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It looks OK to me. You're aiming for 100 grams of protein, which is probably right for the workouts your trainer has you on. You're keeping your carbs at or under 200 grams, which is lower carb, but still not in real low carb territory, And you're getting the rest of your needed calories from fats, which are a great energy…
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Your problem is feeling the need to feel full. It's hard, but you really have to learn to feel satisfied without feeling full. I definitely used to eat until I was stuffed and even staying active was on a path of continual weight gain. It took time and some real willpower, but now I stop eating when I've had enough and…
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Grocery store bakeries. The baked goods always look great and like the real thing, but either have no taste or are really awful. When we have parties and people bring pies, cakes, or cookies from the grocery store, whatever is left over when everyone leaves goes immediately into the trash. If you're bringing baked goods to…
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I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but when I travel I tend to pick up a lot of weight that falls off in a week or so after I get back. I just got back from an overseas trip for 10 days. Between flying, jet lag, eating out all of the time, and eating lots of food I don't normally eat (which included lots of salt and…
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Great stuff. Don't inhale it, though. It can be hazardous airborne, so if you use it to dust for bugs, wear a respirator until it falls out of the air. You have to use a duster to make it airborne. Scooping a spoonful of it out of a container is perfectly safe. For internal use, make sure you're using a food grade product.…
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Six works out about right, although most of them are small. Eating more often lets me space my protein and ample fat out over the day and have plenty of energy and not be starving before the next meal. I eat a high fat diet and have no problem running a calorie deficit by doing that. If I eat many carbs at all, they don't…
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Are we talking real mayonnaise or those awful imitation brands that call themselves mayo? Real mayonnaise (like Hellman's or Best) is about as close as store bought can come to making your own. Homemade mayonnaise is sublime, but takes time and effort to make and doesn't keep that long. I could eat a bowl full of it,…
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Anything that is extremely sweet. I like sweet, but only to a point. I've thrown cookies away from one particular local bakery that for some reason makes many of their goods way too sweet to taste anything other than sugar. When the sugar totally overpowers the fat, it's just too sweet to enjoy.
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Yeah, Summer is hard, but then comes Fall with fresh apple pies and Octoberfest, followed by Halloween, Thanksgiving and all the holiday parties and treats, followed by Spring with Easter/Passover and time to break out the grill getting ready for Summer again... Then, in addition to seasons, it's always somebody's birthday…
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Make your own. If you can find an old fashioned crank ice cream maker, you can burn some calories in the making. The cranking starts out easy, but gets progressively tougher as the ice cream freezes and hardens. Get a friend or two and take turns until it's done.
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This is my main issue with carbs. Sugars and starches make me hungry for more sugars and starches. That exactly matches the pattern that got most of us here and to do something about it and lose that extra weight. Calorie deficits will drop those pounds, but going back to a low fat high carb diet without always counting…
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Yeah, a calorie is a calorie. It's just a coincidence that when I eat more carbs like bread, pasta, etc..., I start gaining again and when I cut back on them, I lose those extra pounds. It's probably totally because carbs don't fill me up at all so I'm hungry an hour later, so end up eating more. If I stick to mostly fat…
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If you're new to cooking then take it slow and start out simple. Cook when you have the time and make enough for leftovers for the next few days. At first cooking can be complicated to pull everything together in the right sequence, but as you gain experience by doing it, it does get easier and you learn a lot of tricks to…
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There is no easy way or secret trick other than plain willpower. Nothing can substitute for the crunch, flavor, and mouth feel of chips. Baked ones don't cut it. Neither do reduced fat ones or anything else you can think of. You just have to learn how to say no or be able to stop after an ounce of so or just get used to…
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I think the big technical issue here is absorption into the skin versus through the skin. Things don't get absorbed through the skin unless there are micro-cuts or the substance in question is burning its way through. Plenty of things get absorbed into the skin, mostly just the outer layer which is full of pores, hair…
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Yes, your body does absorb some of the magnesium and sulfur, which is how people get the benefits from soaking in it. Do you really think that people have been doing this for hundreds of years when soaking in anything would have the same placebo effect? And, skin is quite porous (at least the top skin layers are). If…
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Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate. There is no sodium in it, but you wouldn't log it anyway. Do you log sodium when you go in the water at the beach?
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"Let me go write that down so you don't have to tell me again"
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Go natural. The sugar in processed peanut butter triggers you to want to eat more and the fillers and emulsifiers don't need to be there. Peanut butter should have at most two ingredients and the salt is optional. I like salt, but really prefer unsalted when it comes to PB.
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One of the reasons keeping a food journal is so important is that you have to figure out what nutrient ratios work the best for you. I do really well eating a diet very high in fat, plenty of protein, and reduced carbs (especially sugar). It seemed like the more fat I ate the more weight I'd lose, but any significant…
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Scales are fine for reference points, but not always great indicators of success. Lots of people here can tell you about their clothes getting looser while the scale refused to budge and seeing themselves trimming down while their weight went up. I recently gained back over five pounds in maintenance and dropped another…
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You don't need any diet foods, diet products, diet shakes, or diet pills to lose weight. If they work, it's at a significant monetary cost plus it reinforces that you need them as a crutch to lose and maintain over the long run. This is exactly what the people selling these products depend on for long term profits. There's…
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I eat an average of 4-6 large whole eggs every day. For breakfast, I usually add a couple ounces of full fat cheese. Lunches are often egg salad with a tbsp or more of real mayo. I also don't hold back on butter and while milk. You get the idea; lots of fat, most of it saturated, and lots of cholesterol. I keep my total…
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My advice.... Eat the whole pie today and have a few beers too. Hey, you deserve it. One day's binge while otherwise being good on maintenance won't really make a difference at all, but a couple pieces a day over a few days sets a pattern that could put you back into weight gaining mode by messing with your insulin levels…
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The biggest surprise about getting to maintenance after a year or more of lifestyle changes of eating better and exercising, is that your body changes and adapts to your new weight set point. Consistently eating too much will get you In trouble, but the occasional binge doesn't even register as a blip on the radar. It's…
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There is nothing that has the rich taste and mouth feel of real mayonnaise. Homemade mayonnaise is even better. Pure oil, whole eggs, a little dry mustard and vinegar is about as good as it gets. It's a magic emulsion that has no equal, although hollandaise come pretty close. I eat whole milk Greek yogurt with 10% milk fat…
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Being hit on or flirted with? That'snot something I'd ever expect to happen to me. Just lucky, I guess.
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Calorie-wise it makes no difference how you consume them over a day. Spacing out nutrients seems like it should make them available more when your body needs them especially things that don't stay in your bloodstream for extended periods. If your body excretes an excess of something it doesn't need currently, then it isn't…
