She's building a home gym, dahling

Stairs are always a killer. Actually kira, it doesnt matter how little ur exercises are. IMHO maintaining the momentum (doing it everyday) is more important.

Btw losing weight slowly is better than rapid weight loss. I lost 8% of my body weight in 2 months and I have ugly stretch marks everywhere. Bleh

Exactly why I cant explain why I only love cardio after weights. Cardio when body's stone cold is blergh.

I'm not even worried about small items like diet soda and tictacs. Her diet is still high on refined carbs and processed food and ocassional binging.

Kira your diet still lacks protein eventho not as bad as before. Sugarless/Artificially sweetened coffee 2x a day is fine, btw. Coffee doesnt make you fat. In fact it makes you burn a lil bit more calories.

In my humble opinion,

Sugar-free aint always good. Coffeemate non-dairy creamers contain vegetable fat solids and that's trans fat for you. If possible stick to real milk. If you're lactose intolerant, try vanilla whey.

Artificial sweetener may not be good, but sugar is eviler. I've never heard of people died from excessive aspartame but I'm sure I've heard people died from diabetes before. There are alternatives like Splenda (made from sugar, almost calorie-free, which I'm using but its not sold in Malaysia, gotta import) or Stevia (marketed under brand Greenlite in Malaysia).

This post has been edited by Syd G: Apr 18 2007, 09:50 AM

For the love of Diet, diet coke has neither sugar nor calories!

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This post has been edited by Syd G: Apr 18 2007, 10:57 AM

It's artificially sweetened with aspartame (Equal/PalSweet). So no significant cals, just bitter-sweet aftertaste.

In my book, oreos are crappier than diet coke

Okay maybe I should clear up the difference between empty calories and no calories.

No cals = Things that you consume that doesnt give you energy - water, diet soda, plastic, dust etc

Empty cals = Things with A LOT of energy and that's it - it doesnt make you full nor has significant nutritional values. Sugar, junk food, ice creams, pringles , sweetened drinks you get the dig

Since we're on the topic of diet soda - I live on Pepsi Max. It tastes better than Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi and has zero cals n sugar too. Tastes sweeter due to another additional sweetener - Acesulfame Potassium that helps mimic the taste of sugar when coupled with Aspartame.

Downside - Bloody addictive. I could finish one 1.5l bottle in a day

Funny fact, I had A&W root beer float the other day. It tasted so sweet that I almost had a headache. My friend all looked at me one kind when I complained of the sweetness.

Apparently since I havent been drinking sugary drinks for so long, my tongue is so sensitive to sweetness that I cant tolerate non-diet soda drinks anymore. Which is a good thing, right?

I hope you choke on your Coke, Greg. They say "3 secs on your lips, 3 years on your hips" haha.

Waaaaa nobody loves Pepsi Max as much as I do? *cries at a corner*

1 scoop of vanilla ice cream has around 17g carbs, 8g fat. 1 serving of root bear has 29g of carbs.

So rootbeer float with 2 scoops of ice cream has a whopping 63g of carbs and 16g of fat which totalled up to almost 400kcals! Whoopee!

1 g of carbs = 4kcals
1 g of fat = 9 kcals

root beer - 29g of carbs
2 ice creams - 34 of carbs, 16g of fat

add them both, 63g c, 16g f.

63 x 4 = 252kcals, 16 x 9 = 144kcals

Total : 396kcals

Thats not good news given the fact that most people here dont do their cardio dues no?

Waist != belly button. Go remeasure

Eat less and you'll have more trouble burning fat cause ur in starvation mode dy.

But I'm sure you know that

Kira, iPod shuffle gen 2 is wicked. I clip it on my sports bra and I now refuse to run the treadmill without it.

Weight loss starts from the mind. Once you think that it's a possible feat, you'll automatically be able to make better choice of food, avoid binging and keep your exercises regular.

Ah.. I have a pair of Nike+ shoes. And a shuffle

Shoes are decent. Too expensive, actually. But they dont give me the stupid calf pain whenever I run with my other flat trainer.

A good pair of sports bra?

Btw you need new gym attire after losing 30lbs, IMHO

Oatmeal + cold milk + honey = One of my carb-up indulgence

*screams* WHERE ARE YOUR PROTEINNNNNSSSSSSS AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *wiggles hand up in the air and runs around like a a headless chicken*