hey peoples, requesting nutrition advice for my situation

I am currently active duty navy attached to the uss miami. Since the boat is currently undergoing extensive repair due to a fair last year I do nit have to worry about going out to sea for at least two years. For the next two to three weeks ill be working monday through friday from 0600 to 2000 and have either saturday or sunday where I have to be on the construction site from 0600 to 0700 the next day. So there really isnt much time to cook or prepare food and im limited to a fridge and a hot plate currently until the end of the year when I can move out of the barracks. Starting about two weeks ago I have started working out monday through friday for an hour a day starting around noon. I am ordered to work out for 5 hours a week so its not something that I can be lazy about and not do. The main things that I need advice about is what the best excercises are to get me to drop fat and hopefully gain some muscle while im at it. The other thing I could use some help with designing a meal plan that is easy to follow and implement. On the construction site the cooks make breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday, but seeing them take a brick of butter or heaps of lard to coat the grill or deep frying nearly everything that is served I really dont want to eat anything that they touch. They do put out fruit, but seeing as I have watched the same apple go untouched for over a month and not darken or change its appearance at all I am thinking that the fruit is most likely irradiated or uses some other form of preservation. So I intend to bring in all of my food and not rely on the galley for anything. Just as an example, I saw them melt 5 pounds of butter just to make bread sticks...I can normally eat at any time throughout the day, so I intend to start eating small snacks and meals to try to keep my matabolism going throughout the day. What would you all recommend? Also I have no problem with eating the same thing every day and for simplicity sake I would actually prefer to figure out a set schedule to follow every day. I have shaklee multi vitamins and b vitamins that I take daily and would like to know if I should start taking extra protein or not on days that I lift weights...I guess I should probably state, that I want to lose 80 pounds total, gain as much muscle as I can. The calculator on this site says that I probably burn around 3200 calories per day. I was thinking of going for a goal of around 2000 calories per day intake and around 500 burned through exercise. Im probably thinking to aggressively, but im not really sure what a good setup would be so I look forward to any advice that is given. Thank you all who took the time to read through this and especially to those of you with any advice

.Oh and im thinking about doing only cardio when I work out at around noon and then lifting weights with a friend of mine at night when I get out of work. So if that happens then ill probably do 5-6 hours of cardio per week and 3-4 hours of weights.

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Hate Other People's Cellphone Calls? You're Not Alone

Study found working people were more distracted by one-sided versus two-sided conversations

By Alan Mozes

HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Adding to the list of "really annoying things," new research is pointing the finger at a technology that can turn public spaces into private misery for many: cellphones.

The study suggests that cellphone calls, and the half-conversations listeners are forced to overhear, are a much more distracting form of background noise than an in-person exchange between two people.

"I find cell phones annoying, frankly, and there's lots of research suggesting that many people agree -- so I wanted to study this," said study lead author Veronica Galvan, an assistant professor in the department of psychological sciences with the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego.

"What we found," Galvan said, "was that there does seem to be something unique about a one-sided cell conversation that makes it more distracting for people to overhear than a two-way conversation."

Galvan and her colleagues published their findings in the March 13 issue of the journal PLoS ONE.

According to the authors, in 2012 wireless device users worldwide devoted more than 2.3 trillion minutes to cellphone calls, texting, listening to music and Web surfing. Many of the calls are being placed in public spaces such as restaurants, elevators or on public transport.

Last year, a study conducted by researchers at Cornell University asked college students to try to ignore sound recordings while trying to complete a task. Their conclusion: Recordings of one-sided cell phone conversations were actually more distracting, irritating and taxing to the brain than two-sided in-person conversations.

The newer study builds on that work, using a real-world study design. This time, Galvan's team had nearly 150 undergraduate students complete a word-play reading exercise.

There was a hitch, though: Participants were exposed to one of two types of live conversations, either an in-person exchange between two people or a one-sided cellphone call.

In both cases, the exchange was scripted to focus on the same range of topics, including shopping for furniture, details concerning a birthday party for Dad, or meeting up with a date in a shopping mall.

Conversations were similar in length and were overheard by the participants just once, as they struggled to compete the word task. When the conversations ceased, the students were asked to complete memory recall tests, as well as distraction questionnaires.

While all the participants fared comparably well on the tasks, one-sided cellphone conversations were deemed to be "significantly" more distracting than two-sided conversations. Attention seemed to stray more to the one-sided calls, since people who had overheard a one-sided cellphone conversation were more able to recall what had been said versus those who had overheard a two-party exchange.

According to the researchers, people appear to be less able to tune out cellphone conversations compared to two-person exchanges. This supports notions that overheard cellphone jabber might negatively affect a person's ability to concentrate and focus, they said.

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Economy May Have Lasting Effect on Young People's Outlook

Title: Economy May Have Lasting Effect on Young People's Outlook
Category: Health News
Created: 2/11/2013 12:35:00 PM
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