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If you're eating Subway so often, you're not eating as "fresh" as you think. That chicken in the sweet onion chicken teriyaki? It comes precut and precooked in plastic bags. It's totally processed chicken product shaped back into chicken-form: chicken breast with rib meat, water, seasoning (corn syrup solids, vinegar…

Born and raised in the Lehigh Valley. College near Pittsburgh. Been faraway for awhile :neutral_face:

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Hominids have been eating basically everything (meat and plants) for over 100,000 years. Animal domestication and agriculture are only around 12,000 years ago. Vegetarianism? Probably only since classical antiquity about 3,000 years ago. Also, the herbivore/carnivore line is actually really blurry. Deer (usually…

I think you might've misunderstood. The 18% I quoted is from fossil fuels associated with the production and transportation of livestock not methane produced by said livestock. The source was the FAO at the United Nations.

Reading all of our posts about how much it sucks to quit smoking REALLY makes me want to punch my 14-year-old self in the face for ever starting. I've been struggling with it for half of my life now. I hope I'm finally free. I gained weight too. About 35 pounds. But it's good to see that you're now weighing less than you…

I am looking for one too and searched the forums to find this post. I just picked one on Amazon. It has some bad reviews from people saying it gives them different readings "every time." I don't know if they're stepping off and back on and getting inconsistencies or they just don't understand that weight fluctuates from…

It seems like there are some egg cooking experts here. I LOVE whenever I can get the egg to be like a gel but a little more set than the egg in this picture. I order over-medium and no one's every given me a weird look but it's often too runny or hard. Would my ideal egg be a 5 minute egg, maybe? Egg experiment time. P.S.…

Is it a GP or a dermatologist? If it's a GP, maybe you should get a referral to someone who specializes. Also, dermatologists tend to be the most skilled doctors (at the top of their med school class) because it's kind of a cushy gig.

It's just how MFP is. If you stick around the boards, you'll get used to it. I don't like my MIL's food. I'm still finding that my husband says he "doesn't like something" because his mother cooked it and didn't do so well. Like, he thought he hated Thai food after her foray into bad Thai home cooking. Anyway, be creative…

She's not angry that she's hungry. She's hangry. It's like a mood swing some people get when their blood sugar gets too low.

@tlw7 you might have abandoned this thread already for obvious reasons. BUT I know how you feel. Yeah, yeah, there's no inherently "good" or "junk" foods but I wouldn't want to waste my calories on my mother-in-law's heinous ground beef lasagna nonsense. Is this like a potluck situation where you can bring things to share?…

You're right. And so are the people who know these struggles. Unfortunately, some people here seem to think that everything can be solved with a formula even though most people realize that life is more complicated than that. Yes, we know weight loss is calories eaten - calories burned. Or that your physical addiction to…

I use the MFP diary. I sometimes log foods for the next day in advance. I'm a big planner. I get random fruits and vegetables every 2 weeks from my co-op (totally recommend if you like eating new foods but wouldn't normally pick up, say, a spaghetti squash...it makes me try more vegetables out). Then I search recipes…

I save myself from hanger with planned meals and always having something within reach should the hanger arise. The hanger is at its worst for me when I don't plan and I let myself get too hungry. P.S. Getting hangry is a real thing! At least in this study :wink:…

Wait, can I not say that I quit smoking? Cuz, you know, I can't guarantee I won't pick up a cigarette again when I'm 56 or something? Is quitting smoking something you can only determine after a person has died, sort of like Alzheimer's? "Ok, yep, you're on your death bed so you can finally say you quit for good. Hooray"…

:unamused: Please don't tell people what they can "easily control." It it were easy, well, it wouldn't be an issue, would it? I guess you could say the same about weight loss. People do what works for them. Sometimes, it doesn't end up working out. But the data on weight loss and the best ways to do it is way more…

I don't think being so proscriptive is necessarily helpful. This isn't a scientific article on smoking cessation in which we all need to operationalize our variables in the same way. I think most people think "quit smoking" means that they had a temporary (however long that may be) or permanent halting of habitual…

I took probiotics too. But I didn't know you weren't supposed to take them within two hours of the antibiotic because of absorption problems. Oops. :neutral_face:

I think I quit six real times. So maybe six is your lucky number! I quit...many more times...for a few days.

I also think it's best avoided and I hope to get free sometime soon...but I kind of see smoking as my sinking ship (I did it on-and-off for 12 years) and vaping nicotine was my lifeboat. It's great that you were able to quit entirely, @Bettieb1988 I was never able to sustain it cold turkey.

Oh, and if you want to ask a group of people with a LOT of experience with stuff like this go to www.reddit.com/r/skincareaddiction Like 150,000 people who've had the same problems.

Stomach problems are a common side effect so you're not alone on that. I didn't feel great. And, like I said, super hungry. I stopped on Monday and I feel like I'm back to normal again, appetite-wise. In more severe cases, they prescribe six weeks to six months. Do you have moderate to severe acne? I don't think your…

Lemon Spinach Spaghetti Squash. I belong to a fruit/vegetable co-op and I build meals around whatever surprises they give me. I'm not that into squash so figuring how to make myself like it is a challenge but creative recipes like this one made me a fan. Next time I get spaghetti squash, I'll make it with Thai peanut…

Some people with severe acne take doxy continually.

Whaaaa...those sneaky seafood counter people. You should tell them they sold you 5 oz for the price of 6 ;)

Nicotine is a teratogen (capable of causing birth defects) but the information about nicotine as a carcinogen is inconclusive. Vaping it is "potentially carcinogenic" pending further research. Alcohol is also a carcinogen.

I took Hydroxycut way back in the day (around 15 years ago). I lost weight but couldn't sleep and felt a bit nuts. That was when it could legally contain ephedra, which is similar in structure to...meth. So, not worth it even if it did work. I don't know what it contains now.

I don't think you're cheating by vaping. I quit through vaping as well and, even if it isn't AS good as quitting altogether, I'm happy I'm not getting all the chemicals and tar. Vaping doesn't suppress my appetite like cigarettes did though. OP, some estimates say that a pack-a-day smoker burned about 250 calories per day…