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Aspirins And Alcohol Crew
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:34 pm
Text to go before each message  kidding-but i am going to try to eat better and exercise more any exercising tips? Text at the end of each message
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:32 pm
- Do something that's fun. If you don't like it, you won't stick to it. (I workout inside, and I highly reccomend Turbo Jam. <3 It's so much fun..) - Invest in a good bra. Or do what I do and wear multiple layers. Your breasts will thank you for it. - If you're going to start running, make sure you invest in good shoes. - Make a strict schedule to do your exercise. If you start doing exercise at 3PM, keep doing your exercise at 3PM. It'll get you in the habit of doing it everyday. - If you're lifting weights, don't work the same section of your body two times in a row. Which means if you work your arms one day, give them atleast one day to rest. Same goes for your 'core' and legs. - Switch up your routine every week or so. Do a different exercise. Which means if you run for one week, the next week try jumping rope. It'll keep your body from adjusting to that routine. I seriously reccomend this hurr site. Logging foods will actually help you be more conscious of what you eat (even if you choose not to count calories) and their forum has a crap load of tips/recipes/exercise routine recomendations.. All that good stuff. heart
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:28 pm
Stock Peeka Advice on Improving Dietary and Exercise Tips:
Walk more places.
Don't count calories - I've known weight watcher people who skip healthy meals to go and splurge their calories on lattes and cakes. It doesn't improve health.
Don't eat crap. (In peeka-land this means white flour, white sugar, artificial sweetners and preservatives.)
Eat healthy things like meat, cheese, dark green veggies.
Avoid stress. Stress, for some people, triggers desiring specific kinds of food (the white flour/sugar stuff) that aren't that good for you.
...actually, I really suck at the exercise part. Most of my exercise is walking. Which I'll hopefully be doing more of now that the weather's getting cooler.
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:52 pm
peekadora Avoid stress. Stress, for some people, triggers desiring specific kinds of food (the white flour/sugar stuff) that aren't that good for you.
how D:
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Aspirins And Alcohol Crew
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:13 pm
peekadora Don't count calories - I've known weight watcher people who skip healthy meals to go and splurge their calories on lattes and cakes. It doesn't improve health. I disagree. I've been counting since June, and thus far it's helped me create a 500 calorie deficit that's allowed me to lose weight. Before calorie counting, and attempting to do portion control, I could never get a deficit to lose a pound on a weekly basis. Though each to their own, I think if your motives are to eat healthier not lose weight, calorie counting can be very beneficial to helping you figure out your deficit and making sure you're not over-eating. I mean, I'm still calorie counting and even if I have some extra calories to spend, I still won't eat any of my dad's fried chicken because it's just not satisfying. I think in general though, once you start eating clean calorie, counting or not, unhealthy foods generally just don't become desirable anymore. Perhaps the weight watcher people don't really eat enough of the good stuff and instead just buy those crappy frozen dinners to eat during the week? SW - Well.. Have you tried meditation or yoga? I'd say any sort of "me time" twice a day can keep your stress to a minimum. It's unavoidable, but if you do start to crave the "bad" foods, keeping a water bottle with you at all times reeeeally helps or even eating a banana instead of that cupcake you're really desiring due to the stress.
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:29 pm
If you do the calorie thing right, then that doesn't happen.
I found this. It's helped me, but recently I've fallen out of using it. I don't have the numbers anymore, but I'm going to crunch them all again tonight, and start back on it. I'm up to 98 lbs.
"...Avoid unhealthy, high-calorie foods. Most important is to avoid trans fats, which increase your risk for disease. Foods that are high in trans fats are: pastry products, cakes, cookies, processed meats, margarine, shortening, and packaged snack foods."
Counting calories isn't bad at all, as long as you do it right.
Unhealthy calories just... don't count. they do, but... you know. I don't see any reason a person would think that to be a good idea.
I've been meaning to get off my a** and move around and eat better, but I've had little motivation... wanting to just isn't a strong enough urge. Once I get going, though, it's all good.
Maybe we should make a thread, motivation? Tell how we're progressing? ><
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:19 pm
disturbed - o.o That formula it gave seems a little off. According to this calculator calories per day requirement is kinda off by a hundred or two. But then again, I'm terrible at math so I might be doing it wrong. XD Progress thread sounds bueno. Who wants to make it?
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:46 pm
Malicious Toast disturbed - o.o That formula it gave seems a little off. According to this calculator calories per day requirement is kinda off by a hundred or two. But then again, I'm terrible at math so I might be doing it wrong. XD Progress thread sounds bueno. Who wants to make it?
It's funny, because that calculator told me what I already know. :3 But I got like, 98th percentile though. XD Funny part is, I'm already doing stuff to lose weight, and mostly it ain't on purpose.
I've naturally started to eat less most of the time (sometimes you just can't help being hungry), and I walk to all my classes. I've also been spending a lot of time playing Rock Band and Halo 3 with my new friend Suzy. ;D So we do a lot of walking back and forth from her dorm to mine, and vice versa.
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:55 pm
Wow. The results made me feel bad. I don't quite like the whole BMI thing, though. I don't feel like it's always accurate. In general, maybe, but not for everyone. And I don't quite think I need to get 2,7oo+ calories. The calculation I had figured out was above 2,ooo, but not that high. Wouldn't that make me gain weight like crazy fast, and isn't that bad?
Guess the same is said for the formula I used? Just depends on the person.
And I really like the progress thread.
After I posted this, my friend called me, wanting to see if I'd start going to a gym with her.
Oooh~
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:10 am
StationWagon peekadora Avoid stress. Stress, for some people, triggers desiring specific kinds of food (the white flour/sugar stuff) that aren't that good for you.
how D:
Text at the end of each message Avoid people who stress you out. For me, the biggest thing that helped with stress reduction was realizing that I was doing a lot of things because I felt that's what I was, "supposed to do." My parents were kinda grade-pushy in high school and I stressed out about grades in college to the detriment of my health. When I decided that I didn't have to be an A student, that I could settle for Bs and be happy, it was a lot better.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:31 am
Malicious Toast peekadora Don't count calories - I've known weight watcher people who skip healthy meals to go and splurge their calories on lattes and cakes. It doesn't improve health. I disagree. I've been counting since June, and thus far it's helped me create a 500 calorie deficit that's allowed me to lose weight. Before calorie counting, and attempting to do portion control, I could never get a deficit to lose a pound on a weekly basis. Though each to their own, I think if your motives are to eat healthier not lose weight, calorie counting can be very beneficial to helping you figure out your deficit and making sure you're not over-eating. I mean, I'm still calorie counting and even if I have some extra calories to spend, I still won't eat any of my dad's fried chicken because it's just not satisfying. Personally: I've never done the calorie counting or portion control. If I'm hungry, I eat till I'm full. If I sit and count the calories I'll wind up starving myself and going ape-s**t. It's *what* I eat that I've found to be critical. And for me, at least, it worked. I needed to lose weight for medical reasons. I gained a lot of weight starting my last year of high school up through the fall semester of my junior year of college from eating bad, stressing out, and not exercising enough. November 2007 I was a size 24 I had ceased to ovulate at all and was menstruating about once every 50 to 70 days and the non-ovulated eggs were forming cysts. I'm back down to a size 18, pushing down towards a 16 as my old 18 jeans are now getting baggy, and menstruating at my old normal of starting a cycle every 28 days. And now that I've lost more weight I'm exercising more - and that helps. I've personally not tried to get my knickers in a knot about pounds because fat is less dense than muscle, and if I'm losing fat but building muscle I'm not guaranteed to "loose weight". So despite the fact I'm studying accounting (which says "numbers girl" to people I talk to) I've found that if I focus on the numbers, the calories, the pounds - it doesn't help me. But to each their own. My advice is based off my own experience which was formed because I had to combat poly cystic ovary syndrome. It won't work for everyone. Malicious Toast I think in general though, once you start eating clean calorie, counting or not, unhealthy foods generally just don't become desirable anymore. Perhaps the weight watcher people don't really eat enough of the good stuff and instead just buy those crappy frozen dinners to eat during the week? I've noticed that. I went through bad white-carb cravings the first two, three, months after I started trying to lose weight. (November, December, January - Thanksgiving, Christmas, and two birthdays in January. Now *that's* hard.) But I'm not craving the stuff now that I'm eating healthy and used to it. A friend of mine and his mother are doing weight watchers and I see them counting points and calculating how much they can eat and I can just WATCH my friend and I KNOW he's hungry all the time. And I know his Mom goes and drinks the Starbucks (which is not good for you.) So yeah, I can buy that certain kinds of calorie counting produces behavior that's counter-productive. But, Toasty, if you're eating healthy and feeling better, then do what you need to do. We want you healthy and happeh. heart
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