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Just a quick screen-dump regarding choloesterol. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/know-your-fats/cholesterol-and-stroke/ Here's a summary of the main points you need to know about cholesterol. "... Stroke is the leading cause of disability and the third leading cause of death in the United States and most…

Isn't Morning star another name for satan? is there truly a company making food called morning star? lol!

1300 calories a day is already a calorie deficit. Most of the calories your body uses, it uses to keep your heart pumping, and your lungs flexing, and your digestion digesting. Another way of putting that is, how much energy it would take you to survive if you were in a coma and at the hospital, and the lowest I've heard…

that looks great. :) disregard my last post. :D

the automatic split is something like 50% carbs. you have to change the macros to suit the style of eating you want to follow. It's a very basic mathematical calculation; carbs and protein are 4 calories per gramme, and fat is 9. Tutu with the carb percentage, altering the fat amount and going back to your food page to see…

AFter the great NB of 2009 I had some time to play with antidepressants, my response would be the citaloprams make it hard to get out of bed in the morning, and you gain not much weight Wellbutrin (dopamine reuptake inhibitor) created anxiety that they fed you quetiapine for in tiny doses so you could sleep. That's…

HFCS is something like 70% fructose and 30% glucose. Fructose is digested in the liver by turning it into triglycerides and creating a fatty droplet. about 20% of it is made available to your body to use for energy and the rest is stored, so you can eat fructose and be hungry quite soon after, because your body went and…

I'd say go up to 1750 calories a day, and give yourself a break. you're overexercising, so that will be causing your muscles to retain water... You need to slow down and just chill. Good things take time. :) Also my personal bid for not being hungry is high fat low carb. I now find carbs virtually MAKE me hungry: I swear.…

yes and no. Depends how long you have to go. If you have 2lb to lose, then you can just go under on calories for a short while, and what you eat won't matter. If you have 20lb to lose, the game changes and you have to maintain nutrition while you lose weight, because otherwise you get malourished and find yourself eating…

probably should have quoted this instead of hte other. This is not paleo at all. This is high carb low fat. If you want to reflect a paleo diet, you have to increase fats and reduce carbs. 30:40:30 is a start, being c:f:p, but there will be more to it if you are lifting. Certainly not more carbs tho. Maybe more protein and…

Change your macros in the goal setting system. Paleo is 30% carbs, 40% fat, 30% protein. Make sure that's what you've got in the system or it will tell you to eat most of your calories from carbs.

I remember a boss from long ago talking about speedboats, and how they're either in the water fully, or up out of the water fully, but never half way. They're either going fast enough to skip, or they're wallowing. I have had times when my thyroid has gone into crisis and I've lost weight on huge calories a day. I've been…

I am also fascinated about the meaning of the word junk. There's so much competing information out there. All the science is up in the air, cholesterol is good or bad depending on who you talk to, nutritionists don't have science degrees and everything out there is up for grabs in terms of what the best way forward is. I…

I would recommend cut up veges and peanut butter instead. :D I don't think carbs do anything but make you want more. Hey. Some chippies ads come out and say it - you can't just have one. So avoid them. :smiley: I remember the years I'd make a huge coleslaw and have that in the lounge so that I could deal with my oral…

I don't think MFP can fail to add up the calories to your daily amount, it uses percentages. Can you provide a snip of your macros and daily calorie count? Or calculate it yourself: carbs = 4carbs/gramme, protein = 4 carbs/gramme, fat = 9 carbs/gramme.

I've been bad at 'weight' all my life, and when I look back I know it started when I was quite small. We were all very thin, didn't have a weight 'problem' but there was a level of neglect there, dinner was a stable meal usually, but not any others. So I developed an opportunistic 'eat it all when you can' habit which is…

Take a couple of days off exercise and see if you pee a lot of water weight out. Also; when is/was your period? do you still have them, are they irregular? no need to answer me, just really wondering if you're ready for a tsunami in a week and have been building up to it. :D (I have fibroids, so shark week involves a…

I weigh every morning... ish. After shower/lav and before coffee. My logic is that if I weigh at my lowest weight, then any downward movement will be meaningful as there is only so low I can go.

So many of us grow up with feelings of guilt and anxiety tied in with physical needs like hunger. I know by the time I was in my 20s I didn't have a clue which was which. I alternately starved and binged. I was never satisfied with my size or shape. I was hovering on the 60kg mark and when I look back I want to slap…

Are you type 1 diabetic? I'm deducing because type 2 (myself) find it really hard to get down to normal levels, let alone go low. I am thinking you are insulin dependent and therefore can go low? Type 1 diabetics need way more clinical help than I can offer. My nephew is type 1, he has a monitor and it goes off at night...…

Any sugar at all is going to trigger an insulin response, because that's the pathway of sugar into your cells. The question is if it's too much for your system, and/or is your system getting more or less responsive to the insulin. If you're becoming less responsive your body will output more and more insulin and you can…

To survive a human doesn't actually need to consume carbohydrates at all; all nutrition can actually be achieved by eating meat and fish and such. BUT. Where's the fun in that. And also: carbs are impossible to eliminate. Even cream has carbs. And any excess protein you eat is turned into carbs as it cannot be stored as…

Just to clarify, the investigations done due to I think it was Nixon having a heart attack and wanting answers, involved looking at the eating habits of a number of countries, and seeing what correlations could be viewed. They came upon some direct 1:1 correlations, they thought, between fat consumption and heart disease.…

Yes. That's spot on. Most over the last 50 yrs have been high carb low fat. In America anyway; and here in New Zealand the more 'woke' were going very low fat. This has led to a generation of diabetics. Not directly from eating carbs. Indirectly, from eating sugar which was put into low fat foods to make them edible.…

I'm saying she's put them in wrong. On keto to go over on fat without having gone over on carbs is not a thing. Keto is NOT 40c/40f/20p. It's more like 70f/10c/20p. Give it a go, you'll see what I mean. She needs to choose the macros that fit her diet style and plug them into the MFP machine.

dude. brutal. look it all up. The OP is 'what's the deal with low carb diets.' Those of us who have been forced to look into it have found things. The general population is well behind the play, but you can look up scholarly articles yourself and find out what's going on. Rather than just search old data. Science has done…

I think the best you could do without the wheels falling off is a deficit of 500 cals a day from whatever maintenance level you have, assuming you're maybe 180lb or 190lb right now??? That's 500 x 50 days = 25,000 calories deficit, @ 3,500 per lb that's 7.14lb. at a guess. But if you were starting at 130 or 120lb, then no.…

how old is this. You need to update. The universities themselves need to update. The sugar myth is over, it's time for the scientists to catch up. Beware. I have a GP who in one sentence said fat is fine and in the next said eat lean chicken and remove the fat. She can't see the conflict but it's glaring. Offload the old…

there's only so far this site can go. Go find yourself a TDEE calculator online, and identify your maintenance calories. i'd recommend scooby fitness but he's retired. :( I am concerned that you have inputted data wrong, or else the calculations in this site are wrong. But your age will be a factor in the calculation, I…

your macros are wrong. If you're on keto your carbs should be your lowest macro and protein shouldn't be too far behind, as you cannot store protein and turn any excess into carbs thus increasing your carb intake. You can't go over on fat and still have carbs left. it's too hard... What macros have you set in your food…