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I recently started tracking calcium out of curiosity, and I'm always under, by a LOT, even though I regularly eat the Usual Suspects (broccoli, almonds, etc.) So I'm trying to figure out how to get more, using natural, non-processed sources, without breaking the calorie bank with a bunch of cheese! Here's a little of what…
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I'm also up for it if we can log in km!
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At 5 foot 2, my goal is 136 pounds (e.g. top of my healthy range.) After that, I'll see. I'm thinking I'd like to get down to about 132 for some extra calorie wiggle room, but basically my goal at that point would be to focus on general cardio fitness. The "healthy range" is very broad, and at my age (over 50), going down…
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You know the difference I see? Yeah, I know maybe there was different camera and lighting, but picture 1 is pasty and doughy, and picture 2 is of course still overweight, but it's an overweight guy with a healthy, glowing face. Proof, yet again, that it's totally possible to be overweight and look good if you're living a…
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Actually I think I've had an easier time losing weight using MFP than some people, and frankly I attribute it to cooking from scratch at home and knowing exactly what I'm really eating. I don't really use the recipe adder. It's a bit time-consuming, figuring portions is kind of guesswork, and I don't really use recipes…
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Same here. For us, it was always a small breakfast -- I think usually fried kielbasi and toast or something -- and then either help in the kitchen or stay out of the way until the rest of the family started arriving! At which point there'd be shrimp and pickled herring out and everyone catches up with the aunts and uncles…
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I'm not in America, but made my family's traditional American dinner ... pretty much doing what my mom always would do in the US ... and I logged it out of curiosity, punching in recipes to the calorie calculator. It came to 1,861. That's counting cheesecake and 3 glasses of wine. If a lot of families do like my mom would…
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I homeschooled for many years, and always felt it was so hard to fit in time to exercise in any systematic way. It's easy to fall into the habit of thinking, "Omigosh, we have to do math, and then history, and then we have this field trip planned, etc etc"! But the funny thing is that now I've been working out and logging,…
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I take belly dancing classes for the fun of it. I like to dance, although choreography-wise, I could be the comic relief. I think it's good for core fitness, or at least that's how it feels to me afterwards, and it probably does tone abdominal muscles if you do a LOT of it -- gosh knows the teachers look great -- although…
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I think it depends on goals. I actually weight train every time I go to the gym, pretty much. My son (high school) just started going to the same gym, and the same trainer set up his routine -- which is weight training twice a week, with some different approaches. One difference is that my son's goal includes building…
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Hah. Starting a subversive hiking group, are you? Unfortunately I'm too far away. :smile:
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I think it's better to underplay than overestimate when you do your baseline. I called myself "sedentary" because if I don't do anything, that's what I am. Obviously I don't lie in bed all day. Heck, I walk for my shopping, I walk the dog, I walk up and down stairs, I move when I cook dinner, etc. But I figure if any of…
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What, you've got something against Luxembourg? Hi, and welcome! I've got family in Belgium. You probably know them, because there can't be too many people in Belgium, right? (Oh sorry. I was confusing you with Luxembourg.) :smile:
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Cool story! It's really interesting how educational this whole logging thing can be. My teenager calls it The Diet From Mars, but he's also started to say things like, "Well I don't want to eat too much oily stuff or too much sugar," etc., and now he's going to my gym and is working out to put on muscle. My husband asked…
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Never seen any flavored yogurt where I live. I like it mixed with pomegranates. Does that count? When I'm in the States, all those flavors are dangerous LOL, because YUM, DESERT! It doesn't strike me as being anything like real yogurt, though. Tried to find something that seemed real in the States this summer and had no…
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BTW asked my son last night if he was vegetarian, what would he pick to eat? First he said "fake meat." (He spent 3 days once as a vegetarian, inspired by his grandfather -- a vegetarian for about 50 years -- and also because we'd had the audacity to put out mouse traps. Which prompted him to walk around with a protest…
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Mykalis, fried goat's blood is a lot like what's used in blood sausage, black pudding or kishka in the West. It's just goat rather than pork blood, and minus the barley or oatmeal (although that can be included too). Funny thing is I grew up with kishka and my son really hated it, but fried goat's blood? Same thing, but…
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I'm not vegetarian, but have been in the past and have many vegetarian family members. Have you checked out recipes in the Indian mode? Lots and lots of great ideas, very pro-vegetarian, and most dishes honestly don't take long to prepare. (That's a secret. Don't let it get out! But seriously, it takes me maybe 5 minutes…
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No Starbucks here. Thank goodness. Love love love Starbucks, but glad to be able to support local businesses instead of a global chain! :smile:
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My excellent husband brings me coffee in bed every morning. He's a keeper :smile: FWIW I drink it black and have always liked it that way, whereas black tea I only like as full-blown chai (milk and sugar), so coffee qualifies as my diet drink :smile: I'd be curious to know if instant has the same benefits, though. Yeah, I…
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LMAO! I dunno, but at the end of most winters, I look like whale blubber. Can definitely relate to the "non-motivation in winter" factor! I'm very far from Canada; I'd see Mt Everest from my roof, except it actually hides behind the other mountains. But around here, there's no central heating (like in the whole country ...…
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Not sure where you hike, but that was in the Himalayas (Annapurna range), and this particular area was off the standard trekking route and surprised us by having no villages (and no marked trail), so we were walking on scree along cliff faces in the dark. For hours. I knew my husband could make a fire and shelter and all,…
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Not on purpose. Set out late once in the Annapurnas. Not my brightest moment. Or rather, long series of scary and very stupid-feeling moments :smile:
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On the rather off-topic and yet interesting global comparison of sizes, I was thinking US sizes, but only pants sizes. Global size conversion ends up being like Google translate, LOL. (FWIW I buy jeans in US sizes but everything else is Indian sizes. Which is European sizes, sort of, but totally confuses the issue because…
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That is really interesting. Body type must be a bigger factor than I realized. I'm 5 foot 2 and was a Size 14 when I started, and overweight but not obese. (I'm sure I'd have been a Size 16 if I'd put on another five pounds, which would have put me in the obese range.) Now I'm a Size 12 and five pounds from my healthy…
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Good for you, Tea! This is a really big community, we all log calories to lose weight, and it's so easy to fall into the idea that the goal is all about weight loss and being beautifully slender. To me, though, and I think ultimately to most people here, the goal is fitness and health. Which is what I think you're really…
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Coffee is gross? Yeah, well, and honey is bee puke. Everybody needs a daily helping of gross. It prepares your immune system for teenagers. Also for voting. Plus, coffee is an absolute requirement for losing weight. Because otherwise I wouldn't get out of bed. Don't burn many calories lying in bed hitting the snooze button.
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A stone is the best unit of measurement ever invented, because (a) once you know what it is, it's like you're part of a mystery club; and (b) it's so medieval. Measuring in stones is like a scene out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You get on one side of the scale, and they pile stones on the other. Then they decide if…
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Hi Lefty! I'm 54 and amazed to find out that I'm nearing the goal I set in Sept, which is to be at the top of my healthy weight range by New Year-ish. I feel like a plane circling for landing ... even if I hit holiday turbulence, it's pretty cool! I've found that eating low-carb has been really helpful, so I'm definitely…
