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If you try to change everything at once, then get frustrated and fall back into your old patterns, you have made zero progress. If you make a tiny change and maintain it, you reap the benefits for all the years you might otherwise have been trying and failing over and over again. So don't be overambitious. Every change for…

The tap water here doesn't taste that great. The city adds a chemical to raise the pH so it doesn't leach lead out of the pipes in the old houses around here. It gives it a faint bitter taste. A lot of restaurants add a slice of lemon to offset that.

I wasn't talking about substantial muscle. I'm talking about a sedentary person deciding on January 1st to start getting active and spending hours doing it. Just going from atrophied to normal bulk is going to increase her muscle weight to some extent.

I didn't realize so many people hadn't heard of this. I have occasion to talk to a lot of iron deficient people on my job, and I hear about the Pepsi thing when I ask about caffeine intake. I've heard about iced tea a lot, too. It's never coca cola or ginger ale. And no, I've never managed to talk any of them into…

I'm not a believer in eat more to lose more, but your diary appears nutritionally deficient. As people have said, the protein is low and the starches are high. Pancakes are not dinner. Where is the iron? The vitamin K? The calcium? Your body needs the calories in your basal metabolic rate calculation to carry on essential…

lol, I tried to find your post to share with someone I was telling about MFP. (Your photos are going to be on a lot of people's mirrors and refrigerators, just so you know :wink:) I couldn't find it, because I was looking for something with lots of responses, and I didn't know you'd already rolled over into a second thread.

There are huge differences in the taste of various kinds of cottage cheese. A lot of it will be your personal preference. I don't particularly like the taste of milkfat, so I like nonfat cottage cheese. Other people will like creamed cottage cheese. Large curd or small curd will affect the curd-to-cream ratio, so it will…

Eat them like Asians do -- stir fry them with your vegetables/meat/whatever. The fishy smell goes away with cooking. I have bought them from a Japanese foods store. Apparently it's the most popular item among Anglo shoppers.

I doubt it, because he's probably right. But if you're doing enough exercise to use the services of a trainer, 1200 sounds pretty austere. What's the hurry? Get fit, eat healthier, moderate your portions, settle into a lifestyle you're willing to stick with the rest of your life, no matter what anyone else says. If you're…

It can work, but are you willing to continue it the rest of your life? Any weight loss plan that is a "diet" instead of "this is the way I eat now" is doomed to fail when it ends.

I don't think MFP takes your weight into consideration when it gives you those calories. I ignore it and overwrite it with the amount from my treadmill, which does have my weight input. I'm losing weight fine, so it seems to be working.

Your calorie requirement depends on age, weight, height, gender, activity level, and some other health related things like growth (in children), increased work of breathing (in people with pneumonia), fever, etc. Menstruating women lose calories that must be replaced by building blood every month, though they usually don't…

I haven't noticed that, but grapefruit does have a chemical in it that slows the liver from eliminating other things. It's mostly talked about in terms of grapefruit causing the levels of drugs to increase in your blood. But since the processes in the liver were in existence before the drugs were invented, it makes sense…

Wow, I would throw my calories to the wind if I was being taken to a restaurant like that. You can't gain that much weight in one meal, and it won't happen again for 20 years.

Soup.

The amount of fat listed is really a maximum. You need enough fat to get essential fatty acids that are only in unsaturated vegetable oils. A couple tablespoons a week is enough for that. You're going to be living off your own fat as you lose weight, so it's not like your body isn't metabolizing sufficient fat.

If it's just about weight loss, eating vegan won't automatically help. It's hard to get enough protein without eating a lot of carbs if you're eating vegan. You can eat less animal products without eating zero animal products and still get a large portion of the benefits, too.

I have GERD. Eating before working out isn't one of my choices. :sad:

calories burned depends on your own weight, just as you would burn more calories if you went for a hike wearing a 50 lb pack. Any table of calories burned that doesn't take your weight into consideration is useless.

You need to find a food that is interesting and practical enough to eat the rest of your life. Otherwise you'll regain the weight as soon as you return to your former habits. I drink a lot of cocoa made with skim milk and Hershey cocoa powder. The nonfat cocoa powder doesn't add much beside more protein. Nonfat cottage…

It's not how many calories, it's whether he's meeting his nutritional needs. He needs to cover his basal metabolic rate (how much energy it takes to stay alive with no exercise); part of that could come from the fat he's burning. But he absolutely has to have enough protein, vitamins, and minerals. If he's cutting calories…

Y'all will be happy to know that milk chocolate candy is a very low sodium food. :wink:

All that matters is the overall total calories, and how honestly/accurately you entered them. I definitely eat back my calories. Why they hell else would I work out, except to be able to eat more? :wink:

The human body survived for years before there were gyms (at least ones that admitted women!) Lots of things you do are a workout. Put on some peppy music and move your whole body while you're doing it and Presto! You're doing Zumba.

If your intake is less than your calorie expenditure, you lose weight. All the admonitions about when to eat what are superstitions created by people who need an explanation of why they aren't losing weight. :bigsmile:

I'm looking at creme brulee being 800-1200 calories depending on portion size. That's definitely a cheat day food.

There's your answer. You're building muscle at the same time you're losing fat, and she's not. 4 lbs net loss is pretty good. Also, everyone loses a lot from cutting back on sodium at first. How much you lose depends on how heavily your were bloated with sodium and water when you started. If she ate a ton of chips on new…

I wouldn't even consider making my diary open. I am completely honest logging because I don't have to make it public. I believe in eating what you like, in moderation, so there are lots of foods/beverages that various people consider poisonous/immoral. (And yes, I know it all goes into the MFP corporate database, but it's…

I'm pear shaped and finally dropped a pant size after 20 lbs off, but it obviously came off my top more noticeably. Women's pants sizes in the US are fantasy-based anyway.

Nowhere is it written you have to take whey. It's just the protein in the liquid part of the milk that is strained off of cottage cheese. You can drink milk and think of it as being as virtuous as if you had cottage cheese and whey with it.