SO!
I'm goin on a diet-but-not-that-strict thing.
... Reason why it's "not that strict"?
Cause I'm in school all day, and we eat out a LOT - but instead of getting a double cheeseburger, large fries, and a large rootbeer, I'll get a Chicken Baguette with 5 grams of fat, or a salad - trying to keep the fat down.
When at home, I'll probably cut a lot of the starches that I'm eating, and cut it down to one soda a day.
SO! Seeing as this is my last night of like.. not-diet, what would you suggest? Eating what I want, or start eating healthy now?
Eating healthily never hurt anyone. Except that one guy who choked on a lettuce leaf.. 
I'm pretty good with the starting a diet tommorrow, but I think that depending on where we are going for dinner (Fast food again, rofal~), I'll get a bit betyter then I suusally get, but I'll let myself have pop tonight.
Oooo, and BK has something called a lite combo with a 16 oz bottle of water and a side salad instead of fries and a coke. HOW COOL~! [ 09-28-2003: Message edited by: Gikkwiny ]
But really, little choices like that are what make a diet work. Water instead of soda, or something.
I felt so proud of myself. It's kinda dumb, but... hey~ You do what you can, right?
(Egg Mcmuffins are the best-for-you breakfast sandwiches anywhere. Especially if you get them with no cheese)
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Suddar had this to say about Cuba:
Water instead of soda, or something.
It's not something people hear about.
Protein = Your friend.
No more potoatos during dinner. I'll still have carbs, but not tons. Like... at lunch at school, there's these tortilla wrap things - those and like... cottage cheese would be yummy~
Yay!
If you do, you'll get sick.
I'm just going to be eating less bread, (much less) but I still need to eat some.
Kill him, quick.
Cutting pop out of your diet does help though. It has alot of sugar in it and just leaves you wanting more. Find something athletic that you can enjoy. The key is enjoying it because then you want to do it more. Be it DDR, running, tennis, raquetball, or what have you. The key is that you enjoy doing it. Play until your hungry or starting to cramp up or whatever. Then eat whatever you want. Your metabolism should pick up and you will start to drop weight.
That is how it works for me at least.
Period.
You won't do it fast, but if you cut 3500 calories a week, you will lose a pound. Period.
Right now, it's starting to get much colder (highs are in the 50s this week), and outside activity isn't much of an option. I don't have the money to spend to go to facility (Yeah, the YMCA is like.. 100 or more bucks a year, and I don't have that.) and I'm too booked with classes to go to the sister university's gym. To add on that I don't have a car, I'll do what I can.
When it's warm enough, I walk. I'm gonna tlak to my mom about getting a set of weights next paycheck, but I have major problems doing things like pushups, because I pinched a nerve in my shoulder. I am too heavy and out of shape to run, to the point where if I did, I could seriously risk hurting my knees.
I -can't- eat whatever I want - and because of medical reasons (asthma included) extremely active things are VERY bad for me til I loose at least SOME weight.
Oh, and if you keep eating all that fried food and stuff, you are going to give yourself clogged arteries. Just because you don't weigh a bunch and you exercise doesn't mean that your cholestorol will be low.
... I'd rather eat better and lose the weight slower, and be healthier, thanks.
Exercise like you are talking about just isn't an option for me.
Walking 20 or 30 minutes every day at 300 pounds requires much more energy than walking 20 or 30 minutes every day at 150 pounds.
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Gikkwiny probably says this to all the girls:
Vobo! OMg hi~
omg hi gikk~
Wrestling for the good ol High School this year's gonna get me sleek and muscular.
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Vorbis had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
omg hi gikk~Wrestling for the good ol High School this year's gonna get me sleek and muscular.
yay!
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Suddar got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Technically, the more you weigh, the easier it is to lose it.Walking 20 or 30 minutes every day at 300 pounds requires much more energy than walking 20 or 30 minutes every day at 150 pounds.
Yup.
Which is why I walk when it's warm, and I'm going to lift weights when it's not - weight training will help build the muscle, and I way enough it'll have added benefits.
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Vorbis stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
omg hi gikk~Wrestling for the good ol High School this year's gonna get me sleek and muscular.
How cool! YAY FOR MUSCLES.
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This one time, at Gikkwiny camp:
How cool! YAY FOR MUSCLES.
I'm gonna be putting on about 20 pounds or so of muscle to get to the weight range they want me at.
I'll still only be 170, but I'll be a tough little bastard!
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Vorbis said:
Ryuu = your real enemy.Kill him, quick.
You're just saying that because I stole your pudding cup at lunch.
Exercise works in several ways. First, if you do it right, it builds muscle. Muscle burns calories just sitting there; the higher the muscle/fat ratio, the more calories you burn steady-state. Second, exercise keeps the metabolism up, preventing the body's natural adjustment to a diet.
And, to get serious about health, one should measure inches rather than pounds. Healthy food plus exercise will slim one down much faster than dieting alone, though the diet may make one lighter.
Obviously, someone starting from a completely sedentary lifestyle should begin an exercise program very slowly. But there really is no better way to look and feel like you want to than through a combination of healthy diet and exercise.
Finally, carbs are not the enemy. Carbs are incredibly important--they fuel just about every process we have. The problem is that when someone is completely sedentary, they convert easily to fat. The ratio of protein to carbs in one's diet should really depend upon the exercise routine: lots of protein for a strength routine, and lots of carbs for a mainly aerobic routine. The more vigorous the exercise program, the more heavily weighted toward protein or carbs it should be.
Avoiding carbs entirely is not healthy. You'll drop weight, but you'll lose muscle mass as well as create vitamin/mineral imbalances.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I'm weighing myself every 3 months. Why? Because every 3 months, I get my depo shot. Same scale, at the Dr's.
But.. I'm measuring myself every week or two - as anyone on my LJ can tell you. O.o Kinda tyring to keep track of what I eat until I fall into a pattern, but I'm walking a mile or two every day just bopping around campus - and I'm going to hopefully get a set of cheap weights soon.
I'm basically looking at calories and fat, with a lesser look at carbs. ^_^
I also took pics of myself (yuck) so that I'll eventually will be able to compare.
One thing you have to remember about dieting is though, is that diet is more of a lifestyle then a temporary thing. Because once you go off of it, if you go back to what you were doing pre-diet, you'll just gain it back.
So it's best to work in a good low-impact exercise routine with your daily lifestyle. It'll help you keep the weight off, for good. Nothing special, but even just 20 minutes of exercise a day will help a lot.
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Gikkwiny was listening to Cher while typing:
I need to lose about 150 lbs... but I think cutting pop will really help. ^_^
Gikky - 150lbs = Willow Reed! <blows Gikky down> ^.^
I should probably leave this up to bloodsage though because I would imagine he knows much more about this then I do. Just keep in mind quality weight loss dosn't just happen, you have to work. And that involves more then just changing habits.
I'm in the same situation, needing to lose 100lbs, plus just found out I'm a diabetic, thus have to be even more concerned about what I eat.
I've been finding that an exersize bike can be easier on the knees for us heavier set people to get the anerobic exersize we need while not killing our knees.
I've also been liking BK's new sandwich. Didn't know about the "lite" options for meals there, but now that I do, will be requesting it a lot. 
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Mortious attempted to be funny by writing:
I weigh 135-138lbs.
I hope you're like 5'5, otherwise you'd look like a walking stick man O_o
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Reynar wrote:
I hope you're like 5'5, otherwise you'd look like a walking stick man O_o
I'm around 5'8", nicely toned and healthy. I'm at my perfect medical weight, supposedly.
Walking is good for me.
And Naimah, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take your advice.
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Gikkwiny was naked while typing this:
I am largely sedintary.Walking is good for me.
And Naimah, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to take your advice.
Why? The bike's a good choice to lose some fat. It works, you dont need to go anywhere, and its damn easy. It builds leg muscles like crazy too.
Just drink water instead of pop, and work out. Diets work, but they're even better with some hard work (Physical, not mental for you lame wads )
