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commotiocordis) wrote2007-11-25 06:17 am
commotiocordis) wrote2007-11-25 06:17 am
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I need to make a ShopN'Save run for some lettuce, as the family took it camping and I'm left with nothing to eat that's not. . . erm, gross or uber hi-cal. But I'm reluctant to do it until the sun comes up, LOL, even though they're open. I do not like the darkness driving stuff.
Dumb sleeping. I SHOULD NOT BE AWAKE AT THIS TIME. I was trying to get back on track last night, but at 4pm or so I just was too tired. And I seem to lack the willpower to get out of bed even when I wake up and acknowledge that I should not be sleeping.
You'd think I'd be feeling really good, because I've actually been getting some 8 hours of sleep a night, but the weird night/morning switch has taken away any benefit because I just feel weird.
AND MY EMAIL IS NOT WORKING, THE WHORE. I am like "But LJ comments?" and it is like "No." I don't know where they're going, or if I'm getting them, because I've caught a couple when I happened to go back and check the post, but they are not hitting the emailz.
Oh, and FYI. Do not be eating the vegetarian canned chili, thinking that since it doesn't have meat, it shouldn't be highly caloric. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I nearly cried when I typed it all into the internet counter thing yesterday morning. I managed to go over my calories for the day AT 5:30 IN THE MORNING.
Dumb sleeping. I SHOULD NOT BE AWAKE AT THIS TIME. I was trying to get back on track last night, but at 4pm or so I just was too tired. And I seem to lack the willpower to get out of bed even when I wake up and acknowledge that I should not be sleeping.
You'd think I'd be feeling really good, because I've actually been getting some 8 hours of sleep a night, but the weird night/morning switch has taken away any benefit because I just feel weird.
AND MY EMAIL IS NOT WORKING, THE WHORE. I am like "But LJ comments?" and it is like "No." I don't know where they're going, or if I'm getting them, because I've caught a couple when I happened to go back and check the post, but they are not hitting the emailz.
Oh, and FYI. Do not be eating the vegetarian canned chili, thinking that since it doesn't have meat, it shouldn't be highly caloric. THIS IS NOT TRUE. I nearly cried when I typed it all into the internet counter thing yesterday morning. I managed to go over my calories for the day AT 5:30 IN THE MORNING.
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And this trying to lose weight assumption is correct, but a lot of it's for health reasons. I've got arthritis, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned, and the extra weight is not good on the joints. Plus, ehh. I'm on the heavy side. I've got more fat than I would like. I think I'd be okay with this weight if I was more in shape and it was all muscle, but *cough* it's not.
Plus. My metabolism = shit. I, in all seriousness, gain weight if I eat more than 1000 or 1200 calories a day. Which is not cool, but I talked to my doctor, and she was all "Yeah, that can happen." Again, not win. I'm the only person in the world who can go to Chicago, eat 2170 calories in a day, and come back 3 pounds heavier.
:P
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving and didn't gain 4 billion pounds in the process.
Re: :P
I am afraid that this is what is going to have happened to me when I finally muster up the energy to go back to the gym. It's been. . . a week and a half or so, now, plus I've been eating more for random reasons, so things aren't looking good.
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving and didn't gain 4 billion pounds in the process.
I hope the same for you! Mine was decent, in that since I'm a vegetarian, I couldn't eat most of what was made. Except the pie. Which is what killed me.
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What's your daily calorie intake supposed to be? I read for me, I'm looking at somewhere around 1000-1200 (though really, I remember hearing that reducing your daily calories by 500 loses you a pound a week), but I want to see exactly how much food that entails, and perhaps I can reduce it even more.
Exercise is the key. You can eat more calories if you're active! Also, water. Lots of it.
Perhaps you should start a food/exercise diary with me! Well. At the same time as me, I mean. I just made mine nice and simple. I'm recording the calories coming in (food) and the calories going out (exercise), with a(n outdated) calorie counting book to help me.
So... yeah. I was thinking of you as I made it, acually, because I figured you'd understand my plight. Good luck to both of us.
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INNITRIGHT?!
I'm determined to stick to it.
Ace. I notice that I almost always lose
moreweight when I'm recording everything, because then you're like "But the book is in the other room and I don't feel like fetching it to write this dumb handful of [blank] down, so we're just not going to eat it."I want to get down to 21 BMI this year.
Me too. Except it's more than 7 kilos for me. *maths* Like 9. LOL, fatty.
I'm looking at somewhere around 1000-1200
Yeah? That's about what I think I should be at, but then nutso things like that fitday.com majigger say that I'm at *looks up* 2253 a day. I mean, whut? We know this is wrong, because I don't think I've eaten that many calories a day. . . ever. I think it may just go "Oh, you're under 18, so you've got a kid's metabolism and run around a lot and such," and give me this fake number. It still looks good, though, when you look at the calories expended vs. caloric intake chart and there's a huge difference, LOL.
I heard also that basically, you want to take your weight and add an extra zero. In my thinking, though, you probably want to base that on your muscle weight, because fat burns practically nothing, so you'd have to take 1 - your body fat percentage and multiply that by your weight to find out what you should take in. Maybe. I am not a nutritionist, but this seems to make sense.
So fairly close. And yeah, reducing by 500 would theoretically lose you a pound a week, but you've def. got to take into consideration your metabolism. Your body will get used to using whatever you put into it, so I've heard that it's better to vary what you eat (500 one day, 700 the next, 900 the one after that, 1100 the next day, then back to the beginning), but I'm not sure how much that actually helps, as I tend to fail at targeting specific numbers on purpose.
Must finish this later, LOL. Be back. . . 7th hour.
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*chortles*
"But the book is in the other room and I don't feel like fetching it to write this dumb handful of [blank] down, so we're just not going to eat it."
ESSACTLY. I've also noticed that it's a great motivator to drink more water. I've ruled a row on each page for a water intake tally, and I know yesterday the thought of not getting that up to eight was unsettling. So I practically forced water down my throat until I got to eight. Not all at once, mind. But I find unless I'm really thirsty, I can't drink much water without gagging. So it was quite a feat!
I actually think it's more like 5 or 6 kilos for me. I hadn't weighed myself in a while.
you want to take your weight and add an extra zero.
Is that weight in pounds or kilos? I'm thinking pounds, although going by kilos would be a nice way to lose weight. And eventually... die.
1450 calories a day isn't so bad, actually. But I agree with the body fat thing.
OH. THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO BRING UP THAT QUESTION. It's kind of dumb, but I do ponder things like this quite often. My mind must always be working on something.
Do you think that... overweight people would have generally good leg (and other) muscles, because they have to carry around all that weight? I mean, if you isloated the muscles themselves and ignored the fat. People of certain body types can have really strong muscles masked underneath fat, plus it's possible to be overweight and fit, so... you reckon it's a fair observation?
I have no idea what my metabolism is like. It's not great, but I don't think it's all that bad. I can eat a lot of junk, do no exercise other than whatever physical activity I have to do at work or home, and not gain anything. I think I've stayed around the same weight for a while now.
Still. I'd love to have one of those metabolisms you see on naturally skinny people. HOW DO THEY EAT SO MUCH AND NOT GAIN ANYTHING. WHERE THE HELL DOES THE FOOD GO.
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YESS. IL how I can go and walk on the treadmill for 45 minutes or so and burn off a whole 500 calories. Which means that I don't have to torture myself as much with the restriction. I tell you, though, there's nothing more satisfying than looking at the calories burned on the treadmill and realizing that you've gone over your intake by a couple of hundred. Still. This is a rare occurance, because if you're exercising, IMO, you damn well deserve that extra helping of pasta. You've bearned (see what that is? It's my bad rendering of a bad pun between burned and earned) it.
Perhaps you should start a food/exercise diary with me!
Look <a href="http://fitday.com”>here.</a> Me gusta this website, even if its numbers are often different from mine (I usually go with the treadmill's numbers for burned calories and the food package's numbers for intake, just because that's prolly more accurate than this site’s blanket numbers). You have to fudge the servings and foods sometimes (I had a cheese ravioli type thing, but they don't have the exact equivalent, so I was like “Erm, cheese filled [other kind of pasta whose name is escaping me] will work if I say 1.76 servings to get it to the right amount of calories according to the box of what I really ate”) but its handy in that you’ve got things that you don’t have exact calories for (fruits, vegetables, plain grains and such; things that you’d use the calorie book for) and, what I like the most, graphs and charts and such. It saves you the math trying to analyze everything and adds it up for you and you can never lose it, LOL, like I’ve done with paper journals. <i>I figured you'd understand my plight.</i> Ahh, this I would, this I would. *slightly-squishier-than-necessary hugs* Oh and a letter, because I like these guys and it fits. Dear Body, I want to lose stomach pudge and thighs. Not boob. Please to be stopping eating the boob fat first. Alexandria.
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(also, idk if it's because I haven't got a paid account anymore, or if ads have always been up there in your LJ and I haven't noticed, but the page is telling me in big loud letters that it cured its acid reflux. Made me laugh.)
Going for a faster-than-slow-but-slower-than-fast walk for 30 minutes yesterday is what made me feel a little better about the fact that I prolly exceeded my daily limit after eating dinner (after staying on around 400 all day - and NOT starving). That pissed me off, but I assured myself that it's only day one, I'm yet to get into th habit, and I've started exercising again. The more I exercise the more calories I'll be allowed (not that I'll be willing to increase my daily intake all that much, because I'm somewhat paranoid), so I should concentrate on getting fit. Yet again. It's becoming a regular summer thing for me - I suspect the clothes have a lot to do with it.
Oh hai, HTML, why are you not working! I can't see anything wrong.
I usually go with the treadmill's numbers for burned calories and the food package's numbers for intake, just because that's prolly more accurate than this site’s blanket numbers
yyyy, I do that with my calorie counting book. I only use it if I can't get a reading from the food itself. Though I don't have access to a treadmill, so I use the book's numbers for walking, which even then seems a bit shaky. There're a lot of hills around where I live.
Still. It's a number.
BUT OMG. I reallyreally want this treadmill that I saw at the shops. You give it your body type (and weight? I can't remember. Though you can prolly get some that weigh you while you're standing on it) and... something else, and it gives you a more accurate number of calories burned. Oh, and measures your heart rate and all that too.
I just reallyreally want a treadmill. Or even one of those ... thingimajigs... you know, those things that swing your legs while you push on them with your arms... GOD. FAIL. I can't remember what they're called, or even how to describe them, but they're meant to be really good for a whole body exercise ( *sticks finger in the air* which I have learned is much better for toning of the abs, as the abdominal muscles never work alone, but with the back, glutes, etc.). Plus they're quite compact, so I could stow one away in my room!
Letters ahoy!
Dear Body,
I also wish to lose stomach and thighs. Do not touch my boobs. And only take a little of my booty - I'm somewhat fond of that. Ho.
Tough love,
Cathryn.
Please to be stopping eating the boob fat first.
That actually frightens me. Boob loss. I haven't noticed any yet, obviously, but I can't stand to lose any more. I'm pretty sure my body type puts the weight on my lower body before anywhere else (which is sort of obvious by the fact that I can have bones sticking out on my chest and shoulders, but be at the overweight end of healthy), so would it perhaps come off the same way? Or would it be harder to lose that fat? WILL IT GO FOR MY BOOB FAT? Will I be like Debra Messing, who I've noticed has the same general shape as me, in her Will & Grace days when she was rake thin up top, nice on the bottom, and BOOBLESS?
Are you there god, it's me, Cathryn.