<p>"Green tea is a best drink for weight loss. "
-if you are capable of consuming it. My stomach is very strong. But for unknown reason, it absolutely cannot tolerate regular tea, de-caf, green tea, de-caf green tea. I have no problem with any kind of coffee, even the strongest one and actually prefer black, never add cream/milk because it kills the bitter taste. The same goes for the darkest chocolate, no problem here. Any tea (except for the herbal kind that does not have any team leaves) makes me nauseating, I have tried many times. It is unfortunate since everybody swears by green tea while I cannot consume it at all. Compensating by large dosages of chocolate though, not for the weight loss, for the “happy” feeling. It is working very well for me.</p>
<p>Hmm, that was kind of random. I’ll have to pass on the miracle of green tea for weight loss. </p>
<p>Miami, I love chocolate. I love chocolate with chipolte added. If I’m going to treat myself, that’s what I’d have!</p>
<p>I’m afraid the NPR talk show host and the gluten-free vegan from NIH probably wouldn’t approve of my salmon. Sauteed in a butter/lemon sauce, generously salted.</p>
<p>That sounds like Nick Miller using butter to cook bacon cause he didn’t want it to stick to the pan. 
I grill mine and sometimes marinate it first but usually just use alder chips & watch the time very carefully.</p>
<p>I like hot cocoa with chipotle.
But not really a big chocolate lover. I made my last batch of canna butter cookies into no bake with choc& peanut butter & I didn’t make it strong enough & I am so sick of them.:p</p>
<p>Today was “walk to school” day at an elementary school in the area. Wonderful weather, lots of walkers. Good exercise and good for the environment, right?</p>
<p>Then they handed out bottled water to all the kids as they got to school. Large plastic bottles of water. Sigh.</p>
<p>Thanks Everyone for the pop tarts recommendation! Always one of my favorite “foods” and now I have a rationale reason to consume.</p>
<p>You have to admit, though, there is nothing worse than a stale Pop Tart. Blech!</p>
<p>Feel better BB!</p>
<p>My D eats chia seeds before running.
My sister was the one who liked pop tarts.</p>
<p>I need a easy cookie recipe. Or something that I can make into dose sizes.
( the canna butter isn’t for fun & games, it is for pain relief)</p>
<p>Any of you runners have pierced ears? Saw these on my Twitter Etsy feed - perfect for your next race!!!</p>
<p>[Portal</a> Studs In One Ear and Out The Other by MelissaHamming](<a href=“This item is unavailable - Etsy”>This item is unavailable - Etsy)</p>
<p>abasket, that is pretty cool! :)</p>
<p>Thank you all for healing thoughts! Fingers crossed, it looks like the antibiotics did something, I feel significantly better today, there is no sharp pain and so far there is no fever, but my head is still a bit “cloudy”. My exercise this morning was dragging the yard waste bin to the main road, dragging it back and filling it with weeds that I piled up in the front yard on Saturday. And I did not forget my 30 pushups! :)</p>
<p>I think I’ll stick with pot roast and blue cheese salads and lay off the Pop Tarts until the next time I run a marathon:</p>
<p>[Strawberry</a> Pop Tart nutrition label](<a href=“http://www.rwservices.poptarts.com/content/dam/common/products/nutrition/82150.jpg]Strawberry”>http://www.rwservices.poptarts.com/content/dam/common/products/nutrition/82150.jpg)</p>
![http://www.rwservices.poptarts.com/content/dam/common/products/nutrition/82150.jpg]Strawberry](http://www.rwservices.poptarts.com/content/dam/common/products/nutrition/82150.jpg%5DStrawberry){kind=link}
<p>Yikes. 25% sugar by weight, cleverly listed under at least three names so it doesn’t appear first on the ingredient list. 200 calories. 37 grams of carbs.</p>
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<p>Speaking of ingredient lists, I ran across an interesting comparison the other day showing how the new “healthy” versions of products may not be what they seem.</p>
<p>Here’s the ingredient list for [Lay’s</a> Classic Potato Chips](<a href=“http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/lays-classic-potato-chips.html]Lay’s”>http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/lays-classic-potato-chips.html). Not the best food in the world, but at least it’s arguably food:</p>
<p>Potatoes
Vegetable Oil (Sunflower, Corn, and/or Canalo Oil)
Salt</p>
<p>Here’s the healthier [Baked</a> version](<a href=“http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/baked-lays-original.html]Baked”>http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/baked-lays-original.html). Says right on the package that they are All Natural so this must be real food, right?</p>
<p>Dried potatoes
Corn Starch
Sugar
Corn Oil
Salt
Soy Lecithin
Corn Sugar</p>
<p>Probably pretty much like the Pringles I couldn’t stop eating. Sugar in potato chips. What a great idea!</p>
<p>Oh, I almost forgot. The FedEx truck dropped off Kettlebell, Jr. at my back door today. I can’t believe that WalMart ships a 35lb kettlebell for $2.97.</p>
<p>Oh, goodness! Sugar in “potato” chips? Yup, that’s “healthy”! It does not take long to figure out the “healthy version” game played by the food industry - one only needs to compare the ingredient lists. As I already mentioned in this thread, the “healthy” Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich had such horrid list of ingredients that made Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream (cream, skim milk, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla extract) look like real food! In fact, H-D 5 ingredient ice cream is food, as long as one doesn’t shovel the entire pint into the mouth at once. :)</p>
<p>Betcha the FedEx driver got a good workout today! :)</p>
<p>I love how they say “baked not fried!” and we automatically think that’s better. No mention of the fake ingredients & added sugar. Shhhhh…!</p>
<p>And this, children, is why we should just avoid processed foods.</p>
<p>abasket–cool earrings! Do they make an arrow? In one ear & out the other…</p>
<p>Nature’s Path Toaster Pastries:</p>
<p>Organic Wheat Flour, Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Organic Evaporated can Juice Invert, Organic Palm Oil, Organic Apples, Organic Whole Wheat Flour, Powdered Sugar, Organic Corn Starch, Organic Vital Wheat Gluten, Organic Dextrose, Organic Strawberries, Organic Strawberry Flavor, Organic Rice Starch, Sea Salt, Leavenings (Baking Soda, Cream of Tartar), Organic Honey, Organic Molasses, Citric Acid, Rice Bran Extract, Colored With Betalains, Paprika Extract (From Plants), Organic Vanilla Flavor, Algin, Sodium Citrate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Whey Protein Isolate.</p>
<p>My son sometimes has a box or two of these in his apartment when they’re on sale at Whole Foods. They come six to a box, foil-wrapped in three pairs. I’ve been known to have one or two at his apartment when I’m absolutely starving.</p>
<p>bc:</p>
<p>That’s so funny. Like adding the word “organic” in front of every junk food ingredient makes it “healthy”. And, I love all the names for sugar in that one. “Organic evaporated cane juice” is my all time favorite sugar euphemism.</p>
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<p>Which, unfortunately, is something I can’t manage to keep from doing if I have it in the freezer!</p>
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<p>The benefit to toaster pastries are that they can be preferable to Gatorade if you don’t need the fluids at the time.</p>
<p>What the heck is “organic strawberry flavor”? :eek: Some esters (“esters” is an organic compound class) have pleasant, fruity smells; I’m sure there is an ester that smells like strawberries. So even if it is lab-synthesized, technically it will still be “organic”. LOL.</p>
<p>Hi everyone! Been lurking and apologize if this topic has been brought up before and I’ve missed it.</p>
<p>I have been on Weight Watchers and am currently wearing both their ActiveLink (it’s in the assessment phase, it will track my activity and give me challenges, and it synchs back to WW Points) and a FitBit (which entices me to get 10,000 steps a day and tells me how many calories I’m burning - including just my overall rate from just living/breathing). They appear to do different things and I haven’t figured out yet which (or both) I want to hang on to. Curious if any of you have ever used ActiveLink, FitBit, Bodybugg or any of the others, and have any suggestions.</p>
<p>I do pilates 3x/week, I do either a bike or elliptical several days a week, I run (using Couch to 5K) several days a week and, prompted by FitBit, am taking my dog on several-mile walks. But I have a sedentary job.</p>