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MFP sugar limits are very low. If your sugar is coming from natural sources that include vitamins and minerals versus refined white granules and your calories are fine, don't stress over it. You might be the only one at the office who doesn't catch a cold this season because you had a clementine for a snack every day.…

I think she needs to have her license yanked. I'm also an RD, and I would never give someone that kind of advice! I was diagnosed with hypothyroid whose side effects, to name a few, are weight gain and high cholesterol. The weight gain led to hypertension and fatty liver. (BP was 220/150, cholesterol was 356). Once I…

They are limited to how much meat they can put on a sandwich, but there are 3 Subway shops in a 5 mile radius of my home and we used to go to the one where they piled them so high with toppings you couldn't fold them. When I worked there a million years ago, the rule was 2 slices of black olive per 6 inches. The one we…

Love this. I think the same way. You get out of it what you put into it, and I spent way too many years feeling sorry for myself watching infomercials of hot women with toned bodies, envying them as I ate a giant plate of spaghetti with a half cup of parmesan dumped on top, then rolled over like a beached whale and took a…

They can be. It has to do with nutrition. You can live off 4000 calories worth of Twinkies daily and be 80 pounds overweight, but still be malnourished.

i'm a raw organic honey person, too. it's opaque and so dense i use a butter knife to get it out of the jar. i don't add it to foods though. i eat a teaspoon right off the knife. my left eye "leaks" from allergies. it's been doing it for 2 years. when i eat a teaspoon of raw honey each day, it stops. it doesn't taste like…

I reached my goal, but my face was still fuller than it was when I weighed 5 pounds more a few years ago. A friend I haven't seen since before I got heavy even pointed it out last night. Maybe with age, things just change like that. I'll give it a couple more pounds, then see where things stand.

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When I'd lost enough that looking into the mirror I could almost recognize myself. Even though I weigh 20 lbs less than I did 3 years ago, a friend told me just last night that my face is still "plumper" than it used to be. I don't know if it's age or if those last few pounds put on are going to be the last few pounds to…

Switch to NoSalt salt substitute? Not sure if that's the same thing as what was asked.

I think the magic minimum number is 16 or as close as you can get it. I can't recall specifics on the 16:8, but I'm sure someone here knows the answer. I believe 16 is when the body gives up on a glycogen source and turns to stored fat? And it continues to peak at fat burning for another ... 36? hours? You'll have to look…

Lol! Don't forget to squirt dishwashing liquid on it so you're not tempted to dig it back out. I've been guilty of that in the past. It used to kill me to know one of the kids put a takeout container in the trash that had a perfectly good enchilada in it. I used to grab the container and go into the bathroom so she didn't…

That's good to know. Thanks for sharing. My baby hairs are only an inch long. I'd hate to start losing hair by the fistfuls again.

There are different kinds of IF. Some people choose to go 24 hrs once a week (for instance, eat Saturday night and not again until Sunday night). Others do daily fasting of 16 hours a day (skipping breakfast and only eating lunch and dinner). Others just do it once a month. JUDDD is a program where your "fast" is a day…

No. Waste matter accumulates in the colon after it has passed through the small intestine. There, water is reabsorbed back into the body turning the liquefied meal back into a solid. Once it's ready to pass, the body has taken all it can and no longer needs it. If you'd like to test how long it takes food to pass through…

It sounds like an iron deficiency. Greenish skin is usually a sign of anemia. Nothing you listed is a good source of iron. Try replacing your lettuce with spinach and your green beans with lentils. Iron is most commonly found in red meat, egg yolks, lentils, mollusks (like scallops), dried fruit and dark leafy vegetables.…

Except for water and alcohol, which leave the stomach and enter the bloodstream within 15 minutes, food can remain in your stomach for up to 10 hours depending on the level of mechanical breakdown is necessary. The it is released into the duodenum one teaspoon at a time every 30 seconds or so where nutrients are finally…

1. It's an interesting "documentary" but it is definitely an infomercial, which challenges its authenticity. 2. 1 gram protein per 1 lb lean body muscle. Subtract BF% from 100%, then multiply by total weight. I.e. BF 20% for someone weight 150 would multiply 80% by 150 = 120 g protein. More if trying to build muscle. 3.…

I don't track sugar, but carbs/fat/protein are a percentage ratio of overall calories. If you are meeting or exceeding all three of those and still under on calories, your calorie goal is set below 1200.

Sounds like you're already a vegetarian, then. Halfway there!

I had my appointment in the month of June and scheduled it for Christmas week because I knew I'd have 3 weeks vacation saved up by then. That gave me a solid deadline I had to meet to finish losing the baby weight.

That's not true. I gained 50 lbs after mine, and now I've lost it. Back to a flat belly.

I keep my meals simple. Since I don't cook, I just log whatever straight raw ingredient I have, usually no more than 2 or 3. What gets tedious is grocery days. I feel compelled to taste everything as I'm putting it away, then find myself logging 20-30 different items like "One grape tomato, raw", "5 blueberries, raw", "0.1…

Aww, thank you! I'm still single and turn 40 in a few months. Guys up into their 50s want a girl in her 20s, so I've been wondering if I'll be an aging spinster for life!!

Thank you! Yes. Not that meat is bad, but my choices were bad. I can't stand chicken and turkey. I was a beef eater. Marbled ribeyes, T-bones, stereotypical Texan diet. I drank a gallon of milk a week and again, couldn't stand skim or low fat. I went for the full fat stuff and could eat a hole through a wheel of cheese in…

Calories.

I've heard AlsoSalt brand has no metallic aftertaste the way NoSalt does, but is also sodium free. http://www.alsosalt.com/nutritionfacts.html

I don't see a problem. If your diet was made up entirely of Oreos and nothing else, you might have a nutritional deficiency, but a couple of cookies a day as a treat on the heels of a healthy diet are harmless.

You better absorb nutrients from natural sources, but if you're falling short, a multi-vitamin doesn't hurt to bridge the gap.

The mix looks pretty healthy, and if you want to use it as sort of a "baptism" physically and mentally into healthier eating habits, well there's really nothing that can be said against that. Go for it. It's one of the few pre-packaged plans I've seen that aren't grossly negligent. Just make sure you're getting a little…