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There's no real nutritional difference. Usually "regular" peanut butter has sugar and salt and hydrogenated oils and stuff added, while natural peanut butter is usually just peanuts, maybe with some salt. I prefer the taste of the natural stuff. Eat whichever you like better.
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Your brain is full of lots of different chemicals and substances and hormones. These are called neurotransmitters. Lots of them have specific jobs to do, while others have many different jobs to do. Two very important neurotransmitters are called dopamine and serotonin. Dopamine's main job is to help your brain tell you…
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If you've gone from eating a large volume of food in a day to <1000 calories (which is a much smaller volume of food), your guts might be still getting used to pushing it through efficiently. Get more fibre and fat. You're good for fluids, I bet. Another thing you can do is increase your physical activity - I don't mean…
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It would be very strange if you were retaining 15 pounds of water. That's a fairly significant amount for an otherwise healthy individual. Doxycycline is essentially an antibiotic. It should not do permanent damage to your metabolism or digestive tract. Unless something is wrong with your kidneys (you don't appear to be…
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I did it once. Just to see what would happen. It wasn't hard. I ate chicken and cabbage for a month. I didn't count calories or anything. I lost like 7 pounds in the month but obviously it came back on after I started eating grains and dairy again. It just seems like a weird arbitrary thing now to me. Nothing profound…
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A common astigmatism? What? I was a vegetarian for almost 8 years. During that time I did some time as a vegan also, up to a year at a time. And I was good at it, too - whole foods, lots of lentils/beans/nuts/leafy greens. And it was okay, I guess. And then I started eating meat again and realized I had been hungry for…
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Shrug. It seems a bit low to me too but maybe that's based on your frame? I'm 5'8" and for me, 135 would be a bit low. I wouldn't be able to maintain my weight healthily at that size (I've tried, it didn't go well). But maybe you can? Who knows. Have you been that weight before at this height? How did you feel?
