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Just say no to reheating chicken breast. Trim the fat and skin on dark meat before prep cooking, then add sauce before the reheat to overpower the chicken smell. Buffalo sauce has a strong vinegarish tang but it's one of the better ones at covering it. For texture, toss it on the skillet after nuking.

Fixed. I use one, sometimes two gears when I'm in town because it's flat here. Yes, they are a couple of the higher ones. There's a lot of hills starting about two towns south and three east of where I live and there I use them all. The longer you ride, the more your knees appreciate riding something besides a fixie when…

There are doctors that aren't meant to be seen again. I'd pick out a new one and maybe an RD if they start saying the same problems. Maybe let the doctor pick one out but only if they sounded boring enough.

You might. That's okay because the weight usually will eventually come off anyway. And if it doesn't, you'll still look like it did and be stronger than if you had dieted it off.

I'd trust the polar numbers more. Most people burn around 40 calories a mile, which only really changes if the riding surface and/or tires make it extra easy or hard.

Your body is being sensible. When you're eating back that many calories, macros as a percent of the total doesn't work. Figure your protein and fat based on weight, and eat the remainder as carbs. If this is a ridiculous number, chances are you're doing it right.

I tried a foot "doctor" back when I was heavier than I am now. They gave me shoe inserts for "flat feet" likely because the fat goggles told them to. I had the opposite problem, which probably explained why they were unwearable. Find the shoe store in town that active people of size get their needs met at, and get a decent…

Not a horrible thing, especially if you take part in the kind of activities where your biggest problem with carbs is running out of them. Most plant-based foods are mostly either carbs or fat with a little protein on the side. Add in more eggs and dairy to help meet your protein needs, and don't be afraid to choose…

There's a vegan version of beano, can't remember what it's called though. Still baffles me why they would put animal products in something most likely to be wanted by people trying not to eat animals.

Without, unless they're doing double column nutrition facts and then they'll specify the amount and fat percentage of said milk it includes.

Weighing yourself more than daily is useful for situations like this. If you're down five pounds, you would likely do well to push another 8-12 cups of water on a similar walk/run at that temperature as well as salty things if you're prone to getting post-activity headaches in that kind of weather.

In town, something diet/unsweetened and loaded with caffeine. On long (40+ mile) bike trips, whatever's for a buck and full of sugars that will hit my system five seconds before I open the bottle lol.

Try a magazine fast. Do not consume fashion magazines for sixty days and your belly will look pretty darn good. If results don't start showing within the first two weeks, you may need to do a more drastic fast and cut out 2am infomercials and fashion ads on the internet as well as reassess whether remaining magazines are…

Eating the hearts is only bad if you're eating less of them to make room for more tuna. There's not enough taurine in the tuna for you and it will eventually mess up your eyes, as good as it may taste.

Font size doesn't bother me, as long as people can start at the top and know what they need to know by the time they reach the bottom. That being said, the main issue I had with the old version was which nutrients were required to be labeled and that's been fixed.

They're jelly. Spare skin aside, mine looks like that at what I consider best for me. The scale considers me to still be overweight then and I can't take that seriously so I go by whether losing or gaining would make me feel better physically and call it good.

Get the doctor to refer you to a dietician who works with kidney patients and override the settings here to reflect what they tell you. As far as low protein goes, fried carby things as well as cakelike things will get you low protein, though these also come with fat. Lots of junk food.

The only people who can use the word 'toxic' and still get taken seriously by me are those folks that get called if the rugrat ate or drank something that definitely isn't a grocery item.

Pureed tofu, dried soy, greek yogurt, crumbled meats, and unflavored protein powder. Why avoid sauces when they can be just as useful for reaching your goals as the food being drowned in them?

You're making this harder than it needs to be. Figure out the calories in one package of tofu, then divide by two because you ate only half of the package. Baking doesn't change the number of calories being baked.

The macros on that calculator are off base for active people, possibly across the board.

Cocoa-laced angel food cake with Samoa chunks, frozen greek yogurt with agave-sweetened cocoa swirled in, low-fat whipped cream, a small mountain of coconut flakes, and diabetic-friendly caramel sauce... if I were a chocolate person and someone did that, I'd bring a meal's worth of calories in the form of that for lunch…

Eating exercise calories will help prevent fatigue later, regardless of whether your body's sense of hunger is still in line with your actual needs or not. That being said, there are good reasons to log separately including that calculating macros as percentages of daily calorie use will yield unusable numbers when the…

Turned off my blocker of choice and both ads were off base - a brick and mortar glasses chain and "natural" (note that I didn't say 'organic') frozen fries. Wouldn't be caught dead around either.

That's a question for your smoke detector.

They're probably not going to design frames in your size that can't take the weight but your next pair of tires may need to be chosen wisely. My full festie packup weighs in at forty to fifty pounds, which kicks the total load up around 200-220 depending on what my weight is doing so I'm effectively in Clydesdale territory…

My cheap protein sources are mostly vegetarian. Greek yogurt isn't that health food I find tricks to hide the sour taste of - it's that thicker version of sour cream that begs to have potatoes and stroganoff drowned in. Egg whites can be dumped into almost anything for extra protein if added at the right point of cooking.…

It's a form of getting people off the bottom rung of activity level. If you can't remember a single study on that from your schooling, drop out now. Health insurance companies love handing out step counters for a reason.

Exercise can result in needing inhalers that would've been severe overkill for a person had they remained a couch potato. Pre-treating with your rescue inhaler will eventually fail if you exercise enough. If they're not enough to handle what you eventually want to do, so will the medication you will be put on. Mine got…