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Don't they teach science in high school anymore? A carbohydrate is any of a number of molecules with one thing in common. Made entirely of carbon hydrogen and oxygen. Guess what alcohol is? Right answer gets the hall pass.

I think it was me that called BS. Because I believe in science, not wives tales, anecdotes, superstition etc., I believe that CICO is the only factor for weight loss. Everything else is an excuse or a mistake. Adjustments to metabolism do occur . . . in minuscule amounts compared with the enormous calorie intake required…

Calories aren't the most important thing - they are the only thing at least as far as weight loss goes.

There is very little science involved in the claims that one's metabolism can make dramatic changes as a consequence of dieting. Take them with a grain of salt.

The data on BMI is far more complicated than "the average American is obese." The US, unlike most comparable civilized nations, has three major races, each of which has entirely separate weight, diet and exercise profiles. There is no "average American" to which this saying applies. And, it is not fair to blame this…

You left this out: High sodium can kill you if you intentionally take a lethal dose of it which is more than any person would possibly consume without suicide on their mind. And, if you have had a cardiac event and are retaining water, high sodium can result in increased likelihood of recurrence. There, I fixed it for you.

That is probably because you only cook vegetables. If you were to broil a piece of salmon, you would find the pan full of oil, no water, no juices. And, the oil would count at 9 calories per gram or about half of the entire calories count of the raw salmon. Of course, if the raw salmon is going into a dish where the oil…

That would only be true if you ate everything you put in the pan after cooking. Mostly what stays in the pan is fats and oils. If you are not drinking the fat from the pan, you are logging it but not ingesting it at around 9 calories per gram. That represents about half of the calories in salmon for example.

No one should be on a diet of less than 1500mg unless he is bloated with water and in that case needs a supplemental electrolyte. With a 20% EF he is probably at 2000mg. A 16oz vanilla malt has 470 calories and 200mg of sodium/ A cup of whipped cream adds 160 calories and no sodium. That is a pretty good breakfast drink…

Weigh everything but vegetables, rice and pasta cooked and find entries that give you calories of the cooked item.

I edit the recipe after weighing it. Suppose it weighs 1150 grams total and has 3500 calories of ingredients . I just say it is 115 servings, 10 grams per serving. It records that as 30.4 calories per serving. That way, when I dish it out, I just weigh and divide by 10 and that is how many servings I had and it…

Rice can be well cooked if you follow the recipe, but bring it to a rolling boil whilst standing next to it and then cover and turn it off and come back in 20 minutes.

Whenever micro amounts of sodium are being discussed I feel the need to point out that unless specifically proscribed by a doctor who is treating you, reducing sodium below 2500 mg is a bad idea. Sodium is your electrolyte. You know, the thing that allows you to stay, uh, living. So your organs do not fail. So, when…

Oh, that is beautiful. I'd add some Maldon Sea Salt flakes to the tomato.

I'm getting that the OP did not get tested for Lyme Disease because her insurance did not cover it.

Of course, you only have to do it once. That is, weigh both the dry and cooked rice you make. So, for example, you do it and its 100g dry and 330g cooked you know that the way you like rice is cooked/3.3 = dry. Then any time you weigh cooked you have your dry weight also. That way you avoid the fact that you can be off as…

The thing about ordinary (not low sodium) crisps is that after the forst couple they don't taste like much. This has been tested and the potato flavor and aroma is a powerful inducment as one starts to eat them and due to the effect of the salt, it drops off almost immediately. Try it. Start with a few crisps and then…

I believe in science, not anecdotes. Metabolism changes, true. But, not enough to matter. It takes a certain number of calories to keep a few hundred pounds of water, cells and minerals at 98.7F 24/7 and a few more to locomote that mass over to the frig and that does not change just because a person is eating rhubarb…

Low sodium can kill you. high sodium can make you retain water. Retaining water is a problem for persons with heart failure. Ask your doctor.

Ever have Frogmore stew? I doubt it or you would not have made this remark. The sausage is insignificant in low country boil. A few sections cut up to give it a smokey flavor. It all about the shrimp and blue crab and sweet corn.

Oh, if its a typical Frogmore Stew it won't be bad. You have a boiled sausage, call that 200 calories, some corn pieces usually totaling about an ear and a dozen shrimp and blue crab, which have maybe 100 calories (7 calories each for medium), lemons and limes at 0, maybe a few boiled potato pieces. Call it 500 if you chow…

' The devil is in the details. As usual. Japan, has a highly homogeneous demographic and has the oldest age to mortality than most other countries. 84 years. But, my zipcode in a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio is also quite homogeneous. Not like Japan, of course, but mostly white European ancestry and mostly prosperous. It has…

Rice is most accurately weighed dry. So, if a dry cup of rice goes in you know the total calories of the entire pot. If your scoop is one-fifth or the total, divide by 5. If you want to be completely correct, weigh the cooked result in total then weigh your portion of the cooled. Probably not necessary because you can…

It is pretty easy to have a "sugar" problem if your intake includes 2 or 3 32oz corn syrup laden Mountain Dews or a few packs of Little Debbies. Otherwise, not a problem.

These epiphanies are the training on which the success of calorie counting and logging is based. Forget about the big decisions. Concentrate on the small ones. We can only control the small stuff. Whether the salad has mayo based dressing or vinegar based dressing. Yea, the mayo will taste a little better but do we really…

I have my version of a "full English breakfast" every Sunday morning. Hey, wait a minute, it is Sunday morning. I better get to it. Still, I make up for it at dinner and never go over my goal. It just means shrimp and french fries for dinner.

I am eating raspberries and blackberries. Raspberries are like 1 calorie each. 43 and 62 calories per cup, respectively. Same for blackberries. An 8 oz container varies from 3 for $5 to $299 each at Midwest Kroger. If they are not as sweet as they should be, a tsp of honey drizzled on is 20 calories. A long way from that…

You will probably be consuming dedicated body tissue in addition to fat at 900 calories. But, as noted above, the best warning sign is confusion, weakness and lethargy. If none of these persist, a brief period of a balanced diet of 900 calories (weeks or months not years or decades) will probably not hurt you.

Every now and then I will end up with 600+ calories. Not often. But, I do ignore it. Except to say that I usually have a 110cal serving of ice cream after dinner which I skip if I am close to the daily allowance but don't skip if I end up with a lot of unused calories. But, doing the same things day in and day out is…

Just count the calories and get a reasonable plan. Keto means nada, just another fad diet.