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Thanks for all your tips and kind words. Jamie, thank you for your vote of confidence :) But it _has_ been close to a year since you last saw me.. and though I'm still nowhere close to being a candidate for rotunda.com, I have reached a point where I am definitely not happy with my weight and body shape. I don't think my goal is unrealistic. Sindi, your suggestions made a lot of sense. I have made it a goal to prepare all my meals and cut down on restaurant or pre-cooked foods. I know bread is a great way to put on weight, which is a pity since I LOVE bread. But a lot of your suggestions were simple enough to follow, and made good sense. Jon, thanks for your comments and advice. What is the Carbohydrate-Addict's diet. I just might need that :P And I am working out an exercise program that embodies both aerobics and weight trainng. I may join the YMCA, seeing that the universal gym in th apartment complex is broken. Walter, it is my goal to drink more water. I realise my daily water intake is nowhere close to the suggested requirements. For some reason, I do not like the taste of water in this country :P Don't know what it is. I can drink it if it's iced, but with the weather changing that's becoming more difficult. Can I count the water in tea as part of my water intake? Glenda, another fitday person, Yay! I like it well enough, mainly becuase it lets me keep track of what I'm eating and gives me an idea of how many calories I'm ingesting. Not too bad for a fre online tool. Today's weigh-in this morning put me at 158 lbs. I'm blaming pre-menstrual bloating for that. Did some tummy trimming exercises and stretches this morning. Though it didn't feel like it was doing anything while I was doing them, the stretch in my muscles after the exercises left me feeling quite satisfied. And I was more awake after I did them, which is an addd benefit. the evening's exercise was about 12 minutes on the treadmill which recorded a calorie loss of 126, 10 minutes on the stepper at level 1, which recorded 45 calories, 10 calories on the rowing machine. Di some weight training for my arms with the free weights bar and the dumb-bells, mainly for the triceps and the biceps. Then I discovered the universal gym was broken. I may have to look into how to use the free-weights to work out my lower body. Dinner was a little heavier than I would have liked it to be because we had company over. Which leads me to ask, how do I calculate the caloric content of the food I eat. Most of the food I eat is India cooking and I haven't found caloric content of Indian dishes anywhere. Do I just add up all the calories of the raw ingredients for a rough estimate. Do the foods' caloric content change with preparation? (apart from calories added from cooking fat etc) I have been making decisions before I eat foods based on satisfaction vs calories. The 192 calorie cookie was definitely not worth it. I would have been just as happy with 2 saltine crackers at 24 calories. I prefer salted snacks to sweet ones - bagels over donuts, crackers over cookies - and wish that nutri-grain bars did not come with sweetened flavorings.
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