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I became a sort of minor hero at work because of psyllium. I mix it in with a drink at work. "What's that?" And 9 out of 10 want to know where to get some. Although the health food industry has caught on to it and the price has gone up dramatically over the last 7 years. Great stuff.

I have 2 foam rollers. You can pick them up at walmart cheaps. Search youtube for how folks use them to work out muscle soreness, aches, and knots. My favorite one is a Rumble Roller. It does deep tissue style muscle work, helping to break loos the stuck/sticking muscle bands. Newbies to "rolling" will want to use a softer…

How low sodium are you trying to get? $7 a lb for chicken in order to get lower sodium? Typically chicken is pretty low unless they've shot it full of preservatives. I'm in Texas and can go to the local HEB to pick up chicken legs at 99 cents a lb and they have 80 mg sodium per 100g serving. I have to watch sodium to…

Uh no. Chronic salt over-consumption can lead to heart disease. No doctor will ever say consuming over 2500 mg per day is ok. I live in texas too and get along fine working out outside on around 1200mg per day. The only people that need to increase their sodium intake are those that participate in extreme sports like…

I liked this article about it. http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/oilpulling.asp

I'm with you on this. Store employees won't address the issue. I would have said "You plan on paying for those now that you've been at them, right?" If they get embarrassed then maybe they'll think twice about doing it again. Some folks just don't exercise common sense and need to be educated with a simple direct question.

There is no need to find a "zone". Jillian says its a myth anyway. http://www.jillianmichaels.com/fit/lose-weight/the-fat-burning-zone-myth Burn 500 more calories than you take in each day and you'll lose a lb a week. It's really that simple. You don't even need to exercise really, but it helps. :)

Doing it per the doctor's order is one thing. On the other hand, I can name a number of personal friends that have done various liquid diets over the years, lost a ton of weight, then packed all it right back on. I don't think I can't name one person that's kept it off. The most recent example is a co-worker and his wife…

It's all on a voluntary basis. I don't see how there's anything sanctimonious about it. I have one friend that just spent two days in the hospital from crisis level high blood pressure. Today I had to point out that they were misreading the nutrition label on one of their logged items and that the item they logged was…

Isn't that the point though? If you're here to lose weight shouldn't you be learning new habits and ways to prevent your hard earned losses from coming back? Making your diary available to your friends and being honest in your logging is a great way to do that. If you have good friends then they'll call you out on it just…

A hybrid of this. My breakfast doesn't change much so it's easy for me to know how many cals I'm going to have for it. The exception is on big workout days where I need to eat more cals than normal in order to not be stuck with a huge pile of cals I need to eat at the end of the day. Lunch is always prepped for the week. I…

There is so much misinformation out on the web, posted, then re-posted, until something that has no scientific basis becomes "true". Then there's the health food companies that propagate "studies" that help promote sales of their product line. It makes it difficult to know whats factual and what's just a pile of hokey. I'm…

I think water is a diuretic. You drink water with anything in it you'll have to go. You don't drink enough, you don't go. I also read on WebMD that an effective way to combat dehydration is to drink water flavored with lemon. I think lemons are great, lemon juice has it uses too, but once it hits your stomach acid there…

I think you need a bowl of ice cream because I don't think you realize just how petulant that sounded. Is this your normal demeanor or are you having a bad day?

You're still holding water is all. Remain calm. But aside from that, without setting your diet to public it's hard to advise.

Ehh... not exactly correct. BMR is (like) you are in a coma (totally restive state) for the day and how many cals you need to support your body. If you eat at BMR and move around you're going to lose weight. That being said, I eat under my BMR every day that I don't exercise for sure. On my high cal burn days I eat…

If you don't do any exercise you should eat 1200. On days you exercise you should eat those 1200 plus some percentage of the cals you burnt. If you find that 1200 cals a day leaves you just too hungry then you should adjust your goals to 1 lb per week which will give you 1700. Same thing applies there, eat back a…

Bah. I call BS on this one. If she put in her numbers, selected 2 lbs per week and was told by MFP to eat 1200 cals then she'll do fine at netting 1200 cals per day. If she finds herself too hungry she can adjust it up to lose less per week.

How is a 1000 calorie daily deficit for a person that needs to lose over 100 lbs unhealthy when they are still netting 1200 cals? That's textbook MFP plan isn't it?

If you are expected to consume (net) 1200 calories per day and you burn off 250 in exercise then yes, you "should" eat back those 250. However, that being said, most people find that the MFP calorie burn estimates are way off. I eat back my cals, but only a portion. If it were me I'd eat back no more than 50% of my…

Here's a slightly different end of the spectrum. P.F. Chang's bowl of Hot and Sour soup. Only 380 calories. No big deal, right? 7,980 MG of sodium. How's that for a heart stopping macro?

And the #1 thing you can do to ensure you lose weight is to buy a food scale and start weighing/logging everything. If you've never measured your food servings before you're in for a huge eye-opener.

Apple cider vinegar for anything but cooking is pretty much junk science. http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/04/houston-we-have-problem-apple-cider.html The article starts out talking about how high school schoolers are relying on web searches for "research" on topics like this and then goes on to the science behind…

That's the oversight. Water is only helping you flush the sodium out, not balancing it. I think that if you ask your doctor for clarification he'll explain that Yes you should be drinking plenty of water because if you don't then the sodium is retained in your body. He'll most likely also tell you that No, water doesn't…

I hear you and agree 100%. The amount of sodium that gets used in our foods is simply staggering. The only way I can keep my numbers low is to do most of my own meal prep. I've found "acceptable" substitutes for my asian food addictions but never a perfect substitute. Lunch meats are pretty much a no show these days too. I…

Not sure what you mean here. Water doesn't "balance it out". If you notice, the sodium macro doesn't increase if you exercise, it stays the same. It's a line that's drawn in the sand. As a person with high BP and on meds to control it I've discussed this both at length with my Doc and done lots of reading up on the…

I am a big supporter of eating back calories. That being said, I don't eat them all back. If my HRM says I burnt 600 cals then I eat back no more than half of them if I can help it. The main reason is that whenever I go and eat back all my cals I end up stalling in my weight loss. Eating back up to 50% still keeps me…

Friend, buy a scale and weigh/measure/log everything you eat. You'll get a true sense of how many calories you are getting each day. If you've calculated your TDEE correctly and are eating at a 1000 cal deficit per day you will lose the weight. You don't even have to exercise while your knee mends. That first sentence…

To me the whole federal nutrition guideline is a load of crap. We've got kids in high school athletics programs that are being held to the same calorie restrictions as a non-athlete. My daughter was on varsity swim team and water polo and by the time she got home from school she'd be ravenous. We've been moving our…

My dear girl, you look awesome. I don't know what they are thinking. The before and after shots say it all. :drinker: You also get an exta +1 for being a follower of the "Church of the Yerba Prima" as I call it. (pysillium husk)