Quote from: sonopoly on July 26, 2010, 04:36:50 PM
I agree with you, Izumi, regarding the metabolism thing. I think that that has a lot more to do with things than actually calorie intake and burnoff. I wish they'd do a really good study of calorie intake and burnoff to test this. Metabolism seems to be a very gray area. We are are not built and work in the same way.
Another diet tip I would suggest in addition to eating smaller meals throughout the day and exercising is to try to eat foods with higher fiber -- breads (check the fiber content), pasta (they make pastas now that have higher fiber content), rice (short-grained brown rice).
Izumi, I am Japanese, is your screen name Japanese? How did you come to choose this?
As for the fiber thing your right on. Its funny you mentioned Japanese, because in Japan their really arent a lot of people who are overweight, the simple fact attributed to this is that the food they eat dont contain as much sugars and they prefer tea to soft drinks or sweet juices. I mean people forget that 1 cup of grape juice is 160 calories, but a cup of green tea is 0 calories. Also, other then the diet they move around more, walking being the main form of transportation.
I pointed out earlier that healthy dieting doesnt mean starving yourself, it means adjusting what you eat and how its prepared. Instead of butter use pam for instance, instead of actual eggs use egg beaters, I personally can make a lot of low calorie foods that taste amazingly good, the key to is it, is that i measure using a scale to determine the exact amount of servings, and if your still hungry eat more veggies or fruits. I am sure a banana at the end of a meal will fill you up as much as another side of fries, it does for me. Fries are 280 calories, banana is 70. The problem most people get into is that they estimate wrongly the amount of calories they take in. They dont take into account cooking methods, spices, and other things. Adding Mayo to a meal increases it by 80 calories. Thats like a whole fruit portion for 2tbsp of mayo? Which is more filling?
Oh my name Izumi comes from Konata Izumi from Lucky Star anime. She is almost an exact copy of me. ^_^b so i am a manga /anime fan, but not your typical one i am very active in sports and outside activities and i am interested in Japanese culture as a whole, art / history, literature, all that stuff. I studied Japanese for a time but let my skills slip, my reading and writing suck now, but my conversation Japanese is still ok, enough to get around by myself in Japan and hold non-complex conversations with people. I even wrote Japanese Tanka poetry at one point in my life, someone at a bar bet me i couldn't make one up in 5 minutes, I bet him a beer i could, I won, the bartender and the people around me just said "wow, that was... profound", one guy said i was more Japanese then Japanese people LOL. My typical night out in Japan was going to some hole in the wall and just listening to music while enjoying a drink before i went home, however, typically someone would want to talk to me and the next thing i know its 4am in the morning and i have 6 new friends and we are all a little drunk after singing karaoke and drinking. I love Japan. ^_^
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Quote from: sonopoly on July 26, 2010, 04:36:50 PM
I agree with you, Izumi, regarding the metabolism thing. I think that that has a lot more to do with things than actually calorie intake and burnoff. I wish they'd do a really good study of calorie intake and burnoff to test this. Metabolism seems to be a very gray area. We are are not built and work in the same way.
Another diet tip I would suggest in addition to eating smaller meals throughout the day and exercising is to try to eat foods with higher fiber -- breads (check the fiber content), pasta (they make pastas now that have higher fiber content), rice (short-grained brown rice).
Izumi, I am Japanese, is your screen name Japanese? How did you come to choose this?
I forgot to mention my IRL name change will have a Japanese middle name given to me by my JP friends, my first name given to me by my mom, otherwise i would have used my JP name as my first, but my mom accepted me, and even gave me a name she would have called me if i was born this way to start.