Recent content by Akateros

Add pectin powder. 1 tsp for moderate creaminess, 2 or more for Mickey D-style "won't go through the straw."

Well. The wheat flour doesn't say whether it's "whole" or not, so it might just be plain white. Overprocessed, high GI. Soybean oil. I try to avoid added oils where possible. Molasses=sugar. Preservative. The less of those the better, IMHO. Not totally lousy, but you could do better, even...

It's a little bit pricy, but for the minimal amount of bread I eat, I like the Ezekiel breads and wraps for the occasional egg-white breakfast sandwich or burrito. Ingredients of the "original sprouted grain bread": *Organic Sprouted Wheat, *Organic Sprouted Barley, *Organic Sprouted Millet...

Doesn't work for me. Fat and any carbs but fibrous = fat on my butt, even "good fats". I keep my EFAs to my protein & salad meals, and don't have any on high-carb days.

If she hasn't yet got her diet and workouts cleaned up, why the fark are you shortcutting her with drugs? Start with the basics instead of messing up her system. What she could use for further weightloss is more weight training and a little bit more willpower and planning in the eating...

Raising carbs is beneficial if you habitually eat high-protein/low-carb; at any rate, it is for me. I find that the best protocol in my case is to keep protein fairly high, raise carbs pretty much to match, and drop fat very low that day. A carb-up or refeed is not a cheat, unless you start with...