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Trimming fat/skin from meat/poultry fish helps a lot. Grilling over charcoal gives lots of flavor and lets the fat drip off, too.

Not chicken, but a bag of frozen "deveined" (intestines pre-removed) peeled (no shell) shrimp might help. Just throw a handful into whatever you're cooking. They don't have to be cut or handled much, and meat eaters usually consider them a fancier choice than chicken. But seriously, your family can't eat vegetarian when…

I haven't tried this particular recipe, but I've had it in a restaurant, and it's amazing. Don't be intimidated by fish sauce (nam pla). It does smell like dead fish when it comes out of the bottle, but it loses that taste when cooked. It becomes the characteristic taste of Thai food. Galingale (galanga) is hard to find…

There's no reason chicken and fish should have less variety than beef and pork. There are so many ways to marinate, dredge, braise and air fry any protein. If you want to find things that can make your chicken and fish interesting, search for recipes for tofu and substitute your protein instead. Anything that makes tofu…

Nature's quick weight loss herbs are cocaine and tobacco, neither of which are worth it.

Cyclamates were associated with bladder cancer in rats. However, it's very hard to design a study to compare rats with humans, since rats excrete the cyclamates into their urine so efficiently that you have to give them massive doses in their diet to get the equivalent blood levels as in humans. That means you're putting…

Don't forget mushrooms. A cup of mushrooms is 21 calories and 3 g of protein, about the same protein density per calorie as lean beef with almost no fat. In addition, the amino acid makeup tends to complement other vegetable proteins, making those more efficient sources of nutrition, too.

I’m using iOS 16.6.1 on iPhone 13. I tried reporting the food and correcting the data, and I tried linking it to a correct entry in the database, but the bar code scan still links to the wrong data for the portion size. Not to mention that I paid for a membership so the bar code scanner could make things faster, not to…

I am finding the bar codes for Amy's soups often have "one can" as the portion size but are linked to the "one cup" portion data. The help file says if I find the correct one in the data base and link to it, it will subsequently read scans for me linked to that entry, but it's not working either. The zendesk sent me to a…

I’m on trial period. Bar code scanner is picking up user-entered incomplete/wrong data. For a premium feature, it should only have verified data linked to bar codes.

Everyone is right; you need to continue to get professional help. You may need more intensive treatment than you are now getting. A lot of insurance companies mainly pay for the low-wage counselor and you only get a few minutes with the psychiatrist, or your primary care doctor ends up managing the drugs. Psychiatrists are…

You should be asking him this, not us. He has to understand why you want to lose weight when he says he doesn't like skinny. You have to understand what he means by "doesn't like skinny." When you're changing your diet and lifestyle, it has a big impact on his life, no matter how he feels about your appearance. You have to…

That works for fresh or frozen vegetables, but canning is done under pressure, so the temperature exceeds 100C or 212F. People who eat only canned vegetables may be deficient in folic acid (ie., people in prisons or homeless shelters).

My understanding is that some vitamins are not heat-stabile, i.e., they are destroyed by the heat itself if they are cooked more than lightly: http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-2e.shtml

I'm not getting the impression that you are logging calories. Lemon ginger and "more rice" aren't going to help you maintain your weight loss. Get a food scale and measuring cups and measure very, very accurately. Find out where your calories are coming from. You CAN control yourself, but not if you don't have accurate…

I'd second the suggestion to see a professional. Also, get your B12 level checked, and do the math to make sure you're getting enough from the few non-animal sources. If you're not eating a lot of whole grains, you could be short of other B vitamins. You need adequate amounts of all nutrients before you can use any of them…

One way to avoid obsessing is to have a goal weight range instead of a single number. Instead of thinking of your goal weight as 116, think of it as 115-120. That allows for normal ups and downs of sodium/water and TOM. As long as you're in that range, you eat healthy, exercise regularly, splurge occasionally, and enjoy…

I don't have time to go to a gym. We have had a treadmill for about 20 years. The motor went out, so we decided on an elliptical. (Then we found we could order a replacement motor, so we have both ) The advantages of the elliptical for me: - very quiet -- easy to listen to things while you're on it, doesn't bother other…

A lot of the studies slamming artificial sweeteners is done by the sugar industry. So you have to take it with a grain of salt. Some people find grabbing a diet soda keeps their mind off snacking, and some people find it gets their taste for sweets stimulated. You just have to see if it helps or hurts your efforts. But all…

I just set my activity as sedentary. Then whenever I do exercise, I log it. And then I reward myself for doing it by eating more calories.

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Don't dismiss violin. If you watch professionals perform, they can be pouring down sweat. If you're sweating, it means your body temperature has risen, and that means you are burning extra calories. If you aren't feeling overheated in a suitcoat, you aren't burning extra calories. Trying to quantify it is more difficult.…

When you just don't enjoy anything involving exercise, it's worth doing some looking inside. Exercise can be so many activities, many of which people do for the pure fun of it. I wonder if someone tried to force you to do things, or made comments about how you look doing things, or was never happy no matter what you did,…

If you're not hungry and you're feeling energetic, you're not eating too little. You could well be calculating with inaccurate numbers, though. Trust your body on this one.

Do you like hot food? Mince fresh ginger root, fresh hot chilis, and fresh garlic, stir fry in a bit of oil in a non-stick wok. Fry the chicken and other vegetables of choice, like green onions, summer squash, green beans, okra, Chinese eggplant. Salt with a bit of soy sauce. Serve with a half-cup of sticky rice for each…

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If you're doing Zumba 5 days a week, you probably have a lot more muscle mass than you did when you started out. And some people really have denser bones than other people, which is a good thing for them. Size 10 and muscular is great compared with size 12-14 and mostly fat. If you've never been at the weight you're…

There's a lot of strong opinions about starvation mode etc. But the main thing is, are you feeling good? Eating right and exercise should not make you feel weak and obsessing about what you eat. It's better to lose more slowly but to be following a program you're willing to continue the rest of your life because you…

@ninabeans6 -- try adding the word "raw" when entering your ingredients. That tends to select for the USDA nutrient database, which has more portion size choices. To change the portion sizes, use this formula in a calculator: (amount of food you are using) divided by (amount of the portion size listed) = (number of…