Comments on: Need More Spirit

By: teahouseblossom

teahouseblossom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:15:24 +0000

Great post. I’m also trying to lose weight. I just read “Mindless Eating” and it has changed my life!!

By: Ten

Ten — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:46:08 +0000

I do that for the canned tuna. It gives it flavor. For the tuna steaks, I like marinating them in teriyaki and grill them.

The small meals are hard to keep up. But you will see the difference in the scale. Plus, I find myself not quite hungry when I eat at regular intervals. Heh. It takes a while to get used to though. Especially when you’re at work.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:25:45 +0000

Could be you are “just good.” =D

I will probably move on to more frequent small meals as I get better at judging how much food I need. However, I don’t know that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, because otherwise you could just eat a handful of cookies for the day and be fine.

I don’t think you need to have an exact ratio; there’s probably just certain thresholds you have to cross, and the ratio is just a rule-of-thumb to get you past your thresholds while staying under your calorie limit.

Also, a ton of feathers is heavier, because it’s bulkier and harder to lift =3 (unless we are talking about lead feathers, hmmm).

By: Velius

Velius — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:17:55 +0000

I am not so sure on the whole “proper mix” of carbs and protein business. A calorie is a calorie no matter how you slice it up. (Which is heavier? A ton of feathers or a ton of lead?) Maybe it’s because I had a lot to lose or maybe somehow, I magically got the balance just right but I was averaging about 2 lbs a week for at least 12+ weeks by eating small meals every 3 hours or so. I wasn’t really watching the mix or anything.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:19:34 +0000

I'm not good about consistent small meals, at least not yet. I'd like to get to that point eventually, especially as I decrease portion sizes. Right now I'm mostly concentrating on changing what I eat before I change how much and when I eat. Salmon is awesome, although it's probably cheap enough to get fresh most of the time. As for tuna, are those tuna steaks or canned tuna?

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:14:48 +0000

Looks like they changed how the food stats are displayed (table form now) to make it easier to read. Unfortunately, it looks like they didn’t change Pro accounts to have this extra readability, WTF hax!