find idli batter in any Indian store iif you feel it's tough to make.. for a variant, try adding some grated carrot and salt to the batter, or mix the batter with some soy flour for more protien.

What we generally add to our vegetables to make them tastier is a combination of lentils/beans called "popu". Here's how: in an open frying pan heat a tablespoon of oil for a half-minute, then add to it a mixture of bengal gram and white lentils (about half a teaspoon each). When the mixture starts to turn golden brown, add a half tsp of mustard seeds. When the seeds begin to pop, take the mixture out of the pan and stir it into your vegetables, tossing the vegetables around till they're kind of coated with the mixture. Trust me, it really makes your vegetables taste good.

I have other vegetarian recipes too, PM me if you would like to know:)

Original Post by hurricanereno:

I was the straight-A student and a prefect who was a bit chubby and had a HUGE appearance complex. Which I tried to compensate by going down the "I'm too smart to care about looks!" path. Didn't work.

I was pretty overworked by school; juggling seven extra-curriculars and tons of advanced classes can do that to you. I went to a private school, so I was in uniform, but while the cool kids wore short skirts and hoop earrings, I didn't have my ears pierced and my skirts were down to my knees. 

Never experimented, never did anything that parents would even frown at. I had good friends. No relationship apart from the guy I'm still with (after breaking up, yelling at, making each other cry with ugly words, problems, one ex each), with whom I've went so far as to kiss on the cheek. I play an instrument and that was also running me to the ground. 

I also hated 99% of the population, thinking they were out to get me. Think Miss Congeniality age 16 and you'd get me. I'm amazed my guy didn't get fed up, but he seems to have been amused by my high-strung, "Get outta my way" attitude. 

But apparently my love of shoes went way beyond high school. I was told today that I first asked for a specific pair of shoes at the tender age of 4. Go figure.

Are you sure that's not me you're talking about?

How frequent is a lot? Did you use the Brazilian butt lift workout?

Original Post by aml035:

This happens to me too. I go to bed hungry and wake up full, and go to bed full and wake up hungry. There must be some biological reason for it, but I'm not sure what it is. Plus, the few times that I have worked out in the morning I have been starving, so that would make you even hungrier.

Just try to stop eating 3 hours before you go to bed. If you do eat then, make it a light snack or something. It's not a crime to eat late, you just probably shouldn't down tubs of icing at 1 AM every night.

It's not possible for me to stop eating 3 hours before bedtime most days, because I get home at around 9:30 pm. I usually got to bed by 10:30-11 or so, which leaves me an hour between my meal and my bedtime. So these days I'm eating just a 100 calorie snack after getting home and eating most of my calories during the day.

But this wasn't my question. I thought I would feel full after all the calories I'd eaten during the night. But I still felt terribly hungry in the morning!

No I'm not completely new to exercise. I've exercised before (done the 30 Day shred, worked out at the gym) but it wasn't regular. I mean I worked out at the gym for 3 months, stopped, did the 30 Day Shred after 2-3 months or so, stopped... that sort of thing.

The last two times I did it, the same thing happened. I had to stop after every two circuits or so for 3-5 minutes. I am worried about working more efficiently, but I'm wondering if my burn is less than normal too?