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Reducing Carbs and increasing Proteins should help with weight loss. Looks like you have them set to the default for the site, which is 50% Carb,30%Fat, 20% Protein. This carb percentage makes it much more difficult to lose weight. Also, it is normal to hit a plateau here and there, so stick with it, and experiment a…

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1) Ham and peas 2) Saute some chicken add some hot sauce to it, then add those chunks t the mac-n cheese for HotWing Mac 'n Cheese. 3) Hotdog chunks. Rachel Ray makes lots of mac an cheese variants that my sister talks about. I don't know any off hand, but that would be a good place to look.

I've used both the EAS, and Muscle Milk, and got not problems from either. Maybe you can buy a single dose of pre-mixed of several brands from the store and see if any of them will cause you problems. My guess is that maybe you are allergic to something in particular in it.

I've been wearing a pair for a couple of months, and they work great for me. I hate wearing shoes, though and these don't even feel like I'm wearing any. You just need to get them a little tight (recommended to me by the guy at the store where I got them) instead of a little loose, and give them a week or two to get…

The easy answer is "Don't eat food with lots of carbs in it." If you make your diary visible, then we could be more specific you your normal diet. In general, meats, leafy green veggies, eggs, and cheeses don't have much in the way of carbs. Fruits and "white" veggies do have a lot of carbs, as well as the obvious bread,…

By their definition of Obese, Arnold Schwarzenegger would be obese.

I don't know a lot about type 1 diabetes, so please take my suggestion as non-expert in your case. Looking at your diary, I would try to reduce carbs and see if that helps. At least for most people, if you try to increase your protein and fiber while reducing your non-fiber carbs, will stimulate weight loss. The problem…

right, obviously there are different amounts of water that get into the pasta to add weight based on the amount of time that it is cooked (al dente, or limp noodles), and that effects the weight, but not the nutritional value, so the only way to accurately measure it would be from dry weight. Sucks if the brand you buy…

Hey! Your teeth and face weigh something, so you will lose that weight when they come off! :)

My sister used it and got organ problems from it (like kidney, liver, gal-bladder). There is a reason it was taken off the market.

You are not using a flawed tool. The tool's defaults are set to what the federal government recommends for a healthy diet. The tool is adjustable for the particular user if the user has other ideas about these things. Far from flawed, this makes it a powerful tool. You can feel free to disagree with what the government…

You can adjust the percentage of carbs/protein/fat that is recommended in "My Home"->Goals-> "Change Goals" button at bottom -> "Custom" radio button -> Continue button Right at the top, you can adjust your percentages as needed. I think the default is USDA recommended, but I think that is hugely skewed towards too many…

I don't think that you can put anything in you food diary except a list of food and exercise. Are you confusing that with your blog on the site?

In general, though eating high fiber and high protein will help. Fats have 9 calories per gram, carbohydrates have 5 cal per gram and proteins have 4 cal per gram. So you can see that protein is much less calorie dense, so per volume you will get less calories. Also, you can eat things with lots of water in them. For…

If you make your food diary available to us we might be able to help more specifically.

Actual studies done to test the idea that eating lots of small meals instead of a few larger ones seem to show that you gain no benefit from eating more frequently, given that you eat the same total amount of food. This is an often repeated myth. I'm not sure where it originally came from. There is no need to force…

I have my carbs set to 20%, protein 50%, and fat 30%, but in general, I try to keep carbs below 100g per day if I can. agleckle is correct, 800 cals per day will probably hinder your fat loss.

If you are eating it a second time to test for allergy, then do it from a different jar in case the first jar might have been contaminated.

Mine resting heart rate has dropped to the low 60s, but in high school when I was very active, my resting heart rate was in the mid 40s. My guess would be that your HRM had some anomalous reading.

Your best bet is probably to just pick one and stick with it. If you told us the model numbers fo the two scales, we might have some advice in particular. Using a 10 pound weight might not be great for testing the calibration, as these scales are not really designed to measure things that small. If you have access to a…

The calories you are given for the day are exactly what you are supposed to eat without doing exercise. You will notice that exercise will add additional calories that you need to eat to make up for. Your deficit for weekly weight loss should already be calculated into the number, so you should try to eat all of those…

Peanut butter, nuts of any kind, cheeses. Anything that is higher in fat and protein would be good to add calories. Edit: Peanut butter without extra sugar added. PS: your body cannot produce mono and poly unsaturated fats, and these are required for proper function. Cheeses will be mostly saturated fats, which your body…

I am noticing in your diary that you go over your fat grams per day, and your protein grams are pretty low comparatively to carbs and fat. Fat has 9 calories per gram, carbs have 5 calories per gram, and protein has 4 calories per gram. So if you have a high percentage of your calories be from fat, then that means you will…

This is surely to be hotly debated. Essentially, the big problem with using lots of carbs is that carbs are converted into sugars, which causes an insulin and leptin response to counteract the blood sugar increase. The insulin and leptin block fat release for your fat cells. Fruits are full of sugars and so are not as good…

OK, cool, your math skills are better than my hyperbole. Congrats!

What are the settings for your macro nutrient percentages? For instance, the defaults are Carb/Protein/Fat 50/20/30. If you eat too much protein, it will just be converted to fat and used as fuel, much like the others. the difference is that converting protein to fat is much less efficient. If you are over on any of the…

This is not really an easy answer. Essentially, those numbers *can* be close, but the calories you would expend in a 45 minute walk will change based on your speeds, and inclines that you may walk up or down and possibly other factors. You would be better off getting a heart rate monitor (HRM). That will get you closer.…

You are right, I was thinking of half hour run, but don't forget, that you should subtract off your normal basal metabolic expenditure from what your HRM says in order to compare these numbers.

Well, simply being in water will definitely burn a lot of calories, but it's not necessarily easy to measure. For instance, Michael Phelps eats 12000 calories per day when he's training. Needing this much food cannot be explained simply by the amount of exercise he does. This kind of expenditure would require something…