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You make a wish, and the next person to comment has to grant it to you, but "corrupt" it somehow, then make a wish of their own for the next person to corrupt.
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So...I have been eating approx. 1200 calories while doing high intensity workouts 4-5 times a week. I feel like I'm getting bigger D: Well, actually I know I am because my jeans are getting snug. I want to get leaner/smaller not bigger! lol what should I do? I've been doing Jillian Michaels Killer Buns & Thighs and P90x.
Ive been up and down on this journey but finally I have a few other people working with me that also want to lose the weight an we've created this nice little support system. I wanted opinions an advice because I'm over 300 pounds an was wondering if I seem to be doing everything ok so far, or if I should improve at all?? or if I'm pushing myself to hard at all
Basically the plan is to walk 6days a week for atleast 45mins-1hour an to try an keep active during the day so far its going onto day 6 an I've walked 1whole hour 5 out of the 6 days and did some work out dancing or playing with the dogs for a bit, Ive been feeling tired and weak but it could just be my body getting used to it..I wanted to make sure I'm not pushing myself to hard or to far for my weight, is this fine?? so far I still feel motivated just very weak an tired but Ive been told this is normal as I'm just starting out all over again
as for meals I typically eat 3 meals a day unless I wake up later then I'll just have brunch and dinner and a snack around 8:00, no eating after 9/10
example of my meals have been
breakfast: A bowl of oatmeal or a 1 egg omelete with cheese and one slice of toast
lunch: a sandwich or a cup of soup
dinner: a small serving of mashed potatoes with mushrooms n gravy over it an 2 small pieces of chicken, or a salad with chicken in it
snack: a small bowl of whole wheat cereal
hope I'm doing this right, sometimes I feel like my calories are to little or to much..I just try an watch my portions mostly instead of focusing to much on calories, an I try an drink lots of water, occassionally Ill have milk with my meals but its rare because I usually save it for snack.. a lot of the time I'm 80% full but get hungry through out the day an night an I typiclly drink anywhere from 6-10 glasses of water
anyway what do you think?? any advice??? opinions? how am I doing so far??
Hello I'm 38 yrs female old 5'1 and weigh 214 and I need some advice Making sure I'm doing things right or on the right track? I'm eating around 1400 calories aday I walk any where around 1-2 miles a day on treadmill i do leg and arm exercise a few times a week My day usally goes like this
I nomally stay within my daily calories give or take a few i drink mostly water i have a few Diet Soda( can't seem to give them up)
ANy help plz??
Breakfast:
Special K Cereal with 1% Milk
Snack:
Orange
Lunch:
Small salad or wheat sandwich
Snack:
Apple
Dinner:
Grilled Chicken Breast or Fish
Cantaloupe or watermellon
Small Salad
some type of beans
After workout:
Small 1/2 of a nutrion shake
By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- Those convenient, prepackaged meals and snacks for toddlers may contain worrisome levels of salt, U.S. researchers report.
More than three quarters of 90 toddler meals evaluated by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were high in sodium, according to a new study.
Ready-to-eat foods for babies were less alarming, found the experts, who reported on the sodium content of 1,115 products for babies and toddlers using per-serving data from major and private-label brands.
"The products we assessed for babies and infants were relatively low in sodium," said Joyce Maalouf, a fellow at the CDC division for heart disease and stroke prevention.
"Unfortunately, the toddler food products -- meals and snacks -- have higher amounts of sodium," she said. Those products are aimed for kids 1 to 3 years old.
She is scheduled to present the findings Thursday at a American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans.
Eating too much sodium, the main component of salt, can lead to high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
Moreover, studies have suggested that children's taste for salt may be reduced if they consume less sodium at a young age, Maalouf said. "Children are not born with a taste for salt," she noted.
The researchers defined a product as high in sodium if it exceeded 210 milligrams (mg) per serving. The American Heart Association recommends limiting sodium intake to less than 1,500 mg a day, but some toddler meals contained as much as 630 mg per serving -- 40 percent of the recommended daily total.
"The toddler meals ranged from 100 milligrams per serving up to 630 milligrams per serving," Maalouf said. The average was 369 mg, with 71 percent of the meals high in sodium.
The researchers evaluated four toddler savory snacks, such as cheese and crackers, and found they ranged from 70 mg to 310 mg per serving.
Cereal bars for toddlers ranged from zero to 85 mg of sodium per serving. Fruit snacks for toddlers ranged from zero to 60 mg per serving.
Maalouf declined to name products by brand. "The main purpose of the study was to look at food categories, not compare brands," she said. "Even within the same brand, we had a wide variation of sodium."
Still, prepackaged macaroni and cheese, cheese and crackers, pasta and chicken, pepperoni pizza and chicken noodle soup typically have high sodium levels, Maalouf added.
The message for parents, Maalouf said, is to read nutrition labels and choose lower-sodium items.
The findings are no surprise to Julia Zumpano, a registered dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic's department of preventive cardiology. Foods prepackaged for infants tend to be lower in sodium, as they contain just one or two ingredients, often vegetable- or fruit-based, and servings are smaller than those for toddlers.
By Randy Dotinga
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-loss operations in women could be a genetic bonus for the health of their future children, a new study suggests.
Researchers found differences in the activity of genes in children born to women after they'd had gastric bypass surgery compared to their siblings born before surgery. The changes suggest that the kids born after surgery, to thinner mothers, will fare better in terms of heart health because of benefits gained in the womb.
"It appears that there's an effect that is transmitted to the next generation," said study co-author Marie-Claude Vohl, a professor at Laval University in Quebec City. "This may have some consequence later in life for the health of the children."
The study isn't definitive, and researchers don't know exactly how much the health of kids may be affected by being born to a thinner mother. It's also not clear if there's something unique about weight-loss surgery or if the key is to simply drop pounds.
Weight-loss surgery, which aims to limit the amount of food that patients can eat, is no simple matter. It's expensive, involves risk and is not always covered by insurance. However, severe obesity is itself a major health risk.
In the new study, researchers examined the genetic makeup of 50 children who were born to 20 mothers before or after they underwent gastric bypass surgery.
The researchers suspected that the genes of children born after surgery would act differently than those born before. They found several thousand genes that did just that, and the differences in the post-surgery children suggest they're in better shape health-wise.
As far as physical differences, children born to mothers before weight-loss surgery weighed more and had greater waist and hip girth compared to the others. Children born to mothers after weight loss-surgery had better fasting insulin levels and lower blood pressure.
"It's more evidence that the benefits of gastric bypass surgery extend beyond the original aim of weight loss," said Dr. Francesco Rubino, a metabolic and bariatric surgeon with the Catholic University of Rome, who was not involved with the study. Other research has linked weight-loss surgery, in some cases, to major improvements in diabetes.
What's going on? It's not a matter of the mothers transferring different genes to the children based on whether they'd had surgery. Instead, weight-loss surgery seems to affect the activity of the genes in the children's bodies even outside the womb, he said.
Dr. Edward Phillips, vice chair of the department of surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, said it's a mystery how that might happen.
"If you're a fetus, you're bathed in a bunch of chemicals and hormones," Phillips said. "But when you're out in the real world, why wouldn't your own genes go back to the basic set of what they were supposed to be?"
Could weight-loss surgery in fathers have a similar effect on their subsequent children? Researchers don't know. There are other questions too. Might the children born after their mothers had surgery be exposed to a different kind of environment than their older siblings, especially in regard to food? Could that affect how their genes act?
Phillips said those questions need to be answered. But, he said, this is still "an exciting early study" that opens the door toward greater understanding of genes and weight.
The study appeared online May 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
More information
For more about gastric bypass surgery, try the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
