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Old June 9th, 2004, 07:12 PM
Jackie Patti
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jamie wrote:

Sounds expensive. You can add 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon (depending on the
size of your large glasses and your needs) of Morton's Lite Salt to
sugarfree Kool-Aid or Crystal Lite for the equivalent of sugarfree
Gatorade.


I add 1 tsp Morton Lite Salt to a 2-liter batch of Raspberry Crystal
Light to make low-carb "sports drink". This works well.

I originally tried 2 tsp which was very gross.

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As you accelerate your food, it takes exponentially more and more energy
to increase its velocity, until you hit a limit at C. This energy has
to come from somewhere; in this case, from the food's nutritional value.
Thus, the faster the food is, the worse it gets.
-- Mark Hughes, comprehending the taste of fast food

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Old June 10th, 2004, 05:28 AM
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"Pat" wrote in :

On the other hand if you want to soak all the people
resting in the next lane then hold your legs straight and make a big
splash!



I have seen that move out of the swimteam who I almost think gets a
thrill out of soaking me lol. I missed swimming tonight because my son
(who is 11 and thinks he needs a permit perish the thought) decided it
was a nice idea to lock BOTH sets of keys in the car not just one. I
will try this on Friday though.

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Low Carb since 11/12/03
235ish/175/135
Goal for June: 165 for a loss of 10 lbs.
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Old July 17th, 2012, 06:15 AM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
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On Monday, June 7, 2004 7:34:38 AM UTC+5:30, Lily wrote:
Recently, mostly while swimming but sometimes while at work, I have started
to get the WORST foot cramps. I had been mowing before I went swimming for
about 3 hours, and i had plenty of water while doing this (not sure if its
related but it seems to be since I do not seem to get them as often if I
dont walk or mow first). They are sort of like a charley horse because the
more I try to stretch out my arch the worse they get and then my calf will
start up as well. I had to get out of the pool the other night after only
22 of my 35 laps completed because I was pretty much incapacitated by it.
My friends magic answer was "Eat a banana or drink some gatorade before you
swim you probably need potassium" but neither is low carb and I already
take a vitamin and extra calcuim daily. What might be another solution
that IS lower carb?

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Low Carb since 11/12/03
235ish/175/135
Goal for June: 165 for a loss of 10 lbs.


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Old July 17th, 2012, 04:41 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Doug Freyburger
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Default HELP! question about foot cramps

Lily wrote:

Recently, mostly while swimming but sometimes while at work, I have started
to get the WORST foot cramps. I had been mowing before I went swimming for
about 3 hours, and i had plenty of water while doing this (not sure if its
related but it seems to be since I do not seem to get them as often if I
dont walk or mow first). They are sort of like a charley horse because the
more I try to stretch out my arch the worse they get and then my calf will
start up as well. I had to get out of the pool the other night after only
22 of my 35 laps completed because I was pretty much incapacitated by it.
My friends magic answer was "Eat a banana or drink some gatorade before you
swim you probably need potassium" but neither is low carb and I already
take a vitamin and extra calcuim daily. What might be another solution
that IS lower carb?


Leg cramps tend to be calcium mre often than potassium. Maybe. I
suggest taking a cal/mag tablet twice a day up from one a day.

Potassium tablets are limited to 99 mg because certain old diuretic
blood pressure medications acted on the potassium channel causing the
body to hoard potassium. Too much potassium causes heat problems. If
you aren't on BP meds consider alterent sources of potassium.

My favorite source of potassium is various brands of lite salt. They
are about 50-50 potassium chloride and sodium chloride. When I first
tried salt substitute that's all potassium chloride I could tell it side
by side with table salt. When I first tried lite salt side by side with
table salt I could not tell. We've had lite salt on our table for well
over 10 years at this point. Some people will claim they can tell lite
salt from table salt but all they actually do is see the label. My MIL
did that. For years she got her potassium from lite salt and had no
idea.

A teaspoon of lite salt has the potassium of several tablets. We take
it as a goal to eat about a half teaspoon each per day of lite salt.
It's a lot at first if you've bene avoiding salt because low fat diets
teach you to avoid salt and you carried the habit in from there. It's
not much if you used to salt food without thinking before eating.

Low Carb since 11/12/03


Suggestion - Add the decade so it's clear what order those numbers are.
I switched to the international standard at the turn of the century so
I've been inconsistantly low carb since 1999-06-21.

235ish/175/135


Wow. Excellent.

Goal for June: 165 for a loss of 10 lbs.


Suggestion - Understand that loss rate is proportional to how much you
have to lose. With 40 to go, 10 per month is an unreasonable
expectation. Consider that Dr Atkins predicted the last 10 would take a
year.
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Old July 17th, 2012, 05:41 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Dogman
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:43:02 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

wrote:

On Monday, June 7, 2004 7:34:38 AM UTC+5:30, Lily wrote:


Whoa. I just noticed the year after I responded. This message was from
eight years ago. Few NSPs allow reponses to messages that old. Google
did not used to allow it.


Google's ridululously deceitful motto of "Don't be evil" should be
changed to "Do as much evil as you want, provided you make a good
profit by doing so."

No, it doesn't run off the tongue as easily, but...

--
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"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty
about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman
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Old August 13th, 2012, 05:41 AM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Robert Miles[_2_]
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On 7/17/2012 12:15 AM, wrote:
On Monday, June 7, 2004 7:34:38 AM UTC+5:30, Lily wrote:
Recently, mostly while swimming but sometimes while at work, I have started
to get the WORST foot cramps. I had been mowing before I went swimming for
about 3 hours, and i had plenty of water while doing this (not sure if its
related but it seems to be since I do not seem to get them as often if I
dont walk or mow first). They are sort of like a charley horse because the
more I try to stretch out my arch the worse they get and then my calf will
start up as well. I had to get out of the pool the other night after only
22 of my 35 laps completed because I was pretty much incapacitated by it.
My friends magic answer was "Eat a banana or drink some gatorade before you
swim you probably need potassium" but neither is low carb and I already
take a vitamin and extra calcuim daily. What might be another solution
that IS lower carb?


Many of the salt substitutes are almost entirely potassium chloride,
and therefore low-carb but high in potassium. Just add water if you
want a solution.

However, I've found that some of the additives affect whether the
taste is somewhat bitter. I prefer the Kroger, McCormick, and
Schilling brands, but you might want to try one of the brands with
potassium chloride and essentially nothing else to see if there is
enough difference in the taste to affect your preferences.

I've heard ordinary yellow mustard recommended for cramps, bit haven't
had a chance to try it enough to tell if it works or not.

 




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