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Food Scale
I bought a food scale today, because I got irritated with guessing at how much meat im eating, how big a potato i need to put in here, the weight of the fruit and cereal I am eating (because they say 3/4 cup per serving, but there is a lot of space in that 3/4 cup of Cheerios). If I have a scale, I know EXACTLY how much…
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Finding it hard as f#@% to get 40% protein. Any ideas?
I eat a ton of meat.....about 1-1.5 lbs per day. It is lean meat: boneless skinless chicken breasts, 90/10 lean ground turkey, 93/7 ground beef. I drink a protein drink after workouts with some milk....that has about a 40:12 grams protein:carbs ratio. I am eating high protein vegetables, and I am eating very healthy fats…
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Fats: We are all thinking about it...
So in this program, it calls for fats to be about 20% of your daily diet. There are different kinds of fats, from animal and plant sources. Our body creates fat when it eats too much food (hence, that is why you hear it is easier to gain than to lose; If carbs go in as 4 calories per gram, and fat gets stored as 9 calories…
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T-Shirt
Hey, guys and gals..... Do you guys know if they are still giving away that free t-shirt if you finish the program and send them the pictures of before/during/after? I really want to get that t-shirt, but I haven't seen an infomercial in a year and a half or so. Anyone have information on that?
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Butter and Margarine
Okay...I hear this buzz going around that people are "going back to butter" because margarine is worse. I wonder...why? I just looked at the label on my Country Crock Original (tub), and it's fat content per TBSP is pretty healthy: for 7g of fat, it only has 2g of saturated fat and no trans fat. However, I went to Land O…
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Fats
Okay....I have changed things up this go-around. I am now tracking different fat intakes with my food. My diary is open, you can see what I am tracking. My question revolves around the fat group. Saturated fat, Mono-unsaturated fat, Poly-unsaturated fat, trans fat. My overall fat intake % is 25, equal to protein. I have…
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Need friends local to AZ
Hi, Yall! My name is Josh, and I live in Glendale, AZ. I was just wondering if there were any people in Arizona that could use a buddy on here. Maybe some of us could work out from time to time, but would support each other as well. So, anyone out there?
