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Switch to fresh/frozen fruits and vegetables to eliminate salt there an also frozen helps preserve alot of the good stuff. Get away from ham and deli meats. Nitrates and salt are bad for you. Eliminate processed foods and try to cook from scratch and in bulk. Freeze left overs for lunches or other meals.

OK State med school here, 3rd year also. Time is a lot more plentyful during 3rd and 4th year for us but also varies with what month/clerkship we're in. Obviously professional school is much more time intensive but you can manage it if you want. I am sure you always find time for your favorite tv shows, dont you? then make…

First thing muscles do when out of shape and under stress is retain water. Lots of it. Give yourself a couple weeks of eating clean and consistently working out before you freak out too much.

Cleanses aren't necessary. Just drink plenty of water!

do you know the breakdown of your cholesterol? (the LDL, HDL, Triglyceride) Treatment depends on that. High triglycerides = take Omega 3 fish oil and cut alcohol, processed sugars, etc Low HDL = look into niacin High LDL = cut processed sugars and trans fats.

Diet, diet, diet. Look into eating a glycemic index controlled diet (google glycemic index). A step further would be to go to a nutritionist and plan everything out. If you've progressed to insulin it means both single and dual drug therapy failed. If insulin isn't even working, you're in a tough spot. Diet will get you…

Could be other things than the exercise. Are you getting quality sleep? Too much sleep? Irregular sleep cycle (going to bed and getting up at different times each day). It could be psychogenic as depression among many other mood disorders can cause fatigue.

I always have water available and sip it. I also eat small meals every 2-3 hours which keeps me from ever getting too hungry.

Medical student here, what works for me: Coffee, 1 cup every 2-3 hours. Normally that works well enough, but occasionally ill toss in 5 hour energy shot @ 1/2 bottle in-between cups of coffee. Be sure to eat high protein foods if you get hungry as they stabilize your blood sugar and help prevent the shakes from caffeine…

Cortisol causes "truncal" obesity. Aka it stores it anywhere within the torso, not just the abdomen. It does this for two reasons, it drives the break down of muscles in the limbs & sugar release by the liver which creatse energy for the body; it also stimulates insulin release which drives the uptake of free sugar by…

Sludge typically causes chronic inflammation of the gall bladder. This usually leads to right upper quadrant pain on the abdomen exasterbated by fatty meals. Flank pain is usually associated with kidney or ureter pain such as a stone or infection. Your pain for gallbladder sounds much like many women have experienced on…

I just ran my first 5k race last Saturday. Don't run it as a race, run it as a completion grade. The first place runner finished it in 16 minutes. There's no way to compete with that and I would have just beat myself into the ground. Instead I pushed myself harder than I had ever before and finished with a time of 27:23. A…

Lipo is a minimally invasive procedure. Minimally invasive does not equal minimally painful. I am friends with a doc who owns many medical spas and have had extensive talks about Lipo and it's effectiveness. He says for you to get the best results you should ultimately be at your ideal body mass before doing it otherwise…

You realize you can salt load before a weigh in and add an easy 5-10 lb of water weight. Wrestlers who are underweight did it all the time to make weight in highschool. So maybe she minimized her loss last week with such a method and that contribute to the huge loss this week. I haven't watched this season at all, I…

seems like a high calorie goal for weight loss unless you're incredibly active. Bottom line: listen to your body, feed it if its hungry or don't if it is not. Where the brains come in is deciding what to feed it (therefore don't let emotion drive your eating including but not limited to cravings, desires, etc).

For losing weight, ideally you want low carb, high protein, moderate fat. Carbs you want complex carbs like real oatmeal, fruits with fiber (not juices!!!), etc. Protein via lean meats (white meats, fish, soy, etc). Fats you want poly and mono -unsaturated. Some saturated is needed, but moderate it! 0 trans fat!!!!!! Okay…

This is a good question for your Doc. Ask him (if you don't already know) what your exact diagnosis is? Is it primary ammenorrhea? PCOS? etc. In reality, you're doing what is called a progesterone challenge which means you're estrogen levels are adequate during the first 15 days of your cycle but your progesterone levels,…

That is wrong in many many aspects. We have a semester long class that is all nutrition and then our systems based courses (pathology, biochem, anatomy, phys, etc) all integrate vitamins an minerals and their role in that respect along with signs and symptoms of their deficits or excess.

Could have been trazodone but amitryptiline is another common one. Its falls in the class of try-cyclic anti-depressant but has efficacy in low dose for sleep aid. TCAs are also used for muscle pain. Its a class of medications that have broad implications that are legit uses.

I am not much of a sweets person at all (luckily) but my crux is fried food... However I do get occasional sweet cravings and to keep myself for going for Soda or horrible candy, I keep dove dark chocolate pieces in the house. They are 35 calories each and have some health benefits to it (all that of dark chocolate) and…

[img]http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h379/WK9T/My Weight Loss Journey/P1000116-1-1.jpg[/img] Great work!

5-HTP is a precursor to serotonin, and produces the effects of serotonin. This is similar to the actions of SSRI, SNRI, etc (all the newer anti-depressants). It has a vast effect on the central nervous system. Honestly, I'd be sure to talk to a Doc about it. Any current medications your take especially blood pressure and…

Start taking your blood sugar 2 hours post meals. Also be mindful of what you eat as an extremely sugary meal will cause a crash in blood sugar. I almost bet you're conforming to the 3 meals/day standard. Theres a disorder known as idiopathic post-prandial hypoglycemia. In lay mens, it means you get hypoglycemic after…

Its considered Restrictive Binge Disorder according the DSM-IV Psychologist manual. It is an eating disorder and should be treated. Difference with bulimia is it is a specific binge disorder with forced regurgitation.

2nd year medical student (6th year college) at Oklahoma State University. Finally getting aboard the fitness train (or did back in November).

Well in that case, yes I do Spike. Either fridays or saturdays when my wife and I have our "date" night. Typically we eat out 4 times a months only on our "date" nights. I try to eat reasonable, but I enjoy myself too. It hasn't effected my weight loss at all and if anything helped it. If you have time, get out there and…

Workout = Cortisol + Glucagon + Insulin Corisol + Glucagon = increase glycogen breakdown in muscles and liver (liver supplies whole body) + increased gluconeogenesis (the making of new glucose) = elevation of blood glucose. Insulin drives said glucose into muscles. A workout is just like eating a meal, but you're using…

Salt retention and Hard work outs cause you to retain water. Keep salt <2400mg daily, get your 8+ glasses of water in. Realize muscles retain water when you get a good burn in and will retain it for up to 3 days (or even longer if you're training and stressing them every couple of days).

Its not just calories that count, its what you eat. Cut your sucrose and high fructose corn syrup as close to 0 as you can get. Sucrose/HFCS = Glucose + Fructose; Fructose = Instant fat. Cut things like soda, fruit juices, sweets, etc. Cut alcohol all together. Alcohol = Fasting hypoglycemia = induced binging plus alcohol…