Help! I just noticed I'm not 20; not even 40 anymore! - Page 2

#11 07-20-2007, 02:42 PM

I was very active, exercised up until my eighth month
for all of my three kids, after having them, exercised
and ate a of a lot less.

I mean virtually half of what I ate when I was preggers.

I exersised so that a month after the babies I was about
ten pounds 'overweight'.

I tend to do the 'Calvin' test...if my clothes feel tight,
I fast and washout until they fit right.

I am a vegan, and I eat small portions.
For dinner, for example, I make vegatarian lasagne.
I cut it portions into the size of a two brownies.

That's what I'm going to eat.

I eat slow, I chew, and finish. Since I already measured
out my potion, there's no food on the plate, and it's a
small plate.

I don't take feeling hungry as a kind of torment.
I don't have to eat the whole one portion bag of
like potato chips, (for an example) three is enough.

I drink a lot of natural juice, force myself to drink
water every time I'm near the kitchen.

I'm just conscious of eatting.
Most people aren't conscious of it.

They are eating and talking, and shovelling.

I'm the same size I was since I was fourteen.

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**JubesInquest** · #12 07-23-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by kaylar

I was very active, exercised up until my eighth month
for all of my three kids, after having them, exercised
and ate a of a lot less.

I mean virtually half of what I ate when I was preggers.

I exersised so that a month after the babies I was about
ten pounds 'overweight'.

I tend to do the 'Calvin' test...if my clothes feel tight,
I fast and washout until they fit right.

I am a vegan, and I eat small portions.
For dinner, for example, I make vegatarian lasagne.
I cut it portions into the size of a two brownies.

That's what I'm going to eat.

I eat slow, I chew, and finish. Since I already measured
out my potion, there's no food on the plate, and it's a
small plate.

I don't take feeling hungry as a kind of torment.
I don't have to eat the whole one portion bag of
like potato chips, (for an example) three is enough.

I drink a lot of natural juice, force myself to drink
water every time I'm near the kitchen.

I'm just conscious of eatting.
Most people aren't conscious of it.

They are eating and talking, and shovelling.

I'm the same size I was since I was fourteen.

You gotta admire Kaylar's discipline!!!

I don't eat much either, Kaylar. I drink plenty of water (that's my main drink); I've changed from drinking milk to soy milk (I've got to get used to the taste. It's not bad, tastes like liquid cool whip, LOL)

I'm enjoying plenty of salads as well.
I eat lots of veggies and I mainly eat fish, shrimp and chicken -- cutting back on the beef and hardly eat pork.

Since the "berries" are in season, I've been using those for snacking and dessert, just mixing cherries, strawberries and blueberries together (YUM!)

My "chips" of choice are multi-grain "Sunchips" by Frito-Lay.
They are sooooo good.

**housewife** · #13 07-25-2007, 11:42 AM

good advice Kaylar

I am very skinny too, so I don't really watch what I eat, but comparing to you, I am a big eater; I enjoy cooking and baking and eat what I cook.
But maybe when I turn 30 I will start thinking healthy.

Kaykar, I am just curious about how you look .

#14 07-25-2007, 12:26 PM

If you buy clothes that fit close, you don't really have
to think about what you eat, more than if you can't
get into the clothes.

My daughter went from a size 1 to a size 10 within a
couple of years, simply because she went away, and
just started to eat. The lovely little wedding gown
I had for her can't fit on her nose, she is going to
get married in some enormous fat dress.

It took her years to put on the weight, and each
time she went up a size, having no discipline she
just bought bigger clothes.

She had been a fashion model, so one would say,
hey...but she is the kind that if you buy a box
of donuts, she must eat every one.

She can't not eat.

Now an average person who had been a model
who was careful with her weight would, as soon
as she went to 2 say, "I'm gaining weight", and
stop herself.

But like most people, she never seems to be able
to stop.

The problem is being able to stop. Not being afraid
of hunger.

Look, sometimes you could be very hungry, and you
are away from home, and there isn't one place you
see you'd let your dog eat, and you just have to
wait until you get home, or get poisoned.

My secretary learned her lesson. She was hungry
she ran into this horrible place, ate bad meat, wound
up in the hospital, along with her friend from across the
street, whose father actually managed a great restaurant
some miles away.

Her father and I sat in awe and spoke about them in
the hospital, wondering how people who left their
houses at eight could be so hungry in four hours that
they would have to eat in such a place.

I'm very careful about where I eat, I like to see the
kitchen of restaurants. You'd be surprised how many
places if you saw the kitchen you wouldn't drink water
there.

**housewife** · #15 07-25-2007, 02:09 PM

I share you daughter the idea of eating a whole box of doughnut
But in my case, I make my doughnuts myself
So I like to double the batch.

My average weight is 118 pounds, if I gain weight it would be 3 more pounds, which is OK for me, I don't gain weight easily.

I like to dine out, but never thought to have a look at the kitchen there, because I always assume there are certain rules and conditions for customers safety such as all the cooks should wear gloves while cooking.

#16 07-25-2007, 04:50 PM

You better take a look in some kitchens.

I was at a very fancy hotel and actually
went into the kitchen by a back door, because
I wasn't paying attention to where I was going.

When I looked into that room, I would not eat
anything at that place. I mean the floor was
like you could stick to it. And the lights were
dim and the walls were like the plaster would
be chipping.

This was a five star hotel, and since that horrible
moment, I always look in the kitchen before I order.
And if I can't see the kitchen, I just don't eat there.

I have never seen anyone wears gloves in the kitchen
save the one washing the dishes.

I don't eat anything with mayonnaise on it too, because
many restaurants don't keep it refridgerated or use it
after it expires.

**housewife** · #17 07-26-2007, 07:46 AM

That was an eye opening advice.
Even a 5 star hotel would be this nasty?

I am a very clean person; my home is always shiny clean.
Anyway,
I was reading some article on the internet, it was about a Jamaican couple who got married, but what was intersecting is that the article said that African in general prefer a curvy woman.
So the bride used to be skinny, her fianc? sent her to some place where she eat and sleep only to gain weight before the marriage, and she did.

He said that if she had maintained her skinny body, people would think that he is poor to feed her.

How true is that? Or it was just a random story?