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Hi Everyone! I decided to join the forum today so I could keep track of progress and reach my goals. My goals are to be healthy, lose fat, be fit, and be happy. Seems like my goals are pretty much like everyone else, right? Right!

I'm 5'4'' and I weigh 127.2 lbs. I'm Asian and 19 years old. Last year in high school. Yay! Okay, the Asian, age, and my last year in high school part are irrevelant. I know I know.

I do not keep track of calories. It's hard because I hardly know what type of ingredients my mom put in her food. Like the amount of salt, sugar, some type of Asian ingredients that I can not read in. I guess you can tell how illiterate I am in my own language. Very sad, indeed.

Currently, I'm still will be attending school until June 3rd and have a graduation party on June 10th. This means I will not be eating healthy like the way I want to eat.

This is what the day is like for me.

Breakfast at 6:30 - I drink this energy drink called TRAC (from GNC). I tend to feel sick if I eat something in the morning. My brother keeps on telling me to drink this so I could feel "energized." He thinks he is Mr. Macho Personal Trainer know it all.

All day Class/ Studying/ HW There are no breaks at all.

Lunch at 11:55-12:15 - Water. Whatever school is serving.

Before Workout Snack at 2:30 - TRAC Energy Drink

Workout at 3 til 3:30 or 4 - Strength Training on MWT Cardio (Running) on STFS <--- It's a good thing the 7th day is not called U something day. Because that would be a really bad abbreviation for my cardio days. LOL

Shower at 4

Dinner at 4:30 or 5 - Mom's cooking. Usually meat, vegetables, vegetable soup and white rice. Every dinner, there is white rice. I usually drink 1 bottle of water or more.

Snack at 7 - Some vegetable drink that taste disgusting. Mom thinks I don't get enough vegetables and "Mr. Macho Personal Trainer" brother of mine suggested I drink it. He and mom got it for me at GNC. I hate that drink. I have fruits. Apples, anyone?

HW

11 - SLEEP

As you can see, my eating plan is horrible. I know I have to try to eat something in the morning without getting sick. Does anyone ever get sick when eating breakfast besides me?

I know I have to eat 5 or 6 small meals a day. There has to a mixture of pcf. Sadly, I won't be able to eat every 3 hours in order to have or 6 meals a day and that it should be balance. Look at my schedule! It sux. Counting calories? So not going to help me unless I cook everything by myself which will be after June 10, 2007. No school, but work. With work, comes with money. Money comes time to buy healthy foods and paying off my college tuition. I promise or should I say, I PINKY SWEAR I will eat healthy after June 10, 2007, my last day of unhealthy gluttony. :)

One more thing, white rice....

Okay, I always thought white rice was good for you ever since I was little because I was brought up that way. White rice is the most important to have in every meal. Then when I joined Cross Country, it was important to have carbs to have energy. Okay, I'm going on a tangent. What I'm trying to say is, am I going to have to avoid white rice til I reach my goals (Damn, that means no sushi for a while.)? Even that means no white rice when I join the Cross Country team in college? I know I have to substitute white rice for brown rice. What brand is the best for brown rice because I have no idea?

Any suggestions/tips on what I should eat or how to overcome my sickness when it comes to eating breakfast would be great.

Sorry for such a long post. I'll update tomorrow.

Thanks for reading!
 
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Welcome to the forums - as you probably already know, you need more real food in your plan, and ditch the energy drinks. Assuming you don't have the drink when you attempt to eat breakfast, do you think it's possible you're suffering from withdrawals from the energy drink? That said - I've found that oatmeal for breakfast is quite a good choice, along with skim milk, orange juice and a banana. If I'm really hungry, I'll have a couple of egg whites too. Or, you could opt to make a smoothie from skim milk, a frozen banana and a handful or two of frozen fruit.

As for the rice, or just about any other food, the less packaging the better. The store I go to has organic brown rice in large bins that I can scoop out whatever I'd like. See if there's something like that in your area and take advantage of it.

Also, it looks like your mom is right - you only get maybe 1 serving of vegetables a day. A varied diet (pick a different color veggie each day) of fresh produce would help too. Add fruit in too, but I understand it's best to have finished the fruit before the mid-late afternoon.

And snacking: With a bit of advance planning you could have healthy snacks with you during the day so as to take care of that situation.

Not that I'm a nutritionist or anything - I just know what's worked for me. Good luck.
 
stingo said:
Welcome to the forums - as you probably already know, you need more real food in your plan, and ditch the energy drinks. Assuming you don't have the drink when you attempt to eat breakfast, do you think it's possible you're suffering from withdrawals from the energy drink? That said - I've found that oatmeal for breakfast is quite a good choice, along with skim milk, orange juice and a banana. If I'm really hungry, I'll have a couple of egg whites too. Or, you could opt to make a smoothie from skim milk, a frozen banana and a handful or two of frozen fruit.
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Thank you! :)

Not really. I usually just drink water or orange juice for breakfast. I think I'm going to try having smoothie for breakfast since it's all liquid and I might not get pukey.

stingo said:
As for the rice, or just about any other food, the less packaging the better. The store I go to has organic brown rice in large bins that I can scoop out whatever I'd like. See if there's something like that in your area and take advantage of it.

Also, it looks like your mom is right - you only get maybe 1 serving of vegetables a day. A varied diet (pick a different color veggie each day) of fresh produce would help too. Add fruit in too, but I understand it's best to have finished the fruit before the mid-late afternoon.

And snacking: With a bit of advance planning you could have healthy snacks with you during the day so as to take care of that situation.

Not that I'm a nutritionist or anything - I just know what's worked for me. Good luck.
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:rolleyes: I guess I'll have to find it. I wonder if Shaws or Stop and Shop have it. My mom is right? I hate it when she is right. LOL. Why is the best to have fruit before the mid-late afternoon? Do you mean like during lunch time or before workout?
 
I understand that simple carbs are processed more efficiently in the morning and early afternoon - is why I have mine in the morning.
 
x] Turtle said:
:D 30 lbs! Congratulations!

I will listen to stingo. :eek: I have so much to learn. :p At least this is better than learning AP English. Yes-sir-ree!
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AP English only sucks because you have to read what they tell you to read - literature's a bit more fun than that, once you get the schools out of the way.

As for listening to me - take what I say with a grain of salt... You have to find out what works for you, and go with it.

[soapbox]A general rule I follow - the more whole, natural foods you eat the better off you'll be performance-wise and weight-wise. To me that means you should be able to get most of if not all of your nutrients from a well-balanced diet. As that's not generally practical in day to day living, taking a multivitamin to fill in the gaps seems like a good idea. If I want more proteins, I'll eat more protein-rich foods, like chicken or fish. If I want more carbs, I'll eat more brown rice, potatoes etc. If I want more healthy fats, I'll have nuts, or peanut butter etc.

You may have already made the connection that cooking for yourself is a REALLY great way to ensure you have the food plan you want. In that sense you're only limited to what your cooking ablities can produce (which grows a lot as you practice). Readers of my diary know that I've prepared some interesting international dishes (pineapple chicken lo mein, vegetable biryani, raita and naan, irish pub stew and soda bread to name a few) all of which were tasty, healthy, and good for me. You can do the same.[/soapbox]

(I honestly don't know why I'm so verbose tonight - please bear with me lol.)

At any rate, check out the various sections of the forums, and be sure to read the stickied threads at the tops of each - they're loaded with good information (which is why they're stickied) - and always ask questions.
 
stingo said:
AP English only sucks because you have to read what they tell you to read - literature's a bit more fun than that, once you get the schools out of the way.

As for listening to me - take what I say with a grain of salt... You have to find out what works for you, and go with it.

[soapbox]A general rule I follow - the more whole, natural foods you eat the better off you'll be performance-wise and weight-wise. To me that means you should be able to get most of if not all of your nutrients from a well-balanced diet. As that's not generally practical in day to day living, taking a multivitamin to fill in the gaps seems like a good idea. If I want more proteins, I'll eat more protein-rich foods, like chicken or fish. If I want more carbs, I'll eat more brown rice, potatoes etc. If I want more healthy fats, I'll have nuts, or peanut butter etc.

You may have already made the connection that cooking for yourself is a REALLY great way to ensure you have the food plan you want. In that sense you're only limited to what your cooking ablities can produce (which grows a lot as you practice). Readers of my diary know that I've prepared some interesting international dishes (pineapple chicken lo mein, vegetable biryani, raita and naan, irish pub stew and soda bread to name a few) all of which were tasty, healthy, and good for me. You can do the same.[/soapbox]

(I honestly don't know why I'm so verbose tonight - please bear with me lol.)

At any rate, check out the various sections of the forums, and be sure to read the stickied threads at the tops of each - they're loaded with good information (which is why they're stickied) - and always ask questions.
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:( You're making me hungry. It's 11 PM. I guess what you are trying to say is I have to look for organic foods.

Ha ha it's okay. I forgive you for being so "verbose" tonight. LOL.

I will check other forums as well. LOL I probably have to take down notes.

Thanks for helping me!
 
x] Turtle said:
:( You're making me hungry. It's 11 PM. I guess what you are trying to say is I have to look for organic foods.

Ha ha it's okay. I forgive you for being so "verbose" tonight. LOL.

I will check other forums as well. LOL I probably have to take down notes.

Thanks for helping me!
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Not necessarily organic, just whole, natural foods with as little packaging as possible.

And I was meaning the weight loss section of this forum when I suggested looking around....
 
Calories

Okay this is what I got from . I am not sure how accurate this calculator is, but here goes nothing.

Maintenance- 2190 calories/day
Fat Loss- 1752 calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss- 1314

Since I'm trying to lose fat, I have to eat 1752 calories per day.

I tried the Body Fat calculator from that web site. It said 27.76%, which is moderate. Not sure, how accurate that one is either.

Nutrition- I'm planning to eat 6 meals a day.

Grams/Day - C-262g P-109g F- 29g
Grams/ Meal - C- 43.7g P-18.2g F-4.8g
Calories/ Day - C-1051 calories P-438 calories F-263 calories
Calories/ Meal - C- 175.2 calories P- 73 calories F- 43.8 calories


So for each meal I have to have 292 calories! :confused:

Either that calculator is on crack, or that I did not enter the right info which I'm pretty sure that I did.

Time to do term paper.
 
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