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I don't monitor sodium in my diary, but if you do, you should be able to scan your diary and see where your sodium is coming from. Chain restaurant food and canned and frozen foods tend to carry a lot of "hidden" sodium. Are you cooking your own meals? That's the easiest way to cut your sodium, just cook with less salt.

(Be warned, there are probably some Cheerios jokes coming...it's no reflection on you, OP.) Dark green veggies, red meat (beef and lamb), liver, eggs. If you end up needing a supplement, ask for a prescription one. I had some funky anemia during my last pregnancy, and was given Hematogen Forte, which is a rather large…

I hear they are good for your heart, and sometimes called the "musical fruit."

That's not so much ZOMG TOXINZ as it is "IBS related constipation is miserable"....the second is actual science rather than woo.

2000 calories of meat and veg won't likely have as much calcium as 2000 calories of ice cream. So, you know, I think the choice is clear.

Eh, it's really kind of only moderate on protein. The jar I have here has 16g of fat per serving and only 7g of protein. Peanut Butter has less protein per serving than greek yogurt, and about the same as sharp cheddar cheese. (but the cheese has less fat, believe it or not!)

That's not exactly low cal, though...more kcal than a dish of ice cream!

You are not overweight enough to be striving for 2 pounds a week. Go for 1 pound a week and do some work with weights to look your best for your holiday. Better muscle definition and firmness will go much further than crash dieting. And, no, 1200 per day plus intense exercise that you don't eat back is not advisable in the…

It's never dawned on me to wear shapewear while exercising, though....in my mind, shapewear is for formal body con dresses. Workout clothes are for spandex and relaxed bellehs, but good supportive bras. And I'm 45 with 3 kids, so I know from droop.

Naw, he should have to tell me another dude will be there, in order to entice me.

I was planning on it, but Husbeast is being a douche, so I'm now wondering if getting Lei'ed is in my immediate future....

The jeans that fit me best are blessedly the Target curvy cut mid-rise jeans. I can't even tell you what a joy it is to buy the "just right" jean for $20 on sale! I also love "fit and flare" cut dresses. Every pear-shaped woman's best friend!

One salad for me is a whole head of Romaine, a whole cucumber, and either a can of tuna or some salad shrimp, plus a splash of vinaigrette. I plow through my salad veg every few days, it never goes off for me....I'm more likely to run out mid week and be stuck craving.... I do want crisp packets of veg now, though.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO VITAMIN B1? Nobody ever talks about B1. I think Riboflavin arranged for an "accident" so it could be the first one among the Bs. "Nice place you've got here, Thiamine. Be a shame if anything HAPPENED TO IT." Farking Riboflavin.

I'm going to guess it's the Riboflavin. I've never trusted Riboflavin. It's a weird word. Say it a few times. RI-bo-FLAY-vin. See? Something's not right there.

I love the Siggis, too! I wait for it to go on sale and then I really stock up, my favorite is the Raspberry, 100 cal per container, 0 fat, 14g protein. Really creamy, even though it has no fat. I also like that it isn't sweet, even the flavoured ones just have some fresh fruit, no sweeteners. I don't like the too-sweet…

Only occasionally, at to-go only places. Even my local grocery has a salad bar rather than pre-packaged salads. I don't even mess with that, it's so much more efficient to buy veg and make my own at home. ~shrug~ I don't usually use "packet" for something in that kind of package, so all I could picture was someone opening…

Salad comes in a packet? Like crisps?

LOL, I have an opened Snickers egg on my desk, because for some reason last night just smelling it was enough for me. I had also decided that a nice Woodchuck Granny Smith Cider was more along the lines of where I wanted to spend those last couple hundred calories of the day. :)

The only food worth eating at McD's are the hash browns. at 147 calories per, I could eat 10 a day and still lose. 10 seems a bit excessive, though. I'm not above having 2 with an unsweetened iced tea for breakfast, though. Nom nom nom. And, OP, I'm not understanding your confusion. Weight loss is based on a simple balance…

It's fabulous as an easy idiot test. As in...if you believe it, you're an idiot.

Amen.

This is a great article if you just kind of skim it and pretend the title is "Here are some delicious foods I like to eat."

Retro Glam? Mod Cloth and Trashy diva love you NOW, no matter if you are still a bit abundant in figure.....

Eh, I feel like the OP wasn't looking to change the world, just commenting on an awkward feeling about a word. I, personally, had never heard the word "cutting" for either calorie/body fat reduction OR for self-harm until I was an adult, but my first encounters iwth it were in the context of dealing with teens and young…

One warning...the clearance rack seems to end up with the clothes that look good on a small body in large sizes and the clothes that look good on a large body in the small sizes. That's why they're leftover. ~grumbles~ Protip -- figure out a few brands and sizes that suit you NOW and put in a standing search on ebay. Best…

D'OH! And it was necromanced by a cheerleader. Is the Grapefruit diet an MLM now?

And, what can you learn from the bolded? STOP GOING ON "The _____Diet!" They are ALL useless. You are on a website that provides tools to help people keep track of their caloric intake and activity levels in order to lose weight sensibly. Try that for a change, you might find you don't gain the weight back when you aren't…

Learn to cook. You are going to have to do it eventually, if you don't consider yourself an adult now, surely you will soon -- and EVERY adult should be able to cook. Why do you think you should be able to stop at "not able to cook?" What do you think will happen for the rest of your life?