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lunch ideas!!!
I am on the go a lot around lunch time. Either at school, work or back and forth from the gym. What can I eat that is not a sandwich. I love sandwiches. I would and have eaten them everyday for the past... infinity, but I'm trying to stay away from carbs after breakfast. What do you guys recommend?
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Nutrition Questions...
1- My carbs & fat are always lower, but protien higher than what is recommended. Is this a big deal? Daily average = 1200 calorie goal Carbs - short 53 Fat - short 5 Protien - over 41 2- The cleansing program my husband & I have been on, required us to give up coffee :cry: ... now that we are almost done with the cleanse…
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OK One more, all about cheese
I try to buy better cheeses now. But sometimes I am bloated. I buy white cheeses and skimmed milk cheese. Give me some tips and consuption......
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Hungry at night
I need help at night...I get off work feeling pretty good about working out at lunch time and then going back to the gym for another hour or so after work and by the time I get home I am starving.
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website help
Anyone know of a site that has some kind of calculator where you can input a recipe and it gives you a serving size and calorie count? Thanks for the help!!
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Read this today..
From Blue Diamond Growers Pamphlet... Weight Managemant Early research indicates that the protein and fiber found in almonds helps to reduce the absorption of calories(thats right), thus reducing the desire to ccnsume more calories and helping in weight maintenance. Almonds also contain a high level of unsaturated…
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Two Tools...
I love tools (both in the literal and figurative sense, smile!) I came across two nutritional tools that are amazing and wanted to pass them on. Both relate to eating out (one of my downfalls). The first is a nutrional service called Diet1 where you can text message (to 34381) the name of the restaurant and the food, and…
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Oops meant to grab the quacker 90cal snack bad (rice cakes)
BUT instead accidentally I grabbed quaker oatmeal snack bags for 130 cals...look very similar.... They are little chewy oatmeal cookies... They were very good, and not a bad snack for 130 cals Check them out Kim
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Help for Soda Lovers
Source: WebMD http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/help-soda-lovers?page=2 No Need to Go Cold Turkey Soda is certainly not an ideal drink from a health standpoint -- it offers no nutritional value and can be high in sugar, sodium, and caffeine. But the good news, experts say, is that if you truly love it, there's no…
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Junk Food Dieters
Here's an interesting article on msn.com today: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23503525/ Cheers!
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What are good carbs and bad carbs........
Can you give me an example of what foods are considered good carbs and those that are bad carbs? Why are they called bad carbs?
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Green Tea
Ive read a lot of you guys drink green tea, whats a yummy brand too try?
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Is a snickers cheating?
Another question to those who have a clue.. I'm on a 1200 cal diet which allows 96g's Carbs 37g's fat and 96g's protein.. If i eat a snickers and still exercise and keep to my cal intake will my body deny the weight loss or does it not matter where the calories come from?? I hardly ever exceed it and i work out for an hour…
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Fat Intake
Sorry for always asking so many questions!! I was wondering if I am to be watching if I go over my fat intake, because I have been a little bit everyday as well as my protein intake. Is this a problem?
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bannans
how many calories are in an average size bannana
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Cheat Days
How does everyone feel about cheat days?? Good or bad?
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Breast feeding MOMS
Disclaimer: I have no medical background, nor do I work for the government. I just use this chart as reference. http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/21/372/0.pdf It lists general FDA (U.S. government) recommendations for Lactating Women. This is the extensive chart for required nutrients for everyone - but it breaks…
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To much protein?
I am supposed to consume 45g of protein a day, but i always seem to go over, one day I was over by 30g. Is it bad to go over your protein limit? Also is it bad to be way under your fat limit?
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Another exercise calorie question
Ok, so...exercise calories. I know it's been discussed, I just wanted to see what everyone would do if you were me. Ok, so I usually allow myself around 1550 calories a day. I worked out well today and earned another 693 calories. I don't usually eat all my exercise calories but will eat some. I have calculated all my food…
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Test.Your.Nutritional.Knowledge
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/files/best-foods-for-your-body/index.html?cm_mmc=Newsletter-_-2008_Mar_07-_-Weightloss-_-Test.Your.Nutritional.Knowledge.Top
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Correct me if I am wrong
When entering my daily food intake, the amount of protein, carbs and fat calories to do not add up to what MFP says what the total calories are. One gram of fat contains nine calories and one gram of protein and one carb contain four calories each, so for example: if a certain food item contains 100 calories, the total…
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Can't eat my calories
For some reason I canot eat the calories i'm suppossed to eat 1690, I eat constantly all day, fruit, veggies,etc. and work out 3 cardios a day. But no matter what I cannot get more than 1000 calories intake that is before figuring in my workouts going by that I'm luck to eat more than 600 a day. I guess I have room for Ice…
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ANy1 who likes sushi!
PLEASE HELP!!! For any of you who eat sushi! When u input calories i dont know how many to allocate!!! I had, 3 peices sashimi (no rice) salmon 2 pieces of Tuna (no rice) 2 pieces of white fish (no rice) AND 3 pieces of california roll with brown rice.. How many calories is that?? :ohwell: PLEASE HELP!!!! thank you guys…
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No appetite!!
On friday I started to drink Green Tea - my husband always goes on at me about the benefits. On Sunday I completely lost my appetite - thought it wouldn't last but it is now Thursday and I still have no appetite! I have always had to save 200-300 calories for the evening for my "evening munchies", but since Sunday I have…
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Ever thought you were over your calorie limit but were way u
Anyone ever have one of those days where you are firmly convinced at the end of the day that you've exceeded your daily allotment of calories but when you finally get some time on the computer to log everything you ate you find out that you're actually quite a bit short of your allocation? At dinnertime I still had about…
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Dairy Queen
Today is my first day to actually record my progress. I have a question, my Mother and I like to go to Dairy Queen twice a week for lunch. We have the homestyle burger with mustand and discard the top bun. Anybody have any idea how I can post this on my food dairy? Thanks.
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Food Label Fake-outs
4 Outrageous Food Label Fake-Outs Posted Tue, Mar 11, 2008, 6:19 pm PDT When you pick up a tempting food, scan the nutrition label, and think, "Wow, cool" -- because it's surprisingly lite or low-cal or free of trans fat -- you expect those claims to be bona fide, right? Hah. Food packagers can be sneaky. Watch out for…
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Bartering protein powder for a meal?
Ok, this morning i found a protein poder in my cupboard, it says it is used to compromise for a meal but im not sure if it will change my body somehow or make it think i am starving it, so if anyone is taking protein powder and using it instead of eating say lunch or something can you please tell me how well it works!…
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Chocolate Finds!!
CHEW ON THIS: Hey, the third week in March is American CHOCOLATE Week! Stock up and celebrate with HG's newest chocolate finds. Weeeeee! ************************************************ Little Debbie 100 Calories Snow Puffs PER SERVING (1 Puff): 100 calories, 2g fat, 55mg sodium, 20 carbs, <1g fiber, 11g sugars, 1g protein…
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Starbux white chocolate mocha is the debil.
Seriously. I decided to have a small one...nonfat, no whip. I don't like Starbucks really except for that and their holiday peppermint mocha. Anyway...dutifully plug it into my journal. 270 calories:grumble: I knew I'd be taking a bit of a hit (I generally don't even drink lattes, but I had a gift card from work). GAH!! I…