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The USDA nutrient database estimates the refuse (core and stem) portion of an apple as 10%. http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2171?fg=&format=Full That seems good enough.

There's a group doing research on teaching people to recognize hunger, as an alternative weight loss method. I came across one of their articles awhile ago http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119582/ I think they train people to recognize "initial hunger" as a cue to eat only when their blood glucose level is…

Weight loss is mostly about what you eat. I injure myself somewhat regularly, and am just coming back from two months without martial arts classes due to a knee injury. I do my PT as if it were exercise. I do what I can that doesn't aggravate my injury. With a bad knee, that meant I did a lot of easy walking and some…

Wikipedia has an entry that is consistent with my memory of reading studies a few years ago. Alcohol in finished food A study by a team of researchers at the University of Idaho, Washington State University, and the US Department of Agriculture's Nutrient Data Laboratory calculated the percentage of alcohol remaining in a…

My low-carb husband likes lettuce wraps and pork rinds.

If you step on a third time, does it match the second? The scale at my office does that - it calibrates the first time you step on and off, then the second time is the accurate reading.

A 150lb woman only has ~ 4.5 liters of blood, so at ~850 calories/liter (see http://www.ehow.com/how_6956458_calculate-calories-human-blood.html), losing 50% (more than enough to be immediately life-threatening) of your blood volume puts you down 1900 calories. That's what, a half pound of fat equivalent? Unrelated to…

I had similar issues. A bi-weekly graze box is $156/year. My snacks tend to range from $.25-$.50 so $40 for the same number of snacks. $110/year isn't a huge amount, but $100 here and $40 there adds up pretty quickly in my household. More important than the price was that I just didn't care for the snacks in the first box.…

Mmmm. Huevos rancheros. I haven't had those in forever. Drizzle of oil in a pan. Onion and garlic. Whatever greens I have around - orach is a favorite. Guajillo/tomatillo salsa, then in with the eggs. I dry-toast a tortilla, add a smear of beans if I have them around, scoop on veggies/eggs and dive in.

The other option might be to average it out. I have periods where my appetite/digestion doesn't work right, and my doctor's recommendation was to eat more when I can and balance the calories over time. That might mean eating 150-175% of your normal protein intake on good days, and let your lower appetite days be less…

If milk is too much for you - go talk to your doctor, that's not normal. If you can handle more substance than water - your best bet is probably blended soups or smoothies. Or ensure/boost, which are not that bad if you get them ice cold and drink them with a straw. The problem is that food with nutrients has volume, and…

Who eats when they're sick with a stomach bug? 1 tablespoon of water or suck on 1 ice cube. Wait 30 minutes. 2 tablespoons of water or 2 ice cubes. Wait 30 minutes. Continue for about 3 hours. If you keep all that down, you can progress to clear fluids/oral rehydrating solution. If you start to get sick again - go back to…

I think that the canonical answer is to evaluate the remaining liquid. Chilling it should let you separate the fat from other juices, then you simply weigh the fat layer and subtract the weight of the fat from the oil you added.

Know your local stores. It isn't something that anyone non-local can tell you, and it's something that will probably take at least a year to learn. I'm in Northern California, and my year goes something like.. Winter - Costco Spring/Summer - local farmer's market Fall - local produce market There's an awful lot of mixed…

Eggnog totally saved me when I was out of town last week. It's hard to beat 200 calories per half cup. Many, many thanks to those of you who pointed out that I ought to take advantage of the season. As eggnog is disappearing from the shelves, I'm thinking that a rich chocolate drink might fill in the gap.

I've been over here lately asking for similar things. Really, every case of gastroparesis is different (and mine varies based on the last week or so's intake), so the key is experimenting. I can handle fat as long as it's liquid (liquids leave the stomach mostly via gravity, so this is a common thing) - Find a drink you…

I get Starbucks once a week for the office. Some weeks I get black coffee. In the summer, I get unsweetened iced and toss in some half and half. Winter indulgent drink is usually a cafe misto (brewed and steamed milk). I was fascinated by the new chestnut latte, so I did a grande cafe misto with 2 pumps of that syrup. - it…

Mine comes the day or two after my period ends. Like.. today! No matter what I eat, I'm inexplicably hungry and occasionally lightheaded/dizzy. My blood sugar tends to hang out in the low-mid 70's, which probably explains all those symptoms. Eating doesn't actually make it much better, and if I eat too much my…

If I'm skimming it while warm or room temp (so I can turn it immediately into gravy/sauce), I add a tablespoon or two of fat to my tally. Fridge temp, I get enough of the fat off to not worry about it.

It's likely to be somewhere in between. Even if you chill it (to make removing all the fat easier than skimming), I don't find that it's completely defatted, but is much lower in fat than the estimates I've seen. I don't consume enough of the drippings or track with enough accuracy to worry about defatted drippings or…

My husband calls it "kitchen sink tuna". I put in mayo, mustard, dill pickles, finely chopped onion, chopped olives, pickled peppadew peppers, and black pepper.

I wouldn't worry about it for once per year. However, I found an industry publication that indicated fried food takes up 8-25% of it's initial weight as fat. Anything with a varigated coating like breadcrumbs is likely to be on the higher side of absorption. http://fapc.biz/files/factsheets/fapc126.pdf

Offer to buy the chef a beer if he'll tell you about how much of everything he puts on the salad.

We're traveling for Christmas, and juggling everyone's food preferences on the road is always a bit of a hassle. I'm choosing to do a little research into available food options, but not plan or worry too much. I'm trying to maintain, but I'm down 1.8lb in the last week and 4.3lb in the last month, so clearly I'm…

Just in case there's anyone else reading along - Ensure is 220-250 calories/cup. It's notably less dense than a cup of milkshake, or about the same as a cup of whole milk made into chocolate milk. It does have a vitamin pill dissolved in it, and it feels enough like "not food" that I can eat it when I hate food, but it…

I drink a lot of smoothies, pebbleslaura1. I just consider them meals instead of beverages. The dietician pretty much said "Everyone's ability to digest is different - experiment and make everything you put in your mouth count." Along with some generic "low fat, low fiber, low sugar", which is remarkably low calorie. I do…

Thanks. :) I think I need to find a protein powder I find palatable, and start working through the rest of this list. Fortunately, my husband is on LCHF, so I've got company with mixing everything with mayo, dipping it in butter then topping it with guacamole. I just wash mine down with a milkshake.

This sounds a lot like what I've been dealing with - I also have to be careful with intestinal digestion speed, and I'm not sure if that applies to her. I'm guessing she's already drinking boost/ensure and the clear versions of those, but those can be difficult taste-wise. Pouring them over ice helps - it's both colder and…

It looks like there's a potential method developed in Israel - just waiting for research dollars. http://www.tasmc.org.il/sites/en/Research/Tech-Transfer/Pages/technologies-pharma.aspx#p4

Mmm, hint water. That's good stuff. My husband's office does a lot of "spa water". It's really good - not usually as strongly flavored as the hint water, but a nice variation from plain water when I have lunch with him. Some sample flavors: apple/ginger, cucumber/kaffir lime leaf, celery, grapefruit, tomato, rosemary,…