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Or I can bust out my snorkel and rubber duckie in the tub for free!

Sucks that you have to work against that. Don't you ever get light headed when walking? 500 calories just seems so low.

QFT. I know I can't say anything meaningful about nutrition to someone who is dealing with a condition like that. I pale to think of myself on 500 cal daily average!

gee, that's gotta be one thumpin' big tub you got

The real problem is being pressured to eat on the weekends by others. It means I have to constantly redouble my efforts during the week, or it starts to add up. Like, because of this past weekend at my boyfriend's (which still included me staying home while his family went out to eat and other incidents) I can't fit into any of my jeans, so I've been living in this one pair of ratty sweatpants, and yesterday I walked nine miles at the gym. I stayed for over four hours. I'll have to do the same thing today and tomorrow, and still won't be anywhere near where I was.
I'm due to visit my parents for two days beginning tomorrow, and my mom will freak out if I don't eat some of the chili she's made me. ~sigh~ She's got hypothyroidism, and doesn't diet (IE, eats regular meals), she just takes the medication, and I've never known her south of 250. It's only been recently due to illness that she was less than 300, and if I ate daily, I'd soon be there, too.
It makes me resentful, hateful, almost, that I feel so deprived while others mindlessly stuff their faces in one meal with more calories than I'd eat in a month. My boyfriend eats upward of 5,000 a day, sleeps half the day, and weighs less than I do.

Ya, it's definitely not fair. You work super hard at it, but it's such a struggle to prevail. I ate salad during my diet while my wife would literally sit on the couch next to me eating brownies or whatever other full-fat food -- and she barely ever gets above 100 pounds (she's 5' 0"), while I walk around practically looking pregnant even though I ate nothing but light food. But I can't really complain because I did at least make progress.

When I do get rid of my belly this year, to do so I'll have to lose so much fat that the rest of me will be wiry/sinewey, and hopefully not gross-looking because of that. So I probably won't decide to absolutely flatten the belly, because that would be going too far for the rest of my body.

Oh, and 1000Knives, brown rice? And... what do you do to fix the taste? I tried that in my Chipotle burrito, and it's nasty. It messes up the whole taste of the burrito, because it's so mealy. Had to go back to the white.

I don't know, I think brown rice is fine, to me white rice always smells like urine unless it's jasmine rice or basmati. I'll eat it obviously, but I'm not a fan. I've had brown since I was little, so I'm biased.

As far as the taste, look for the freshest rice imo, brown rice is weird, in that it has oil in it, so the oil can go "bad" but in my experience, I've aten brown rice years old and found it didn't taste too different. The oil will kinda bitter over time, but to me, not much discernable difference. That and I never have bugs go into my brown rice, but white rice always ends up with flour bugs after like 6 months.

Anyway, uhm, if it's texture that's the issue, you basically gotta cook it longer so that it's not hard, and the hull splits. You can also maybe, as with any rice, soak it and wash it so some gluten comes off, too. As always, seasoning, usually brown rice needs more salt, imo, that's been one of my issues using it in the past, not enough salt added. Other than that, you may just hate it. I don't know, I quite like it.

As far as it being mealy, that's why I like it, it tastes and fills you up like actual food should.

I'm a fan of it for that very reason, calories aside. Very few things fill me up.
I can't speak for the taste- to me rice has no taste, white, brown, or purple.

Speaking of filling up, I can't beat oatmeal for fillingness for its calorie level.

As for rice, truth to tell, I don't like any rice by itself. I always soy sauce my white rice if it's served by itself or with other food that's sauceless. I guess I don't really like rice per se, but I love it with other foods. My wife likes plain rice, though.

I had some oatmeal this past weekend- they have all these different flavors at my salvage (where I do a lot of shopping) that I'd like to try.

I like to mix rice with this Asian Sesame spice blend (McCormick's?). I love carbs. So. Much.



Just got back from the gym. Walked another 900 calories off. Supposedly.

Walking is for girls, just become a powerlifter!

Oh wait, you are a girl. Oops.

I've honestly starved away so much muscle over the years that it's hard to do much else.
I meet with a trainer tomorrow, and plan to ask how I can replace some of my "skinny fat" with muscle.

Lift up the heaviest stuff you can, and keep doing it. It's rather fun in an OCD kinda way, just being able to beat what you did last week or a couple weeks before by 5-10 pounds. If you want, get Mark Rippetoe's book, Starting Strength. Personally, my favorite weight exercise is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDg48VEdiJU Clean and jerk. That girl there weighs a little over half of what I do, and lifts about double as I can do. Quite emasculating, haha. By the way, you won't have to worry about looking "muscley" if you lift weights, unless you cut down to a lot of bodyfat. Because females naturally keep more bodyfat than men do anyway. It's my opinion that a lot of female OL lifters and powerlifters in the lower weight classes actually look quite great, especially their lower bodies. Female bodybuilders however, I think look kinda...freakshowish, rightfully so, as they're putting themselves into bodyfat levels that really aren't biologically even healthy.

To quote Mark Rippetoe, (oh man, he's a quotable guy...)



If you lift, you might actually be able to eat more close to a normal person, too. Seriously, it's sweet, I know I've kinda derailed this thread, but uh, yeah.

remember to "train, don't strain." don't be in too great a hurry to get too much done too soon. injuries result if you do more than your body is ready to do too soon. circuit exercise equipment isn't always ergonomically well-suited for some people, especially those with long arms and legs, which can result in injuries like epicondylitis and such, that is what happened to me. anyways, you don't even need to belong to a gym, you can do a lot around the house, such as abdominal crunches, chinups and pushups. everybody has to start somewhere, so you might start with one of each. on the chin-ups start with just being able to lift yourself off the ground, don't even worry about reaching your chin yet. but on the pushups it is important to stick to the military style press and not bother with the "female" pushup where you pivot from the knees, those aren't good for anything. you can do at least one correct pushup, even if you can't go all the way down just yet. when you wake up in the morning, you can wrench out the sleepiness by forcing yourself to get on the floor with a cushion and do some crunches, your gut muscles will feel sore but you will eventually have more core strength from doing them along with the other two exercises. if you jump rope, that will exercise every muscle in your body and it only requires a jump rope and a bit of space. your muscle tone will eventually improve, and you will build more lean muscle mass. just do these things every time a commercial comes on the telly, and you will start seeing gains in a relatively short while. when you feel cold in the morning is a good time to exercise, as that will raise your metabolism and warm you up at the same time. [except for the jump roping which i am too damned clutzy to do] i do these things and have kept the weight mostly off and have become much less flabby, so i can say they do work for this old man at least. when i was in the army these basic exercises made me fit back in the day, and they continue to be useful today.

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Thank you both for the advice- I saw a video on YT from someone who's also lost a good amount of weight, talking about how so many people think weighing X number of pounds means they'll be X size, or be able to fit into X-sized jeans, and it's simply not true. While that might have been obvious for a lot of people, I admit my goals have been overly weight-focused, because I feel like that's the one "objective" measure of my progress- "my jeans feel less tight than a couple days ago, I guess" isn't really precise enough for an Aspie mind. Anyway.

That's how I got started thinking about gaining more muscle- muscle burns more calories than fat, so win, lose, or draw, even if I'm the same size and weigh more, I'll be in a better place, and be stronger.

A jump rope's a very good idea- I used to love to back when I was a kid, though I do the one foot at a time thing that for some reason made my brother call me an ostrich.

Just on a whim, just to do it, I once walked off 2,000 calories at once, according to the treadmill. I can never get close to that again, nor do I wish to. I just had that day totally free, and I felt like seeing what number I could get to despite the feet and legs discomfort in doing so. That was about 3 years ago. I enjoy walking so much, especially on nice days through nice neighborhoods listening to nice music.



Hey!


I actually used to drive to a picturesque neighborhood on a daily basis in order to walk through it. Actually, I would drive to a Barnes & Noble that was adjacent to the neighborhood, and then walk over to it, and spent the other half of the time in the Starbucks in the bookstore. I don't know if any of this sounds boring, but it was really fun.