BP.Net Weightloss CHALLENGE

[Reptilian]

I'm sorry, I've taken to ranting

LOL, that's a good helpful rant! Thanks so much for the tips. Now a few questions. With the pita bread, can that be frozen? I'll look into buying whole wheat pasta too. Maybe I'll look into making homemade spaghetti sauce to cut down on salt and sugar.

We do have a Sam's Club right down the street from us. I'd have to find out how much the fees are to join....wait, I think it's a Sam's club, maybe it's a bjs.

Great idea on buying chicken in bulk then pre cooking it.

Now, with lettuce, what should I go for? Iceberg or romaine? I know iceberg has little nutrients in it, so I am guessing romaine.

[Reptilian]

Hmm....I thought there was an edit button on posts.....oh well.

One more question. I love croutons! If I make my own with wheat bread, is that ok?

Also one tip we've done in the past is with chicken, we marinate it in an oil based dressing (vinaigrette, Italian, etc.) It turns out so yummy. That's what I am going to do for dinner tonight, LOL, chicken, yum.

[AzureN1ght]

I've been freezing the pitas, and they're still fine unfrozen. They're not as soft as they are when they haven't been frozen first, but they're not bad When I get a hankerin' for a pizza, I use one of those pitas as crust. Then I use a self-made sauce (I use a small can of tomato sauce with the lowest amount of sugar listed on the label, some italian spices from a shaker and a little hot sauce), top with 1 ounce of shredded mozzarella (I measure with a kitchen scale to get the right weight) and with 5 slices of pepperoni. It comes out to about 225 calories--and it's a yummy snack

I like to go for Romaine lettuce. It has more nutrients than iceberg and it's still crunchy. As far as crutons go, I personally stay away from them. But as I said before, as long as you're recording the calories for everything you put in your mouth, I don't see why you couldn't use ones you make yourself or ones that you buy. If they fit into your calories, go for it!

Also, knowing that you've had problems with anorexia in the past, make sure that you're eating enough calories. It's as important to record your calories to make sure you're eating enough as to record them in order to make sure you're eating in a deficit. I think when dieting, people get into a "less is better" mentality...but that can cause metabolic shut-down. So, please, don't eat less than 1200 calories per day. I like to use a calculator to figure out what my daily calorie burn is, then subtract 500 calories from that number to determine how many I should be eating. That should give a pound of weightloss per week with just diet alone--then any extra can come from exercise! Here's a link to a calculator, where you can figure out your estimated calories burned per day: http://walking.about.com/cs/calories/l/blcalcalc.htm

I burn a little under 2,000 calories a day so I'm eating between 1400-1500 calories a day. Now, I could realistically eat 1400 calories worth of cookies and still lose weight...but I would end up starving an hour later, and probably would end up binging on more junk. For me, protein and fat makes me feel really full. So, I focus on proteins, fats and vegetables and fruit for my carbs. Other people process the componants of food differently. A 60% carb diet would make me ravenous and miserable, someone else, it might keep them completely satisfied. It's all about knowing what makes you feel satiated.

I hope that answered your question! Again, I tend to ramble. I've been reading about weight loss obsessively (I've taken two nutrition courses at college, too) over the last year and a half. I know exactly what I need to do to lose weight...It's all a matter of putting it into practice and sticking with it

[littleindiangirl]

This is what I've found and am working on...

http://www.burnthefat.com/

One of the great things about it is that he has guidelines for every bodytype and fitness level. It's VERY customizable and it's all about stuff you can buy at your regular grocery store. Also, TONS of stuff to learn about the truth about weight loss and eating healthy. There are so many myths out there that are accepted as gospel truth...kinda scary!

That's a great link, I have read over that site before, but I never gave much credit to it. I thought it was all bogus, so instead I bought the south beach diet book lol. Yea, that is such a dramatic change of eating! I would never be able to stick to that, and requires a lot of will power. Now I'm reading this site again... and thinking about buying the book. It's just I don't want to buy another book that's just like the rest, and they give no examples of what I'm buying. Plus, $40 for an e-book?? Hefty price...

[AzureN1ght]

Oops

[JLC]

That's a great link, I have read over that site before, but I never gave much credit to it. I thought it was all bogus, so instead I bought the south beach diet book lol. Yea, that is such a dramatic change of eating! I would never be able to stick to that, and requires a lot of will power. Now I'm reading this site again... and thinking about buying the book. It's just I don't want to buy another book that's just like the rest, and they give no examples of what I'm buying. Plus, $40 for an e-book?? Hefty price...

Yeah....it's pricey. And printing it up ain't cheap either. Before committing to that one, I scoured the 'Net for any negative testimonials and couldn't find a single one. Tons of positive ones, though.

I honestly think, with this book...it's the "real deal." It doesn't just offer an "eating scheme" to make you drop a bunch of weight really fast....it teaches you how to create a lifestyle of healthy eating AND exercise. It'll tell you more about how food and nutrition and dieting really work than any "fad" diet. And in addition to the book...once you buy it....you get plugged into a ton of free support...newsletters and articles and forums and all sorts of stuff I haven't really explored yet.

The thing with this book and the money you might put into it....IF you're willing to do the work and make the commitment to real change, this book WILL be worth every penny paid and you'll know you got off really cheap in the long run. But if you still can't bring yourself to put into practice what you're reading and learning....then it's just another $40 (plus printing costs) gathering dust on the hard drive or bookshelf.

[recycling goddess]

so how goes it judy? i wish great release for you!!! (release not lose cause you don't wanna find it again LOL)

congrats jamie... good job!

i'm still doing my thing... amazing what my body looks like in clothes that fit me. i bought myself a few things that fit and WOW - it's so nice to see myself in smaller clothes.

here's to ending the year under 200 lbs... and continuing with my pursuit of health!

[Ginevive]

I am back in on this I want to lose about 25 lbs. See my avatar? That was in 2002, and I had a washboard stomach. Let's just say.. now, I do not. I have more of a potbelly-stove thing going on Any hints? I am at a desk job and get up every 2 hours for a brisk walk. I started today, eliminating sugars from my snacking, mostly. NO non-diet soda. No sweet candies. I nibble on pretzels and poocorn and am growing to like the Crystal Light packets that you put into a 20-oz. bottle of water.
EDIT LOL I meant popcorn. That typo was too hysterical to delete though!

[darkangel]

I nibble on pretzels and poocorn

Ok, I say LOL alot, but rarely do things make me actually laugh the hell out loud. This is a rare exception, and poocorn is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

[jglass38]

Ok, I say LOL alot, but rarely do things make me actually laugh the hell out loud. This is a rare exception, and poocorn is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

Doesn't everyone poocorn?