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Grey the Stampede Don't mess with powers you don't understand. And yes. That means donuts. Level: 82  Posts: 1608/3770 EXP: 5192909 For next: 16318 Since: 06-17-04 From: Kingston, RI, USA, Earth Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| (If someone could sticky this, I'd appreciate it. This is something I wanna try as per a suggestion in the Help section) Well, this is a thread where you can put exactly what the title entails. Got a recipe that you'd like to share? Put it here. Fitness tips to help lose weight? We'd love to have it. Home-cooked remedies for common colds? Sure thing! In any case, I'm personally really interested in what the rest of the world eats. Food and eating healthily in general is a big part of my life, so let's hear it! |
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Anya The Exile Ultima Mezcla de Yin Yan Level: 98  Posts: 3901/5337 EXP: 9530313 For next: 124040 Since: 03-15-04 From: South Florida Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| To lose weight: just excerise!! I don't eat healthy all the time, but I take an hour a day (sometimes only three to four days a week due to work) and I just go outside and walk for about an hour (which is usually a mile give or take). This is especially good for those who do not have the time to work-out more heavily. (edited by Anya on 01-23-05 02:15 PM) |
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42  Posts: 410/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| *stickies* Well...I could write a book on exercising and eating healthfully, as I've been working on that for the past 3 years.  Improving my body composition and fitness is a major aspect of my lifestyle.Fitness and Nutrition for Beginners If you're new to the diet and exercise thing, start simple. Like Anya suggests, find some exercise that you enjoy and can do on a regular basis. Make basic, gradual changes to your diet. Habits are easier to form if you take them slowly. For instance, you can start by working on only eating when you're hungry (and not when you're bored, tired, thirsty, etc.) and only eating enough to satiate you. If you go out to eat and order something and it turns out to be ginormous, you can always eat what you need to and just take the rest home for later. Work on eating less junky food and more nutritious food like fruits and vegetables, good sources of protein (lean meat, fish, tofu, eggs, cottage cheese), and whole grains. Again, this is best done over time. It can be difficult to cut down on (or stop eating) favorite foods that aren't particularly nutritious. Just get a good idea of what sorts of foods are best to eat and try to choose them whenever you can. One of the first dietary clean-up changes I made was to pretty much stop drinking sugar (regular pop, juice, and other calorie-dense drinks). Instead, I drank water and diet pop. (If you hate diet pop, try tea either plain or artificially sweetened. Splenda tastes just like sugar, believe me.) This change alone cut several hundred calories from my average daily intake. Fitness and Nutrition for the Hardcore If you want to be especially muscular and cut up, which is what I'm after, things get more interesting. Regular heavy weight training is a must, as is major diet-related willpower. To add any significant quantity of muscle mass, you have to bulk (eat a lot of calories, including adequate protein) for at least a month while continuing to lift heavy weights. This sounds fun because you really can eat everything in sight, but you're going to gain some fat that you will have to get rid of later in a fat-loss phase. I would suggest learning to lose fat before you try bulking so you know that you'll be able to do so in the future. And as far as fat loss is concerned, the lower your bodyfat gets, the more your body tries to hold onto it, so more...interesting dietary manipulation is required. For this reason, I am currently on a cyclical ketogenic diet. Despite the seemingly bizarre macronutrient balance it calls for (very low carbs during the week, tons of them on the weekend), I am eating quite healthfully, and I'm losing fat surprisingly fast. I just might get that six-pack this year... Some Recommended Exercise and Nutrition Links Krista's awesome weight training site Exercise @ about.com Videofitness |
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Jizuko Jiz Is The Magic! This board has run out of mana and can no longer use The Magic Level: 51  Posts: 1011/1191 EXP: 1004683 For next: 9255 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 230 days Last activity: 213 days |
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| Besides what Rydain said, which isn't much, she covered alot of what I had in mind. You can also take a walk (not run) for about 30minutes in the morning RIGHT when you get up, don't eat any breakfast, just go out as soon as you get up. That'll burn directly on your fat. If you eat however, even a slightest banana, it'll burn on that instead so the walk will be wasted. Oh and without food, running and heavy exercise (such as weight-lifting) will burn on your muscles instead. And don't workout while you're sick, that's very bad. A friend of mine is bulking now and it seems to work pretty well, he has grown loads and gained alot of weight, 28kg in one year. Much of course, is muscle. So if you have a somewhat small frame and you want to get big and muscular  Bulk away, but read up on it first so you don't hurt your body. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 7373/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| The best way to get fit, shut your mouth! ...with that said, I need to excerise more. Alot more, I keep promising myself that I go out more. But I always find a excuse to stand indoors not moving at all. Maybe I should get a dance pad, not that it will make me magical fit but well. It's exerise, we have a training bike or whatever you call it. But I feel awkard on it... my butt hurts after awhile.  |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 6888/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Sabishii Koopa Level: 17 Posts: 94/103 EXP: 24001 For next: 742 Since: 05-24-04 From: Cumming, Georgia Since last post: 230 days Last activity: 213 days |
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| This thread is going to be my new best friend. I've noticed a lot of issues I have stem from my lack of confidence because I don't feel terribly pretty. I've got about 30 pounds I'd be willing to give away, 50 even. I might be able to manage exercise time if I got more sleep though. I usually go to bed between 12 and 2 AM, get up at 6 AM and come home at around 4:30 at the earliest. To boot, I have a rather odd habit. I can't force myself to eat during the day unless I'm either starving to the point that I can't focus or I'm with nothing but people I trust, so most days I come home with 6 or less hours of sleep and no food in my body. I wind up falling asleep almost immediately then doing homework when I wake up at 6 or 7 PM and starting the cycle all over. If I'm going to make any progress, it's going to require almost a full life makeover. A piece of advice though, I'm learning that when I'm stressed out, it helps to do stretches or to lay down and do sit ups until the muscles in my stomach decide to revolt. |
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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 1130/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Being a student, food is a serious breaking point in my life. Both health matters, time constraints, space in fridge and budget come into things. My diet at university is usally as follows: Breakfast: Cornflakes Tea: Vegetable or Minestrone Soup or Beans on Toast. Supper: Cheese Sandwich, banana and apple. I don't tend to have lunch because I always get up really late, and end up having cornflakes at lunchtime. Usually I'm up 'till 1am, so I have my last meal before bed. I sleep easier on a full stomach. Unfortunately, this isn't a great diet, but it's got to be cheap, it's got to be quick and it's got to fit inside a kitchen that I share with five other people. The rstaurant do cooked meals, however. I'm thinking of getting a few meals there a week to suppliment my diet. (edited by Retro-Kasumi on 01-25-05 02:52 PM) |
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Valcion YOU WA SHOCK Level: 50  Posts: 703/1139 EXP: 939607 For next: 7710 Since: 03-15-04 From: internets. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| the most simple fitness tip. Take the stairs. Park in the back row, hell even DDR helps kinda. Little things like that help... though i've never had the problem in the first place. Oh yeah, getting off the computer helps too  I don't usually care what i eat. I'm skinny enough so i just do the everything diet. the amount of walking i do back/forth from class/climbing 6 floors of stairs several times a day kinda covers that =o. (edited by Valcion on 01-26-05 07:49 AM) |
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Prier Archangel Administrative Priestess. NUCLEAR SUB WEEEOOOO Level: 119  Posts: 4904/8392 EXP: 18790939 For next: 138352 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima Dist. - Tokyo, Japan Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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Originally posted by Valcion Helps kinda? More like does help. Few months of that seriously and you'll definitely know the difference. Yea, even a fat lazy slob like me. |
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Jizuko Jiz Is The Magic! This board has run out of mana and can no longer use The Magic Level: 51 Posts: 1035/1191 EXP: 1004683 For next: 9255 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 230 days Last activity: 213 days |
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Originally posted by ValcionCAN NOT COMPUTE, INVALID COMMAND. SHUTTING DOWN. |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69  Posts: 1750/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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Originally posted by JizukoWhich would be getting off the computer, right?Originally posted by ValcionCAN NOT COMPUTE, INVALID COMMAND. SHUTTING DOWN.  |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 7424/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| Alright, I think I start to take this more serious. I want to go below 100 KG, so I need serious self-managment now. I just want to evade the old temptations to buy candy, and the laziness to not train. And besides, I don't like "healthy food". I can't eat most of the healthy stuff. Such example is rice, I get ill by rice.  |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3041/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Well as long as we're talking about health... Anyone know how to get rid of a sinus cold fast? It's kinda strange, I don't have a runny nose or anything (besides a bit of a cough) but my ears are stuffed up.  It's really annoying, because I can barely hear anything, so I have to play my music really loud and always ask people to repeat themselves.  |
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Yoshi Dude XKEEPER STOLE MY CAR KEYS Level: 79  Posts: 1886/3271 EXP: 4572680 For next: 6787 Since: 03-15-04 From: give me a number folks. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I'm surprised no one has mentioned the low carb diet. My mom has been obsessed with this since the holidays ended. No real bread, no potatoes, no nothing. She buys Atkins brand things. Every dinner involves chicken. My house is the soy kingdom. She's also been spending all her non-ebay time on this excersize bike, or doing pushups. She makes me touch her stomach to see how she's starting to get fit. Ew. She didn't cut out carbs entirely. She was already thin so I don't know if that's her goal, she just wants to be healthier I guess. Is this the best route? This diet has been pushed on me, since both my parents feel I should stop being a fat ass. Well not so much the diet as skipping meals all the time, because I am bratty and demand a potato. I'm at 125 now. Last year I was 135, and the year before that 145 (I have records from my PE teacher expressing concern ). I'm not really sure what the point of this is, maybe to get feedback.. on things. I used to do DDR, before I ran out of room for mats and stuff, and it does help. You can even feel the difference after not very long of playing. You just can't take a long break or your stamina will be shot. Keep up with it. |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 7058/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 435/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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| Yoshi Dude, it's tough to say what the best approach is for your mom without knowing how well she likes her current plan. If she's eating plenty of lean protein, not going overboard on the saturated fat, and making sure to get enough vegetables, and she feels good and is able to work out like she wants to, then I'd say it's a good plan for her. The CKD (see link above for an explanation) is great for me because I feel fine on both my dieting and my carb load days, I'm losing stubborn bodyfat, and I'm able to continue lifting heavy so I won't lose muscle along with it. If I felt crappy, I would pick a different diet. | |||
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 6471/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| *nods* I get what you're saying Rydain, but what if someone (like Ashley) is having said diet forced on her without any say? I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm proud of my eating habits. They're not the best in the world but it's not like I'm overweight or anything either. I'd just think that changing them without consent would cause a bit of a shock to one's system. |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 7515/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| I guess I should try to eat less in average, I noticed that I do pretty fine on days that I don't each as much on. I'm not saying that i'm going to starve myself. But I think I even can almost take half as much eat food I usually eat, and still be fine.  ...but the temptation to eat more is just. I tend to eat alot if there is alot. (edited by Kitten Yiffer on 01-30-05 11:26 PM) |
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Xeolord - B l u e s - Power Metal > All Level: 81  Posts: 1182/3418 EXP: 4884196 For next: 108653 Since: 03-15-04 From: Yeah Since last post: 15 hours Last activity: 15 hours |
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| Just all be sure to keep away from the "McDonald's diet". I don't eat well at all, but I'm thankfull for it does almost nothing to me considering I'm pretty skinny... (edited by Xeogred on 01-31-05 12:53 AM) |
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