Posts by inkblue

I agree. There is nothing wrong with these mixes or drinks such as Emergen C or 5 hour energy. They are vitamin supplements. I just think they are overpriced for what they are. I buy a huge bottle of Vitamin C with 250 tablets for just $6, and B is even cheaper. You can't overdo water soluble vitamins like C or B, you just pee out what you don't use. I take 4 grams of Vitamin C a day, the equivalent of 4 packs of Emergen C. I'm still just under the amount I need in my blood according to the last vitamin panel I took. 

I wasn't able to gain any muscle when I lost weight. Just lost fat. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try though, at the very least you want to keep what you have. 

I'm 30 and I love it. Life sucked when I was younger, I worried too much about status, my body size and what other people thought of me. Thank god that part of my life is over. Men still stare at me, I like to think as they age they find women their own age just as attractive. And what kind of freak only dates only 18 year olds? 

A lot of people have heavy metal poisoning, possibly half the population. Mercury is a huge problem because it stays in your blood for a really long time causing all kinds of health problems. Mercury has a half life of 6 months I believe, so every 6 months you will decrease the amount in your body by 50%. Canned tuna is a big source of mercury poisoning. At the very least eat real tuna, not canned. In general everything in a can is processed (salt is used to preserve the item to extend shelf life), so a better choice would be frozen. 

I'm headed back to India this week as well. I was there two years ago, and I lost a few pounds there. A combination of just not knowing what to eat, and lots of walking. I'm Chinese American, and like Indian food, but can't eat it everyday. Since most food there is vegetarian that helps a lot. Ask for less ghee. Don't eat a fried breakfast, avoid soda, and I'm not really sure how you would gain weight. Last time I went I ate a lot of bread, spinach and chickpeas. I also got really sick when I came home, parasites take a few days to take hold, so I'm doubling up on the probiotics this time around. For the next few days I'm going to eat whatever I want before I leave. 

The RDA requirements for protein intake is 50 grams a day. That's the same people that invented that really screwy food pyramid that we use, that's heavily influenced by agricultural business.

I'm really not sure why people think the China study is false. I have heard many cardiologist say the exact same thing, Dr Dean Ornish has been saying eat a vegan diet for years. 20 years ago China didn't have any heart disease, cancer or diabetes because they ate a plant based diet and rode their bicycles everywhere. These are all lifestyle illnesses. 

Please spend some time watching this excellent video by Mark Bittman, the food writer. He says we need at most half a pound of a meat a week, and we don't need animal products at all. Sadly many eat that in a day.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/mark_bittma n_on_what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat.html 

Even one dress size down makes a HUGE difference, so if you have lost 36lbs you have dropped several dress sizes. Go the mall and try on every cute thing you've ever wanted to wear. If I wear my bigger clothes I just feel big and everything does sort of fit but I hate the way I look in them so why wear it? 

I got my flu shot this year, the H1N1 vaccine is very hard to come by in NYC unless you are a health care worker. I get my flu shot every year because I travel a lot this time of year and I really don't want to be sick while I'm abroad. I've never gotten the flu in my whole life. My doctor is really against the H1N1 vaccine, he actually refused to take it, because he doesn't trust the efficacy of it. H1N1 has been around for some time, he doesn't understand why all the sudden its getting all this attention. He thinks its a way for the big drug companies to overbill again. Maybe people aren't buying as much Viagra or prozac and they need to make money some where. 

There lots of things I just couldn't make myself commit to. When it's really important that I do it, I challenge myself to do it every single day for 30 days. No excuses, just go for thirty days. After that you can quit, you can stop, you can do it every other day, doesn't matter. Just get through 30 days. The first few days will be the most difficult. You won't want to go, by the end it will become a habit that you will keep for life. 

Off topic but I'm always surprised when I see someone that makes $8 an hour at a grocery store carrying around an I-Phone. People say they are broke all the time, but have loads of money to give Apple. I spend a lot on my food, I buy organic whenever possible, I shop at the Union Square farmers market whenever I can. I don't own a cell phone. I don't have a flat screen TV. Some of my hand bags cost $1. It worries me to see people spend more on their hair then they do on the food they put in their bodies.

This is how I think about A rated food. It's a whole food, non processed that didn't come from a bag, can or was shrink wrapped. That means all vegetables, fruits, whole grains. Meat, fish, and diary in moderation. If you cooked it from scratch, and the ingredients came from the previously mentioned items then its A rated. So in other words if it's a frozen dinner, from a fast food restaurant, fried, covered in cheese, coated with sugar or butter it's junk and eat it in moderation or not at all. If the food doesn't rot when left out for a few days, bacteria doesn't even want it, so why should you?

It's a sad fact that one third of american calories come from junk food, and the top five most eaten foods include hamburgers and pizza.  Skip the soda too.

Are you sure you are only eating 15-20grams of fat That means less then 10% of your calories are coming from fat, I'm not even sure if that's possible. I don't eat meat and I get more fat then you. Maybe you mean saturated fat? I think all this obsessing with percentages isn't really helping anymore. Eat whole foods, nothing processed, whole grains, lots of vegetables. Do something active every day and it will be impossible to be fat.  

I've head a lot of them gain weight before going on the show, so they can lose that weight fast. I have heard of two people getting hurt on the show. I think people will do just about anything to be on TV or win lots of money. I wonder if it's like before and after photos for diet ads, where the person actually was thin, probably a weight lifter of some kind, then gained weight because of injury. 

People love to pick on vegetarians about B-12, but the fact is most people don't get enough B-12 and would do well taking a supplement. Take a multi everyday, and add a B-100 complex (includes B-12) to much sure you get enough of all those nutrients. Your pee will turn a really bright yellow. You can't overdo B vitamins because they are water soluable, just drink 6-10 glasses of water a day and you will pee out any your body doesn't need. I take a vitamin panel test every year. I take a lot of vitamins and the test still shows that I am deficient in folic acid, so it's really hard even when you eat right and take supplements. Consider also taking 2 grams of vitamin D everyday. I take 2 grams and I'm at the low end of acceptable. 

I am a vegetarian that does not eat fish, but I do take fish oil supplements for omega 3. The vegan version is just too expensive. 

I wish I could do a pull up, I've been trying to improve my upper body strength forever.