I Don't Understand About Diamonds...
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ohdiamonds
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There you go, the patch for dieters. It slowly releases a Baby Ruth bar into your blood stream to reduce cravings.
Ohhh man, thats one of my favorite candy bars
. If only I was genius...
ohdiamonds
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hey, at least you can HAVE candy in your house. Any candy that enters my house follows a steady tractor beam to the black hole that is my stomach.
The only candy I have in my house is sugar free and yeah too much of that is icky, but good enough to help the cravings. Thank jebus for sugar free.
Trops
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Oh, I'm not falling for that trap. I've been known to pig out on the SF or FF and end up eating more then if I had just gone with regular. Ice cream used to be a regular thing for me. Every night it was a bowl of ice cream in bed with a book. I substituded WW or FF ice cream. Then one day I noticed that I had eaten 4 WW ice cream bars. What the fuck is up with that? Check the package and if I had just had the same amount of Bryers it would have been fewer calories. Yeah, I skip it all now. If I want something like that I'll go for the real stuff and try to keep it under control.
Trops
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I'm just about back to where I was. (3 more pounds and I'm there) For me this really is a lifestyle change, so a ten pound fluctuation isn't going to change things so much. I figure I have 60 years ahead of me to get it right.
ohdiamonds
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Aww, good for you! I'm not really a fan of icecream, but I did get the watching carbs mint chocolate chip icecream. However, if im craving something sweet that is the only time I'll eat it.
Sara: i'm sorry it does that to your stomach. It's kind of bad when they actually have to put warnings on their packaging saying "may cause a laxative effect". Does Splenda do that as well? Splenda has been my savior.
tinysara
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Heya,
Splenda is the WORST OFFENDER of my intestines. Aspartame I can handle just fine. Here's why:
Splenda, unlike other sweeteners, is a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohols are exactly what is made when your body doesn't have the right enzyme to break down the sugar. When someone drinks milk, the sugar they're taking in is lactose, and they need the "lactase" to break it down into galactose and glucose (smaller, simple sugars). When they don't have lactase, nothing happens until it gets to your colon. Then your colon bacteria says "Mmmm!! Yummy, complex sugar! Lets eat!" The bacteria eats it, makes it into a sugar alcohol, which makes your colon go crazy. That's what happens when Splenda reaches my colon. My S.O. almost took me to the hospital one time because I was literally almost passed out, sweating and in immense pain...Very scary, and there's no warning the label for Splenda.
Sorry this turned into a biology lesson! I just find it interesting!
thanks for stopping by my journal BTW i really appreciated it!
Splenda is the WORST OFFENDER of my intestines. Aspartame I can handle just fine. Here's why:
Splenda, unlike other sweeteners, is a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohols are exactly what is made when your body doesn't have the right enzyme to break down the sugar. When someone drinks milk, the sugar they're taking in is lactose, and they need the "lactase" to break it down into galactose and glucose (smaller, simple sugars). When they don't have lactase, nothing happens until it gets to your colon. Then your colon bacteria says "Mmmm!! Yummy, complex sugar! Lets eat!" The bacteria eats it, makes it into a sugar alcohol, which makes your colon go crazy. That's what happens when Splenda reaches my colon. My S.O. almost took me to the hospital one time because I was literally almost passed out, sweating and in immense pain...Very scary, and there's no warning the label for Splenda.
Sorry this turned into a biology lesson! I just find it interesting!
thanks for stopping by my journal BTW i really appreciated it!
Trops
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What about Stevia? I don't know what the chemical is in it, but I used to grow the plant and the leaves were super sweet. Then I would see it in with the artificial sweeteners. Now, I wouldn't drop the leaves in my coffee, but perhaps in tea it would be nice. Of course, for sweet I always go for the honey first.
ohdiamonds
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Heya,
Splenda is the WORST OFFENDER of my intestines. Aspartame I can handle just fine. Here's why:
Splenda, unlike other sweeteners, is a sugar alcohol. Sugar alcohols are exactly what is made when your body doesn't have the right enzyme to break down the sugar. When someone drinks milk, the sugar they're taking in is lactose, and they need the "lactase" to break it down into galactose and glucose (smaller, simple sugars). When they don't have lactase, nothing happens until it gets to your colon. Then your colon bacteria says "Mmmm!! Yummy, complex sugar! Lets eat!" The bacteria eats it, makes it into a sugar alcohol, which makes your colon go crazy. That's what happens when Splenda reaches my colon. My S.O. almost took me to the hospital one time because I was literally almost passed out, sweating and in immense pain...Very scary, and there's no warning the label for Splenda.
Sorry this turned into a biology lesson! I just find it interesting!
thanks for stopping by my journal BTW i really appreciated it!
Actually, i'm interested in the whole anatomy, physiology thing. If it weren't for having to go to school for MANY, MANY, MANY years to be a doctor I would definitely want to be a doctor. It's so interesting how the body works and all the different things that can happen to a persons body and finding out ways to treat it. It's amazing.
It was no problem stopping by your journal. I'll definitely be checking it out more often to see how you're doing.
thecabbie
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Hi, just thought I'd introduce...
Saw you over in Trop's journal, figured I'd follow you over here
Feel bad that I didn't catch you earlier, but I'm not around much over the weekend. Anyway, as anyone here will tell you, I'll stop in regularly and give you support, say hi, offer suggestions (no guarantees as to the quality though), make lewd jokes, whatever...
Saw you over in Trop's journal, figured I'd follow you over here
Feel bad that I didn't catch you earlier, but I'm not around much over the weekend. Anyway, as anyone here will tell you, I'll stop in regularly and give you support, say hi, offer suggestions (no guarantees as to the quality though), make lewd jokes, whatever...
tinysara
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Trops I've never heard of Stevia, but I'm a plant enthusiast too, maybe i'll grow some myself!
Diamonds, there are lots of other options regarding going into medicine without actually taking the time to be a doctor I always thought it would be really cool to be a paramedic, although very scary...Or a nurse, or an oral hygienist, etc etc. But yeah, I don't plan to go to med school, I just want to be a genetic pathologist. It's basically being a doctor without the guess work!
Have a good night and keep your chin up!
Diamonds, there are lots of other options regarding going into medicine without actually taking the time to be a doctor
I always thought it would be really cool to be a paramedic, although very scary...Or a nurse, or an oral hygienist, etc etc. But yeah, I don't plan to go to med school, I just want to be a genetic pathologist. It's basically being a doctor without the guess work!Have a good night and keep your chin up!
ohdiamonds
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Hi, just thought I'd introduce...
Saw you over in Trop's journal, figured I'd follow you over here
Feel bad that I didn't catch you earlier, but I'm not around much over the weekend. Anyway, as anyone here will tell you, I'll stop in regularly and give you support, say hi, offer suggestions (no guarantees as to the quality though), make lewd jokes, whatever...
Aww, you're so cute! Thanks for coming in here and don't feel bad for not catching me earlier, I am fairly new so no worries.
Camy
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Hey diamonds,
I am also an emetophobic. I will get myself into a hysterical fit when I need to throw up which makes the whole process longer and more painful... Due to my (then undiscovered) celiac disease I spent the better part of 7 years with nausea and man, I was one unhappy person! Still managed to gain quite a bit of weight (eating would make me feel less nauseous) but I was addicted to some antiemetics. Not nice!
Now that my CD is under control I feel much better and although I had a really bad tummy bug with a lot of vomiting, I was not as hysterical this time round! Man that was one bitch of a tummy bug, I could not stop throwing up, lying next to the loo crying for my mom (who thankfully brought me to hospital where they had me on a drip for a day!).
I am a dr. I am currently training (ok will be training hopefully from next week onwards, still waiting for my placement to go through) in Ghana to become an obstetrician. Med school is long, especially in the states (in England it only took 5 years), and it is boring too. The interesting stuff if almost never mentioned, however receptor pharmacology (yuck) is mentioned a lot!!
It really helped me to write down everything I ate, because we are very bad judges of what we eat. maybe you could try, even just here (I have just started using Spark and that is just because I am bored waiting for my papers to be stamped, otherwise it is too time consuming). Be truthful, be honest with yourself and you will be able to sort this out.
Also, I have days when I am like "not one more apple, that is like 80 more cals" but whenever I am starving myself I lose nothing or very little, but the weeks I have a cheat or two, and ate on my upper limit, I tend to lose weight nicely. I think it is because your body knows it is getting enough to survive, so it is not holding onto the reserves with the same might.
Finally, artificial sugars and sweeteners are bad for you. They cause all sorts of problems (such as memory loss, etc) and can even make losing weight mroe difficult. There are studies in rats that show that when we eat sugar the stomach tells the brain when it is full and we feel satisfied and stop eating. However sweeteners do not give the brain that signal so we eat more. I would try to cut the sweeteners down to a minimum. I still drank a frappuccino most days (with sweeteners) but cut out diet sodas, and sugarfree sweet stuff, because the aspartame and other sweeteners are really not that great (plus they taste sweeter than natural sugars and then fruit doesn't taste as sweet!).
This is just a suggestion, but after reading a few studies on artificial sweeteners, I was pretty quickly convinced that I did not want that in my diet!!
Have a great day, Camy
I am also an emetophobic. I will get myself into a hysterical fit when I need to throw up which makes the whole process longer and more painful... Due to my (then undiscovered) celiac disease I spent the better part of 7 years with nausea and man, I was one unhappy person! Still managed to gain quite a bit of weight (eating would make me feel less nauseous) but I was addicted to some antiemetics. Not nice!
Now that my CD is under control I feel much better and although I had a really bad tummy bug with a lot of vomiting, I was not as hysterical this time round! Man that was one bitch of a tummy bug, I could not stop throwing up, lying next to the loo crying for my mom (who thankfully brought me to hospital where they had me on a drip for a day!).
I am a dr. I am currently training (ok will be training hopefully from next week onwards, still waiting for my placement to go through) in Ghana to become an obstetrician. Med school is long, especially in the states (in England it only took 5 years), and it is boring too. The interesting stuff if almost never mentioned, however receptor pharmacology (yuck) is mentioned a lot!!
It really helped me to write down everything I ate, because we are very bad judges of what we eat. maybe you could try, even just here (I have just started using Spark and that is just because I am bored waiting for my papers to be stamped, otherwise it is too time consuming). Be truthful, be honest with yourself and you will be able to sort this out.
Also, I have days when I am like "not one more apple, that is like 80 more cals" but whenever I am starving myself I lose nothing or very little, but the weeks I have a cheat or two, and ate on my upper limit, I tend to lose weight nicely. I think it is because your body knows it is getting enough to survive, so it is not holding onto the reserves with the same might.
Finally, artificial sugars and sweeteners are bad for you. They cause all sorts of problems (such as memory loss, etc) and can even make losing weight mroe difficult. There are studies in rats that show that when we eat sugar the stomach tells the brain when it is full and we feel satisfied and stop eating. However sweeteners do not give the brain that signal so we eat more. I would try to cut the sweeteners down to a minimum. I still drank a frappuccino most days (with sweeteners) but cut out diet sodas, and sugarfree sweet stuff, because the aspartame and other sweeteners are really not that great (plus they taste sweeter than natural sugars and then fruit doesn't taste as sweet!).
This is just a suggestion, but after reading a few studies on artificial sweeteners, I was pretty quickly convinced that I did not want that in my diet!!
Have a great day, Camy
FatPanda
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Hey ohdiamonds,
I was pointed back here after tinysara mentioned that you worked at Burger King(which I now see in the questions you answered on the 3rd post doh).
I can relate to you as I also work in a restaurant and it's a very hard thing to diet when you have "cheat" foods all around you.
That other guy had a great suggestions as to bring your own lunch or if your pressed for time and or forget eat the lower calorie options. I know at my job I always have a can of cashews on hand if I feel like I have to eat a snack at work instead of fries for example.
Another suggestion is if you like rice to bring a rice cooker and leave it at work(if they will let you). Then on your break or whenever you eat, cook some rice, some veggies, take the chicken(the non-breaded kind) and put it on the rice, add your favorite sauce for flavor and wallah cheap , tasty, and relatively good for you.
As far as aspartame being bad for you, I've read a ton of stories for and against it. One thing I can say, is I know I can't through a whole shift without some caffeine (and I know that's bad) but if I have to drink soda, I will choose the one without calories. The thing I have done to help me drink less is, before I can have a diet soda, I have to drink whatever size soda I was going to drink(say 22oz) of water first.
Good luck and I hope I helped some let me know if you ever need to talk,
.
I was pointed back here after tinysara mentioned that you worked at Burger King(which I now see in the questions you answered on the 3rd post doh).
I can relate to you as I also work in a restaurant and it's a very hard thing to diet when you have "cheat" foods all around you.
That other guy had a great suggestions as to bring your own lunch or if your pressed for time and or forget eat the lower calorie options. I know at my job I always have a can of cashews on hand if I feel like I have to eat a snack at work instead of fries for example.
Another suggestion is if you like rice to bring a rice cooker and leave it at work(if they will let you). Then on your break or whenever you eat, cook some rice, some veggies, take the chicken(the non-breaded kind) and put it on the rice, add your favorite sauce for flavor and wallah cheap , tasty, and relatively good for you.
As far as aspartame being bad for you, I've read a ton of stories for and against it. One thing I can say, is I know I can't through a whole shift without some caffeine (and I know that's bad) but if I have to drink soda, I will choose the one without calories. The thing I have done to help me drink less is, before I can have a diet soda, I have to drink whatever size soda I was going to drink(say 22oz) of water first.
Good luck and I hope I helped some let me know if you ever need to talk,
.