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mynxcat
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response 50 of 332:
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Sep 28 04:01 UTC 2003 |
I bought myself new workout clothes. Unlike the apartment complex gym, where
you rarely run into anyone, and even if you do, it doesn't matter how ratty
your sweats are (you're practically at home :P), at Cali Fitness, everyone
seems to be dressed really well. i was a little self-conscious at first,
though I've come to realise that no one really pays attention to you. The gym
is a place of self-worship. Everybody seems too involvedf in their workouts
or reflections in the mirror.
It's been hard keeping a calorie count today. We had company over, and I had
a "samosa" (deep fried, potato filled fritter). I wasn't sure of the nutrition
content, but I did a little research later this evening, and 100 gms (about
1 samosa) is 400 calories!! Not surprising really, when you think of it, they
are deep fried and all. Also had a few potato chips at the Buckeye game.
Dinner is a more sensible paratha peas. The calorie count for today seems a
little higher, but it's still under 2000, and I figure since yesterday's was
so low, I can make up for it today. One step in the right direction though-
when I microwaved the samosa, the plate got really greasy. This really grossed
me out, the amount of oil that they contained, something I wouldn't have given
a second thought to, last week.
Went grocery shopping at Trader Joes' Lots of low-fat, goodies. I noticed that
there are a lot of low-cal, high energy nutrient bars, but they all come in
sweet flavors - chocolate or fruit flavors. I don't like bars of that texture
to be sweet. I'd prefer a bar that had a cheesy taste, or something non-sweet.
I'm amazed that nutrient bars don't come in some of the more savory flavors.
I did pick up a box of TLC crackers which were chedda cheese and 7 grains.
Tasted like cardboard. Low fat cottage cheese (or rather no-fat) shall save
the day. found low fat multi-grain bread by Aunt Millie's. Hopefully this
should satisfy my craving for bread
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gelinas
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response 51 of 332:
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Sep 28 04:08 UTC 2003 |
They are made for American tastes, Sapna.
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mynxcat
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response 52 of 332:
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Sep 28 07:00 UTC 2003 |
I assume you mean the nutrient bars. I know they're made for the majority,
and the majority loves chocolate flavored stuff. true. But I'd like something
that tated of heese crackers. It's not an American vs Indian thing. I'm sure
a lot of Indians would prefer the taste of chocolate. But if a bar is supposed
to replace my lunch, I expect it to not tast like dessert.
Bought a digital scale to replace my Analog one. I found that my old scale
was off by about 4 lbs. While that shows my weight to be 155 lbs, the new one
oscillates between 158 and 159.5, This may be closer to the truth considering
that I weighed in at 161lbs at the gym. However, this scale is going back.
I don't think my weight should be varying between 158 and 159.5 within 5
minutes. I've recorded my weight as starting at 157, which I now find out is
wrong. I don't feel like recording m actuial weight now, as it would skew the
graph. I'm just dropping my goal weigt by about 4 lbs, so I have the same goal
lbs to lose a week.
today's workout was extremely good. the cross trainer is my avorite machien.
120 calories in 15 minutes, ain't too shabby. I did 50 calories on the
treadmill in about 10 minutes, another 12 minutes on the bicycle for a loss
of 25 calories, 20 abdominal cruches and another 5 minutes on the treadmill
for another loss of 25 calories. My biggest accomplishment was running every
other minute on the treadmill.
Tonight I had about 3 white russians. I expect to see the effects tomorrow
:(
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cmcgee
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response 53 of 332:
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Sep 28 13:31 UTC 2003 |
I think you'll discover that the no-fat items are loaded with the
insulin-raising simple carbs you may also be trying to cut down on.
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keesan
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response 54 of 332:
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Sep 28 17:19 UTC 2003 |
You can make your own bread. Bread does not require fat. Flour, water,
yeast, and optionally salt. A bread machine can make it for you. There is
no such thing as low-calorie high-energy anything. Energy is measured in
calories (kilocalories actually).
You could have microwaved a potato instead of a samosa and eaten it with
yogurt instead of sour cream. Probably just as filling.
It might help to read a short book or article on nutrition - to find out what
carbohydrate, protein, and fat are, how the body uses them, etc.
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happyboy
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response 55 of 332:
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Sep 28 17:25 UTC 2003 |
filling versus EDIBLE.
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murph
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response 56 of 332:
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Sep 28 17:46 UTC 2003 |
As far as samosas vs. baked potatoes go, it depends on your particular
body's fat vs. carb preferences.
Some people ought to stay far away from bread/potatoes/pasta/grains in
general; their bodies churn out the insulin, pack the carbs away as fat,
and make you hungry for more in no time flat (not to mention low-blood-
sugar cranky). Others process carbs much more slowly and can get away
with high-carb low-fat diets. If you're trying to adjust your diet to
lose weight, it's important to figure out what part of the spectrum your
body is in.
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slynne
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response 57 of 332:
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Sep 28 18:05 UTC 2003 |
I was making my own whole wheat bread in the bread maker for a while. I
need to get back in the habit of doing that. It was cheap and yummy
and, since it was 100% whole wheat, it was very filling.
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keesan
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response 58 of 332:
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Sep 28 19:21 UTC 2003 |
If you are not eating more than you need, it is unlikely that your body will
convert the carbohydrates via glucose to fat since it will be burning the
glucose for energy.
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murph
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response 59 of 332:
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Sep 28 20:25 UTC 2003 |
The problem, when you're hypoglycemic (as my girlfriend is, as well as one
of my best friends and my mother are), is that the body shoots you full of
insulin too quickly when you eat a high-carb diet; the carbs to glucose to
fat process occurs more quickly than your body can use up the glucose as
current energy. When you body tries to use the glucose, and finds that it
has already been stored, it says, "I need more glucose! Feed me!" and
makes you hungry, causing you to eat more than you need.
It isn't this way with everybody; I can survive just fine on a high-grains
input. But if you're one of the people whose bodies go nuts over simple
carbs, it's important to figure this out before you get frustrated that
your low-fat high-carb diet seems to be making you fatter. Mynxcat may or
may not have this to worry about, but I know enough people who do that it
is a reasonable possibility.
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slynne
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Sep 28 20:45 UTC 2003 |
There has been a lot of research on appetite. No one really knows all
the factors behind it. What they *do* know is that people like to eat
fat and sugar and they like to eat more of it than they should. Think
of the USA as a giant eating experiment designed show what happens when
an entire population has all the food available that they can eat.
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jiffer
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response 61 of 332:
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Sep 29 01:17 UTC 2003 |
All this talk of overweight and eating is making me hungry.
Breakfast: a banana, 1/2 cup of blueberries, and a 16 oz sugar free mocha
Lunch: 2 thin slices of turkey on berrywheat breat with some spicy mustard,
and 1/2 raspberries
Dinner: too much olive garden salad, 2 breadsticks, and the alfredo portion
fo the tour of italy, the rest went home to lunches.
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keesan
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response 62 of 332:
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Sep 29 02:00 UTC 2003 |
Experimental animals (I forget if it was rats or mice) fed a diet high in fat
and sugar gain weight. Those fed a normal rat or mouse diet do not. Both
were allowed to eat as much as they wanted. What you are eating, not just
how much, affects weight. I gained weight on dorm food, which was greasy and
included desserts twice a day.
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munkey
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response 63 of 332:
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Sep 29 03:16 UTC 2003 |
I lost weight on dorm food. It was all fatty foods. It was a huge campus and
i was walking alot, that probably helped.
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tod
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response 64 of 332:
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Sep 29 05:28 UTC 2003 |
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remmers
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response 65 of 332:
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Sep 29 12:52 UTC 2003 |
Some things to keep in mind in this discussion: (1) not all people
are alike (as murph has pointed out), (2) not all carbs are alike,
and (3) not all fats are alike. Carbs high in fiber (e.g. whole
grains) are a better choice than high-density, low-fiber carbs
(e.g. balloon bread), because the fiber slows digestion and delays
absorbtion of sugars and fats. This helps control the insulin
response described in #59. Monounsaturated and poly- unsaturated
fats (e.g. nuts, avacados, olive oil) are better choices than
saturated fats (e.g. red meat) and trans-fats (e.g. french fries,
crackers).
Current nutrition research indicates that the low-fat, high-carb
approach to weight control popular a few years ago, and enshrined
in the USDA Food Pyramid, is simply wrong. Five years ago I lost
25 pounds following a diet that was 30% fat (the absolute maximum
recommended by the USDA and anybody else this side of Atkins), 30%
protein, and 40% carbohydrate. Not quite "low carb", but certainly
less carbohydrate that the usual mainstream recommendations that you
see, and certainly not the Food Pyramid. It was a low-calorie diet
but I didn't feel hungry and had plenty of energy. I was working
out regularly, which I'm sure was an important factor.
Anyone who embarks on a weight-loss campaign can benefit from
educating themselves about nutrition and exercise. An excellent
one-stop resource is _Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy_ by Walter Willett,
chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public
Health and an outstainding researcher in the field of nutrition.
He's very down on the USDA Food Pyramid and substitutes one of his
own that, among other things, has exercise and calorie control at
the base of the pyramid and emphasises the distinction between "good
fats" and "bad fats", something the USDA pyramid totally ignores.
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mynxcat
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response 66 of 332:
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Sep 29 13:49 UTC 2003 |
I'll keep the book in mind
I remember reading that poly-unsaturated fats weren't as good for you as once
thought, and now it's becoming mandatory to report poly-unsaturated fat
content along with saturated fat content? I'm very vague on this. I read this
before I became really interested in nutrition.
What I am finding hard is finding low-carb (as in not the insanely high) fiids
that I really like. Most foods I like have more carbs than fat.
One new food that is healthy, and that I really like is the Yogurt Dip I got
from Trader Joe's. That is definitely going on my regular shopping list.
Healthy and tasty - yum. Excellent substitute to sour cream, ad I love my sour
cream.
yesterday's workout was good, again. Didn't get as much running as I would
have liked, but still lost about 250 cals on the aerobics (at least as
reported by the machines. I'm not sure how accurate they are). Yesterday I
incorporated weights. Worked the legs, outer thigh, hamstring, calves, back,
oblique abdominals and abdominals, buceps, triceps, glutes. I think it was
a pretty good workout, and I think I stood up pretty well, considering I had
my period, and tend to get tired a lot faster at this time.
exchanged the digital scale for a digital scale with a fat analyser. It seems
my weight is in the higher 150s - fluctuating between 158 and 159.5. This I
expected after my first weighin at the gym whuich put me at 161. Bdy fat
content is about 36%. The literature that came with the scale states hat for
women in my age-group, the appropriate body fat i 20%. That's lower than what
I heard at 25%. need to do more research before I lose all the essential fat
in my body. However, it'll take me a while, so I'm not to worried right now.
(The fiance is pissed off at the old scale, which pegged him at 165lbs. Turns
out he's closer to 175 lbs. He says that if he knew he had crossed 170 he
would have done something a whole lot sooner. He plans to buy 20lb weights
and use them on teh new scale regularly to be sure that ut's still calibratd
right :P)
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mynxcat
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response 67 of 332:
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Sep 29 18:55 UTC 2003 |
As I was leaving for work, I heard a commercial on TV for SlimFast. SlimFast
now has PASTA!!. One reason that i've resisted the SlimFast diet is that I
can't fathom a milk-shake or nutrient bar for lunch. Lunch needs to be
something more tangible than that. With the introduction of the pastas, it
may be a viable solution, at least for one meal a day.
I was speaking to a colleague today who's sister lost 20 lbs in two weeks by
going on the all meat diet (Atkins) 2 eggs and bacon for breakfast, meat for
lunch and meat for dinner. I love meat, but that just seems like way too uch
meat for me. And 2 eggs and bacon for breakfast everyday? Sounds like too much
cholestrol. He said that she didn't eat ANYTHING else. I'm not sure I can do
that, though the results sure are tempting.
Today's lunch was not a very healthy one. It was half a pound of roast turkey,
on a hamburger roll. City Barbecue has some great meat, but wayt too much.
Maybe I should have had half the meat on my sandwich.
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keesan
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response 68 of 332:
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Sep 29 20:23 UTC 2003 |
It is not possible to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks unless you do an awful lot
of exercise. 1 pound is okay for your health. You normally only eat enough
food to equal 3-4 pounds/week.
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glenda
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response 69 of 332:
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Sep 29 21:19 UTC 2003 |
You can lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks if you are very overweight. Most of the
big loses you hear about in the first 2-3 weeks of a new diet are usually
water weight. A big person holds a lot more water than a small person. The
last time I went on weight watchers I lost 9 pounds the first week and 6
pounds the second week. After that I only lost 1/2 to 2 pounds a week. I
notice that when I consciously increase my water consumption, I lose more
weight. Drinking extra water somehow helps flush the already existing water
out. It also helps to keep you feeling full so you don't eat as much.
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mynxcat
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response 70 of 332:
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Sep 29 21:28 UTC 2003 |
That makes sense, losing more weight at first when you are more heavy. I am
trying to make a conscious effort to have more water these days.
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keesan
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response 71 of 332:
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Sep 29 23:20 UTC 2003 |
If you stop eating salt after having eaten a lot of salt (anything from a
restaurant or any prepared food and most canned foods) you will lose water.
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katie
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response 72 of 332:
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Sep 30 20:39 UTC 2003 |
Re 49, John: Yes, no carbs. Thus the 30-day limit.
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remmers
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response 73 of 332:
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Sep 30 23:01 UTC 2003 |
Wow. The brain needs carbs. Hope you didn't lose IQ points.
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edina
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response 74 of 332:
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Oct 1 18:38 UTC 2003 |
Sapna, get off the scale on a daily basis. You'll make yourself crazy.
I would honestly recommend Weight Watchers to you. When I did it (and stayed
with it), I would drop 2-3 lbs. a week - but I'm bigger than you. What I
liked about it is that it took into consideration different kinds of foods
when counting points. That way, you have some guidance.
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