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wanderlust08
05-03-2011, 02:34 PM
hungry-girl.com is a great website to help out with making low-cal/low-fat food choices. anybody who can figure out how to make fried chicken and waffles under 300 calories is worth taking a look at, in my opinion.

lol1337a
05-04-2011, 02:47 AM
I don't know if other ladies on this board would consider me slim or healthy as many of you seem to be super thin and vigilant about nutrition, but I'm a 4 in most brands (aka vanity sizes) and I've painlessly lost 30lbs on two occasions in the period of 6 months or so, so I feel like I have a handle on calories when I put my mind to it despite eating unhealthy food regularly. Buttt I just came up with another meal that's much more healthy and flavorful than fast food (which I am addicted to)!!

This can either be a salad or a sandwich on Ezekiel bread (which is gluten free I think):
Tons of spinach
Shredded chicken breast (I use rotisserie)
Sun dried tomatoes with the excess oil blotted off because there will be tons
Roasted red peppers
Red onions
Hummus (sparingly, because it's deceptively high in calories)
Balsamic vinaigrette would be a low cal replacement for the hummus though as long as it's light or you only use a teensy bit of oil (I recommend homemade)

I'm sure other veggies would be great but I'm kinda picky. Chickpeas would be awesome but I feel no need to tack more calories onto the meal especially considering that there's already hummus. The best part is that I have absolutely no craving for cheese when I eat this! Plus the protein and fat from the chicken and hummus are extremely satiating. I only ate one sandwich and one teensy salad bowl so far today and I haven't been hungry at all. I will probably eat this every day for months.

lol1337a
05-04-2011, 04:13 AM
Apologies for spamming your thread, it just hits close to home in a way I suspect other posters might not get. Disregard the following if you like healthy food but don't eat it for whatever reason.

I have had a rare lifelong issue with food and I suspect we share it. You may have selective eating disorder. Here's the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_eating_disorder.

It seems that you have a strong aversion vegetables, and that you eat the same diet you posted very frequently with only minor variations. If this is the case, these are hallmark symptoms of the disorder -- unhealthy food is always "safe" for sufferers while vegetables are unappetizing or even repulsive. As a result, they tend to eat from a small list of food day after day. I had an awful case of this growing up. I would puke in my mouth and cry whenever my mom forced me to eat vegetables. I remember being terrified the first time I tried mashed potatoes, the most innocuous vegetable ever! I sometimes even have nightmares about eating fish or mushrooms.

Chances are that you're not this bad if you do have it, but the disorder does exist on a spectrum, and you may at least have a mild case of it or did as a child. If this is the case, don't feel bad about yourself for only wanting the typical "safe" foods! People with this problem tend to only eat unhealthy stuff, i.e. fried, cheesy, processed, etc. Understand that it's much more difficult for you to change your diet than it is for other people, and that it may be a struggle to desensitize yourself to healthy food that may be unappetizing to you. I had one of the worst cases ever (I ONLY ate meat, mac and cheese, hot dogs with cheese, potatoes, bread, spaghetti (with NO chunks of any veggie whatsoever in the sauce) and cheese or pepperoni pizza except for occasional forcefeedings until I was 18!) but even I managed to grow accustomed to vegetables. It was hell at first and I only did it so that I could go to dinner parties without embarrassing myself, and I took it in very gradual steps. First I forced myself to eat lettuce and leafy greens, then pickled peppers, real peppers, onions, carrots, and so on until I could eat everything but mushrooms, fish, raw tomatoes, and anything that's firm on the outside but mushy on the inside. It was horrible but now I LOVE a lot of veggies. LOVE LOVE LOVE. The problem is that it was evolutionarily advantageous for people to avoid unknown food because it could have been unsafe, but some people carry the trait in an excessive way even though everyone generally knows which food is not life threatening these days.

So:
Don't feel guilty about your diet
You need to slowly change it and it will take effort
You may grow to love healthier stuff once your subconscious is convinced that the food in question is safe.
If healthy stuff is a no-no at first jus keep eating the same stuff 90% of the time, but less of it (and as everyone including myself has emphasized, lower your alcohol intake as well).

Disregard if this doesn't apply to you, but as someone who finally just realized that this is a legitimate problem, I've taken solace in the knowledge I'm not alone and used it to slowly change my diet in a way that works for me.

PS CAUSE FOR 8 MILLION EDITS ON ALL MY POSTS : The disorder is probably linked to OCD habits. There's a great study some researchers are doing about this but I forget where it is. I don't have problems with obsessively following routines and freaking out about numbers but I do shit like re-read everything I write over and over to look for errors (I still miss them when I'm hypocritically drinking like right now :(), check the door 8 million times at night to make sure it's deadbolted when anyone would trust it the first time, and wash my hands all the time even though I only touch "dirty" things like door handles with my left pinky if possible! Not that I cry if I can't though. LMK if you're reading this, have the disorder, and do weird OCD shit like this!!!!

PleasureVictim
05-04-2011, 04:26 AM
Bah, I just bought a loaf of whole grain bread earlier yesterday before logging on. I will finish it since I bought it, but just try to Leave it out my diet completely. I assumed it would be a good fiber food since I certainly could use that.

What's the verdict on using benefiber/citrucel powders on food?

lol1337a
05-04-2011, 05:00 AM
^^My advice is controversial because I believe a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, regardless of what food it's from and what time you eat it. Eat your bread and love it as long as you cut back on other calories. The only difference I've ever noticed is that it takes much more control to limit your calories when you're eating super high glycemic foods just because they're less satiating and you'll eat more. The reason why I lost 30bs in short periods of time was because I was eating only one medium fast food combo per day for a couple months , which equals out to well under 1500 calories and keeps you incredibly full all day. The difference I've noticed between my healthy diets and my fast food diets is that I'm more bloated with the latter and I need to take supplements to feel good. I know it's just water weight though because I lose it after one day of eating healthy stuff.

Of course this is only good for weight loss as opposed to long term health. But I strongly believe that low calorie, low sodium products like bread won't cause weight gain any more than anything else of equal calories unless you have some biological predisposition. I fucked around with dairy and gluten free diets, and I'm one of the lucky ones where nothing ever happened. Actually, my vitals were PERFECT after losing the weight with my Wendy's version of the Subway diet. Not that I'm counting on that for the rest of my life. Luckily I'm 23 and can get away with it.

Sorry, I'm drinking a lot just like I encouraged the OP not to do. Oops, I'm still at a decent size and look good despite my no boobs even though I just consumed 300 calories in liquor.

BTW please pwn me if you are knowledgable about nutrition and think I'm ig'nant.