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Your cheese craving may not be a craving for fat, but a craving for protein. (I sometimes use cheese to bring my protein levels up a bit). Your diet is rather lower in protein than you typically see among people on long-term calorie restricted diets. Overall if there were one thing about your nutritional plan I'd suggest…

The talk about eating too many carbs or your carb-to-fat ratio is crankery / extremism / zealotry. If you haven't personally chosen a low-carb plan or been told by a doctor you have a specific medical condition requiring you to go low-carb, it's perfectly safe to ignore it. Also, <1500 calories per day is NOT eating too…

Mine are hyoooge as well but I just stick to low impact (i.e., NO JUMPING) exercise. I've always hated running anyway. You can exercise at a high intensity without having high impact! 1. 2X per week: swimming intervals 2. 2X per week: resistance cardio w/ kettlebell (okay, there's some bounce with this, but it's not…

Yeah, this. I use the recipe builder as well as the "save meal" function to simplify things a bit. There's a little bit of time investment when you're new but it pays off over time. I've also learned over time to NOT use specific "brands" of unprocessed foods like produce or fresh meat but instead use the USDA entries…

Nope. This is super common, just not universal. Doctors tend to shrug their shoulders about it. I told my doctor and he was all "yeah, that happens to a lot of people." The only thing about OP's description that I personally would be troubled by is the pain and chills, if that goes beyond the normal amount of discomfort…

When you get home, do you completely take over supervising said 11 month old child so wife gets time off from "work"? Because if not, bear in mind that looking after a small child is otherwise a job from which she NEVER GETS A BREAK. She can't even go to the bathroom without worrying about what the kid is up to. It's not…

I had my gallbladder out in 2009 and had a similar experience, but without the pain and chills. Just eat breakfast => poop explosively. It didn't matter WHAT I ate: could be fatty food, could be nonfat, could be carby, could be low carb, didn't matter. In fact, sometimes it would be triggered by a cup of coffee (with…

I'm sorry, but I don't see how you can be so certain it's not water weight. You do know water weight is not just related to TOM and hormones, right? You can retain water weight due to eating salty food, having a high fiber meal, doing weight training exercises (inflammation), carb loading (building up glycogen reserves),…

A "fluid ounce" does not necessarily WEIGH an ounce. It is a measure of how much space something takes up, not its mass. So when ice cream is measured in "fluid ounces," a lot of what's taking up the space in the volume is AIR, not ice cream. Therefore the serving of ice cream taking up the space of 5.8 fluid ounces ONLY…

Make a compound butter of 2 parts butter 1 part sesame oil 1 part lime juice Mix with some chives (optional). Grill or poach salmon to desired doneness. Put a pat of the compound butter on it. YUM. My favorite way is not "no carb" because that way I cook it with a southwest spice rub and then top with pineapple salsa. Also…

You're right OP! Much classier, not to mention more RESPECTFUL, to post attacks about people who you assume aren't actually here to defend themselves. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1321653-moms-restricting-children-s-eating-eating-habits

General principles: Moderate cardio is good for you. Short bursts of high intensity cardio is good for you. Eating moderately is good for you. Eating VERY little is not terribly good for you. Regardless of the number of calories you are eating, you have minimum micronutrition requirements (e.g. so many milligrams of…

Resistance cardio is a great middle ground, especially if you are new to exercise. (Think weight lifting exercises but in a fast-paced timed environment, like including weighted or bodyweight exercises in a circuit routine with minimal rest in between exercises). I love doing timed intervals with a kettlebell: swings,…

For the routine you're currently doing, you can just sub out the pushups with your feet on the ball for pushups with your toes on a more stable elevated surface: the bottom (or second from the bottom) step on a flight of stairs, a sturdy chair (pushed up against a wall to make sure it doesn't slide) or a coffee table, etc.

^^^YUP. This is one area where you'll see improvement FAST if you're diligent with core exercises. It doesn't have to be with a ball, but a ball is an easy way to get started. I had really poor balance a year ago but was surprised how fast it improved with kickboxing style workouts a couple of times a week.

I typically pre-log about 50%-80% of my calories, but I like to keep a reserve for snacks or booze options with dinner.

How would you assess your core strength? Much of the "point" of using a physio ball is that the effort of trying to maintain your balance uses / builds core strength. So if you've got, shall we say, room for improvement in this area, yeah, balance is going to be a problem. I'd say that working with a physio ball would be a…

A lot of us have sort of programmed ourselves our whole lives that after dinner, you get a sweet treat. If your life has been like that (mine has!) your body and your brain are primed to wait for that little sweetness to signal that you're done eating for the day. If you don't give your body that signal, then the later the…

25 is a lot. 25 is too many. After making a few meals of stuffed peppers, you can save a few. 1. Freezing. Chop one or two up, put on a cookie sheet in single layer, put in freezer for home IQF. When they're frozen, bag 'em up and chop the next couple up. You can save a few of them for later use in recipes that way. 2.…

If you are not doing it for moral reasons but because you seem to be convinced that it is healthy maybe consider just CUTTING BACK on the offending animal products rather than eliminating them? I mean, I think personally that eggs and milk and lean meat are super healthy and they are all an important part of my nutrition…

1. Consider raising your calorie allowance. Since you didn't state your calorie target and your diary's not open, I can't be terribly specific here, but a deficit of 500 calories might be a good moderate goal. If you are trying to lose weight FAST, remember that it just won't work if you're going to be so miserable from…

I have found Eatingwell.com to be a reliable source of interesting, healthy recipes.

I think the OP's intent with Tip #1 was to counter the Weight Watchers view that fruit is "free." I've seen a lot of people raging around the forums that they'll track all their food EXCEPT the food that they're used to thinking of as "free" from WW. But fruit has calories, too many calories make you fat. That being said,…

gaaaggggghh nothing weighs more than anything everything weighs the same the concept of weight is meaningless

This response always perplexes me. One pound of anything doesn't weigh more than one pound of anything else, because they're both a pound. Der. But does that mean that no substance in the universe is heavier than any other substance? NO. It just means that someone's being a pedant about wanting you to say something is…

You haven't mentioned whether the hypothetical person with severe weight issues has asked for help / is ready to change or not. It makes a pretty big difference. If they are ready to change and want help: many helpful tips in this thread. My own contribution would be to be gentle with yourself, set achievable short-term…

Just a thought: if you're on a calorie-restricted diet (as many of us here are!) maybe "spending" your calories on a supplement that you really don't like isn't going to work well for you over the long term? There are lots of ways to get more protein in your diet without protein supplements. I don't like protein shakes…

That's perfectly normal. When you gain or lose > 1/2 pound on the scale per day, you're typically just recording non-fat weight fluctuations, usually water weight and undigested matter in your bowels. And for most people there's a lot of fluctuation in that. It's not as though fat goes back on that fast. It's actually…

I delete people specifically for being "friend collectors," i.e., people who seem to be just trying to get the number on their friend count high and who aren't interacting with ME. I don't need self-promoting updates from strangers who don't interact with me in my feed. I delete people for being boring. I delete people for…

So dumb. I mean, many MANY people would argue that including a few favorite treats as part of an overall healthy diet is not only okay, but a legit GOOD IDEA because it encourages long-term adherence to your diet plan. If the app is going to scold me for including one item with a bad nutritional profile even if my overall…