BryKate Member

when was the last time you heard of an obesity case due to eating too many vegetables and their natural sugars?

homemade snack bar: oats, honey, dried fruit, cacoa nibs, organic peanut butter, almonds . Special K snack bar: CEREAL (RICE, WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT, SUGAR, WHEAT BRAN, SOLUBLE WHEAT FIBER, SALT, MALT FLAVORING, MALTODEXTRIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2]), CORN SYRUP, SOLUBLE CORN FIBER, FRUCTOSE,…

yup..its pretty sad

...are you comparing natural sugar to white granulated processed sugar? *face palm*

Ok clearly we are not going to agree on this. Personally I don't see the point in baking with these ingredients when I can make just as tasty a cookies/cakes with healthy ingredients.

is this some trick and actually those are the chemicals in a fruit or vegetable or something? if so again...let's not compare a healthy food to a store bought bag of candy or something

I apologise I stand corrected. I assumed you meant shop bought cookies. But you'd still rather use butter and sugar and white flour? I made some sweet potato brownies today. Not a single unhealthy ingredient and no one in my family even realised they were healthy. There are ways around this problem.

You can't honestly be comparing authentic healthy Greek food which names you cannot pronounce due to a language barrier to a bunch of chemicals and fake flavourings?

a real cookie thats packed full of additives and chemicals and 20 different ingredients half of which you can't even pronounce? It baffles me why people focus so much on calories instead of ingredients and nutrition.

sounds delicious can't wait to make these!

Ok everyone I know realise it was dumb to make two threads on this. I honestly didn't expect such a huge response on this one so made he other very shortly after. I had literally been home for 10 minutes and was extremely upset and just looking for a few words or encouragement (NOT fishing for compliments. Honestly if any…

Thank you :) you summed it up exactly. What really bothers me though is I'm being accused of sending "hate mail" when I simply sent a calm email asking her not to be so judgemental. Thanks for your kind words I'm glad some people actually understand where I'm coming from xo

Seriously? You're accusing me of sending you "hate " mail? I sent you a very calm email asking you not to be so critical as you don't know anything about my history with self esteem and eating issues. You have confidence and don't let what people say bother you? That's amazing. D you have any idea how jealous I am of that?…

ok this has NOTHING to do with my just looking for compliments. With all due respect you know nothing about me. I have severe self esteem and confidence issues and actually often struggle just being around my friends let along going to parties where I know there will be a bunch of strangers etc. For 6 months last years I…

wow..everyone thank you so much for your lovely comments. I honestly didn't post this to fish for compliments. Perhaps I did mishear them but not much sounds like "bacon" haha. I guess I just need to look past it, keep working hard and look killer in a few months and see who is laughing then :p thanks again everyone…

What do you mean?

Hahaha this made me laugh

Yes please! Haha what's your favourite recipe? I'm always on the hunt for new ones!

Yes me too!! I love taking my time over breakfast and making somehow really really yummy :)

This! Hahaha I wake up hungry

Thanks for responding :) but the calories doesn't actually concern me i care more about what's in them

If anything he's slightly under weights. He's 5ft10 and weighs 10 stone 4 (that's 144Ibs) he just isn't bothered about food. He can go hours without eating. His diet really bugs me because he eats junk just not enough of it so still remains really skinny. So to answe Question question is he fit, no. Is he over weight,…

what time of day were you working out? I could cope fine on that if my workout was until later in which case I'd load up on some carbs before my workout (so have brown rice with lunch or something) but since I Workout right after breakfast I don't think I'd have enough energy at all to lift!!

hahah exactly :) you cant even taste the egg whites once they're mixed in. I know its not as much protein but its a little extra plus I always add protein powder to the oats.

Fasted cardio I understand. But there is no way you can be lifting heavy weights fasted. I've done a lot of research on the topic. Compare a weights session between breakfast and no breakfast and I guarantee you won't be able to lift as heavy on no breakfast

I know and I often eat the whole egg just having a whole egg mixed in with oatmeal would make it taste too, well, eggy.

How much do you hate salad? Do you like any of the ingredients? Maybe try a "waldorf" salad which has apples and grapes. Here is a good recipe. For the salad ½ red apple, sliced ½ stalk celery, chopped 100g/3½oz cooked chicken, chopped 50g/1¾oz walnuts handful fresh rocket For the mayonnaise dressing 2 free-range egg yolks…

shove 'em in a smoothie and you won't even taste them!! One of my favourite post workout smoothies is: 1 scoop vanilla whey handful of strawberries + raspberries 1/2 banana handful of spinach Apart from making the smoothie a not so pretty colour you honestly can't even taste the spinach.

Hi! I completely understand where you're coming from. I was the same for a long time and without even meaning to I was undereating. However this a long with how much I was working out meant I put on a LOT of weight while I was travelling for 2 months, so it's definitely a good thing that you have recognised you are not…

Is there a special one specifically for skin or can you just use the regular cooking type for skin and hair too?