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It amazes me how few calories are in anything not smotherd in fat.

Give this a try. Get a dozen eggs and go ahead and cook and peel them then store them in the cartin. Throw in a piece of toast and it doesn't get much more intant than that. If your issues are with energy I doubt adding more protien to your diet will make much difference. You would be supprised at how little protien the…

I have the same problum. I have found that trying to base my meals around grains rather than meat really healped. Try having a slice of bread every time you eat, that could easilly add 500 calories in a day.

There is nothing wrong with a high carb diet. As long as you continue to stay under your mantinence calories you will loose weight. Personally I try to eat about 400g of carbs per day. The biggest problum with a high carb diet is that since carbs are digested and burned so much quicker than fat or protien it is very easy…

butter has a stronger flavor than margarin and it is about 20% water so the fat is less concentrated, so tho it has more calories per ounce most people use less butter than margarin. plus in cooking nothing browns like butter, and margarin just can't replicate that nuttiness, and forget about baked goods, have you ever…

animals store salt in there muscle tissue, that is why herbivores seek out salt licks and predators don't.

there is nothing wrong with a high carb diet. I have had a high carb low protein diet most of my life, the only problems I have ever had with my weight is uncontrollably loosing it.

water, regardless of how full or empty your stomach is, goes straight through the stomach into the small intestine. so, while drinking water with a meal doesn't add bulk, it does slow down the eating. food takes several minutes to get through the esophagus into the stomach, and you don't feel full until enough is in the…

from an athlete's perspective don't worry about it. a little extra water retention will show on the scale but if your doing any kind of extensive exercise this is a good thing it prevents dehydration. if your exercising 3 times per week, and trying desperately to stay under 1.5g, this is far more dangerous than even 3g…

the way MFP is set up for sodium is for a fixed amount regardless of circumstances. the amount of sodium you take in should be a factor of how much you drink, and how much you sweat. personally I get between 4-5g per day, I don't watch it thats just how it turns out. I also drink at least a gallon a day, and work ten hour…

gonna have to disagree with you on that, it depends entirely on which society your referring to. beets, yams, rice, barley, bananas, all manner of fruit, particularly dried, honey, sugar cane. these where staples in many preagricultural societies.

fats are a necessity, they do two things primarily. first they add substance to the diet, they slow down digestion, two little fat in the diet and you feel hungry constantly. to much fat in the diet however can bind up the stomach preventing digestion.the body's defense to this is to get rid of the excess fat, via…

my biggest obstacle is meat. oh how I love meat, but it makes me sick now. one serving once, a day if that. the more meat I eat the less I can eat. more carbs more calories. trading meat and potatoes for bread and cheese is a bit of an adjustment.

if sodium is really that bad I must be some freak of nature. I generally consume 4-5g a day, drink 4-6 quarts of water and still cant seem to stay hydrated, put on weight, or raise my blood pressure. all of which happen to be goals.

they don't add it to the mushrooms, it naturally form inside them. actually it forms in almost every vegetable, but its a fleeting substance. the quicker it goes from the ground to your mouth the more it contains. that is the big reason homegrown vegetables taste better than what you buy at the grocery. in the case of…

if your adding mushrooms or bamboo shoots it does contain MSG. its a naturally occurring substances someone just found a way to refine it.

after doing a little research, ramen noodles by themselves average 500mg of sodium per serving. which to me seems quite reasonable. oh here is another one for you, I used to do this hiking. cook the noodles without the flavor packet, drain the water and use the residual heat to melt some string cheese, throw in some…

they're not that bad. especially if you skip the flavor pack, do that its basically instant spaghetti. throw in some olive oil, some pepper, maybe a little cheese, you have a nice quick lunch.

I just want to get through a meal without feeling sick.

over the corse of about a month I ate between 0 and 1000 calories a day. not by choice, I literally had to force myself t eat that much. anyway at the time I was sleeping 14-18 hour a day, and what little time I was up I could barely function. I have done this a few times in my life and every time I ended up in the…

don't waste your time with biceps curls, that is an exercise that serves no purpose but increasing the size of the biceps. try this go from a bent over rows to vertical rows to upright press to squats. this is a full body workout that takes about ten minutes. routines like this are about getting a maximal result for a…

what makes you say that. it works in italy. hell throw in rice and fruit juice, its the bulk of my diet.

there are three types of weight training. strength training, high weight, low reps, and a slow steady pace. the idea with this type is to use as much weight as you can handle for 5-8 reps. the second type is endurance, low weight, high reps, multiple sets. for this one its important not to over do the weight, 1/3-1/2 your…

too much fiber in the diet, or sudden increase in fiber can dry you out causing constipation. if this is the case a laxative is worthless. this is exactly what your doctor is going to tell you, if you've tried a laxative for more than a week and it hasn't helped try a stool softener. miralax is what I use just mix it into…

that doesn't really work, now aloe vera juice thats another matter.

same here, your not likely to find a restaurant manager that would disagree. we need to know where mistakes are being made in the kitchen so we can fix them, the more mistakes that are made the more money going in the trash. plus eating one meal and paying for another doesn't seem like much, but if it happens a lot this…

I make no secret of the fact I have some horrible digestive disorders. at one point I was so baked up it had to be surgically removed. fiber supplements can do more harm than good, not only do they tear up your stomach too much fiber is just as bad as too little. probiotics are the key, I generally try to get mine from…

today I polished off a dozen buffalo wings. I knew I would regret it from the moment I bought them.

don't think that 1200 is some magical number that is one size fits all. very few people can function on less than that, but most need more. personally I teeter on the edge of anemia most of the time, less than 2000 I can barely stand. there are several different levels of starvation, some can be beneficial under the right…

have you tried ricotta. it is a soft fresh cheese made by curtailing the why proteins. it bakes a good protein base for a smoothie, or spread it on your morning toast, or you could use it to cut the fat of aged cheeses in a sauce. most protein powders are really hard on the GI tract, so I don't touch them.