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Whether you should brush your teeth? :laugh:

Get a nice bottle of wine that you both enjoy. Set up a relaxing, no-distractions time. Tell him that it's important for the two of you to talk. Print out your original post, and read it to him, word for word. Then be prepared to talk honestly and listen openly. Be open to the suggestion, or perhaps make the suggestion, to…

It's going to vary by person, but you can approximate it by taking 220 and subtracting your age. I'm 43, so my max heart rate should be somewhere in the 177 range.

Is it a good idea? Yes, absolutely. Is it absolutely necessary? No. As long as you are taking the calories in the beer into account and staying under your calorie goals, and especially if you are making sure you are meeting your protein goals, you can still lose weight and have a reasonable amount of beer.

I'd go with the same idea that animatorswear had. Do a very lean veggie stir-fry with supper, and put out olive oil to drizzle on it. You skip the olive oil, he pours it on (in reasonable quantities, of course, but enough to make a difference). You cook chicken, you eat the lean white meat and give him the darker, richer…

Yes. I have a quart bag that I fill with veggies every day as part of my sack lunch I take to work. Then I usually have some form of vegetable with supper (but if I want to skip it, I can - because I've eaten a quart of the darned things at lunch!)

.. and then they'd start hating you. And they'd have you sitting in a chair. Without painkillers. And they'd have sharp pointy metal things. In your mouth. Just sayin', if you hate your hygienist, it's probably best to find a new dentist's office.

It had to be. One of the side effects is blindness, and did you miss where a serving is half the bottle? Drink a whole bottle and you're double-blind!

Welcome! And good luck!

But isn't yoga supposed to be good for you? Or have I been doing it wrong by eating the mats all these years?

I'm not a terribly big fan of Mickey D's, but there are a few choices that are pretty reasonable. The "Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken" is a 300-calorie meal with 8 grams of fat, 21 grams of non-fiber carbs (11 of which are sugar), and a pretty whopping 27 grams of protein. A tad high in sugar for a perfectly balanced…

I'll be honest - if it were my health and I had the choice between HAVING to eat green vegetables and all the wonderful nutrition they provide and NOT BEING ABLE to, I'd prepare a measured portion of some green vegetable for every single day of the week and work with my doctor to adjust the meds for that intake level. Then…

We are talking about the same Rainforest Cafe, right? The horribly overpriced chain with the screaming plastic animals and simulated rainstorms and the typical children's menu of reconstituted chicken nuggets, hot dogs, or an American cheese sandwich on white bread? The one with the "Made in China" gift shop on the way out…

- Eat a healthy meal you prepared yourself. - Use the savings to buy a lottery ticket. End result: - You are healthier. - You have not supported McDonald's. - You have lost an infinitesimally small chance of winning a car, and gained a statistically equivalent chance of winning enough money to buy your own island.

Eating vegetarian is a lifestyle that requires a certain amount of planning. If you just drop meat from your diet and eat the side dishes, you're going to get horribly low protein intake and have all sorts of problems. I think there's plenty of nastiness on both sides of what should be an utterly irrelevant difference in…

Only to the extent that you have a calorie surplus. If you eat 10,000 calories of fruit and veg, that's still 10,000 calories you have to burn off to break even for the day. Having said that, it's hard to maintain much of a surplus on most vegetables - they simply don't tend to be that calorie-dense with a few exceptions…

Your lifeline is very long. You will live a long life. I see many connections in your nexus area - you have lots of friends and are very popular, but your low self-esteem which I see near your pinkie finger means you probably don't realize this - you're far more popular than you think. A change for the better is coming in…

Yes, at least mostly. But it's nowhere near optimal. You'll have periods of the day when you're dehydrated, but at the end of the day (in your case literally) you'll be giving your body the tools it needs to make up for the day's activities. You may find that you still retain water more than you should, but that's only a…

I generally tend to do a search for something similar. If I can't find anything that looks remotely reasonable and it's something I'm going to be eating frequently, I enter the recipe directly on my MFP page under Food/Recipes (as soehlerking already mentioned).

Early on in my diet, while my carbohydrates were too high and my proteins were too low and I was constantly hungry, I was going through cinnamon gum like it was going out of style. Especially on pizza day because the cinnamon is a natural appetite suppressant, AND the strong scent of the cinnamon covered up the horribly…

1. Squats. Great exercise, can be done anywhere. 2. Keep a refillable bottle of water at your desk. Every time you feel like snacking, take a gulp of water instead. Fewer calories, more water. Double-win!

"Water" includes pretty much any fluid that is mostly water. If you must get your intake in the form of sweet tea, count the calories and go for it. But DRINK YOUR WATER in whatever form you can possibly manage it. When I switched from soda to straight water, I got a squeeze bottle of lemon juice and one of lime juice (the…

I allow myself a small bowl of extra dark chocolate chips (about 20 chips) and a 1-ounce jigger of whiskey or a 5-ounce pour of wine every night for my late-night dessert. I fit it into my calorie/macro goals and for the most part I'm meeting my goals reasonably well and it works for me. I guess the important part is not…

Between the pull of work and family and the constant list of home repair and improvement chores, I basically have zero opportunity for any sort of structured workout. I'm a terrible insomniac, so waking up at 4AM ain't. gonna. happen. So I just started bicycling to work (28 mile round trip, hilly). Not every day, but as…

Sounds like you've spent the last year learning what you don't want to do. Lucky you - it took me my first three jobs and over a decade to decide what I did not want to do. If you just graduated, you're young. A fresh start should be risky, hard work, but relatively easy at this point. But you also need to learn to be…

First, good for you for doing something. It's always better than nothing. Second, I looked at your diary. May I be blunt? I'm a stranger, so I'm going to be blunt. Apologies if this comes across as too blunt. Looking at your diary, you're eating LESS THAN HALF the protein you need on a given day recently, and leaving…

Wellbert makes a good point. What do you need in your brownies? More sugar, or more filling, quality fat? You'll be happier with fewer brownies if they are more filling. The evil downside to a lot of "reduced fat"/"reduced calorie" recipes is that they'll often be mistaken for a healthy food rather than a…

First off, shrimp are healthy. Yes, high in cholesterol, but also very high in protein, iron, and low in fat and no sugars. The actual calories are almost pure protein. Second, there's one person who needs to take care of you and you look at that person every day in the mirror. No one can sabotage you, they can only give…

Third post in a row. Sorry. Just a passing thought. I fully understand the need to eat as comfort. It's a primal instinct, and one that I have fallen victim to pretty often. What did your uncle love most? Find a way to be active doing something you know he would have loved seeing you do. For example, make your first 5K be…

First, sorry for your loss. Second, Burger King delivers? I'm SO glad I never knew that back when I could stomach what they call food. Third, no, as a brilliant two-headed man said very recently, one day is irrelevant, as long as that one day is a rare exception and your lifestyle is what makes it an exception.