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I keep my carbs fairly low between 50g to 130g per day. Unless I have a super heavy lifting session coming up or unless I have a super intense Muay Thai test, training or fight coming up then I overload on the carbs... and it makes me feel awesome! :smile:

Not eating before bed is only helpful if you have some type of stomach issues that will bother you when you lay down, like acid re-flux, like the poster before me mentioned. If there's food in your stomach, you're going to digest it. Meal timing doesn't count unless you're doing some kind of specific training and even then…

I switch it up from eggs & veggies to a yummy shake with fruit and veggies. Sometimes I just do veggies with hummus, sometimes hard boiled egg whites, etc. I just found this recipe yesterday and made one last night, had it for breakfast this morning and it was delish... One large banana chopped and slightly mashed Two hard…

Yes this happens to me. I don't get sore anymore because it's been so many years but I always feel the water gain just slightly. It goes away quickly. And yeah I still get it and have been exercising multiple times a day for almost 5 years.

I find that dairy in general makes me bloat so I avoid it. One of my favorite go too breakfasts is 3-4 scrambled egg whites with whatever variety of vegetables you have on hand and I add one or two tablespoons of plain cooked oatmeal... this makes the eggs creamy and delicious and doesn't change the flavor. Between the…

What the actual F does this even mean? Like, why would even put this here? It has no bearing what so ever on the original post or conversation that followed... really? I can't even....

I'm a breakfast person so I eat most of my calories in the early morning - mid afternoon.

No problem. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

OP - I apologize if your discussion has become derailed by the article excerpt I posted. That was not my intention. Carry on :smiley:

First of all, if you bothered to actually read, and not just skim responses, you would see that clearly I did not plagiarize and was quick to respond with regard to forgetting to add the source. Second, just because one has an opinion that's different from yours does not make them a quack. People who are strong,…

Cool thanks! :smile: I will!!

Thanks Gottaburnemall! I forgot to quote the source, my bad. :smile:

Not trying to derail the thread and sorry I forgot to site my source. Just giving a different perspective. Addiction is addiction and sugar is a food so just opening the door to other schools of thought on the matter. And no, Amyepdx, I am not saying that any food is healthy or unhealthy but by now I think we all know…

I read everything on labels starting with the calories and sodium. The way I look at it is like this... I don't smoke because I would never inhale toxic cancer-causing chemicals into my body. Why on earth would I eat them? If I pick up a product and there's more than just a few ingredients I immediately put it back. The…

How about general food addiction vs. simply a sugar addiction. It all comes down to food and maybe if you educate yourself on the science and/or biology behind it, you'll have a better understanding and will be better prepared to eliminate it. Food addiction is essentially no different than drug addiction. Certain foods,…

This! Believe me, if you don't eat, you'll lose weight (and be totally unhealthy)!

Born and raised Catholic. I don't follow that tradition because I believe it's a man-made one. (my) God loves me and created my body to function in a certain way and at a certain level when properly nourished, not with holding important nutrients. I do my own sort of observance but I don't do it for a few weeks in…

Not only does your health depend upon it but the emotional and nutritional health of your babies does too! Be their inspiration :smile: Look for strength through them! Every time you want to give up or give in think about how you'd feel if either of them were struggling and gave up... I'm here for you if you need more…

My religion, and my God, wants me to nourish, cherish and take care of my body, not hurt it. But whatev's. As my nana used to say with regard to lent. "What you put into your mouth is not important... it's what comes out that's important".

Smile... awesome smile!

Actually I am the opposite. If I don't weight, measure and log my food I end up under-eating and losing too much weight. If I don't know what I'm eating, I'd rather not eat! Of course I've taken planned breaks as well like when on vacations and holidays. When I go out to eat I just make sure to order things that are…

Tenacious! :)

You have to find something that makes you super happy and keep changing up your routine, try new things, try everything! For me, I do Muay Thai and MMA / Boxing. I lift (heavy), dance, sculpt, cross-fit, run, spin on occasion, tabata, elliptical.

Kristen Wiig

Yum! Pad Thai?

And to the above posters point, different things work for different people. I find that I also have great success when I track my macro's.

Once you lose that fire or that motivation it's very hard to get it back. Just keep working at it. Even if you fail every single day, keep working at it every single day and sooner or later it'll come back to you. I don't have a lot of good advice to give you about this and it seems like others have already said what I'd…

I feel like a lot of people turn it into a big science project when it really doesn't have to be. Just set your target, track your calories, carry a deficit and live your life :smile: I've been at it for over five years. First dramatic loss, then building back up (building muscle), tweaking here and there for whatever…

Either Plant Fusion or Vega Protein and Greens. Both have the biggest plant protein numbers at the lowest calories and either can be used as a meal replacement. Especially made for easy digestion, covering all BCAAs and totally delicious.

20 a day for 4 years? Don't go to a regular doctor. Go to a liver specialist.