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No one knows how much water is in the cooked rice. It matters.

Push back from the table. You've had enough. Plan better tomorrow.

Forget about sodium until your dr tells you otherwise. The recommendation is going to be changed because it is wrong. Should be about 1.5 times what it is. But, powerful lobbying is keeping it from being corrected. Low sodium can kill you. High sodium will make your ankles swell up.

Its the number that are on the scale when it gets to 1 oz. Seriously,

Get the salmon. Skip the fries. No fried onion. The steaks are from crap.

I don't consider anything but calories. Having said that, since I am making food choices all day, every day, I find that calorie dense carbs are way down. I don't think about them at all, but I don't see a bowl of potato chips on my log. And, pasta is usually 2 oz. So, I guess you could call it a low carb diet.

Ignore sodium levels until your doctor tells you to reduce. Seriously. If your sodium intake is 3000mg and you go a couple of days of high perspiration or activity you can have dehydration - a serious medical problem.

I think this is why dieting is so difficult for many. We know that it is incontestable that if you eat less than you burn and eliminate you will lose weight. Without supplements, denial of food groups, timing of meals, sodium reduction, etc. But here we are with a new dieter experimenting with all manner of strategies,…

Swing A Way was purchased by some junk manufacturer and despite an explosion of new models, none of them work right. Cheap, but junk. The patent has apparently run out and a US company is making them as the original can opener was made. Twice as expensive, but it actually works.…

I checked with my financial advisor when I purchased the first one for $12 but when I upgraded to the $19 one, I went wild and bought it without investment advice. Use it on most everything I eat.

I find flour tortillas scorched on the open burner are a pretty good substitute in a bread sandwich - 70 calories.

I don't do any "cheat days." But, it does help me to know that while it takes a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound, it also takes a surplus of 3500 calories to gain a pound.

I don't care about soy since I rarely eat it even as an additive or filler, and I do not adopt food "theories." I just eat what I want. But, "soy is poison" is not a completely goofy idea. In fact, books, scholarly articles, nutrition related blogs and an awful lot of commentators have made this statement. And, it seems…

Carryout Wonton Soup, Jonah Crab claws, baked potato with butter.

And, more ridiculous is that his touted product has 20 calories per serving less than the most popular dried pastas.

Why bother. Eat beans and say you had pasta.

Time for you to find the $12 and get a food scale.

This probably won't matter to you, but washing does not help with food surface micro organisms or chemical spray residue. Fly crap, dirt, debris, can be washed off. But not the serious stuff. I invested in a product called FIT back in the day and they had a lot of science on this topic. For my part, I wash mushrooms,…

Rice cakes are 35 calories each. Light sea salt is my choice.

I usually count all that goes in the pan unless I see more than a tablespoon left in the pan. Then, I measure or estimate the oil to deduct at 120 calories per tbsp. Of course, meats that render out fat like bacon or burgers need to be weighed cooked not raw.

I had some vegan fudge. It had a little bit of a chalky texture, but that high cocoa homemade chocolate had a flavor I can't describe other than to say it was the tastiest fudge ever. The chef is a craft chocolate store person.

I think that the only way to eliminate particular foods is to substitute a better choice. I am eating fresh raspberries, strawberries and blackberries as a snack instead of peanuts. Different, but not heinous. On the dinner menu, I have found lump crab meat, frozen lobster and shrimp an OK substitute for beef, even though…

A packet of sugar has what? 15 calories? Is this really a problem?

Sodium is your electrolyte. Without it you die. An excess might cause some water weight. A problem if you are recovering from heart surgery or have heart failure. Otherwise its absence can be an obstacle to enjoying your food choices.

We live longer, are healthier, happier, and have more leisure time than any generation before. Our food is cleaner, more nutritious and safer. Farming is more productive thereby sustaining more people than ever thought possible. Only a few holdouts in the world are dumping significant waste and garbage in open waters most…

First of all, I don't get my life experiences from stories on the Internet. I live them with neighbors, family and colleagues. And, in my world not one person would ever look at a unrelated female and say something as crass as "nice body shape you have" or "you could lose a few pounds." I swear I have never one time heard…

You just can't help yourself, can you? I shared my experience without directing my comments to a specific person (unlike you) and in a forum where it is utterly appropriate to share that experience whether you agree with it or not. I suppose there is something about that experience that triggers you in some way and I am…

Actually, I am a polite, kindly person. I would never comment to another person about his or her body shape. And, unlike many of you, ad hominem attacks are not in my play book.

Other than getting flamed for saying my experiences, I am happy to have a lot of successful vegans weigh in, as it were. I do think that persons who assume that an adult would comment to a woman on their body shape reasonableness is pretty perverted. Where on earth would that happen? I can't imagine who would even suggest…

Military MRE's have much better choices than above. They have high total calories but if you toss the cheese spread, the 250 calories drink mix and the carb (usually a bread or cake) there are really tasty entrees. My favorites are the vegetarian or Halal choices like cheese tortellini and red sauce, chili and elbow.…