3 plums

[goatschool]

tea, a bowl of miso and a white peach and a few handfuls of faux-cheerios

this is my new diet.

 

[minxnim]

is this your fast?

 

[chupe666]

i buy some stuff at aldi, so all my cereal is faux-XXX.
and i have 2 plums today for lunch, which i will comsume momentarily.

 

[goatschool]

this is pre-fast

 

[goatschool]

what i mean to say is, no, this isn't the fast

 

[goatschool]

hopefully, what i can subsist on for the rest of my life.

 

[chupe666]

now the plums are gone- i'm still hungry. looking at cookbooks on lunch break doesn't help. images of homemade flatbread pizza dance thru my head.

 

[lizard]

or a delish stromboli.

 

[minxnim]

dude if you ate that forever your metabolism would turn you into a sloth. the minute you ate something with more than 200 calories in it, you'd gain like 10 pounds!

 

[chupe666]

does exercising boost your metabolism?

 

[minxnim]

exercise does speed your metabolism, but it generally is understood that you have to exercise very regularly (at least 4 times a week) for at least 20-30 minutes a day, and it has to be cardiovascular exercise (meaning it increases your breathing and heart rate to a certain higher level for your age and weight group.

 

[minxnim]

here's a calculator:
http://stevenscreek.com/goodies/hr.shtml

but essentially, in order to boost your metabolism, you gotta get winded and sort of sweaty for about 20-30 minutes a day, and increase it as it becomes too easy.

 

[minxnim]

also, i mean, if anyone is really curious about things:
here you can calculate your general ideal body weight:
http://www.caloriecontrol.org/ibw.html

how many calories you need to maintain your current weight:
http://www.caloriecontrol.org/calcalcs.html

what your body mass index is:
http://www.caloriecontrol.org/bmi.html

 

[chupe666]

i'm right below the healthy weight for my height! actually, by these, i'm normal.
i don't feel normal though.

 

[FalseTodd]

I am 25 lbs. overweight. :|

 

[minxnim]

well, you should both remember that these are standard measures, and they don't account for people with particularly small body frames for their height, or particularly large ones either. they're just averages.

 

[minxnim]

also, your BMI is more indicative than the other stat.

 

[FalseTodd]

No in this case I think it's pretty much right on the money. I mean I have a slightly large frame, but as Homer J. sez: "C'mon, nobody gains 30 pounds of bone!"

I'm currently typing in that I weigh 375 lbs and am 3 ft. 1" in the hopes that someone is monitoring the input and is currently dispatching emergency response units to my work...

 

[minxnim]

they'll trace your IP and when you leave work there'll be a slim fast sales rep outside with a box of samples.

(FYI, if you cut out only 40 calories a day, which is half an apple... after a year you'd lose about 10 pounds)

 

[goatschool]

i like teh plums