Last weekend, while waiting for my parents to get to Maple Grove with my offspring, I purchased the book Skinny Bitch. So far, I'm almost done reading it. It's had a couple of surprising side effects.
1. Me. Vegan? Maybe. I'm out surfing VeganPeace.com. I swear the parts of the book talking about animal cruelty made me nauseous yesterday.
2. I'm realizing that maybe I just need to eat more of good things! Less or no meat. Less or no dairy. It's so sad!!! :)
3. Yes, I can do this.
4. I like books with the f-bomb sprinkled throught! :)
I'll update y'all later on what I end up doing.
That being said - I'm back at 208 after a long week of being fatter than I should. I started eating more yesterday and I guess that worked!
GOALS
Friday, February 01, 2008
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I have heard that eating more often helps your body shed lbs. Something about going into starvation mode?
I would love to hear more about this book! So far all I know is a few reviews I saw when it first came out.
I just finished it.
I like it a lot, and it will help me really make a change of my eating habits away from animal products, but I just don't know if I can quit... maybe ease into it. Who knows.
I'll loan it to you if you like! :)
Or maybe you can mooch a copy!
I would be interested in reading through it once. I went looking for books to list on BookMooch.com yesterday and ended up finding a bunch that I had bought or borrowed to read... and then never managed to start!
I'm reading one for a special book discussion and one for fun about parenting right now... and in a couple of weeks will have one to read for the book club I organize. SO I'll need a few weeks!
I am interested in reducing my impact on the earth by consuming less meat, but yea, cutting it out entirely will probably never happen for me. In the last year I have occasionally enjoyed a meat free meal and it no longer feels "weird". The first few times it did!
I have heard a lot of people really like this book too. Although at first I thought it was a novel and nothing to do with diets. ;)
Just adding some perspective for those of us food sensitivities. I have heard of people that do both, but I also have heard of people who had been vegetarians and had to eat meat again simply because they ran out of options.
I am curious about how this book approaches the topic of food sensitivities, if at all. Sometimes that is forgotten issue in this larger issue, and I don't know, in the end I feel guilty. I personally don't want to remove more food groups from my diet than I have to right now, not that I eat a lot of meat in the first place...I'm somewhat a fuzzy vegetarian. :) Believe me, I have thought about this a lot! I keep meat in my diet because animals are capable of converting things I cannot eat (wheat and grasses) into something I can.
This is for Melissa. I would have posted on LK, but I want to be anonymous. Let's do some math . . .
According to your fitday to maintain your current weight with no exercise you have to eat 2872 calories. To lose a pound of weight you have to burn 3500 calories. To safely lose weight you should really only lose about 2 pound per week.
Calories to maintain per week = 2872*7 = 20104
Calories to burn to lose 2 pounds per week = 3500*2 = 7000
Calories per week to lose 2 pounds = 20104-7000 = 13104
Calories per day = 13104/7 = 1872
You are starving yourself. Not only are you not eating enough, but what you are eating you are exercising off. This is EXTREMELY unhealthy and some actually consider it an eating disorder. And if your fitday journal is actually complete (you haven't forgotten to log food) then I would suspect that you do have a disorder.
So, let's experiment. Let's get healthy. On days that you don't exercise, eat a minimum of 1800 calories. On days that you do exercise off 500+ calories, you must eat a minimum of 2000. Give me three weeks using these numbers and I bet you'll be happy with what you see.
Thank you.
I completely agree with you. And yes, my fitday is usually complete - the last couple of days I've been slacking on the fitday part. So, for an accurate assesment, check out about a week ago.
You are correct that I'm probably starving myself. I've actually had 3 people tell me that it's an eating disorder. I should go see someone, but I just flat out don't have time.
I will say though, that I did see a nutritionist and she said to aim for between 1200 and 1400 calories/day to lose weight, so I'm hoping that I'm close.
Thank you, Ms.(i'm assuming here!) Anonymous. It's nice to know that someone out there in the blog-o-sphere cares enough to take the time to type all of that out to me.
I wanted to add something this morning.
I'm having a hard time eating 1200 calories a day - I'm just not that hungry. It will be VERY difficult for me to eat 1800 calories a day... :) Especially a HEALTHY 1800 calories a day. Trust me, I had to fight of a McDonald's craving yesterday - not once but TWICE! That has been the hardest part for me, I think. Cutting out all of my junk food, fast food, and Key Lime Pie (my weakness!).
For the record, I'm back at 207 this morning! SWEET!! :)
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