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Lipozene is fiber in pill form. It helps fill you up, and is low in calories. You could accomplish the same thing by eating vegetables at a lower cost with less chance of side effects, and get some useful nutrients as a bonus. But, yeah, eating lots of non-caloric dietary fiber will help you feel more full and tend to eat…

I guess I'm unclear as to your settings. Let me offer you myself as an example. I'm a desk jockey by trade, and alternate between no exercise, light walks, 45 minutes of cardio, 30 minutes of strength, or when I can 120 minutes of bicycling back and forth to work. My exercise is very irregular. I could do one of two things…

As someone who followed this exact path, I'll be perfectly honest and say this was a very poor choice on my part, and I'd discourage this approach. I lost a lot more muscle than I thought possible, and it's been a real struggle trying to restart building muscle that I should have been retaining in the first place. I'm a…

I pack a lunch daily, consisting of: - Turkey wrap (does not require refrigeration because it'll be out of the fridge for just a few hours) - Banana - Apple - Zip-loc bag stuffed with various raw vegetables - small container of mixed nuts (almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, etc) I have a decent breakfast before heading to…

Is your doctor part of a practice? This is pretty generic medical advice (Livestrong and WebMD have advice around it, and you can seek it out there if you choose), but all medical advice is best from someone who can actually look at your specific case.

Absolutely not. The world needs more of this.

Certainly intolerances to the foods you've cited exist, and may even be common, but what tests did they actually perform to determine you have them? Can you describe their testing methodology? Was the person practicing this medicine certified to do so in any way? Generally, allergy/intolerance tests are done over the…

Huh? When one of my friends invites me over for dinner, I always offer to bring a salad or starter dish and a bottle of wine. It seems perfectly polite to me, and my friends always seem to appreciate having one course of the meal taken care of. I can understand your point if I showed up and brought my own complete meal…

Mine is almost always supper (I live in Maine, so "dinner" generally refers to the noontime meal here, so I use "supper" for clarity). I have a moderate breakfast and eat my lunch as a bunch of snacks throughout the day, then when I get home I have a solid supper. I don't ascribe to any theory about snacking maintaining…

You do what you have to do to get back on track. That differs from person to person, and what is beneficial for one person might be detrimental to another. If logging the "bad" days helps you be more accountable for making today better, then you up and do it, document your mistake, and learn from it. If you're the sort…

My cycling season is winding down, given that I live in Maine (getting colder, and riding in the dark is harder and riskier). But I did manage to replace almost 1,200 driving miles with cycling miles this summer. My commute is about 14 miles each way, and takes about an hour each way (as opposed to a 20-25 minute drive).…

A good place to start - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_road Salt was, at one time, a valuable commodity.

I doubt it. My company has been doing a similar program (called "Healthy Lifestyles") for quite a few years now, and there's absolutely no indication that they will start adjusting premiums based on health results. The company is self-insured, so I believe they COULD do such a thing, but I sincerely doubt they ever will.…

My company made me sign an affidavit stating that I do not take illegal drugs, and it shows up on my medical questionnaire every year when I re-apply for health insurance. I have no idea what the implications are if I checked "yes", as it does not apply to me, but I have to imagine that if I checked "no" and did a huge…

Setting aside any legal implications of a blanket policy on body composition for a group-based policy (as opposed to a voluntary behavior, or a private/individual policy)... The ideal would be body fat percentage, but that's fairly hard to measure accurately. The practical number is what everyone uses - BMI. Not a very…

Sounds like you've already got a plan and you're really just looking for people to affirm it. So, consider this an affirmation. Get it worked on while you have easy access to health care with a doctor you know and trust. Focus on the upper body workouts while your foot heals up. In six weeks, the problem will be completely…

The cool part is that the best sources of magnesium are also some of the healthiest foods you can eat for a whole bunch of other useful nutrients. Nuts, legumes, seeds, seafood, leafy green vegetables, and grains. Pecan-encrusted salmon and spinach salad, anyone? There's your magnesium supplement, right there.

"Joggers" are runners with inferiority complexes. If you can go faster than a walk, you are a runner. Now go work on being a better runner!

First, congratulations on overcoming anorexia. It's a tough path, but you're tougher. Nice job! Second, you burn a lot more than fat when you eat nothing. The body can turn carbohydrates into fat and vice versa, it can turn protein into fat or carbohydrates, but it simply cannot synthesize protein from anything else. If…

Muscle burns calories. If you "eat less" beyond a certain point, and especially if that "less" is protein, your body is burning off calorie-burning lean muscle mass in order to meet its caloric need. As you lose that muscle, your BMI (the energy you burn at rest on a given day) drops. Your ability to perform physical tasks…

Timing food intake for portion control is perfectly valid. Personally, I start with a decent breakfast, and pack things I can eat in small portions all day long. It helps me avoid the 10AM and 2PM "GOTTAEATSOMETHING!"s, which are healthy diet kryptonite for me. I'll just find a vending machine, start throwing loose change…

Why? OK, there's the obvious-sounding "anything you eat after your last heavy exercise is somehow instantly turned to fat because the body immediately ceases burning all calories precisely 180 minutes before your head hits the pillow", and I understand how inherently obvious that is. Wait, what? In reality, your body burns…

Doctor, Doctor, give me the news I got a bad case of weight-loss blues. No pill gonna cure that ill you gotta eat right and use those shoes!

I don't gender-discriminate if holding the door is convenient or useful. If someone is immediately behind me, I'll at least give the door an extra push so it will be open and ready for them to catch when they go to grab it. If someone is carrying something in both hands and/or it looks like they need help with the door,…

Exercise you enjoy more (or dislike less) is exercise you'll actually do, which beats the hell out of trying to make unpleasant changes to your routine in support of a myth that somehow forcing your body to work out when it doesn't want to is beneficial to you. It feels like less effort in the evening because it is - your…

I sometimes experience this when I forget to have a snack before my workout or I haven't been keeping up with my water intake that day. It doesn't happen to me very often, but it's almost always that I'm either hungry of thirsty and my body simply doesn't have what it needs to meet my demands.

First, make sure it's soreness. If it's sharp very localized pain, especially around the joints, STOP and get some more expert input. But soreness over a large area is a sign that you have worked your muscles beautifully, and now you owe them the tools they need to make the most of your efforts. Tons and tons of water.…

Yes. Your body will lose fat where it loses fat, when it loses fat there. When your body calls on fat reserves for energy, it doesn't necessarily call on them from the same spot the energy is being used. There's a common myth that you are actually burning fat in a specific spot and somehow turning it into muscle when you…

So why did you stop? Confide in him about this, and ask for some comfort. You might be surprised to find that a simple lack of communication has allowed some minor issues to fester to the point where you aren't talking TO each other any more, but AT each other. Just start talking, and if you still love each other the real…

Yes. I've been overweight all my adult life, and obese for most of it, and morbidly obese for a lot. Even with a BMI of 25.1, I still alternate between thinking of myself as "fat" with occasional bursts of "normal". Then again, 30 years of history of being "fat" has left me with a distorted self-image that's going to take…