ChrisRN75495

Bump--anybody? Somebody?? Please??

Gosh, I hope you're "allowed" to comment on it!! I'd also like to know how you like it and what your candid and honest review might be. They go for about $99 (or so I am told), and that's too much money to drop on something that isn't helpful. A client and his wife both use them to keep track of steps (goal of 10,000). He…

That's a laxative, even though it has a natural-sounding, healthful-sounding name.

Smooth move teas are laxatives. You can get dependent on them to the point that if you don't drink them, you don't go. I'd suggest decreasing your daily intake of the smooth move tea gradually, while increasing your fiber and fluid intake, along with exercise. High fiber foods are often the best ones for weight loss too--a…

Constipation often means different things to different people. You don't have to go every day to be "healthy" and "regular." Some people are perfectly happy and comfortable going twice or three times a week. Much less often than that and you probably ought to do something, though. A few stray thoughts that might be…

Interestingly, even poo doesn't seem to smell as strongly when there is less meat. Milk products and eggs don't seem to have much of an effect. So much for garlic and onions being a source of odor!

Reading your post motivates me to make the same move. I always expect weakness and temptation to be my most difficult hurdle. One Lent, I gave up eating anything with eyes (so I was an ovo-lacto vegetarian, which is not vegan, of course). As Easter morning approached, I looked forward to going to my favorite BBQ place (I'm…

Kudos! Loved this response.....

If you are managing your blood sugar with diet and exercise, you are not insulin resistent. It is only if you cannot manage your blood sugar with diet and exercise that medication should be taken, then you start out slow (one in the morning, one and night) and hope that does the trick. Weight loss is a matter of calories…

OK--the 1370 is the number of calories to can safely consume in order to lose the weight you want to lose, based on your starting weight and BMI. If you include your circuit training in your exercise totals each day, just like you include every calorie you consume, you'll get an accurate estimate of what you will weigh in…

Howdy back from Cannon, Texas! (Give up? 40 or so miles NE of Dallas.....) And thank you for your military service.

Many other factors are involved. It is highly unlikely that your digestion is any different than ours. If you eat enough animal fat of the unhealthy variety (I recently read a study that demonstrated that lard, properly prepared, is, in moderation, a healthy fat), you are going to have problems. but you probably don't…

Have my own chickens--the eggs are amazing and there is so much Vitamin A the yolks are dark orange. I eat four of them at a time, nearly every day, 80 calories each, with a glass of something cold and wet. It's an amazing breakfast, keeps me satisfied for hours. I say, get your own chickens--no grasshoppers, and the best…

Maybe I missed it, but did anyone note that peanuts are..... legumes!! Just like beans and peas---which also have carbs and fat in them, plus protein. And they are "plant source foods," so part of the 90 of the 90-10 plan.... eat up! (Peanut butter with no additives, no sugar, no salt, no emulsifiers, no added oils--just…

Believe it or not, I bought the same brand of almond butter as my whole foods/natural supplement store--at WalMart! For about half the price. Love it, love it, love it!

Wrong http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4453/2 In 2 tbsp there are 8 grams of protein. Also carbs and fat. If eaten in moderation, it's a good source of a number of nutrients. Plus if a tablespoon makes you happy, you may have stronger resolve against other less nutritious fattening foods. But…

Cannon, Texas (five miles east of Van Alstyne, which is halfway between Sherman and McKinney--about 45 miles NE of Dallas) Anyone else from this general area, please message me if you are interested in getting together for exercise/physical activity! I recently learned that pretty much the only way we make changes and…

I sure hope you really don't mean, "for the last time." It takes as many times as it takes. It does sound like you have new resolve. Consider that every day is a new day. Each day start the program again. Keep track of calories and stay inside your goal. You can do this. It's just a day at a time. We've all started and…

This is no place to trust anyone's reassurance about pain. Pain is not normal. Go to a doctor or nurse practitioner. If you can post your business here, with thousands of people reading it, you can talk one on one in an exam room. Go. I guess I'm surprised about all the things you don't want people to tell you. If you post…

Nothing does anything in four days. That's the whole point of this site and group of people. Your problem is binging for seven days. Stop that! A pound is 3500 calories. Twenty grams of carbohydrate is 80 calories. You can do the math. Here's how to lose weight: Don't buy the stuff you shouldn't eat, and don't run out to…

Who are you responding to? This is the general nature of an online conversation on a thread in any group. If you don't like it, don't read it! Good luck to you on your weight loss--which of course is why we are all here..... Maybe try to be a little less critical of others? That would be lovely. Thanks.

One day doesn't make a difference. The children in Africa have NEVER had enough food. Often they've had no food. Their bodies canabalize their muscles and bones, trying to stay alive long enough to find food. It's a survival thing. Their bellies are big because of worms and because of liver problems--not enough protein,…

Tofu does not substitute for cottage cheese and egg whites, so the texture and taste will be different. Different ingredients means a different outcome. On the other hand, try making some and let us know. Mabye it will be interesting....

It says 1/4 cup of batter per pancake, so probably not the whole pan kind.

Pretty sure you are losing weight because of the exercise. If reading helps you exercise, great! Congrats!

Love "free" and "cheap." thanks!

I never said any different. There's a lot of free info out there. And no one ever lost weight reading.

I guess if you want to buy books, that's fine, but I'm pretty sure no one every lost weight reading. Here's the deal. It's very simple. Eat a varied diet. 90 percent from plant sources, 10 percent from animal sources (as little from four footed ones as you can stand). Eat as much as you want as long as you follow the 90-10…

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All websites with mutual support have their share of bad advice. This would be one of those. Make sure whatever advice you accept and decide to follow, you look it up on the web and make sure it isn't something that can hurt you--either on the short- or long-term. Good luck, take care. (Balanced diet always works. Decrease…