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byebyemeat

Grocery Shopping for a Vegan

Apr 23, 2007 23:34

Day: 11
Weight: 220
Thought for the day: The Cats Really Do Hate Us

Rose and I went to Shoprite after work to buy more groceries, we managed to fill the fridge again in short order and seemed to have doubled up on some of the items: 4 quarts of OJ, 6 quarts of soy milk. Almost enough to bathe in. Total came to $87.76 which is actually cheaper than our ( Read more... )

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Comments 9

anonymous April 25 2007, 00:38:39 UTC

What is your target weight after 40 days?? I have just been looking at some video of you at 17 and you were skinny........albeit with a big ass!

Dad

dhenninger April 25 2007, 01:41:41 UTC

your Dad is awesome!

byebyemeat April 25 2007, 04:10:14 UTC

Where do you think I got the big ass from? And it aint big, it's perky!

anonymous April 25 2007, 21:06:32 UTC

Mum?

travelin_rose April 25 2007, 02:16:50 UTC

This may or may not be helpful...it's a bit of math...

In the nutrition class I took at university, we learned that no more than 30% of calories should come from fat; 10-15% should come from lean protein; 55-60 should come from carbs.

So on a 1400-calorie diet, between 140 & 150 calories should come from protein. Protein has 4 calories per gram, so the target is between 35 and 37-ish protein grams.

Rose, friend of Slay

byebyemeat April 25 2007, 04:09:20 UTC

Well that's the best information I have seen, all the other google searches just found health blogs where or health marketing websites trying to sell me something. None were particularly helpful.

anonymous April 25 2007, 15:52:36 UTC

only 1000 to 1400 calories a day?? you are starving yourself and will never lose weight at that rate!!! even with WW, and not taking into consideration your gender and age, you should be starting at 21-22 points! which is like minimum of 1100 calories! Men get 8 additional points or at least 400 more calories! I would aim for 1500 minimum boy!!!!! -Meg

Eat up man! meatpop6cle April 26 2007, 03:32:12 UTC

Man, I gotta chime in here. 1000-1400 cal/day is way low based on what I've read. Sure it's common among the popular diets because it gets quick results. In less than two weeks you've dropped what, 14 pounds? Just try to keep the rate up there buddy. Not going to happen. Why do you think so many people fail their diets? Because they're not sustainable. There's a lot of consensus that it's not safe to loose more than 2 pounds per week. Loose more than that, and your body's starvation response kicks in. It keeps the fat and burns muscle. Want to loose fat? Identify a group that has a proven track record of loosing fat, then emulate them... and I'm not talking about Ethiopians! You want to keep the muscle!

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Re: Eat up man! byebyemeat April 26 2007, 03:34:03 UTC

Including fluids it actually turns out to be around 1800-2000 calories a day. Except when you forget lunch like I did today.