Greenie, Birdo, Foodie, and Karaoke nut

My god, you just made hungry. Is this some kind of gourmet diet!?

* me screams for apricot chicken and a Meditterean toasted foccacio with ham, mushrooms, mayo and sun dried tomatoes.

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lol

the foccacia was made using stuff in the fridge and freezer and our ronson grill!

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firvulag.livejournal.com

2 litres and 8 glasses are "the same" a standard glass is generalised with a standard cup, which is 250ml.

and those bottles are 750ml :)

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Basically, if your not interested in changing your eating habits, don't bother reading the rest of this.

Today I had a bowl of sports plus, 2 apples, an apple muffin, some hot chips *guilty thoughts self punishing guilty thoughts* without salt :) or sauce, a can of tuna and two slices of bread. With nothing on them.
And I think that's doing well. Oh and a carrot *crunches while typing*.
On a normal day *a day when I don't go walk past a cafe and think, mmm chippees and buy them before i can stop myself* I'd have some rice or pasta *just plain rice with soy sauce, or plain pasta with, um, either things with it or by itself* at lunch instead of the hot chips. The size of the bowl of sports plus is usually quite large, the rest is usually reasonably small.
I've hardly drunk any water today. *plunks huge 2 l bottle of water on desk with an audible thud* I intend to rectify this.

I'm on a sort of diet too BJ, seeing as I've been letting myself just eat any old thing lately (mainly chocolate, stupid easter)and at the wrong times too, like a whole pizza just before sleeping. *shudders*
Not healthy. I have quite an active life style, so I need to be sure I'm getting all the nutrients and stuff I need, when I need them. Hot chips do not contain these nutrients. *berates self*
I gotta stop doing that.
However, here is some helpful advice about HOW to eat, rather than what to eat. I'm leaving what to eat up to you, you'd know more about nutrients than me.
Don't eat three large meals. Eat four or five *small* meals, over the whole day. Ie, have a large to medium breakfast, cos its the most important meals, but instead of a massive lunch and a mega dinner, have a small morning tea, a small to medium lunch, a small afternoon tea, and try to make dinner your smallest meal of the day, and try to make it protein but not carbohydrates or pasta or rice or anything like that. After all, what is your body going to do with that great big pasta meal brimming with carbohydrates just BEGGING to be metabolised??
Its going to go to sleep on it, thats what. And, what happens to stuff that isn't metabolised? It gets stored as fat. And yet people have massive dinners at like 8 oclock at night instead of a big breakfast, which is more logical. *puts head in hands*
Western dining habits have a lot to answer for. We need to stop thinking of them as "norm".
They're only norm if we want to waddle around like miniature zeppelins.
And about the water, not sure if you know this or not, but after a day or two of constantly drinking that much water, your bladder will stop going "eek" and instead store it all up for one big "go" if you know what I mean.
That reminds me, you will want to check out what nutrients you, being female, will require that are different from a guys.
Offhand, eat more iron and calcium, thats all I can remember, and thats only from old tv ads. ^_^;;;
Oh, and about being hungry all the time, heres a little trick for that:
Savour your food. Eat it slowly, enjoying every bite. Give your stomach time to lean back and go "werl, I reckon I'm about full now". Whereas if you concuss it with a whole pizza within five minutes, by the time it realises "hey I was full five slices ago" and flicks the big appetite on/off switch those five unwanted slices have already buried it under the food already eaten. Oh and drink water while your eating, and after wards, to fill in the gaps and aid digestion.
Anyway, I hope this advice helps.
If you want to see some credentials, remember that I have a lower body fat percentage than anyone other male who goes to karaoke at our table, so it must be working. :P
I hope I haven't told you too much stuff you already know. ^__^

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odindeathcrush.livejournal.com

1.5 liters is what i figured but only for convenience.
but you are on the money with 2l, but a large size bottle is 1.5l so it was easier for me to just do a large size bottle than to attept to try to count glasses...(but i also consume 2-4 500ml mugs of herbal tea a day too, and drink nothing else, unless i'm really bad and evil and have milk, which i'm absolutly NOT supposed to drink! bad odie! y'anyway herbal teas are considered water, unlike green/black teas, so i easily can round down, cept in summer, which is over for you, it can go up to 3+l for me depending on how active i am)
glass = 8oz = 240ml x 8 = 1.92l

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That is one well stocked and cultured fridge you have there. Got to love living at home with the parents. Now that I live alone, gone are the days I can just find sun dried tomatoes, mushrooms and other gourmet items in the fridge.

When I go back to Sydney to see my parents i find a world of culinary delight in their fridge. "Ohh what's this, and what's that, and I Haven't seen that in 2 years".

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gee I couldn't live without mushrooms to fry up in butter if nothing else.

I hated mushrooms when I was a kid, but I now I find butter sauteed mushies a semi-orgasmic experience.

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Hey I agree with everything I said here. All good advice particularly the smaller, regular meals. That adjustment in eating habits alone will make a tremendous difference.

As for your personal body weight, I believe you would still be thin even if you 'let go' a bit. You have a high metabolism and it's associated with your hyperactivity as well. I too have/had a high metabolism and at 19 I was rather strict on my diet even though I had absolutely no problems with weight (unlike now). I too used to feel guilty with a bucket of chips (hot chips being a real weakness of mine).

I still think you should do weights and increase muscle mass as a compliment to your martial arts training which brings you flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. it would look awesome with a lean physique.

I'll put a wager that your proirities change a bit when you enter your early to mid twenties. Your current exercise regime reminds me very much of my own in my late teens.

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Oh I love mushrooms too and employ them in my dishes reuglarly. I just don't find them sitting in my fridge. I buy them and they usually get used within 24 hours because I buy them with a dish in mind.

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*whispers to Wayne*

wait till he discovers you're actually 21...

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Lol everything you say I meant.

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I know he is 21 :P

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1 glass of water with every meal if you do that 4-5 meals a day thingy I do, and youve only got to drink 3 more at some other point in the day. Even better if you drink a MEGA GLASS-LASS-LASS *insert echoey effect here* or a glass that is twice as big than standard with every meal. You only need four a day then! (Standard is 250ml as rat said.)
If you just eat the three, then every time you want a snack, drink a glass of water with it. You'll find you'll get it easily.
Hmmm, that reminds me, I aint drunk any water yet today. *hunts down where he's put his water bottle*

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I'm reminded of the lab where the people who had volunteered (I was one) had to drink 2 litres of a substance (mine was plain water), then pee in a bottle every 20 minutes for 3 hours afterwards.

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As far as increasing muscle mass goes, I try to do at least 75 pushups a day. I usually do 25 on knuckles and either another 25 on knuckles and the last 25 on hands normally (spread further apart than knuckles to build different muscles) or just 50 on hands, depending on how I feel.
I also do 75-100 crunches for each of the four points in the stomach. Thats upper (75-100), lower (75-100 leg raises), and each side (75-100 side crunches). As a result of all these crunches, I've finally gained the stomach strength to do the kip-up, and can take a moderately hard blow to the stomach (stomach muscles r bodies natural armor). I'm very happy about this.
However, I don't want to increase my muscle mass any further, because the muscle you build with weight training is the wrong sort of muscle. I want muscle made out of roughly 60-75% white mucle fibre based and only 25-40 red muscle fibre based. Red muscle fiber is the bulk muscle, used for strength but incapable of sustained use. White muscle fibre is speed, endurance and flexibility. The style of Kung Fu I do is all about speed, endurance and flexibility, and believe me when I say that if you hit someone the correct way in my style, they go down harder and hurtier than if you simply whacked them on the jaw with a lot of muscle.
Plus its a more efficient way of doing it too.
AND it means I also have the ability to run away really quite well and fast, and to keep running for a very long time.
That's the no 1 important lesson in any martial art.
So basically, if I just wanted to look impressive, I'd do lots of weight training.
However, I want to be really really good at my chosen m

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Comment to wayne in gemfyres journal

I agree entirely with your synopsis of muscle fibres. You've read well and certainly know your stuff. But I was thinking 'red twitch slow' muscle fibre for the look, the look, the look!!! As you get older you'll realize that you'll never use your martial arts skills. You just kinda fantasise about the one time you may need them but even that's in vain to an extent because we really are just wanting to show off a little, impress people and have them be in awe of us. Ultimately, there is little to display. However, doing some weights illustrates someone's physical attributes in a way that it is always obvious. The person is muscular, looks amazing in clothes, is fit, agile and flexible.

In a civilised country like Australia there are very few, if no, occasions when our martial arts skills come to use and if they do become important due to an attack of sorts, especially in full blown adulthood then one really ought to have a gun or a weapon.

This ultimately leads to the conclusion that the true benefit of doing martial arts rests more with the discipline and philosophy of self mastery that comes with the martial arts and the pride of having such a skill.

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Livejournal screwed up for a minute there and after typing all that out I couldnt send it to so i saved it to file. lol

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Hey Wayne, consider learning about proper food combining for optimal digestion of food for good health and metabolic activity. Apparently water with food is a bad idea. It neutralizes the alkalines in the stomach. Eating Proteins with carbohydrates is apparently bad too because of the same neutralizing effect.

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odindeathcrush.livejournal.com

pure myth:

http://www.drweil.com/app/cda/drw_cda.html-command=TodayQA-questionId=3360

you'll find the same opinion damn near everywhere...cept hoodoo and faddish sources...

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odindeathcrush.livejournal.com

personally i don't care how you drink yer water...whatever works right? but the question was "how much water" hence my answer: how much water...
why you wrote me back about meals just doesn't compute unless you are just uber proud of what you've found works for you...

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Firstly, Ant, I know you're older than me and all, but please leave all the patronising "as you get older" stuff at home. Regardless of how you intended that to come across, perhaps you meant it to be matured wisdom or something, but coming from someone I've met once or twice at a party, talked to online, and never really revealed any real thoughts or feelings to, it comes off as hugely patronising. I'm not an idiot, I'm not stupider than you because I'm younger than you, and you don't get some kind of magical +1 to your wisdom stat every time you have a birthday. The phrase "as you get older" implies all of these things are naturally true.
If you want to make a point, thats fine, do it with your arguments, I don't mind. Leave your age out of it.

Now, as for your point:
If I'm going to do something, then fuck doing it just to look amazing. I want to do it well. Looking amazing fits into a second category of mine, stuff I call "flippy shit" where I learn it just to show off and so I can feel good that I can do it. The kip up that I tried so hard to do fits into this category. This category is a lower category than wanting to do Choy Lay Fut well, and I'd NEVER consider "flippy shit" as being part of a martial art.
I love Kung Fu. It's fucking amazing. It's a life style, not just a martial art. Every time I do it, I learn something new, about myself, about my mind, about my body, and how they all combine together. And these revelations only happen when I put my heart and soul into it. Whenever I don't train hard, or I have stiff muscles, or something's not right, this does not happen. I come away feeling unfulfilled. If I build the wrong sort of muscle, it will do nothing but get in the way.
Btw, not to knock your conclusion, I like your conclusion. Its logical. It ties into your previous arguments.
I just don't agree with it. But nobody ever accused me of logic. Feeling unfulfilled is not a logical reason to want to do something well. Its an emotional reaction more than anything else. It doesn't, for me, make it any less of a valid one.
One other reason I dislike the idea of making myself look amazing just so I can look amazing, is that I'd prefer people think me incapable of the things I can do. As I am now, I have muscles n stuff, but I'm still pretty small, and look completely harmless (my "16 yr old innocent" face helps here). Nobody will ever take me seriously as a threat.
The smartest thing you can do is hide your abilities.

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easier for me to just do a large size bottle than to attept to try to count glasses
I was just pointing out an easy way to count glasses, cos drinking a big bottle of water isn't necessarily the best cos I find it hard to drink it a little bit during the whole day, and generally drink most of it at once. Where as if you have a drink with every meal, its easy to keep count, in fact you wouldn't really have to think much more than "where my glass of water?".
I just get carried away in my general enthusiasm for stuff.
Sorry for giving you all the extra stuff you didn't need to know. I need to learn when I'm blithering and shut up.
:)

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I've acknowledged all of your points after the issue with age. But I want to address what you said about age:-

Firstly, Ant, I know you're older than me and all, but please leave all the patronising "as you get older" stuff at home. Regardless of how you intended that to come across, perhaps you meant it to be matured wisdom or something, but coming from someone I've met once or twice at a party, talked to online, and never really revealed any real thoughts or feelings to, it comes off as hugely patronising. I'm not an idiot, I'm not stupider than you because I'm younger than you, and you don't get some kind of magical +1 to your wisdom stat every time you have a birthday. The phrase "as you get older" implies all of these things are naturally true.
If you want to make a point, thats fine, do it with your arguments, I don't mind. Leave your age out of it.

If it came across as patronising I apologize. I've always thought of youth as an asset, a measure of the amount of possibility still waiting to come to fruition and something almost to envy. When people used to tell me "when I get older" I used to take it as praise. Praise that I am young enough to make mistakes and praise that they are acknowledging the potential that still lies before me. Frankly, there is no substitute for experience with some things and even though we don't get a +1 tick for wisdom when our birthday comes around we get a +1 tick every day that we experience something new or a change or a life trial of some type. Naturally, as we get older we have amassed a greater sum of experiences and life lessons. Despite this view, at no stage did my views represent this notion of 'my age'.

My contribution to your thoughts about martial arts and exercise have everything to do with my common interest in those areas when I was younger and still, to an extent, to this day. They have nothing to do with my age. If you were 40 I would still share these thoughts with you .

You are not an idiot and you are not 'stupider' than me. I didn't even allude to these things. In fact I consider you to be very bright. Enough so that I would spend time sharing thoughts and information that I think you might find useful. However, there is no substitution for experience particularly the kind of experience that comes with knowing the certain phases and changes in preferences may go through as they get older. Some things are universal and don't require a deep knowledge of an individual. They are still significant enough to discuss because they may very well be true across many grades and types of people. I haven't said that I think "this and that WILL happen to you as you get older" but more that I think 'this and that MIGHT happen' because of my own experiences and the what I've witnessed in my friends as they got older.

For example: If I were to tell you that by 28 you might have given away your martial arts and become preoccupied with family life and your career, perhaps gained 10 or 15 kilos and taken up darts or lawn bowls instead as your interests change with the chanigng landscape of your mind and your priorities? Is this invalid and is age not some sort of measure on the accumulation and aggregation of experience? Why does it have to be demeaning? Im not passing character judgement, Im passing information.

So in essence, Im just sharing with you my path and changing shape of my perspective as I got older because when I was 20/21 I was doing the same thing as you exercise wise.

I hope this has come across the right way, this time.

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I haven't said that I think "this and that WILL happen to you as you get older" but more that I think 'this and that MIGHT happen' because of my own experiences and the what I've witnessed in my friends as they got older.
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Im not passing character judgement, Im passing information.
Your wording previously did not get this across sufficiently, not from my point of view anyway, which is why I felt obliged to bring it to your attention. I'm glad you weren't thinking that way.
I don't know if my interests will change as they get older or not, but I know that my obsession with body image will. In reality, I'm doing it because I know these things will change, and I want to be able to say to myself whenever I see a young sprightly lean fella on tv: Yep, I did that too.
I don't think that I'll allow myself to get overweight when I get older, because I am far too aware of the negative health impacts of too much weight, but I do think I'll relax my highly stringent standards a little. As it is, what I'm actually aiming for right now is just skirting the lower end of the the healthy body weight percentage. To make a six pack visible, you need 8-9% body weight. It sucks, but that's guys for ya, we put so much god damn weight around the abdomen so easily. Stupid body.
As for my martial arts. I don't know. I love them so much, I want to learn more that complement the one I've taken up, and the one I've taken up can never be truly mastered, because its not just thousands of years old, its constantly being revised by the masters in China and those changes are being conveyed to us. Its a living martial art, not a traditional one. Not all martial arts are like that.
I don't think I'll ever take up lawn bowls. Not unless my AADHD (first A stands for "adult") goes away, and I don't really think it will, not completely. Lawn bowls would be so boring! :P
I don't know about family life at 28, that's something I don't really think will happen, mainly because I don't really want it to happen. I mean, me, with a child? Wtf? Since when did the world get that fucked up that it'd let me breed? I certainly don't wanna do it to the world.
And I don't want to pass on my genetic fuckup to my kids. Not unless they come up with a really good way of treating adhd. It'd be best just not to have kids, and let at least one genetic breakdown not be passed on into future populations.
One of the reasons the human race is fucking up so badly nowadays is that all the genetic defects are not dying out as nature intended. This is good and bad, its good because they're still human and have a right to live, its bad because they often have children and pass on the bad gene. Even if it doesn't immediately show up in teh child, who could be a perfect, they will still have that bad gene that could show up in THEIR children, and so on.
They need to hurry up and learn to fix some of the worst genetic defects. I'm not advocating making perfect babies, because that's that will mark the end of human physical evolution (thats bad, things that don't evolve, go extinct), just stopping some of the nastier genetic diseases that do nothing but cause misery and suffering.
I certainly believe stupidity is a gene. It would explain so much. :)
Anyway, I'm glad this all got cleared up.

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Yup, all noted and acknowledged. I'm glad it's cleared up too.

As for ADHD, I don't think it's a genetic defect. One who has ADHD has many strengths and advantages over people who don't have it. It depends on what degree a person has it but its very common. For example, someone with ADHD can focus intensely on a matter and generally, people with ADHD are very intelligent and brilliant at absorbing new information.

I think ADHD is just another way of experiencing life rather than an inherently damaging condition. In fact, it isn't a clear cut condition as you probably know, it's just degrees of certain neurochemicals in the brain.

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