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Solution (which we are slowly migrating to): Let people who don't smoke, get obese, etc. be in their own group. Likewise for those that smoke, etc. in their own group. Result: Members of each group have like risks and like costs. Those who wish to die early after multiple heart surgeries, who end up on an iron lung due to…

Is it a personal freedom that healthy people in a health insurance group have to pay higher premiums to cover the cost of the unhealthy people in the group? Stated differently, is another person's personal freedom to be irresponsible with their health (and thus medical expenses) the reason people who take responsibility to…

It is going back to were it normally lives, in the Arctic, where it was first discovered in the 1800s.

The line is caused by the "tendinous inscriptions". These are the same lines that one sees in a muscle builder's "six pack". In your case, only one is apparent. I'm not a medical expert (just took comparative anatomy in college). If I were you, I'd research around the search string "tendinous inscriptions". Good luck!

We use MasterCoook 5 from Sierra, a PC program. We either copy/paste or re-key recipes into this program, which came with a bunch of cookbooks. From there, we can create menus and shopping lists, recipes scale easily, and we sometimes even take a picture of the recipes, which we import into the program. When it's time to…

Love it. 2 years now. Bought 6 more for family members. We all compete on the 7 day step leaderboard, sending taunts and cheers and "competitive" messages to each other. On Christmas Day, there were 8 fitbits in the room! :)

Making sure I get enough sleep. When tired, my "charge level" is low (i.e. poorer attitude, less stamina, less resolve to not eat all the xmas candy, etc.).

Logging for 5 years (2 on MFP). Maintaining for 2 years. I monitor my other nutrients (not just calories), so I will probably log for the rest of my life. Yep...I know that the stats are not perfect, but do consider them "in the ball park". That's better than flying blind.

Read it. The mice were given niacin, not bacon (which has niacin). So much for new media and sensationalized and miss-leading headlines.

If you only focused on exercise, and your calorie intake increases to cover the calorie loss from exercise (or exceeds it), then you will not loose weight, and you might even gain weight (muscle denser than fat). Since the OP''s question is "MOST important in weight loss", then you have to eat (diet) fewer calories than…

Yep.....what was said above, but......diabetics (and folks who eat a lot of egss) might want to read this: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/eggs/

All the "interesting" people are over in another thread, piling on top of a poor soul who tried to post some information about dieting.

ditto on all the weight loss congrats! However, I'd like to compliment your entire family. The family picture shows 4 people with good body language (the kind you can't consciously control). I see compassion and empathy in your family's expressions. Man's success on this planet has more to do with the size of his heart,…

http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20000919/researchers-find-heart-rate-worth-thousand-words The article references the Sept. 20th JAMA issue, which might answer your question. The article states to calculate the HRR 1 minute after exercise ends, NOT, once the heart rate drops to normal resting rate. The delta between…

Yep.....:laugh: Or that snowday trip you take in the North Eastern Nevada wildlands, which turns into an overturned jeep in the middle of nowhere, with temps dropping below zero at night. It was a breadcrumb trail of cell phone location services (each tower recorded them as they drove by), that led rescuers to that area of…

Agree with the attitude here. However, even cavemen kept the technology of the time handy (spear to fight the saber-toothed tiger attack). The thinking statement above, if done properly, would guide you to always keep your tools in good working order, and handy.

Is this being made more complicated than it is? Common decency. You have it or you're an a**hole,

I carry a USB battery that I velcro to the back of the phone. It's built for my phone. Fits perfect, adds very little volume (depth) so it still fits in my holster. When phone dies, I attach the additional battery cable. Once the charge is transferred, I recharge the additional battery at my desk or wherever (usb off…

My wife has always been lighter and skinnier than I. I used to be able to eat all I wanted. At approx. the age of 50 (2002), that changed. By 2010, I was 40 pounds over my High School graduation weight. That is when I started to modify my eating behavior (portion size and quality of the food). I planned and took 2 years to…

I would like that too. Sequencing genomes seems so much more "on target" than a taxonomic classification based on morphology alone.

Perhaps she wanted to run, and then strength train, with you to get more of your attention. Try more socializing with her during your time together. The time she "spends with you" will probably be way more important than the "time she spends exercising with you in the room". While the above may "slow you down", you will be…

Function over Form. Oxytocin anybody? :tongue:

I was, but am no longer. My blood work showed I was becoming pre-diabetic just as i started my weight and diet controls. While weight only required me to monitor net calories (eaten minus burned), I also wanted to improve the quality of the food I eat. Both efforts are in pursuit of less medical expense in retirement, and…

Get a scale that measure %Body Fat. An increasing %BodyFat means you are putting on fat. A decreasing %BodyFat means you are putting on muscle.

^---this. If you are under goal for the day, it tells you something good (weight lost would go up). If you are over goal for the day, it tells you something bad (weight would go up). I interpret it as purely motivational, as hardly anybody eats and burns exactly the same calories every day.

Nope. Not Algebra....just simple mathematics (multiply and/or divide).

If you gained weight quickly, then you might have torn the dermis (stretch marks, like from pregnancy). Otherwise, you will need to wait until your skin cells die and are replaced with fewer, smaller skin cells, which can take years. This assumes you have lost all the fat underneath the epidermis/dermis.

Then yes, you are making your cookies twice the size, so double the single cookie numbers from their sizing to make your calories/fat serving size.

Recipe makes 60 cookies. One cookie is 110 calories, 60 calories from fat.

Yes! A cool gift. Once I bought and used one, I bought one for each member of my family. They loved it. So then, I bought one for each of my siblings and my mother. They loved it, except for my mom. I got to my mom too late. Her health was already on the slide (falls, alzheimers, heart attacks). She barely gets out of bed…