Low Carb\Low Cal\Healthier Food\Healthier Lifestyle Thread

[AbstractPoetic]

Lunch today:



Vietnamese Pho without noodles (per my request). Has lean flank steak, cilantro, bean sprouts, pimento peppers, green onions, mint leaves in a broth. Yummy!

[1UZFE]

Where u got dat??? Faintly sounding like Hakka...

[AllTrac]

lots of Omega fats in there, nice, good fats is the way to go to get that fulling feeling when your diet consist of mainly protein, whats your estimate on the carb count ap?

[AllTrac]

and AP did you make a voodoo doll of yourself?

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

Anybody uses fitbit?
Their website allows you to log in for free and you can track calories that way too. It allows you to create templates so you can add presets for our local foods.

[ismithx]

actually i wanna know if any of allyuh guys ever try this: run forward 10m, stop, run backwards to the start, and repeat. trust me, anyone can run forward, but this does work you out real thorough

[AbstractPoetic]

@1UZE, I got it at a local place here. I unfortunately am not in Trinidad (yet!). You can totally make this on your own, though, I understand the flank steak can be expensive. You can substitute for another protein (ie chicken, chicken foot, meatballs). P.S., I love chicken foot! LOL.

@Alltrac, I think without the noodles I am looking at no more than 5-600 calories for this serving size (or at least I hope so, lol). The pho stock is 70 calories and one serving/bowl of no noodle pho is 215. Anyway, its a welcomed change from eating my salads daily.

And LOL @ voodoo doll! As you can see, she has the plaited braids/natural hair just like me!


P.S. It's quite interesting to note that many Asian communities eat broth soups and drink tea (green) on a daily basis and generally have a more healthier and longer life span than those in the Western world. Maybe they've found the key to healthier living, after all.

[AbstractPoetic]

Anybody uses fitbit?
Their website allows you to log in for free and you can track calories that way too. It allows you to create templates so you can add presets for our local foods.

OH wow, NICE! Do you plan on ordering their Ultra Tracker?

Look's like a great investment! Thanks for sharing.

[AbstractPoetic]

actually i wanna know if any of allyuh guys ever try this: run forward 10m, stop, run backwards to the start, and repeat. trust me, anyone can run forward, but this does work you out real thorough

Will try this during my next workout session. At what speed though?

[ismithx]

whatever speed is safe to come to a stop and run backwards, which might work out to slightly above jogging speed

[X_Factor]

^ a nice warm up to that can be doing some reverse lunges....

[icefox]

i used to use livestrongs cal counter, however in the past cpl weeks i shifted to http://www.myfitnesspal.com/.

They have a lot of local food in their database containing the exact calorific content and portion sizes which is more specific to what we eat including, crix, arawak chicken, kiss bread etc etc.

Aside from that theyre basically the same though.

Hey I cud back up d my fitnesspal, I got d app on my fone an it does wonders, it has d widest variety of foods an exercise an tells exactly how much nutrition fact each food has. It keeps track of my weight an tracks my progress accurately, I guarantee u won't go rong wit this app

[sharkman121]

^ yup today i eat a holiday foods peanuts, just logged on to the app on my phone and before i could type in holiday....it came up.

[AllTrac]

nice! will try it out

[1UZFE]

made a half mile..lol...had a dhalpurie around 4:30 and just had a cup of tea to end it....

[sharkman121]

my belly woulda be bawling like 10 tarzan.

might sound counter productive but you have to eat to lose weight just control yr portions.. jus had a light snack and gonna work out in about 20 mins. Had about 6 meals for the day

[r3iXmann]

made a half mile..lol...had a dhalpurie around 4:30 and just had a cup of tea to end it....

dont mean to sound harsh but a half mile walk is a waste of time.

u gotta push yourself

aim for a mile minimum

[1UZFE]

yeah ah no but d rain came down.....

[sharkman121]

only ting rain does stop is cricket

[X_Factor]

whats allyuh times for the mile?
if i warm up for my 3mins....restart the threadmill and go......my best time was 7.43mins and burnt 116cals

[Scoop]

3.5 miles on the treadmill today..with high intensity/recovery intervals..

[Scoop]

ohh and that was in just under 28 mins...so under 8mins a mile

[sharkman121]

sample of my treadmill schedule


• Minute 1: Walk at 3.5 mph
• Minute 2: Jog 7.0 mph
• Minute 3: Walk at 3.5 mph
• Minute 4: Jog 7.5 mph
• Minute 5: Walk at 3.5 mph……
• Minute 14: Running Hard (10-12 mph)
• Minute 15: Walk at 3.5 mph

[r3iXmann]

i dont use treadmill but my uphill mile times vary between 9 and 11 mins (from fresh)

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

Anybody uses fitbit?
Their website allows you to log in for free and you can track calories that way too. It allows you to create templates so you can add presets for our local foods.

OH wow, NICE! Do you plan on ordering their Ultra Tracker?

Look's like a great investment! Thanks for sharing.

I have the previous fitbit tracker. It's like the Ultra minus the ability to identify stairs. It's a decent pedometer that shows calories burnt, steps taken and pretty decently measures how well you sleep. Not a bad investment to keep one motivated as you can set and keep track of how you compare with your goals.

Currently I am debating getting their wifi scale but the reviews haven't been so great. Might go with a Withings Wifi Body Scale as a way to easily track weight as well as body fat as I have no way to measure the latter currently.

[Trini Hookah]

made a half mile..lol...had a dhalpurie around 4:30 and just had a cup of tea to end it....

dont mean to sound harsh but a half mile walk is a waste of time.

u gotta push yourself

aim for a mile minimum

Men does walk more than that between classrooms normel normel

[AllTrac]

who does morning cardio instead of evening or night?

[Dizzy28]

only ting rain does stop is cricket

Guess you were wrong there. Rain stopped the France Ukraine match earlier.

[Allergic2BunnyEars]

only ting rain does stop is cricket

Guess you were wrong there. Rain stopped the France Ukraine match earlier.

[AllTrac]

only ting rain does stop is cricket

Guess you were wrong there. Rain stopped the France Ukraine match earlier.