Reviving the Diet and Weight Loss discussion

Poststructural Pub
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“There is no substitute for eating less and exercising more.”

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Good man! Keep it up!

:smiley:

M

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Unfortunately, none of these is remotely satisfying as a food stuff. I would have to eat these by the pound to satisfy hunger, and then spend the rest of the day on the run. :astonished: Oh, I get it. The weight loss comes from all the running. What a novel diet concept. :smiley:

djm

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Yes there is. It’s called obesity. :wink:

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The starving college student diet works exceptionally well, and is very easy to follow.
You simply eat instant ramen noodles three times a day, and jazz them up a bit with additional ingredients to keep them from getting boring… and to increase the nutritional content enough to keep you from actually starving! :stuck_out_tongue:
I’m not trying to be funny, the diet really works… and there are lots of recipe ideas on The](http://mattfischer.com/ramen/%22%3EThe) Official Ramen Homepage.
Of course, this diet probably isn’t very healthy… but considering how I normally eat, it is a significant improvement! :laughing:

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Ah…Ramen. But the salt content in the flavoring is off the chart, and not so good for the hypertensive set.

But I love 'em. I just don’t use all the flavor packet. :smiley:

M

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I don’t think I live on the typical “college diet.” For one, I don’t even have the money to buy ramen noodles (nor would I eat them if I had the money) so I resort to stealing food from the cafeteria. :slight_smile: (Besides I have no way to cook them even if I had them…)

And I don’t have a fridge so I can only steal non-perishable items like cookies, bananas, oranges, and stuff like that. I tend to bring lots of dry cereal and bread and bagels back to my room. This is why, if you see me around campus, I nearly always have my bookbag with me–theres stolen food in it! I feel like a hamster, the way they stuff their cheek pouches with food and hoard it up, only I use a bookbag instead of cheek pouches. :laughing:

I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve made a bagel and peanut butter sandwich at dinner and saved it for breakfast the next morning because I didn’t want to walk all the way over there at 7am.

When I do swipe food, I make sure to exit through the side door so the lady up front doesn’t notice me walking out with it. But please don’t tell anybody. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ve always been the ‘skinny marink’ of the family and never paid ANY attention to what I ate. Went from an adult low wt of 98.5 (for 10 years at least!) then quit smoking. Up to 115 and looked and felt pretty good.

Then it started inching up. . .at 125 I thought I was at an okay weight for a thirty something small boned woman. At 130 I thought I’d just pay attention to what I was eating and it would go away. At 135 I really considered watching what I ate and not eating so much junk. At 141.5 I had one blowout week in Santa Fe, and Tyghre and I headed for Weight Watchers.

Since 5/15 I’ve taken off 13 or so pounds by simply eating sensibly according to the Core Plan of Weight Watchers. Tyghre exercises on top of it, and has pared off 25 lb in the same timeframe. I go from being reasonably content with Core as a lifestyle – to feeling utterly desolate and needy. Eating well is okay, but oh do I miss junk, or a nice slab of velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, or fried whole-belly clams. ‘Screwing up’ for one week - and I’m not talking about falling entirely off the wagon, just slipping up on the details – undoes a full month of weight loss, and that really annoys me.

But I look at the people with the faddish diets, especially the really freaky ones, and wonder where they’re coming from and how they go about their lives in general.

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That’s one of the hardest things about being female, I think…and likely one reason so many of us become anorexic. If you have a weight issue, you can never let your guard down. People are always saying “Oh have a little,” or “once in a while won’t hurt”…but they’re not the ones who get on the scale and see the three pounds they worked three months to lose reappear overnight (and no, folks…it ain’t “just water”).

My metabolism changed radically when I had my daughter. Now, if I eat fewer than 1000 calories a day and work out like a demon (we’re talking a MINIMUM of an hour a day, both aerobic and weights), the best I can hope for is to hold my own. If I let up, even for a brief period, weight just piles on. It’s very depressing to know that I’m either going to spend my life getting fatter and fatter or never be able to relax about food and exercise again. Doctors don’t help either…they’re all convinced that I’m sitting around eating bon bons all day and say things like “you don’t really realize how much you’re eating” (Jaysus! I’m a former anorexic…I can give them the calorie count for just about anything!), or “you must not be working out as much as you think you are.” I hate 'em.

Redwolf

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  1. They’re 7, 8, 10, or even 12 packages for $1.

  2. They do not require cooking . . . only rehydrating in hot water. Surely you have a microwave? Somewhere? Or something? A hotpot?

If microwave, break into a cup or bowl, cover in water, and nuke a minute or two. Don’t let it boil over. Stir in the flavoring.

If all you have is hot water, smash the package into crumbles, pour on hot water, stir in the flavoring, and let it sit a few minutes.

  1. Didn’t you meet a nice Japanese boy? Ramen is his national food. Invite him over for dinner. He’ll show you how to doctor them up.

And I don’t have a fridge so I can only steal non-perishable items like cookies, bananas, oranges, and stuff like that. I tend to bring lots of dry cereal and bread and bagels back to my room.

Add cheese to that list. Cheese does not require refrigeration. Nor does dry sausage, like salami (at least for a while).

I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve made a bagel and peanut butter sandwich at dinner and saved it for breakfast the next morning because I didn’t want to walk all the way over there at 7am.

This is why you’ve lost 10 pounds.

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You are so wise, and I love that avatar.

There’s a microwave and a stove on the bottom floor of my building but I don’t have any pots or pans, and I sent all my dishes and silverware to Katrina victims through a local church drive, so that’s really my fault, I guess. I don’t like the noodles anyway (I’ve eaten them a few times before, without the meat seasoning). I didn’t know they were so cheap, though.

I wish fruit salad didn’t require refridgeration. I eat some of that every time I actually go down to eat breakfast (as opposed to bringing something up the night before), its so good. They don’t put bananas or apples in it because (I presume) they turn ugly if they sit a while, so I get fresh bananas and apples from the fruit stand and add them to it.

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Thou shalt not steal … :really:

djm

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It’s not really stealing, we’re allowed to take food with us. It just feels like stealing because I take so much, sorry that wasn’t too clear. :stuck_out_tongue:

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There may be no substitue for it, but if anyone thinks that, and willpower, can solve everyone’s weight problems, they are completely wrong and WAY off base.

All the Best, Tom

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I tend to agree. I think weight is an extremely complex issue based on much much more than “just” calorie intake vs energy expenditure.
I tend to favor a LARGE component of genetics.

M

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I tend towards LARGE portions. Hence my problem. :frowning:

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Well, there’s that too… :slight_smile:

M

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I’d like to hear more about that. You got sources? Research? Case studies? Trot 'em out, please.

Thanks,
M

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I’ve got a 46" waistline that proves it all. :blush:

djm

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Well, here are a few places that provide some information.

http://www.rockefeller.edu/pubinfo/news_notes/rus_051305_b.php


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030207072417.htm

http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/science/article.jsp?content=20050502_104764_104764#continue