Anonymous
Post 04/12/2012 13:49     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Breakfast: Small coffee w creamer, bowl of honey nut cheerios, 1/2 of a banana.

Lunch: Gyro with fries

Currently eying up the Dove Caramels stashed in my desk.

I'm very fit and a healthy eater normally but I'm getting over a cold (3 days on soup) and am 31 weeks pregnant. The fries were a necessity. Cant wait to see what tonight brings...
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2012 13:26     Subject: Re:What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Anonymous wrote:To anyone who wants to lose weight- Weight Watchers is the best. If you really follow it (you can do it online) you will lose weight. When I started I was amazed at how much I had been overeating, and up to that point I had thought I was eating pretty healthily! But portion sizes are really a lot smaller than you might think. And some foods that you think are healthy are actually very high in calories and fat. Plus exercise is a good way to maintain weight but for me at least, it didn't really help me lose weight. Losing was all about learning to eat differently. I lost 20 pounds and felt terrific. And much healthier- I learned to eat more healthy foods and exercise regularly. I really felt like a new person. I highly recommend it for healthy weight loss and maintenance.


I think WW is an excellent option for many people. However, it did not work for me. Even working out and treating my thyroid condition, I have a suboptimal metabolism. I tried WW and could not eat even near the daily basic points (let alone any extra or weekly points) and lose weight. It just allowed me way too much food for what I needed to lose weight. It's a great and simple program that will work for most people, but if you have a really sluggish metabolism, it's not a good option. For me, it works better to use a food diary that tracks calories and I also like that because I can track protein, fiber and vitamins/minerals.
Anonymous
Post 04/12/2012 13:23     Subject: Re:What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Anonymous wrote:Breakfast - steel cut oats with peanut butter and soymilk, touch of brown sugar. - about 400 calories
pre-workout snack: orange - 100 calories?
lunch: lean cuisine, homemade vegetable soup (just veggies and broth) - 400 calories
snack: 1 cup of nonfat greek yogurt, small homemade granola square - 200 calories
dinner: rice and beans (indian style) with steamed spinach. -500 calories

So around 1600 calories, and a solid 1 hour workout. This is a typical day - though one or two days I hit 1900 calories. (I track what I eat, and measure my food) I work out four days per week. I am overweight - 6', 215 pounds.


So is this a maintenance diet for you or are you losing weight with this intake?
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2012 21:39     Subject: Re:What did you eat today, and are you fat?
breakfast: one egg, english muffin with butter, coffee with skim

lunch: smoked salmon salad at a restaurant

snack: a couple goldfish with my son (literally 3-4)

dinner: roasted chicken (a small leg portion from a 3 lb chicken), brown rice, steamed broccoli

snack: small bowl of ice cream (actual serving size - I weigh it so I don't overindulge)

I'm in the middle: 5'7", 140 pounds.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2012 14:01     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Breakfast: scrambled eggs with matzah, bucket of coffee.

More coffee

Lunch: quinoa, tofu, spinach, flax oil, sesame seeds, hotsauce & soy sauce. AKA "athlete gruel." a pear, a granola bar, and baby carrots.

Dinner: likely to be something horrible like a taco bell burrito minus the meat and cheese (I'm ovo vegetarian) since I have to go to a thing in a nearby city. Hopefully something less horrible like a PB&J or something. Snack item from the Wawa afterwards, probably.

Am I fat: No. I am 5'7" and 157, athletic. Do I care about whether or not I am fat: not much.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 21:34     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
I'm PP, I would like to lose 5 pounds and have a
six pack
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 21:33     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Breakfast: diet coke, string cheese, kashi cereal

10am meeting: cookie

Lunch: banana and beans and rice

4pm snack: string cheese and whole grain crackers

Dinner: pasta with nut sauce, baby carrots
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 21:17     Subject: Re:What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Anonymous wrote:To anyone who wants to lose weight- Weight Watchers is the best. If you really follow it (you can do it online) you will lose weight. When I started I was amazed at how much I had been overeating, and up to that point I had thought I was eating pretty healthily! But portion sizes are really a lot smaller than you might think. And some foods that you think are healthy are actually very high in calories and fat. Plus exercise is a good way to maintain weight but for me at least, it didn't really help me lose weight. Losing was all about learning to eat differently. I lost 20 pounds and felt terrific. And much healthier- I learned to eat more healthy foods and exercise regularly. I really felt like a new person. I highly recommend it for healthy weight loss and maintenance.


I had good luck with weight watchers, but I think at the end of the day, you just have to get out of the habit of eating when you're not hungry. It's not rocket science. I found myself eating based on how many points I had left, rather than how hungry I was. Some days I'm ravenous and some days I'm not. Being mindful of hunger, and when I'm eating out of habit really goes a long way for me. that being said, weight watchers is the best for a "first" diet when you need to recalibrate and figure out the approximate range of what you need.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 19:26     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
PP here. "Good" was supposed to be "FOOD." Please excuse other typos
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 19:24     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Hot chocolate made w/ skim milk and dark chocolate on the way yo work this morning. No good all day until dinner (Moby Dick chicken kebobs w/ grilled tomatoes and pita w/ yogutt sauce & hummus. Dessert (angel food cake w/ whopped cream and blue/straw-berries.)

Would like to lose 10 lbs.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 17:00     Subject: Re:What did you eat today, and are you fat?
To anyone who wants to lose weight- Weight Watchers is the best. If you really follow it (you can do it online) you will lose weight. When I started I was amazed at how much I had been overeating, and up to that point I had thought I was eating pretty healthily! But portion sizes are really a lot smaller than you might think. And some foods that you think are healthy are actually very high in calories and fat. Plus exercise is a good way to maintain weight but for me at least, it didn't really help me lose weight. Losing was all about learning to eat differently. I lost 20 pounds and felt terrific. And much healthier- I learned to eat more healthy foods and exercise regularly. I really felt like a new person. I highly recommend it for healthy weight loss and maintenance.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 15:25     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Breakfast: 10 oz coffee with 2% milk, slice whole wheat toast with 1 tsp butter and 1 tsp jam, 1/4 cup strawberries

Mid-morning: 10 oz decaf coffee with 2% milk, whole wheat crackers and low-fat cheese stick; carrot-bran muffin

Lunch: Cheeseburger with one half of bun, lettuce, tomato, onions, mayo; strawberry Icelandic yogurt; water

Afternoon snack: dark chocolate covered graham crackers, green tea

Dinner: whole grain pasta with broccoli tossed in olive olive oil and garlic w/parmesan

Dessert: Fruit with Greek yogurt

I eat a lot compared to most of you, but I weigh 125 lbs @ 5'6" (age 38).

Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 14:04     Subject: Re:What did you eat today, and are you fat?
Breakfast - steel cut oats with peanut butter and soymilk, touch of brown sugar. - about 400 calories
pre-workout snack: orange - 100 calories?
lunch: lean cuisine, homemade vegetable soup (just veggies and broth) - 400 calories
snack: 1 cup of nonfat greek yogurt, small homemade granola square - 200 calories
dinner: rice and beans (indian style) with steamed spinach. -500 calories

So around 1600 calories, and a solid 1 hour workout. This is a typical day - though one or two days I hit 1900 calories. (I track what I eat, and measure my food) I work out four days per week. I am overweight - 6', 215 pounds.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 13:10     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
^ oops I forgot. I am a little tall and quite thin.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2012 13:10     Subject: What did you eat today, and are you fat?
So far today: pineapple; yogurt; coffee w/sugar and cream; about 10 hershey's kisses; quinoa with carrots, asparagus, feta, avocado, olive oil and lemon; about 8 ounces of snapple. For dinner, probably pasta marinara and garlic bread and salad. And more candy, and probably 12 more ounces of sugar drinks or wine.
No exercise today, but I will walk tomorrow.