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It depends on what kind of chinese restaurant it is (ordering from a menu or a buffet house, and if it has a hibachi grill), since buffet houses tend to have other dishes as well as chinese food. It also depends on if you're watching your sodium levels or not since, as stated above, a lot of chinese dishes are very high in…

It depends on your own medical conditions. For example, if you have renal disease, then diet coke is a big foe since its acid of choice is phosphoric acid. In normal people the kidneys filter out excess phosphorus, but when you have kidney disease it builds up over time, which can lead to hardening of muscles or organs.

Maybe your friend is on a potassium-restrictive diet? Vegetable and fruit skins hold a lot of potassium, and peeling off the skin is a good way to dramatically reduce your potassium intake.

Too bad that's not possible for everyone, especially if your next meal isn't for another 9-10 hours. On my super busy days I usually prep what I'll have the night before and store them in containers in the fridge. That way I can grab them, have a quick breakfast and go. It's usually cottage cheese mixed with greek yogurt,…

I use a homemade dill mayo, spicy mustard, diced onion and a bit of lemon juice in mine. I usually only need to use a Tablespoon of the mayo per can of tuna since the other ingredients provide just enough flavor.

I never binge at home, so the last time I binged was when we went to our favorite chinese buffet restaurant for dinner a little over a month ago. It also kinda killed my urges for binging, since by then I had been on a low sodium diet for at least five months and everything seemed way too salty to me.

If you're willing to spend a bit of money on equipment, you could get an arm ergometer (it's basically an arm bike) to do upper body cardio. I think you can get a simple one that can be used as both an ergometer and an under-desk bike for $30.

If you can afford them, have a pair of orthodic shoes made. I had to have a set made since I have a partial amputation on my left foot (lost the smallest toe to gangrene years ago) and they help a lot at reducing the strain on my back and knees. They're not cheap though. Mine was $185 for one shoe.

They say that sugar is more addictive than cocaine, so congrats on cutting it cold turkey!

A mix of both, sticking to the same exercises but changing up how long/reps of each exercise as my fitness improves. If it doesn't make me sweat, then it's time to up the intensity or length.

In the gym I like both the bicycle and the arm ergometer (aka arm bike). It's always easy for me to keep going on these once I get started.

Sorry, meant when it's added to things like pastries, since the OP was about fruit for breakfast. As for that chocolate, maybe I'll try some if I see it. The 90% Ghirardelli dark chocolate is the only one I can really enjoy atm (all the others are way too sweet).

If you're not allergic to chocolate, you can try what I did. Go out and buy the lowest percentage dark chocolate you can find and have it as a treat until it starts to taste sweet. Once that happens move on to the next percentage up (the higher the percentage, the less sugar is in it). Once I was comfortable with the 90%…

The whole "sugar makes you fat" argument is geared more towards processed sugars since anything using them tends to have a really high sugar content. That half a mango only has 26g sugar (about the same as a small donut).

The typical breakfast for exercise days: 1/2c cottage cheese, 1/2c greek yogurt, 1 pop tart (unfrosted), juice and a protein shake (water and 1 scoop protein).

Look more at inches lost than weight lost, since when you start exercising you might be losing fat but gaining the same amount of weight in muscle and water weight.

Eggs, tuna, beef, cottage cheese, greek yogurt, chicken, protein powder and (for the moment) Liquacel, since my doc gave me a 32oz bottle of it.

Have you had your kidney function checked at the doctor recently? Retaining water too easily is one of the warning signs of renal disease.

Taking a peek at similar dishes in the database here, it looks like the Chicken French over escarole has fewer calories (370 calories for the chicken vs 660 for the seafood marinara). Be advised though that a lot of those calories is from the butter sauce, so if you're watching your fat intake then the seafood marinara…

Mine is open mainly because my RD likes to look through it periodically to make sure I'm sticking to my diet.

The only fruit out there I know of that's still crunchy when ripe is the apple. Every other fruit I've tried is only hard when it's eaten while it's underripe.

A good cheese slicer (block cheeses are cheaper and somewhat healthier than processed cheeses), cheese grater, rice cooker, electric sandwich maker and a good, well seasoned wok. Good tools for great, "healthy" grilled cheese and stir fry.

Cardio is the only way to lower your resting heart rate, and even that only goes so far. My average resting heart rate now (after starting cardiac rehab a week ago) is 77. Before that it was around 89.

To lose weight, improve flexibility and recomp a bit to have more muscle and less fat.

Any scale should work, as long as it has a zeroing button and can read both ounces and grams. I use the OXO Good Grips food scale, which I got from Kroger for $20.

What I did was determine how much my clothes weighed by first weighing naked, then immediately weighing with the clothes I usually have on in the morning. While a person's weight will fluctuate, the weight of a single set of clothing won't.

As long as it's actual Gatorade and not its G2 version, which is sugar-free.

Gatorade can raise blood pressure a little since it contains sodium, but not by too much (100mg sodium per 8oz). With the sweating it sounds like hypoglycemia (I get similar symptoms if my blood sugar drops below 60).

I usually log food/fluids before I intake them, either using the website if I'm at home or using the MFP app if I'm not.

There are so many different teas out there to try out, so it's hard to get bored on those.