I don't want to be mistaken for a beached whale this summer.
It's time to double the work outs and stop eating like I was starving in another life. I made an amazing salad for lunch (forgot to take a pic). Hearts of romaine, grilled chicken, shaved apple :), and a bit of raspberry balsamic vinaigrette.
Mertz, I need to join you on the workout front. My wife's gone on a major health kick and I reckon she'll trade me in for a younger model if I don't start making an effort to shift my gut! ;D
We need to do an international SR workout challenge.
Yeah I need to get in shape. I should buy some additional weights, go walking, and try dieting.
I walk my dog for an hour every day but it's not enough to lose weight. I really need to start running again and take the dog with me.
i just bought a bike..not really changing what i eat but i eat healthy for the most part anyways..im hoping riding all summer will take a few lbs off and get me in better shape.
Smaller portions, no fast food, walk 3 miles every other day. it only takes 40 minutes.
edit: drink more water.
^ That I can do. I basically only drink water, almond milk, and juice (that I water down).
I threw out all my huge plates and got some smaller antique plates at GW. I only eat 2 big meals a day and snack on healthy stuff like bananas, apples, low salt peanuts, raisins, jerky. I stopped eating after 8pm. I jog 2-4 times a week (weather fucking permitting) and do a long 2-3 hr bike ride on weekends (weather fucking permitting.) I do lots of push ups at work and at home. I could do 80 in less than 2 minutes when a was a soldier. Getting back to that is another personal goal of mine. They are getting easier. I'm doing sets of 40 already. I'm currently down to 220 from 250. Lowest weight was 212 back in October last year and it felt fucking great. I want to get to 205 this Summer/Fall. I'm 72" tall.
All that said, i still drink too much. No fucking way am i giving up PNW craft beer or killin' home cooked food. So i gotta exercise.
I thought there was a normal decent guy in there...caught ya LC ;)
sssshhhhhhh :-X
I won't tell if you don't tell.;)
I try to avoid processed foods. I balance my diet about 50% protein,30% carbs (complex) and 20% good fats.
I started back on a gym plan too. Had to cut out beer during the week though.
Eat whole fruit and veggies (duh but worth saying)
Meat is not your enemy
Fat is not your enemy
Build you some muscle. Cardio is better than not exercising but there are faster, more long term changes you can make to your body by lifting weight (not little weenie 20lb squats either!) that will transform you into a calorie burning machine.
http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2009/06/how-to-wrap-rice-paper-rolls-summer-rolls.html
I always thought the above were great for dieting because you're wrapping up lots of veggies along with whatever your savoury meat source happens to be. It's kind of a bottleneck effect that mostly one only see the shrimp and pork variety in the States. One can roll up anything - it's a nice way to jazz up left-over. Put in meat, leafy greens like lettuce, spinach, or mustard greens, fresh herbs like basil and mints, and roll up and you get a balanced meal. If it's kind of bland, dip in a sauce that's got salty, sweet and sour - say diluted hoisin sauce w/ a bit of vinegar or lemon juice. Diluted fish sauce w/ lemon juice and sugar also works.
^^ yeah dude totally. Ya ever see a fat Vietnamese? i didn't think so.
I think the caveat there is that they're delicious and you may be prone to eating a load of them, heh.
Quote from: mutantcolors on March 20, 2012, 05:05:30 PM
Eat whole fruit and veggies (duh but worth saying)
Meat is not your enemy
Fat is not your enemy
Build you some muscle. Cardio is better than not exercising but there are faster, more long term changes you can make to your body by lifting weight (not little weenie 20lb squats either!) that will transform you into a calorie burning machine.
This exactly! Lean animal protein is the way to go. I have a home made smoothie in the morning consisting of a yogurt, banana, berries and some OJ blended up with some protein powder.
Then its lean protein for lunch like chicken, or maybe a home made sandwich with mustard (no mayo) whole wheat bread and some veggies. Been doing a chicken breast, cheese and balsamic lettuce wrap for lunch lately that is killer.
Dinner is a similar lean protein with veggies affair.
I also use whey protein for after workout shakes. Lifting weights will really ignite your calorie burning.
It's not like you're gonna get all beefed out and body builder looking. You gotta really fucking try for that.
I like coming up on the 3-0 while being in my best shape ever. Shit works. (granted I never had weight issues to begin with)
Been walking, eating less, eating a little healthier, and lifting light weights.
There's a fresh box of doughnuts downstairs :-[ I opened it and looked inside to see which I'd like to grab. Knowing I'd want to try the different types, I closed the box with a sigh. Instead I grabbed a hard candy and walked away.
Quote from: El Zombre on March 20, 2012, 08:04:12 PM
http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2009/06/how-to-wrap-rice-paper-rolls-summer-rolls.html
I always thought the above were great for dieting because you're wrapping up lots of veggies along with whatever your savoury meat source happens to be. It's kind of a bottleneck effect that mostly one only see the shrimp and pork variety in the States. One can roll up anything - it's a nice way to jazz up left-over. Put in meat, leafy greens like lettuce, spinach, or mustard greens, fresh herbs like basil and mints, and roll up and you get a balanced meal. If it's kind of bland, dip in a sauce that's got salty, sweet and sour - say diluted hoisin sauce w/ a bit of vinegar or lemon juice. Diluted fish sauce w/ lemon juice and sugar also works.
N??c ch?m !!!
this is a great reminder, i love these things. once upon a time, i went to this restaurant in Hue and all the servers were deaf. the specialty was spring rolls. there is also a club called Apocalypse Now in that town, weird vibes man just weird. all the Vietnamese places in town serve bubble tea, so it's a bit of a risk to go in there if i am trying to lay off the calories.
I switched my afternoon snack from cake to trail mix recently. Hope that means I'm on my way to well-marbled, nutty flesh like those acorn fed jamon iberrico pigs.
@Xina, yup nuoc cham. I like Hue. Can't barely understand the natives because of the wild melismatic Central Vietnamese accent, but Hue's my favorite city of the big 3. Way chiller and cheaper than Saigon or Hanoi.
Made nuoc cham last night for our rolls. Don't really know what the rolls are called but over 15 years ago i worked with some Vietnamese people and I would have lunch with them when they brought this stuff. they called it ( phonetically bah-beeya) usually had mint, shrimp, jicama, fried egg mung bean thread and a couple different sauces. I was the only white person that bothered to interact with them so we laughed at all the other white people :D i wish I rememberd more of the language. It also helped that Amy (Chau) was smokin hot. :)
White People, pfffttt.
Quote from: RAGER on March 22, 2012, 05:45:15 PM
they called it ( pheonetically bah-beeya) usually had mint, shrimp, jicama, fried egg mung bean thread and a couple different sauces.
Wow, that's impressive remembering that for 15 years! I know exactly what you're talking about - bò bía, pronounced baw beer - is one of my favorite foods growing up. It's actually brought over from China by a group of people called Hokkiens or Hokka. In Vietnam, it's also suffered from a bottleneck effect and is static exactly as the roll you described. But in Malaysia and Singapore where there are larger populations of Hokkiens, recipes are all over the place. Some even say to use whatever's on hand iirc. The Hokkien version is usually transliterated as poh pia or popiah.
Awesome. Sounds right to me. I miss those people. Especially Diem. Cool old guy and Amy (Chau) cuz she was hott
I've been making quinoa lately with veggies. Curbs my carb cravings...
Diet food thread, purrfect!
I gotta say, Sally's quinoa meals are pretty delicious!
I did this for lunch today:
octopus salad with parsley and onion
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Shame on you for eating octopus >:(. Eat squid. They're assholes. Octopi are smart little buggers
squids are actually pretty smart as well... but i eat everything, i don't discriminate! ;)
Quote from: RAGER on October 04, 2012, 05:34:12 PM
Shame on you for eating octopus >:(. Eat squid. They're assholes. Octopi are smart little buggers
porks are pretty smart buggers too, you know. as long as that's your deciding factor.
yeah, and how do you know octopussy's ain't smart assholes? they certainly don't seem like the most loving of God's creatures. then again, why should they be? buncha suction cups and a fuckin' sharp ass beak
true. if i had a beak, i would peck the fuck out of some bitches.
I ain't never seed a pork break outta one locked contraption to break into another locked contraption to get a crab. They're just stuck in their sty
what they could do with some tentacles though....
Hentai?
Quote from: Sally on October 02, 2012, 11:30:24 PM
I've been making quinoa lately with veggies. Curbs my carb cravings...
it should, since it acts as a grain and has 34g of carbs per cup, cooked! carbs ain't your enemy, starch carbs are. quinoa=starch carbs. eat beans
Not ironic enough
diet food recipe suggestions please? like blogs or some such. most of all i need more veggie side dish suggestions. getting tired of salad.
Quote from: priest on October 09, 2012, 12:00:18 PM
Quote from: Sally on October 02, 2012, 11:30:24 PM
I've been making quinoa lately with veggies. Curbs my carb cravings...
it should, since it acts as a grain and has 34g of carbs per cup, cooked! carbs ain't your enemy, starch carbs are. quinoa=starch carbs. eat beans
yeah man, quinoa is full of carbs. it's delicious and high in fibre, but it's not
not carbs.
i've been making veggie juice every day (6 kale leaves, 4 celery stalks, 1 cucumber, 2 green apples, 1/2 lemon, 1" ginger). i drink a litre (32 oz for you 'mericans) a day for breakfast/early lunch. then a light late lunch and dinner. try to avoid processed foods and stick to lean proteins and good fats and avoid grains, but i ain't perfect.
now, now, some of us 'mericans know that a quart is 32oz, but a liter is closer to 34.
xina, what's wrong with just lightly cooking/steaming your veggies? with maybe a squeeze of citrus over 'em? how's that different from a 'side dish'?
Here's something that always works for me:
Sautéed vegetables with mushrooms and garlic.
You can do it with almost every vegetable and it's delicious: broccoli, white cabbage or red cabbage (julienne them)... I usually also add a tiny little bit of curry and paprika... And sometimes cayenne pepper..
What I also love is cut long thin strips of peppers (i like mixing red and yellow) and let them cook in a pan with some olive oil and a little salt until they get really soft... It's pretty good.
Go Paleo or get the fuck out!
http://robbwolf.com/what-is-the-paleo-diet/
Quote from: khoomeizhi on October 19, 2012, 07:43:43 AM
xina, what's wrong with just lightly cooking/steaming your veggies? with maybe a squeeze of citrus over 'em? how's that different from a 'side dish'?
nothing is wrong with that, i suppose i was looking for ideas about combinations of veggies and seasonings. so this stuff helps. i think the mushroom suggestion is going to stick, i like the umami with my veggies and need to cut down on meat.
Going vegan for a month. Tonight I'm having sautéed mushrooms , zucchini, and spinach. Been at it since Monday.
Quote from: mertzy on May 01, 2013, 09:59:19 PM
Going vegan for a month. Tonight I'm having sautéed mushrooms , zucchini, and spinach. Been at it since Monday.
resist the temptation..
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Ugh
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Veganism is not a diet. It's a way of life. So get ready to lose your tits and get angry.
I won't lose my tits in a month...I better not!
I tried to do a 'diet' a couple of weeks ago, in order to detox my body and give it a rest for a day.....never again...
I had organic porridge made with water, soya milk and a banana...
home made organic broccoli soup...
lots and lots of freshly made lemon tea....
and by 4pm I had a painful headache (never get headaches) and crawled home from work an hour early, made a MASSIVE cheese mayo sandwich with thickly cut tiger bread and ate it in this crazed monstrous way while at the same time getting undressed and into bed, I curled up into a ball and went to sleep feeling horrible, still felt grim when I woke up too, had a massive pesto pasta and a few beers to perk myself up ;)
Iv always said your metabolism is a like a fire, the more you feed it the stronger and healthier it is, its just that you should feed it with lots of good food and very little rubbish, being very active helps too....
Quote from: JemDooM on May 02, 2013, 05:32:33 PM
I tried to do a 'diet' a couple of weeks ago, in order to detox my body and give it a rest for a day.....never again...
I had organic porridge made with water, soya milk and a banana...
home made organic broccoli soup...
lots and lots of freshly made lemon tea....
and by 4pm I had a painful headache (never get headaches) and crawled home from work an hour early, made a MASSIVE cheese mayo sandwich with thickly cut tiger bread and ate it in this crazed monstrous way while at the same time getting undressed and into bed, I curled up into a ball and went to sleep feeling horrible, still felt grim when I woke up too, had a massive pesto pasta and a few beers to perk myself up ;)
Iv always said your metabolism is a like a fire, the more you feed it the stronger and healthier it is, its just that you should feed it with lots of good food and very little rubbish, being very active helps too....
Sounds like there wasn't enough calories that day (virtually none in broccoli).
To nobody in particular... I am hardly an expert on diets, but instead of going on a temporary diet that's very restrictive, you're better off making small, gradual changes that you can stick with indefinitely (in other words, lifestyle changes). Like putting skim milk in your coffee instead of cream. It's better to lose weight slowly, so that your metabolism doesn't slow down in response to a drastic cut in calories. The idea of temporary diets (I'm just gonna eat cabbage soup for the next 2 weeks) doesn't make any sense.
I don't feel the need to diet or detox usually because I'm vegetarian, buy mostly organic, use a lot of soya alternatives to dairy (don't drink cows milk at all) and I avoid caffeine, but the day I decided to detox was when I had just read about how fasting once in a while rests your body, all I discovered was that it actually causes your body stress in my experience, never again, I reckon the more you eat, the more goodness your fitting in....
My diet is loosely based around the anti-inflammatory diet, which means massively cutting down on bad fats, salt, sugar, caffeine, dairy and alcohol (I ignore that last one because you cant do it all) and eating loads of foods high in anti oxidants and omega's, I do pretty well apart from cheese and alcohol, this is after much research on slowing down ageing, trying to prevent disease and I have IBS...
**currently scoffing an easter egg** :x
All things in moderation is how I try to do it. If I have toast in the morning I don;t have bread with dinner. If I have bacon for breakfast, I donlt have pork chops for dinner or bacon again for a week. If I have a dessert, I probably won't have dessert for a few days. that sort of thing. My weakness' like you are cheese and beer/wine. I don,t drink much hard alcohol but I do love beer (German) and I do love me some red/white/bubbly.
I figure I'm kind of doing it right since I'm not overweight and don;t have a big beer belly. Just got a bum ticker I gotta be careful aboot.
I'm going to start taking hydroxycut next week and see how that works... Been losing weight lately but i want to speed up the process (for bikini reasons)..
I should just get my thyroid checked because I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with it, but I'll take a look at it once I get decent health insurance.
Before and after pics?
Only after *if* the results are good.
/innabikini
That crap really makes you lose your appetite, it even wins against weed! I like it so far!
Bikini pix!
Nopes, not yet! But I'm losing the double chin and getting my jaw line back! :)
Quote from: Soundgardenia on May 03, 2013, 12:30:21 PM
Only after *if* the results are good.
I'm pretty sure the results will be
very good. We'll be waiting for those pics... no hurry, just post them when you're ready. 8)