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NB if you were already very high on fiber, you should make sure you're drinking enough water IN PROPORTION to the fiber. So when you say you're drinking more water AND taking Metamucil, the two things may be cancelling each other out a bit. Fiber tends to absorb water in the gut, and if your gut is insufficiently hydrated,…

I like peanut noodles too: I make with lime juice instead of vinegar and use fresh ginger, and very little soy (I'm watching my sodium). I put in lots of stir fry veggies and lean protein. Serving for one you can use quite a lot less peanut butter, and/or even substitute PB2 to get the fat down. I also love this cheap…

300 g = 10.5 ounces, an unusually large serving size. No problem with that, but it makes me wonder if OP was already hungry to start. If the OP had been fasting before eating the yogurt, and if the yogurt was low/non-fat and sugar free, it's conceivable that eating a small amount of food like that might just have triggered…

I'm with you -- people walking against the flow of traffic (especially on a busy footpath) are thoughtless and rude. To be clear, I understand there's no LAW or anything: it's just very bad manners and selfish. LOL, when grouchy, I have been known on occasion to just STOP and stare and the oncoming person. They move.

Yeah, I'm with you. People who make broscience claims, when challenged, come up and make citations that either 1) as in this case, don't actually validate or even address the specific broscience claim they were challenged for, or 2) simply come from unscientific sources. I got all amused a month ago when some anti-dairy…

I eat ONE no-bake almond butter oatmeal ball. Made of oats, almond butter, honey, almond chunks, flax meal. I add cacao nibs too, but that's pretty optional, I just love the extra crunch. It's too small amount of food to make me wanna york while working out -- it's only the size of a golf ball or smaller. But it's 150…

Actually with most of the (Canada) designated items, the difference is just a serving size based in metric measurements instead of Imperial. On US packaging, standard serving sizes are usually in whole ounces (for example), with a non-round number given in grams (usually as multiples of 28 but sometimes 30 LOL!). On…

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YES read the label or ask your butcher. Some of the less expensive ground turkey options are actually ground up turkey meat + turkey SKIN, which of course adds a lot of the poultry fat back in. You can buy leaner ground turkey which in the US is usually labelled "ground turkey BREAST," but look for a fat content label on…

IMHO no snack is "good" or "bad" if you are eating it mindfully. If you know the portion size and have a good accurate sense of the nutritional profile, you can fit anything into your plan. If you like chocolate, it works if you keep it to tiny portions (I personally love Dove's "Promises" because the individually wrapped…

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Considering that all marathons are kind of a celebration of the legendary Greek soldier who killed himself by running that distance, it doesn't seem like that could actually have been good for her body, right? I mean I know people that in great physical condition train for it and run marathons without dying, but still ....

^^^THIS. If you're eating to a plan, you'll stop. If you're eating because you're there, the food's there, let's party, it's not that the food is MAKING you do anything, you're making choices. Create accountability and consequences for yourself. If 90% of your calories for the day are planned before you eat breakfast, then…

It's a weakness of MFP that they "redline" all of your nutrient goals if you go over, when some nutrients the goal is really a "minimum," which gives the impression that if you got 14 g of fiber it would be okay. (Spoiler: it's not). 15g a day is very little fiber for a grown woman. 20-25 is the usual recommendation for…

Yes, it sounds like you've been eating so few calories for such a long time that your hormones are out of whack, causing your metabolism to slow. You need to eat more calories. 700 calories a day is not even enough for a 5' 6" person no matter how sedentary. If you were in a coma, doctors would give you more than 2X that…

The poster who made that comment took it rather out of context, and it probably doesn't apply to the OP (the studies saying this specifically said the risk was for older people), but ... here it is. http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18311&page=106 If 169 pages is too much, same study, reported on by the NYT…

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I keep lots of little indulgences around the house that I can eat in small portions and that make me happy in small, 1 ounce or smaller portions: wasabi almonds, little squares of good chocolate, whole wheat goldfish crackers, string cheese. But there are some foods -- typically empty carbs, not for nothing -- that small…

I've recently realized I need to up my calories, and it's also a confusing adjustment for me. Different reasons -- not that I feel too full to eat but that if I eat more calories, I'm going to also get more sodium, which I don't want, unless I make other adjustments. So it's not just more food -- that would be too easy! --…

Sorry to hear about your experience. Mothers can sometimes be like that with daughters -- I think there's a tendency for mothers to see daughters as an extension of themselves more than they do with sons. So the stuff mom struggles with for herself, she hates to see in her daughter, and some moms can really have a hard…

Many people who have digestive problems with coffee but still love it drink "cold brewed" coffee instead of coffee made with the traditional hot brewing methods -- the cold brewing apparently draws much less acid out of the beans. The basic idea is 1 part coffee, 3 parts cold water, let steep on the counter for 12-24…

Don't be so hard on yourself. NO ONE is eating 100% perfect. My diary is open, you can see for yourself. You are not doing YOURSELF any favors by leaving food off your log, kiddo. This isn't about us, it's about you. If you're logging everything you eat, you have a better tool at your disposal for planning ahead. Frankly…

Depending on your relationship with the host or hostess who is actually preparing the meal and how complicated the meal was, ask them for the recipe. Most home cooks love to be asked this.

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1. Agree with a lot of people on here that 1200 is a rock-bottom minimum and really only appropriate for short-term emergency weight loss. According to your ticker, your weight loss goals are quite moderate. At 1200 you're not building sustainable long-term habits, you're going hungry, plain and simple. Getting healthy is…

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Thanks! All I mean is avoiding extremes, using good common sense, etc. Not starving oneself, not falling for food fads, following basic, generally accepted nutrition advice not controversial food cranks. Etc. I agree with all your stuff: better to eat "real food" than try to cut calories or fat with processed stuff,…

I'm inclined to take anything offered with a heaping serving of hype with a grain of salt. Skepticism never hurt anybody! Bear in mind that a lot of the voices touting the "superfoods" are either: 1. Industry PR / advertising intended purely to sell products. Boo! 2. Hired guns like Dr. Oz who are totally and completely…

Summer fruit is the best! I've been making combo smoothies: blueberry and plum; apricot and strawberry, strawberry and peach, blueberry and avocado, mmmm. Plus I made this AWESOME summer veggie soup with chicken a few weeks ago and I've been obsessing over it ever since.…