hey,
recently i have been doing a bit of experimenting with cooking, mainly desserts. Anyway, i have made a recipe and if you'd like to try it, here are the details.
CHOCOLATE YOGHURT WITH TOPPINGS
Ingredients:
2 cups of MooGoo (or similar (around 30g))
Maple Syrup (Any kind)
Chopped Peanuts (unsalted)
Almonds (approx. 6)
Procedure:
1. Pour the two cups of Chocolate Yoghurt into a bowl.
2. Put in the Almonds. A few should be under the yoghurt and a few above.
3. Pour a small amount of maple syrup over the yoghurt in a "drizzle" formation.
4. Put the Chopped Peanuts over the top.
5. Mix together well.
6. Heat up on Medium for 1 minute on an oven.
7. Eat.
Cheers,
Blake.
Your culinary expertise is only exceeded by your scripting ability
Here's one of my own recipies. I call it Cheesy bread stack.
Ingedients:
1 slice of bread
1 slice of cheese
1 more slice of bread
some butter
Procedure:
1. Put the bread on a plate
2. Put a small amount of butter on the bread in a "spread" formation
3. Put on the cheese. All of it should be on top of the bread
4. Put some butter on the other bit of bread
5. Place the other bit of bread butter side down *IMPORTANT* on top of the cheese
6. Eat
hmmmmmm.... i might try that sometime. ::)
My advice: Redouce your ingestion of sugars, fat and high caloric ingredients (such as chocolate, fat and peanuts) I've seen your photo and your situation is not serious (still) because you're not even a teenager and you can grow a lot of centimeters without increasing your weight, giving you a more stylized figure, but you gota start helping your body now.
Losing 500 kcal. per day is a perfectly easy to archieve goal, and that extra 500 kcals. might be in two of your desserts. With thease you'll start losing weight, the average is 4,5 kilos per 9 weeks.
So... Yeah, the dessert sounds tasty, bur it's yoghourt with peanuts, you haven't discovered the cure for cancer... Now you know you are good making desserts stop eating them.
*If someone sees sarcasm in this post, I am talking seriously, and the advise is real... Use it as you want*
i have only tried it once or twice, but your advice is noted.
Also, i'm pretty short and (hopefully) i'll get a growth spurt soon so i'm not
the shortest in my class.
I am writing not from the side of a sport/health zealot, but from a guy who was quite heavy in the past, and the difference is just a matter of taking care in some details and having patience. There are no miracles if you don't do something radical (like riding 100 miles per day with a bike, he... ::)) but just relaxing a little bit with sugars and fats you'll see that you'll finish the years weighting 2 kilos less in spite than 2 more. It might not seem a lot, but after 5 years you'll be 10 kilos less, a significant difference.
And then it will come desire to make 100 miles per day, but that's another history!
I just have to pipe up here to agree with Farlander. You know what cutting fat and snacks did for me, coupled with a twice-weekly visit to the gym (where I did nothing heavy)? 14 kilos lost in 2 months. Yowza. And I didn't really give anything up - I exchanged the cheese I put on top of my rice with "Light" cheese, I started eating grilled instead of fried... little things. \o/
Hmmm ... Care to explain this 'MooGoo' concept? I'm afraid I'm rather culturely ignorant ...
Smart money would be on brand of Chocolate Yoghurt
Why does it matter how the ingredients are arranged if you mix them up?
I think MooGoo is that chocolate (or whatever) yoghurt type stuff. I'm guessing its like Yogo's (Don't know if you have them where you live either).
Best breakfast snack ever:
INGREDIENTS
Cinnamon, about 3 tablespoons or teaspoons, whichever's the larger amount.
Sugar, same amount as cinnamon
Butter
Bread, two pieces
1. Place bread in toaster.
2. Take the bread out before it becomes toast, but when it is still hot.
3. Put butter on it.
4. Pour cinnamon on the bread at the same time as pouring sugar on it.
5. Heat in microwave for 15 seconds
6. Eat.
...7. Suddenly feel like you have gained 15 pounds.
Breakfast for working people:
1. Get up early enough hoping that you'll have time to buy some toast and coffee.
2. Arriving at 8 sharp anyway, forget about the eye opener, go straight to your desk.
3. StartÃ, doing the job of three people.
4. Around 13:00 , pretend that you go to the loo, stop at the canteen, try to buy whatever is available at that time.
5. After you've been spotted, go back to desk and do the tasks added.
6. Around 14:30 ,take the longest way to the canteen. Hide in corners to avoid boss, managers, collegues, clients.
7. After you've been spotted, go back to desk and do the tasks added.
8. Finish work at 16:00, buy something nice smelling right outside your office, don't even bother to chew it .....
yes, very bad day, I'll modify this into a proper recipe later...
Of course weight loss has nothing to do with getting healthy. It's your body composition that counts. When most people diet, they favor cardio in place of weight training. As a result, they end up losing more muscle than fat. Sure they end up lighter, but their percentage of body fat rises, slowing down their metabolism and putting them at risk for detrimental health problems. A lot of people believe that your metabolism naturally slows down as you age, but that's a total myth. It only happens that way as a person's sedentary lifestyle catches up to them.
For instance, Dr. Fred Hatfield set the world record for squats in 1987, at the ripe young age of 45! He lifted 1014 lbs (~460 kilos). There is a video of this here (http://www.drsquat.com/videos/1014VMHB.rm).
Are you saying I'm a walking ball of muscleless fat? Huh? Huh? Are ya? Wanna take this outside? Huh? HUH?!!!!!ONE!
On a saner note... I didn't know that. Good thing I did fitness, which was cardio and a bit of weight, huh?
Worst thing I've ever made was a cheese and sausage sandwich, in which the bread was french toast. Some day I might get some of this "fat" I hear tell of.
This is my kind of recipie.
ingredients:
Couple of bananas
splash of oil
enough sugar to coat the bananas
couple of splashes of rum
squeeze of lime
vanilla ice cream
1. slice up bananas
2. fry bananas in oil
3. throw in the sugar
4. notice you don't have any rum
5. yell at housemates for drinking rum without asking
6. attempt to eat un-flambed flambe
7. be sad, because it just doesn't taste that good
But BB... Read my post again. I am not talking of one of those radical diets in which you remove the dinner or something. Actually, those weird diets usually create a rebound effect:
At the beginning you are burning 1000 Kcals. per day, and eat 1100 kcals per day (100 kcals. stored per day). Then you start a radical diet in which you eat 500 kcals. per day.
You start to lose kilos, and when you are happy you start to eat 1000 kcals, again. But the problem was that your body has used to the time when you were eating 500 and it used to work burning just 750 per day. The result: You store as much kilocals. as you did before, a total failure.
I am talking of a little change of attitude, just having in mind that you can't eat "whatever you want, when you wish". It is better to wait to lunch time. It is better to increase the amount of fruit in front of the main dish, better to eat an apple than a chocolate pie and better to roast than frying... It's not difficult and it works terrific.
That's not a magical diet which makes you lose water and muscle. In fact I've talked of losing 2 kilos per year.
If you wanna talk about radical diets (and sport squedules, mainly) which make you lose 1 kilo per week (75% fat, but 25% of muscle too, everything pushes down in the hills) I am open to discuss about how healthy they are, but here is the recipe:
-Eat a bowl of 10 yoghurt and cereals at 8 o'clock.
-Ride your bike for 125 kms. 5 hours aprox. through hills and valleys.
-Come home and eat some pieces of fruit and isotonic liquids, no real lunch...
-Have dinner at 18:00h.
-Go to sleep at 23:00h.
THAT is unhealthy man! :) Fortunatelly it only lasts 2 or 3 months. After that you can eat everything you want (I ate 2 kilos of pears and a water mellon one day, while my mom was buying food... I couldn't wait) ;D
Quote from: Bluke4x4 on Tue 09/08/2005 18:43:10
Best breakfast snack ever:
INGREDIENTS
Cinnamon, about 3 tablespoons or teaspoons, whichever's the larger amount.
Sugar, same amount as cinnamon
Butter
Bread, two pieces
1. Place bread in toaster.
2. Take the bread out before it becomes toast, but when it is still hot.
3. Put butter on it.
4. Pour cinnamon on the bread at the same time as pouring sugar on it.
5. Heat in microwave for 15 seconds
6. Eat.
...7. Suddenly feel like you have gained 15 pounds.
Believe it or not, that's a pretty popular Portuguese snack. We also love Portuguese rolls heated with butter slathered all over it. And you wonder why a lot of Portuguese people are fat slobs. ;)
Also, I believe a few companies have made chocolate yogurt. It didn't do well, I'd imagine, and has since vanished. :)
It is? I never heard of it. :P Are you sure it's not one of those "so-called-Portuguese-snacks" that get sold in foreign "Portuguese food" shops, or something, that few people in Portugal actually eat?
At any rate, I have to say, and I've been paying attention lately, the average portuguese person is many things - lazy, pessimistic, short-to-medium height (tall is rare, though we have extra-tall too - even rarer, naturally). Fat, the average person certainly isn't.
Melted butter and cinnamon sugar on bread can't have been very hard to come up with.
I just never even heard of it, and I live in Portugal. Talk to me about Cozido à  Portuguesa, Tripas à â,¬ Moda do Porto, Açorda, but not about those breads, cause whatever they are they sure ain't "Portuguese food". Especially since [insert Naranjas' post here].
Ah, interesting. I had the exact same reaction as Naranjas as cinnamon toast is fairly well known and popular over here.
While we're on exceptionally simple desserts, here's one for all who are allergic to chocolate or vegan and who still like peanut butter cups (or who would like them if they weren't allergic to peanut butter).
Take equal parts carob chips (a chocolate substitute that doesn't taste all that much like chocolate in most recipes) and peanut butter (or Tahini or other nut-butter/nut butter substitute if one is alergic to peanuts)-- usually 1 cup of each. Melt the carob chips over a stove or in the microwave. Make sure to add just a few drops (as much as a teaspoon at absolute maximum) to soften the carob, otherwise it will scald. Too much water will absolutely ruin the taste. Mix the melted carob with the peanut butter (or other similar substance) and throw in 1/4 as much syrup (1/4 cup in this case, of either maple syrup or sugar or what have you -- this will change the taste a lot, so choose a kind you generally would like with the other ingredients). Mix it all up quickly before it hardens too much (this is a bit of a workout), until the whole mixture looks like one mass of one smooth colour (it may look a lot like very smooth shit, in fact).
Do not eat! It is waaayyy better when chilled. Cover the bowl of mixed sweets with plastic wrap or something and place in the fridge for a few hours. Take out (it should be quite hard) and cut out squares or chips or blocks or whatever you want to eat.
The peanut butter version tastes a lot like reece peanut butter cups but contains no milk products or caffine.
This is easy, the only steps are melting and mixing, and it is less unhealthy than many comparable chocolate desserts. Plus, it is a huge hit at things like bakesales because it is exceptionally rich.
You can also add things like oats or nuts or just about any adornment you like once you get the (simple) recipe down.
Once I made Rice Krispie squares with Cadbury's Caramel and I put a pile of marshmallows in.
Its delicious when cooled but its gonna ruin whatever tray you pour it into if you use too many marshmallows.
Farlander, I wasn't talking about dieting as much as I was talking about people's irrational concern for their weight and losing it. It takes 3500 calories to build a pound of muscle or fat, so if you eat under what you burn, that will accumulate, resulting in weight loss. True.
My point was weight isn't really an indication of fitness. Let's say I'm eating 1500 calories per day, and burning 2000 calories by running on a treadmill (or doing cardio). I will lose about a pound of body weight per week. But here's the important thing, am I actually losing fat? Cardio is great for your heart and lungs, but it won't build muscle. As a result of my routine, I'm more likely to lose muscle than fat. Say I keep it up for a few weeks, and I lose maybe 10 pounds. Probably 7 or 8 of those pounds I lose will be muscle. As a result, even though I'm lighter, my fat composition is higher AND I'M LESS HEALTHY THAN I WAS BEFORE I EVEN STARTED THIS ROUTINE!
Weightlifting is the most effective natural way to lose fat.
I agree. Sport is the best way to lose weight. There are other ways, but they ain't that healthy. But if you're too lazy a change of habits is better than nothing, IMO. :)
Quote from: big brother on Wed 10/08/2005 19:10:45
I will lose about a pound of body weight per week. But here's the important thing, am I actually losing fat? Cardio is great for your heart and lungs, but it won't build muscle cardio. As a result of my routine, I'm more likely to lose muscle than fat. Say I keep it up for a few weeks, and I lose maybe 10 pounds. Probably 7 or 8 of those pounds I lose will be muscle. As a result, even though I'm lighter, my fat composition is higher AND I'M LESS HEALTHY THAN I WAS BEFORE I EVEN STARTED THIS ROUTINE!
Weightlifting is the most effective natural way to lose fat.
But weightlifting doesn't really benefit your heart or blood oxygen levels.
The ideal exercise regime is of course a balanced one consisting of some weights and some cardio.
Intense weightlifting will increase your heartrate and make you breathe harder. When you do both cardio and dynamic lifting, the "interference factor" can come into play, stunting muscular growth.
Quote from: big brother on Wed 10/08/2005 21:48:14
Intense weightlifting will increase your heartrate and make you breathe harder.
Intense weightlifting also has the potential to give you a hernia and end you up in the hospital ;)
Bike riding is pleasant, saves you money and serves a purpose....except how farlander does it.
Ahh yes, bike riding! :D
I ride almost all day everyday and mixed with a very low fat/cal diet i've managed to loose a stone in the last two weeks.
My bike's single speed set on a very low gear so it means loads of pedaling and well... check out the seat.
(http://www.observedtrials.net/album/data/500/163IMG_5543-med.JPG)
I lose weight when I don't ride my bike. Fat plays no role whether I ride or not, but I lose muscle mass when I don't ride.
Quote from: Las Naranjas on Wed 10/08/2005 23:28:40
Bike riding is pleasant, saves you money and serves a purpose....except how farlander does it.
Haha! I can ensure that my way of riding a bike does not save money! :D The best thing of all is that I'll probably set a business related with bikes, maybe a hotel for bikers/hikers with guided tours, so, it'll be usefull for something.
But it's very pleasant. I would need more than a post for explaining it, butI guess it must have something to see with pushing the limits. :)
i ride my skateboard... i suppose you feel a little lighter afterwards. You end up with several bruises, but you feel a little lighter.
In my experience, getting married makes you put on weight.
Because if you get too fat and unsexy, you get divorced...
I loose weight by cutting off muscle with a knife and draining blood.
What?
I lose weight by buying bunches and bunches of graphic novels (not manga, graphic novels like Batman or Earthboy Jacobus) and reading them on a treadmill. Eating healthy? Bah! Bring on the cane sugar!
Quote from: Rui "Brisby" Pires on Wed 10/08/2005 08:20:35
It is? I never heard of it. :P Are you sure it's not one of those "so-called-Portuguese-snacks" that get sold in foreign "Portuguese food" shops, or something, that few people in Portugal actually eat?
At any rate, I have to say, and I've been paying attention lately, the average portuguese person is many things - lazy, pessimistic, short-to-medium height (tall is rare, though we have extra-tall too - even rarer, naturally). Fat, the average person certainly isn't.
Presumably when TerranRich said "Portuguese", he did not mean "Portuguese", but "Americans of vaguely Portuguese descent". It's an odd tendency some people have.
As for myself, I eat somewhere near just about as unhealthily as a vegetarian can without actively trying to, and pretty much the only exercise I get is walking everywhere I can because I'm one of the three or so people in the world who actually
like walking. I drink large amounts of Coke and consequently will probably die of osteoporosis within a decade or so thanks to delicious, delicious phosphoric acid.
I should probably change some of this, but I simply can't be bothered, and besides: I haven't outright exploded yet, so nothing I'm doing is harmful. Right?
Right?
I've been gradually starting to go to the gym more. I lift weights first, then walk half a mile, then run on this maching called the Elpitical. It's quite a workout.
Quote from: Pumaman on Wed 10/08/2005 21:55:15
Quote from: big brother on Wed 10/08/2005 21:48:14
Intense weightlifting will increase your heartrate and make you breathe harder.
Intense weightlifting also has the potential to give you a hernia and end you up in the hospital ;)
Which is why knowing how to correctly use the weights is so important.
I'm no expert on the matter, but Ian's an encyclopedia when it comes to health, fitness, and weightlifting. Of course, I could be naturally biased... ;)
I don't think a little desert now and then is so bad. It's when it becomes part of your daily routine that it becomes a problem. If you need to have desert everyday, it's naturally going to be unhealthy, but every once in a while is alright. Maybe once a week or once a month...I don't usually eat desert at all, or if I do I go for sugar free pudding.
Cutting out sodas can be a significant factor in helping you lose weight. Eating more vegetable/fruits in place of other foods is always good. And snacking isn't bad as long as it's a healthy snack, like an apple. A simple excersize like walking for a bit doesn't hurt, either.
I'm no great expert, and don't pretend to be, I think most of the advice is just common sense.
-MillsJROSS
Moussaka with peanuts is quite taaaaaaaaasty as well... pour ouzo on it to increase its flavour...
200 points for me!!!!
Quote from: Farlander on Sun 21/08/2005 17:39:13
Moussaka with peanuts is quite taaaaaaaaasty as well... pour ouzo on it to increase its flavour...
200 points for me!!!!
Someone is having fun in Greece?? LOL ....You will all end up 10kg heavier if you start misbehaving like that !
Quote from: Farlander on Sun 21/08/2005 17:39:13
Moussaka with peanuts is quite taaaaaaaaasty as well... pour ouzo on it to increase its flavour...
200 points for me!!!!
No thanks on the ouzo, but you might have me beat now Farlander, since everyone thought I had enough points they could be split in half twiceÃ, :P
QuoteSomeone is having fun in Greece???
Still having fun, but no proper write ups until later. We stay in the airport tonight, see the Acropolis tomorrow, and go our separate ways in the afternoon :'(
I like 7 days a croissants.
Whoo, I got 200 points too!
Dessert, the Greek way...here is a recipe:
1 Farlander
1 bottle of ouzo
15 other Mitteneers
Combine for hilarity and urine!!!
OMG 200 POIONTS!!! COUTN THEM!!!!!
The puddin' is on my side of the fence!!!
+200 apocalypse points!!11one
Recipe:
1 free food coupon.
Result:
Enough cold spagetti to kill a small child.
This thread just made me go out running for half an hour...
ALL YOUR APOCALYPSE POINTS ARE BELONG TO ME
Quote from: cp on Sun 21/08/2005 20:42:50
Quote from: Grundislav on Sun 21/08/2005 20:39:27
1 bottle of ouzo
for Quote from: Grundislav on Sun 21/08/2005 20:39:27
15 other Mitteneers
?
I think you missed someingredients here!!Ã, :PÃ, lol
You try drinking a bottle of ouzo by yourself and see how you take it ;D
The result of it is something like "Tell meeeee. *poke scotch* Tell meeeEEEE, *poke scotch repeatedly* Tell me or I'll kill you."
200 points! I still win!
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Mon 22/08/2005 01:56:54
You try drinking a bottle of ouzo by yourself and see how you take it ;D
A) I still can't believe that 15 mitteneers only need 1 bottle! :P
B) I hate ouzo ;D
Quote from: cp on Mon 22/08/2005 15:06:20
B) I hate ouzo ;D
Me too but I love TSIPOURO, or RAKI even better.
Quote from: nikolasideris on Mon 22/08/2005 15:58:45
Quote from: cp on Mon 22/08/2005 15:06:20
B) I hate ouzo ;D
Me too but I love TSIPOURO, or RAKI even better.
Amen to that! Zivania is the best though...
Quote from: scotch on Mon 22/08/2005 11:50:57
200 points! I still win!
Huh? You lost all those 10,000 spoon points. Who
did win anyway? I had the longest column and most additions but I suspect I came in last for some reason. :-\
Quote from: Disco on Mon 22/08/2005 20:45:59
Huh? You lost all those 10,000 spoon points. Who did win anyway? I had the longest column and most additions but I suspect I came in last for some reason. :-\
Someone played a "Disco loses automatically" card in the end? :P