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If it's truly occurring after eating chips (rather than coincidence), then you'd definitely need your blood sugar and electrolytes checked. So if you know it's the chips, it means that you have an 'imbalance' that needs addressing more than just avoiding chips. You should get it checked anyway, as they can be an important…

Did you say that you are Type I? So you take more insulin in order to eat so many carbs? I really know so little about Type I, but I thought y'all were supposed to watch carbs, too. You really don't need that many carbs for performance or anything. Those bodybuilding or other diets that encourage high carbs for performance…

I'm the same way, at least in spells. I limit it to about once a week (but then I also get a bigger portion!). I still crave it badly the next day after eating it, but I'm usually over that by the second day. I have to limit mine for blood sugar reasons, so it would be best if I were satisfied with a little portion a day…

I get migraines if the refresh rate isn't high enough. That may be able to be changed. Some of my migraines have no real pain but a lot of nausea and other symptoms like you describe. Other than ToM hormonal migraines, all of mine are caused by sensory input (noise, light, etc), and what you experience may be related. It's…

I taped the OTC insert to my foot for a week so that my arch never could move far, even at night going to the bathroom, etc. That made mine go away. I always catch it in its tracks, so I don't know if this works for anyone who has the chronic problem. My insert had a pad in the arch that looked like these (although mine I…

I have rare bouts of bad pain in the gallbladder area, and it will go on for a few weeks at a time. I've been checked twice for it with no sign of stones. But taking some digestive enzymes I found when that happens did make it go away or hurt much less. They have ox bile or similar as well as the usual papaya, etc. It…

Oh, that's really good for a holiday weekend, imho. You did very well, I think. An occasional small splurge is good for you, I say. Just go back to your deficit and be glad you enjoyed yourself reasonably :) Well done!

Did you mean to say 'start working'? He started 3 weeks ago. OP, your walking probably isn't vigorous enough to sweat since you are in shape enough for it, but with a bum knee and your weight, it's certainly the way to go! Unless you can find a pool, yeah. Pool exercise is excellent for those of us with joint issues. But…

Studies do show it, but it's (at least presumably) because of the varying levels of insulin resistance found in overweight and obese populations. The higher the insulin resistance, the more the tendency for 'central obesity'. Metabolic Syndrome includes it, too, where higher waist-to-hip ratio, insulin resistance, poor…

I take Lactaid (generic, though) tablets all day long and consume tons of dairy :) I break them into bits depending on how much and what I'm eating or drinking. It works great. I can eat a lot more yogurt than anything else without having to take the enzyme, so you might try the yogurt in a small amount and see how you do.…

The best exercise I know for armpits front and back is the dumbbell pullover done with heavy weight. It works a lot of things. I don't have the squishy looking bits there, but I used to be disappointed in how loose those muscles felt. They get nice and tight with lifts if that's the problem.

This is just the way I do it: If it's slow like traditional weight lifting, I call it Pilates or yoga. If it's fast (which I don't do), like burpees or fast bodyweight squats, etc, I'd call it calisthenics. Those are under the 'cardio' section (which bugs me, too, because they aren't cardio). There may be a weight-lifting…

Absolutely. Maintenance level calories for the average American would also keep them their same weight! That's not usually a good thing. I like fast food* but I never have the calories to get those big meals and still eat normally the rest of my day. Some folks eat like that multiple times a day, too, while being…

I think it's good to think of calories as fuel as far as weight is concerned, so using exercise to 'earn' calories can show that someone really gets that. But folks can get batty with it, yeah. Don't do that ;) And don't do the reverse, where folks eat whatever they like because they got on the treadmill last Sunday, lol.…

I like a little indulgence here and there, but I definitely have to space mine out or it doesn't work :) Fitting something in is wonderful, but I do like to eat my normal amount of food and also go over calories a bit on occasion for something extra yummy (that usually won't help a bit with hunger for me!). I'm in…

It is usually relatively high in carbs, yes. I plan to eat my little sweet a day before I do it, because that's the snack that makes my BG the highest during the day. I've also done it often after waking up with high BG and eating nothing, and it works quickly then, too. Just a kind of brisk walk, nothing I'd call…

Once glycogen in the muscle is used, the body pulls glucose from the blood to refill the glycogen supply and decreases blood glucose levels in the process. Were you thinking of something different? There is a caveat with IR. Vigorous exercise can sometimes cause extra glucose to be released to the bloodstream, so T2…

They certainly won't hurt! I have to say that I get a very different look from targeted ab work. Maybe that's genetics, though? People say they don't help much, so I could just be different. I, too, kept my last weight in the midsection, so don't think 10-15 lbs is nothing. My last 10 lbs looked like they all came off my…

You could have a cheat meal (not day, imho) since it's an actual holiday for you, imho. But it would be really great practice to try to fit them in. If you can't fit them, don't sweat it, though. Don't overindulge, but there will be treats here and there that you might allow yourself and then get right back to normal…

Calisthenics? That's what I'd call them.

It is probably the acid, or either a 'trigger' like onions are for me. Tomatoes are bad because of both, so I have to go off them occasionally, which I hate. Try taking your Zantac closer to when you eat those foods. Drink milk with them (milk helps me a lot added to other foods), or eat alkaline veggies with them like…

Man, mine's not nearly so bad. I don't dislocate anything, although my kneecaps come close. Strengthening the muscles around joints works best, and my worst joints take well to that when supported, so I'm lucky. I use sports tape most often for support (I'm just used to it, I think), and that's for most joints in all…

I'll explain a little exercise that was like a huge lightbulb for me since you'll be doing exercises before you see someone. I am embarrassed to say that I've been through physio multiple times and still never knew this one, so it might help you, too. It has changed my form on my back exercises (low traps, particularly)…

I agree that it is strength training, and with the above post in full. But to break it down into categories you also hear, it's resistance training in the hypertrophy range, whereas 'strength' ranges tend to be lower reps with heavier weight. The rest periods are also more like supersetting (or what I consider…

The first 2-3 days are usually out for me, except for some gentle yoga if I'm not too tied to my heating pad. But my cramps are abnormal (endometriosis), so it's really clear when I can't exercise. I would think you'd have to take it day-by-day and not plan for the whole week off. But if they are that bad for the whole…

I know, right? I really need to ask him what my body goals should be, too. I'm sure there are evolutionary aspects or similar that I'm just too illogical to have considered properly.

If they all get cut out like mine were, you aren't supposed to exercise for 2-3 days or something like that with the stitches. Your whole jaw feels too crappy to want a lot of blood throbbing to that region anyway, imho. That's not to say that it's incredibly painful --just sore. But the kind of sore you don't like…

I don't want to look like a Victoria's Secret model, for real. I don't even understand why that's 'the look'. I do like a look that lots of people like, but you don't have to go opposite of what the 'standards' dictate, imho. And for both women and men, I really like a lot of natural variation. I hate how everything is so…

I'm at 132-133 (and in my avi) and maintaining, but I'd love to put on about 5-6 lbs of muscle, especially in my back and delts. I have very broad shoulders (bones) and a big ribcage, but my wrists and ankles (and calves) are quite small and my limbs are all long for my height. I'm not large-framed all over, in other…

You'll do great with the combined equipment you have access to, assuming you aren't looking to compete or anything. Add in some glute bridges or thrusts with the heavy dumbbells if Smith machine squats don't work with your body. Then you can try 1-legged heavy dumbbell ones as well if you can figure out how to balance the…