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KStoner6tb said:
my knees have recently been getting sore from running and squatting.
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Do you take fish oil/flax oil and Glucosamine/Chondroitin?

Omega 3 fatty acids, particularly EPA, have a very positive effect on your inflammatory response. Through several mechanisms, they regulate your body's inflammation cycle, which prevents and relieves painful conditions like arthritis, prostatitis, cystitis and anything else ending in "itis."

Glucosamine is a precursor to a molecule called a glycosaminoglycan-this molecule is used in the formation and repair of cartilage.

Chondroitin is the most abundant glycosaminoglycan in cartilage and is responsible for the resiliency of cartilage.

Treatment with these joint supplements is based on the theory that oral consumption of glucosamine and chondroitin may increase the rate of formation of new cartilage by providing more of the necessary building blocks.

The info above I copied. Both have significantly reduced my knee pain. Changing running shoes helped too.
 
I posted some similar to these in the other thread, but they seemed relevant to here because I took them a few days after doing a 4 day raw juice/smoothie fast. It really detoxified my system a lot and did wonderful things for my skin! These pics aren't retouched and I'm only wearing a tiny bit of makeup.

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I'm pretty much obsessed with juice fasting/raw food cleanses now. I am planning on doing another one in a week or so. I want to try and go 7-10 days this time.
 
Stunning photos notDeja. I tend to take cleanses with a grain of salt, but they look like they agree with you.
 
I have a question about alcohol calories. I am trying to count my calories every day as accurately as possible.

I think I once read, or someone once told me, that the body processes alcohol calories differently than regular calories.

I am just wondering how I should handle this situation.

A few days ago I had a party at my place. I am trying to eat 4000 calories a day.

I got to about 3000 calories and then started partying and drinking, and never really got around to eating any more food. However, I had approximately 4 beers and 8 shots of vodka. By my estimation, those drinks have approximately 1000 calories. Obviously they aren't the kind of calories I want, since they have no protein or fat and aren't going to help gain muscle, but, my question is, on my calories counting spreadsheet should I count that as 1000 calories and call it a 4000 calorie day? Or not?
 
Thanks guys.

For the "fast" (I don't think it's technically a fast since you're still getting lots of nutrition, I'll call it a cleanse), I was doing 3 drinks a day + tons of water + however much herbal tea I wanted and maybe 1-2 cups of green tea (I can't do too much green tea while on a cleanse, the caffeine makes me puke)

The drinks I made were different every time but my favorite one was a big handful of collard greens, blended with water til they looked like bright green juice (I find you have to blend the greens first, if you add the fruit and everything in all together it doesn't blend together well at least not with my blender). 1/2 raw zuchinni, 1/2 apple, a little fresh squeezed oj, some ground ginger, and organic strawberries, and a small avacado. I like to add plenty of water so that it ends up with the consistancy of juice while still being a smoothie. You can make it different ways, I tried many different things. Just all raw is the important thing.

I felt I was going to die on the third day, but then on the 4th day I woke up feeling pretty good. I then got weak and cooked something on the morning of the 5th day, and since Im a very all or nothing type of person, I went right back to binge eating again. :\ I still feel it did me a lot of good though.

I'm doing it again very soon. I'm still on the anti parasite drugs and trying to kill whatever nasty thing is destroying my insides (picked something terrible up when I was in Cambodia) and the cleanse seemed to help with that. But when I went back to my binge eating ways I felt worse again (duh). I never binge ate like this before so I wonder if it has something to do with whatever I caught. I dunno. Anyways sorry for getting soo off topic.

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Decided against "back to basics"?

PI: you have a nice back, yet you retain your femininity, good stuff...
 
Don't stress too much about fasting and binging notDeja, I bet you'd look good even if you ate McDonalds every day for a week! :)
 
LOL... thank you, but no. I have celiac disease, which destroyed my health for years because it was undiagnosed.. so fasting is an important part of my healing. I've been working on healing for this past year or so. Celiac destroyed my gut so fasting and doing cleanses has been helping me heal it up.. Macdonalds would KILL me, literally! *eek*
 
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