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Sure there will be some gain as your body does a little recomp, but they'll be small gains.

There was this show called Untold Stories of the ER where they featured a woman who almost died from heat exhaustion due to taking the diet drug DNP. Her body temperature eventually went back to normal, but not before reaching 106F.

Berries aren't as calorie dense as you'd think, as a lot of their volume is water. Estimating a bit it comes out to 460 calories, assuming 4oz OJ, 2oz of the yogurt, 1oz strawberries, a medium banana, 1/4 cup salted peanuts, 1 Tbsp dried mulberries and 1 tsp flaxseed.

For a lot of magazines, people can get articles published without much effort if they pay the fee for it, so I'd take anything written down in them with a grain of salt. I drink diet sodas twice a day (one with lunch, one with dinner) and if they made you gain weight then I'd still be well over 300 pounds now (down to 268…

It's easier to stick to a lifestyle change when you make small changes over time rather than a huge change all at once. Like if you're trying to reduce how much sodium you have, try reducing your intake by 100mg at a time, only lowering it more once you get used to the new lower number. Eventually you'll reach a point…

Try drinking more water before going to bed. Muscles cramp due to overheating and most of the time that's caused by a lack of water/electrolyte imbalance.

Your body eventually gets used to new routines and adjusts to compensate for them, usually by altering your metabolism.

Given enough time, your body adjusts to whatever lifestyle changes you've done. The hard part is sticking with the changes long enough for the body to adjust. I was on a salt-restriction diet for a few months now (started seriously in mid May) and now I find any high sodium foods to be way too salty to enjoy.

For the diabetic diet, it's preferred to get any carbs from sources that are as unprocessed as possible (like fruits and whole grains, since it takes your body longer to process them and helps prevent huge blood sugar spikes). If you're already checking your blood sugar, you can use those numbers in conjunction with carb…

I've recently started a cardiac rehab program, and if you want to have equipment that's also used in those programs, incorporate a treadmill/hand bike/stationary bike/dumbbell rack. Those should cover any cardio aspects you're looking for in a gym.

Before I lost a lot of weight, my health was so bad that I would run out of breath just from a few minutes of exertion. My motivation is to not reach that point ever again.

I would get a blood test to be sure it's not medical related, since feeling cold is a symptom of anemia.

Would mixing protein powder into another food make it more like "real food"? Cause you could always add a scoop to a bowl of Cream of Wheat in the morning.

If you don't mind making soups with tofu, try out hot & sour soup. For protein it uses extra firm tofu cut into rectangular squares and sometimes cubed pork.

Filtered with a solid carbon filter. It's the only choice (besides bottled) since our tap water has way too much chlorine in it.

I like to add a splash of milk, a generous amount of Ms. Dash lemon pepper/southwestern spice blends, some dill weed and black pepper, then scramble them.

I do due to medical reasons.

Do you have a gym nearby that has hand bikes? That's one way you can do upper body cardio.

Any digital scale should work, as long as it can weigh in both ounces and grams and has a button to zero out the weight. Mine is an OXO Good Grips I got at Kroger for $20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfcB7GbLmIM Why you should never rely on measuring cups to portion out solid foods.

I'd say it would be closer to half your ideal body weight, cause that would be making some of the heavier people out there drink close to a gallon and a half of water per day. I usually just follow the "drink when you're thirsty" rule, which puts my daily fluid intake around 48 oz (around 1oz for every 6 pounds of body…

While I don't count cleaning around the house as exercise, I do count the hours I work since it's a fairly physical job and my current activity level in MFP is set to sedentary (since I only work 4 times a week).

Depending on where you get it, frozen fish can have a relatively small amount of sodium per serving. I usually get a pack of frozen swai fillets from Kroger and they only have 40mg sodium per fillet.

Not all the green checked entries are correct either, and they can't be edited to fix any wrong values, so not going with the green checked entry everytime isn't necessarily a bad thing.

If it's severe enough, I'd get a few tests done to check on your kidney and heart function. Heart and kidney problems can lead the body to hold onto water a lot easily than normal. If those check out, try increasing how much potassium you take in per day. Potassium is the counterbalance in the electrolyte balancing act, so…

If it's just pants, then you could get by with wearing a belt for now. It's what I currently do (I wear a size 44 waist now, used to wear 48s).

A good portion of it is probably water weight. Muscles hold onto more water when they need to grow/repair.

If the systolic pressure (first number) ever drops below 100, then it's hypotension. It commonly happens after losing a lot of weight while on BP meds (I had lost 50 pounds recently and now I often get standing hypotension). Congrats on getting your numbers down.

Usually PTs recommend exercises using resistance bands for post-surgery rehab. They give the muscles resistance while eliminating the straining force of gravity.

36.3 (down from 42 a few months ago) and I don't think it accurately reflects overall health. BMI doesn't account for people who are muscular or who holds onto water weight too easily.