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ReyneDROP

Joined April 2010

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Start Weight

131.6 lb

Lost so far: 2.2 lb

Current Weight

129.4 lb
Performance: losing 0.2 lb a week

Goal Weight

117.0 lb

Still to go: 12.4 lb

Hey there, I'm Reyne. I'm basically insane. I'm almost 16 go to a community college; am obsessed with math, chemistry, and health; write novels; and basically love everything. Since June 26, 2009, I've been trying to lose weight, but somewhere around August and September my focus shifted more towards health. I've hit ups and downs like any teenager, and thus, so has my health. Now, I'm trying to lose another 15 pounds, keep my grades up, manage my low blood pressure (yes, that can happen, and yes, it sucks), maintain adequate intake levels of most if not all vitamins and minerals, gain some strength(I'm so weak), and motivate others!

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The Reason Why You Cannot Lose Weight
To the person who said that "toning" is a myth:
Your muscles are made out of fibers. Most often, especially in women, all of the fibers are not being engaged when we do something that requires muscle use. When you start to strength train, it can activate more of the muscle fibers so that the muscle becomes stronger, but isn't getting bigger really. What is generally meant by "toning" is the fat that covers the muscle is diminished, the excess fibers are being activated for the most part, you get enough b-vitamins (a deficiency leads the muscle to feel squishy, especially in the calves), and maybe they get just a bit bigger, but not too much.

And like the people above me said, you can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time... It's just usually when people go to lose weight, they lose some muscle mass at the same time. Usually.

At the 800 calorie thing: Going below 1200 calories a day isn't recommended for adults, but for some people it's necessary, and the best way to find out if your body will be okay with it is by talking to a doctor. I think it's great you all know about starvation mode (as a teenager who likes to shed the "healthy lifestyle light" on others, I'm used to hearing about girls who think it's safe for them to eat 1,000 calories a day and then they wonder why they aren't losing weight), just remember that the point is different for everybody, and as long as she has her doctor's OK, there isn't anything wrong with eating less.

posted 16 Apr 2010, 18:55

Is 0 Calories Really 0 Calories?
Iwark is right. Food labels are only required to be correct within 5 or 10 calories per serving, which means something that if something has 2 calories in it, it can be listed as "calorie free." They have rules like that for fats, carbs, and proteins too. For instance, if a product has 11.8 grams of protein in it, they can market it as 12 grams, and if a product has "0 grams trans fat!" on the label, it can have .4 grams of trans fat, really.

Many cooking sprays do this. Most of us don't bother to measure out 1/3 of a second when we're spraying our pans and actually end up putting a full second or two into it, which actually can have 10 calories or more.

Splenda also "tricks" people. One or two packets may be able to be listed as a "calorie free" food, but if you look at the packaging of the big boxes of the packets, it'll say that after so many packets, it is no longer counted as calorie free. Weird, right?

For anybody who cares, one calorie, by definition, is the amount of energy is takes to heat 1 gram of pure water by 1 degree celsius. A dietary calorie (what us calorie counters count as "one calorie" Wink

is also called a kilocalorie (kCal) or Calorie, which is 1,000 calories. What happens is that something is burned and it releases energy as heat... and that's how people tell how many "calories" a substance has. I've found calories in potato chips by myself once. It was fun and disgusting haha. Anyways, the three biomolecules- fats, carbohydrates, and proteins- are the three biggest types of molecules that provide any substantial amount of energy. Fats contribute roughly 9 Calories per gram and protein and carbs contribute about 4. Of course, not all carbs are equal... sugar alcohols contribute 1-3 Calories, fiber may contribute no calories, etc. But, when you break apart ANY molecule, you either require energy or get energy... for your purpose, think of everything you put in your mouth as releasing energy when broken down. It's just that it might be only a few calories- less than even half of a Calorie.

So yeah. If any of that made sense....

posted 16 Apr 2010, 18:38

Calorie Breakdown
I am for 25% protein, 25% fat, and 50% carbs. I'm not sure what is recommended, but I just like it I guess, plus I'm young and get to eat 1800 calories a day and still lose weight, so it's easy for me.

posted 14 Apr 2010, 21:22

Eating and Exercising Late
How is your sleep schedule? Plan around that. Most peoples' days start around 7 or 8, but yours might start at 11. If you don't get up until 11, there isn't much harm going to bed at 2:30 or 3. That being said, exercising when you get home at 11 isn't such an issue. There are gyms that are open late at night, too. That being said, it also depends on how you workout. I'm young and my parents supply me with quietish ways to work out effectively at night if I so choose, so I can stay up to do something. You, though, might not have those resources or have kids you can't wake up or apartment neighbors or something. If that's the case, try going to bed at earlier and waking up earlier to exercise.

When it comes to eating, the truth is that it doesn't matter when you eat. There are guidelines to follow for high-performance (for runners who are trying to improve time, etc), but for weight loss, it really doesn't matter. Having a piece of fruit at 11:30 PM has the same effect as eating it at 11:30 AM. So, just don't worry! Stay in your calories! And do NOT stay up to "process food." Your body needs the sleep more.

posted 13 Apr 2010, 21:19

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