i think it's also because, like ham, yam is a comedy word
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
and both are delicious
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
anyone have any thoughts on chia seeds?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Not as healthy as flax.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hSBkaZ-aUA
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Saturday, 9 June 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
more expensive too iirc
― it's smdh time in America (will), Sunday, 10 June 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
chia, that is
― it's smdh time in America (will), Sunday, 10 June 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
bought a Vitamix at Costco!
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
eating paleo for 2 weeks now and it's really agreeing with me at this point.
― carne asada, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
expensive though
this isn't really the right thread for this but i have been doing boot camp 3 mornings a week and i feel good, and strong. also calorie counting and eating healthy. but I'm not making any progress weight wise. what to do???
― tehresa, Thursday, 21 June 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
you very well may be changing the shape of your body in a positive way still. don't be discouraged by the numbers because that doesn't tell the whole story imo. just keep working at it
― carne asada, Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
yah don't worry about the weight piece tza, you are a champion
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 22 June 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
if you feel stronger you probably are getting stronger, which will keep your weight pretty constant.
― goole, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
muscle weighs more than fat iirc
― un® (dayo), Friday, 22 June 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
i know all that but laziness made me gain weight from my previous period of awesome and i would really like it to come back off. it's especially frustrating since the last time i was on a routine like this i lost weight much more easily. is this what happens when you get old?
― tehresa, Friday, 22 June 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, yes it is.
― quincie, Friday, 22 June 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
all you can say is lol bodies, don't blame it on yourself (and "laziness")
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 22 June 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
― JuliaA, Friday, 22 June 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm trying to adopt a rather nostalgic attitude about my younger body, like "hey wasn't it so awesome to eat like that, and smoke and drink, and still rock crazy little bikinis and minis? Wasn't that something? Boy, those were the days!" The same attitude I have about those long-gone days of staying out all night, doing drugs, crushing on boys with guitars, etc. Fun then, NAGL now.
― quincie, Friday, 22 June 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
staying foxy is another discussion entirely
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Tza it totally sucks but it's true that aging effects that. It is way harder for me to lose weight now than it was when I was younger. I didn't want to admit it because most days I still feel 18 but age is definitely a factor.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Friday, 22 June 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
le sighhhhh
― tehresa, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
so on the plus side, this morning after boot camp (which, btw, i got up at 5:45 to attend on my day off!) i actually found myself wishing it'd been longer.
― tehresa, Friday, 22 June 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20120626/all-calories-not-created-equal-study-suggests
kinda confirms what I've been suspecting lately!
I am pretty constant in the amount of food I eat from day to day but I def notice that on baking days, I tend to feel 'heavier' the next day, probably on account of all the brownies and cookie dough I sneak on the side ;~(
― Faith in Humanity: Restored (dayo), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
My whole foods now has health starts here salad dressings on the bar - no oil, lots of flavor!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
it is a lot easier to not eat carbs during summer, i find. as long as i don't buy chips at the store. don't buy chips at the store. don't. buy. chips.what i have been eating for the saltiness factor is avocado with soy sauce on it. which is really satisfying! my stomach is much happier too. i don't even know why i started eating chips again. maybe because i was eating them while on vacation in april. eesh.
i firmly believe that study, especially for myself, as lowish-carb is great for me, but i also believe that people's bodies are different and handle different kinds of food differently. that is my non-committal answer.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
i was just thinking about this thread because i bought raspberries, strawberries and cherries at the store today and some ricotta to go with them! dessert meal
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
we have an (inadvertent) bag of chips in the house and it's just the best and the worst
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
anyway does anybody know what happens when you mix high GI and low GI foods? I read somewhere the overall effect is that of eating the equiv. of medium GI food. wondering if that's how asians avoid diabetes!
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was talking to a friend last night who just got back from a couple of weeks visiting family and she said she'd forgotten how many people just have pantries stuffed with easy food like chips and crackers and granola bars, etc, food you don't have to do anything to, just take out of the bag/box and eat. i seriously have none of that food in my house (because nutrition nazi). unless fruit counts as easy food.
i totally had poutine and beer for dinner last night though. everything in moderation!xp
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
well, the rule i have learned is that if you're going to eat something like white rice, always eat it with protein, fat and fibre/vegetables. basically always eat carbs with protein at the very least, not alone. as a regular, non-athlete person.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that makes sense. who eats white rice by itself? jeez
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
i think some people just eat it with vegetables, no protein or fator yknow, pasta with tomato sauce, toast with jam, etc
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
I've been experimenting with green smoothies in my Vitamix but every time I include celery (in most green smoothie recipes), I don't like the taste. Too, uh, 'green.'
Thinking about ditching celery for extra spinach/kale, unless I'm missing something special about celery?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
celery has a punchy taste, I would ditch it and maybe add carrots instead?
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
okay that's not green, go with the extra spinach
Carrots would be good, I think. I'll try that next time.
been doing this lately:
bunch of spinachgreen apple or pearscoop of flax seedsscoop of unflavored whey proteincucumberwhatever else is around that sounds interesting
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
white (jasmine) rice is not even a little bad for you! i am chief of the brown rice patrol, but the health benefits of jasmine are basically equivalent to much of the brown that I eat, and it cooks more quickly and doesn't tend to overwhelm a lot of the delicate sauceys I make
― uncondensed milky way (remy bean), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
I pretty much only eat brown rice now -- I didn't know that jasmine was as beneficial!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah wow that's great. doubly so because it is the best white rice, imo.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
what's good about it? i'm making brown jasmine right now.
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
harbl, overachiever.
― quincie, Thursday, 5 July 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Super interesting series of 3 short videos from Dr. Michael Greger's excellent nutritionfacts.org site about bacterial endotoxins & saturated fat. Its been known for a couple of decades that meals with saturated fat cause arterial inflammation, leading to cholesterol plaque deposition and thence heart attacks and strokes. Turns out the main culprit may not be the fat itself, but cooking resistant bacterial toxins in the meat/cheese that are transported through the intestinal wall in the presence of saturated fats:
1: The Leaky Gut Theory of Why Animal Products Cause Inflammation2: The Exogenous Endotoxin Theory3: Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/more-on-milk/http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/got-milk-you-dont-need-it/
mr bittman is becoming more and more of a NN by day
I've already quit milk but thinking about totally quitting cheeses + ice cream + dairy creamer too now
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
(Worth noting: they’re far more easily digested as yogurt or cheese than as fluid milk.)
oh good, sometimes people look at me like I am crazy when I tell them liquid milk gives me heartburn but cheese is no big deal. Not crazy!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
his argument for everyone reducing milk intake seems to be "some people are lactose intolerant".
i know there are serious arguments for everyone to reduce milk intake, but he doesn't make them. his argument is like saying we should stop telling people to walk to work because some people only have one leg.
hidden in there is what he's actually saying, and which all his own argument supports, which is "I do think that on the basis of what appears to be widespread experience anyone with chronic heartburn or any of the other ailments mentioned above would be missing an opportunity if he or she didn’t give a nondairy diet a shot."
― caek, Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
ban milk
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
I know that i feel p shitty after having coffee with creamer, al though I do feel a different kind of shitty drinking black coffee on an empty stomach
but w/ the way milk is marketed in the US and how being lactose intolerant makes you feel like you have a green horn growing from your school Im glad somebody is stepping up to fight big dairy!
― smells like ok (soda) (dayo), Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it sounds like there are historical milk issues at play over there
― caek, Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link