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Screw baking, get yourself a Cuisinart griller. Butterfly the chicken breast, slap it on... Ready to perfection in about three minutes - seared on the outside and juicy on the inside.

One million years of evolution to get to that. Smh.

Sounds like you may have not be totally well briefed on what having diabetes means. Just to help here's a super easy primer: 1) If your blood sugar drops too low, you might feel cranky, drunk, nauseous, dizzy, headachy, slur your speech or even pass out. Let your friends and family know to watch out for these symptoms…

No you should wear a medical bracelet if you do something strenuous such as going to the gym. Especially if you're alone. All it does is let the emergency staff know you are diabetic so if you happen to pass out from low sugar they can get you some glucose quickly. It's just a sensible idea.

You already said where the lack of motivation was coming from: a number. Solution: don't weigh yourself. Maybe it's just a touch of life stress or seasonal depression, ride it out and the motivation will come back, it always does. Congrats on your progress!

Yeah 78 can feel normal for some people but puts others into Hypo symptoms. I can go as low as 70 before feeling crazy but my wife gets hypo even if she goes below 90 (she's insulin dependent). Keep a tub of glucose pills in your pocket and wear a diabetic medical id bracelet whenever you go to workout.

Regarding sushi spiking insulin, I call BS. I've been diabetic for ten years and my glucose stays steady after every sushi dinner. If my insulin was spiking I'd have seen a decades worth of bad meter reads.

Does the bigger company offer better benefits? If so how do they factor in fiscally? Is the bigger company well known? In which case six months of them on your resume will be better than ten years of a small unknown company. There are inherent dangers in working for big companies though, so be cautious. My company has…

Bulk then cut.

The basic gist is that if anyone says you can't have a particular food, never listen to them ever again.

Now you can actually poop glitter...

I hope your husband conquers it quickly. I'm always wary of these kind of studies. It's the same old thing we always see - an attempt to pin a condition that is most likely the result of an incredibly complex interplay of factors onto one single factor. You gotta wonder, who are the guys who drink the most diet soda? I'd…

Look at it this way, could you deal with eating really low for the rest of your life just to keep off what you lose? If the answer is no, probably better to jump up to 1700 or 1800, deal with the initial weight gain (there will probably be a little) and then get used to losing on that more moderate amount. BrettPGH put it…

Don't track sugar, it's pointless since you are already logging total carbs which includes all the sugar you eat anyway. I'm diabetic and even I don't bother tracking sugar. If your sodium is always fine, switch out that spare tracking slot for something more interesting, potassium maybe... or vary it just for fun.

Totally false, not to mention useless info because everyone understands "Clean eating" differently. To keep the weight off you need to continue eating at a maintenance level (energy intake balanced with what you burn off) for the rest of your life.

Join the fibro group... http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/1937-fitness-with-fibromyalgia

Don't know about the pills but 2lbs a week is plenty. Any faster than that and you're highly likely to put it all back on again in the long run. You sure your 4-5lbs wasn't just your initial water weight loss (happens to us all in the first month of caloric deficit).

Walking, walking, walking.

Sex after marriage.

With migraines and thyroid issues you might want to see a proper licensed nutritionist. If you don't, I would definitely suggest taking it easy at first - small to moderate calorie deficit and not too crazy on the exercise... at least until you know how your body is going to react to it. You don't want to risk messing up…

Sometimes. But you gotta remember that someone who is 350lbs or more is going to burn a metric craptonne of calories even just walking on a treadmill for half an hour. I'm 245 and if I go 4.0mph on a slightly inclined treadmill for 30 mins my HRM registers a near 400 cal burn. So if I had the time to just walk and watch a…

This. But with a slight emphasis on white meat and fish.

I would secede from the union and make my own country called Petoria.

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Never. No, seriously, never.

Look up the effects of cortisol on lipid metabolism. Cortisol is one (of many) stress hormones. When you are on a calorie deficit you are technically dying (as far as you body is concerned) - so it pumps those out like hell.

They prevent hand pregancy.

It may not be contributing much to the dicussion, but this Plateau is very real.

It could go either way. If he's trying to cut BF% then fine, but you're not gonna build any muscle on a caloric deficit - you probably won't lose much if your lifting a lot but you'll lose some, so if you're trying to 'shape up' as it were then you might want to discuss a more moderate calorie intake with your trainer.