Posts by maddprofessor

It's all about osmosis.  Your body need a certain balance of salt and water and too much salt makes your body need water and extra water can kind of wash out some salt.  Way too much water (gallons) dilutes the salt too much and you have a whole different problem.

G2 has splenda (sucralose) in it so I won't drink it.  I like vitamin water and it's half the calories of coke so for me it's a good choice when I want to drink something sweet.  I won't drink anything with fake sugar (or even stevia).  The taste ruins whatever it's in.

monosodium glutamate is the full name of MSG.  Hydrolyzed protein I think also contains MSG.  It's a salt of an amino acid normally found in protein but when it's by itself instead of covalently bound to other amino acids in a protein it does different stuff to our bodies.  My dad, brother, and I all get migraines from MSG although if it's a tiny amount (say less than a serving of bbq chips) then I'm usually ok.  MSG is in most canned soups, flavored chips, and packaged/processed food.  Some stuff I buy organic not so much b/c I specifically want to buy organic chicken broth but b/c it's the only one without MSG.

Black coffee has 5 calories in 6 oz I think.  It has calories but too few to matter unless you drink a lot if you are drinking it black.  I put cream and sugar in my coffee so I log it. 

We had pretty traditional holiday food:

Ham

Mashed potatoes

Sweet potatoes

Green Beans

Rolls

leftover Lamb from last night's dinner.

Chocolate cake for dessert

Sorbet is really good too.  The recipe I use has you add a little sugar and like a shot of alcohol (to keep it from freezing too solid) to a few cups of fruit.

Original Post by bethy15:

For one have u ever looked at the calories it contains?? Like 250 per bottle.

Actually it's half that.  50 calories in 8 oz, 125 calories in 20 oz.  Coke on the other hand would have 250 calories in 20 oz.

I hate fake sugar and I hate flavored water but I love vitamin water.  They have a relatively high amount of sugar but for me they replace sodas or sweet tea, not water, so they are a better choice, certainly compared to the soda.  Of course you will run into trouble if you are drinking  sugar water in place of water whether there are vitamins or not.  Just make sure you remember it has calories in it.  Anyway if you like crystal lite and don't mind the chemical sweeteners that I guess that's better but I don't think vitamin water is evil.  I don't think cutting out that 120 calories is going to magically make the pounds fall off.  However I wouldn't drink them to get the vitamins.  Also the grading scale give high grades if there are relatively a lot of vitamins and low grades if there is a relatively high amount of sugar but they aren't always very accurate.  Like coffee with 2 t of sugar is like 40 calories in 16 oz which I think isn't bad at all but CC gave it a D or something b/c proportionally it's very high in sugar.

Original Post by evemarie:

isn't st. patricks day tomorrow?

It was officially rescheduled because of Holy Week.  It was observed Friday the 15th.

Nuts and things like sunflower or pumpkin seeds are healthy snacks also.

 On the 3 vs 6 meals a day thing some people say it keeps your metabolism going so you burn more calories.  I've heard that that is a myth.  The only believable reason I have heard to eat more frequently is so then you never get really hungry and are less likely to over eat.  Personally I don't feel satisfied from snacks, only a "square meal" so I just eat 3 meals a day.