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Some Sugar facts: Table sugar is Sucrose, which is a complex sugar made up of one Glucose and one Fructose. Your body breaks it down into it's 2 sugars readily. High Fructose Corn Syrup (this is especially bad sugar you here about all he time) is made up of 85% Sucrose and 15% Fructose. That is why it is "High Fructose"…

There is no difference between the sugar in fruit and processed sugar. Fruit has other benefits that might out weigh the costs of the sugar in it depending on your goals.

I think it's great. If I need a snack and don't need much in the way of calories, I'll use PB2, or if I do need calories, I'll use real peanut butter.

There are a lot of recipes for vinegar based cole slaws, but you can try substituting some or all of your mayo with sour cream or yogurt.

I have a pair and love them.

Seems to me that you were not eating all your exercise calories back and you were not losing weight, so you increased your calories, then continued to not eat all your exercise calories back, but now you are eating the same amount you should have been eating before, if you had just eaten your exercise calories back as…

Without seeing your diary, it is hard to give specific answers, but the 2 biggest possibilities I see with the information you have given us are... 1) You are eating too few calories. Many people (including myself) will testify that often adding more calories for a few weeks will break a plateau. 2) You are losing fat and…

Strength training(for the most part) doesn't really burn that many calories, since you don't do it for long enough to really get your heart rate up, and since it is anaerobic, you don't really pump out the CO2 to be able to measure that way, so it's just really hard to measure in general. If you are doing push-ups or…

I am assuming that the 3000+ calories are from logging swimming exercise. Swimming burns a tremendous amount of calories just from being in water for an extended time. Heat transfers much more easily from your body into water than from your body into air. For instance, Michael Phelps (the olympic swimmer) eat 12000+…

Looks to me like you are eating way too few calories. You could be losing muscle mass instead of fat. Do a search for "Why I should eat my Exercise Calories back" and you will get info that you need. Edit: Here is one: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/10589-for-those-confused-or-questioning-eating-your-exercise-calo…

I agree. The numbers in MFP match the USRDA given by the Feds. Personally, I think that, at least for losing weight, 50% carbs is a bit crazy. I set mine in MFP to 20/50/30 carb/protein/fat. You can adjust it for yourself in the Goals section.

Ketosis is not caused by too much Protein. Ketosis is caused by running out of glycogen stores, which means you have not eaten enough Carbohydrates.

Fat. Fat doesn't' have carbs, protein, fiber, or sugar, and it does have lots more calories. It's true you don't want to eat a lot fo SATURATED fat, but poly and mono UNSATURATED fat is very good for you and has been shown to improve cholesterol and triglycerides in your blood.

If you share your diary, we might be able to give you specific advice about what you eat, but in general, you just have to find foods that you can reasonably enjoy that have the nutritional balance you need. I have a few "meals" that I eat a lot and only eat outside that a few times per week. That helps me a) stay with my…

Protein can indeed be metabolized and converted into fat. The difference is it requires 26 calories per 100g to convert protein into fat, whereas it takes less than 1 calories per 100g to convert carbohydrates (and of course it takes nothing to store fats as fat. :) ). That said, unless you have some specific medical…

I have definitively broken a plateau by upping my calories. 1200 calories is the minimum this site will ever recommend, and that is without any exercise. I would say it couldn't hurt to give it a couple of week worth of experiment to increase your calories and see what happens. Just don't have all of your extra calories be…

Here's the key to the con job. You have to want it to work for it to work. In other words, you could just do whatever yourself to begin with, the con artist just lets you blame your silliness on him so you can be guilt free in whatever you do.

Hypnosis itself has been thoroughly debunked many times. I've never heard of this particular scam, though.

This app really doesn't consider toning, however, if you want to build more muscle, you could set your weight goal to higher, and attempt to gain muscle weight.

If you are running that many miles per week, you are doing something right. I think your experiment sounds good, and you should do it. I mean, what is the worst that could happen? You will delay making your goal weight for a short while. That's no big deal. Just don't let it get in your head.

Generally, I have read that a treadmill at 1% incline is almost exactly like running on level ground. You should invest in an HRM , though.

I think you're reading too much into it. I don't know the context of the conversation that went along with the this final text message, but it sounds like an innocent joke. Guys bond with each other through good-natured ribbing all the time. This is often a sign of affection. 300 pounds is a round number, and one that…

Exactly, shouldn't your last wish always be for 100 more wishes? :)

Grilled boneless skinless chicken breast with whatever my dry seasoning rub of the day is, and either collard greens, turnip greens or spinach. If I'm hungry and have few calories left, my go to is raw spinach leaves, maybe with a good red wine vinegar, or sometimes just plain. I like greens, though.

From what I've read, you don't really gain metabolic benefit unless you keep your heart rate up for 20 minutes, but also you don't gain very much metabolic benefit from going more than 20 minutes. If you think about it, you are probably only burning 20 calories at most in 2 minutes. If you do nothing at all, you are…

http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/resources/food.for.thought/dairy/compare.cheese.html http://www.gourmetfoodstore.com/gourmetclub/cheesenutritionchart.asp In moderation, there is nothing wrong with cheese. Laughing cow is good for low cal, if you don't have much room. Goat cheese is a favorite of mine, especially on a burger, and…

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/23912-links-in-mfp-you-want-to-read-again-and-again[\url] There are links there that will tell you why you should eat your exercise calories back and answer lots of other common questions.

Losing inches is better than losing weight. If you are eating enough and exercising a lot, it probably means you are replacing fat weight with muscle weight. That will burn fat faster in the long run, so keep it up.

Sorry to be nit-picky, but in case it matters to the OP,, it does not measure Heartrate. It has 3 sensor packages, Temperature, Electro-resistivity, and gyroscopes for movement tracking.

I've had one for a few months. It really does give some interesting information. Pros: 1) You get metabolic info from the whole day instead of just workouts 2) It helps you see about your sleep patterns Cons: 1) Pricey 2) I don't like the monthly fee, but you have to pay to get most of the benefit. Seems like extortion to…