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    Well, Monday is the day I'm going to start eating really healthy and working out hard

    Ah I see. Sorry for my hasty conclusion. Trial and error my friend, to find out how much you are burning. Starting from how much you are eating now. Maybe the intensified training is already enough to create the deficit. Keeping an eye on the weightscale and mirror. If in 2 weeks nothing...
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    Well, Monday is the day I'm going to start eating really healthy and working out hard

    So you weren't working out yet? In that case you won't have to reduce your intake at all. Infact, how about you grow some muscle for 6 months or a year and THEN see if you need to do any cutting? Start working out, get your diet in order, UP your intake! There's just not much point in...
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    Help! Sterilizing

    I like to spray my neb cups with acticid/ethanol after use and put them away. ..also because I like the scent of it.
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    CF and too much Gas

    Stop drinking soda. :)
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    Stop Drinking Soda, Help Please

    Yep, this is just one of those things where you have to bite the bullet and cut soda out. But it's easier than you might think. Personally it took me just a few days to get used to drinking water and so I drink lots of it and I like it. It's cleansing. Once you get used to the idea of water you...
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    Oxygen Treatment ?

    Hi Sharon, The saturation levels/oxygen levels in our blood or body go up and down continuously depending on what we do, how we're breathing and so on. And so taking a "hit" of oxygen will have only a very short lasting effect. Also if his lungs are luckily still in good shape then his body...
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    Fat loss supplements

    No. Supplements like this contain a wide variety of ingredients (some wanted, some not) and in general are just a waste of money. Ie.: their effect is very small to mostly placebo, or contain a boatload of caffeïne or whatever. (like this one) Why don't you work out for a couple years, get to...
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    excersizing and treatments

    It depends on the type of weezing. If it's asthmatic then Albuterol/Salbutamol might be effective to relax or widen up the airways but if it's sputum then Albuterol does nothing and you can try hypertonic saline and getting as much gunk out of your lungs as possible. Ofcourse exercise is great...
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    Bloating

    Yeah all of those and stand on one leg, trying to form new phonetical sounds and words. Only interrupted when a thought comes to mind which must then be expressed through interpretive dance.
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    How to deal w extended family without a FAMILY FEUD ???

    Seems near impossible to trust anyone with this. [rant] At the moment I'm trying to recover from a flu that I got from my sister's kids. (1 and 4) But here's the kicker, my sister also has CF. And so is pretty friggin' well aware of the risks. Was going to spend the weekend back at my parents...
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    Bloating

    Yep malabsorption issues (..extra gas!) combined with our strange ribcages, spines, postures, breathing and strange organs. Combined with our overly thin arms, legs, shoulders and the rest. Combined with extra food intake, and our guts are going to look big for our bodies. But healthy people...
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    When to stop working?

    I think when it starts to take a significant toll on your health, and when it starts to cost you years of your life. (Ie.: neglecting treatment and exercise for work and stress.) But where that point is and how much of your health you are willing to spend for the possible satisfaction and...
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    When did you know...

    Indeed frosty dry winter air can be a likely cause of random nosebleeds. Happens that I wake up with a nose full of blood too or get them randomly during the day. So recent years I tend to hang wet towels over my radiators when there's dry northern-eastern winter wind here to keep humidity in...
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    Do I have malnutrition since I have CF even though I'm at a good height/weight?

    No, but because our absorbtion is a bit wacky we want a balanced varied diet and to check for vitamine and mineral levels and such even when our weight is fine. Your doctor checks for those everytime he pinches for blood. And most likely you are prescribed some extra vitamines.
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    Bloating

    That's because we fill our stomach with food throughout the day. (some other causes too like slightly shrinking throughout the day etc. but..) Every person has this healthy or not. Ripped or not. When a bodybuilder or actor has to show them abs they tend not to eat prior to it. ..But like the...
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    Protein powder and carb loading supplements

    Just want to add that the problem with soy and other types of vegetarian protein compared to protein comming from dairy and meat/fish is that the biological value is much lower. There are a standard 20 amino acids found in protein in food and how much of each is present varies a lot depending...
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    Sterile

    Not to worry, in general there are solutions available for CF males if the right time and person comes into your life. For me it happened that in my early teens I was a curious young man and me and my microscope found this out ourselves before I was told about this CF issue. It was quite a...
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    How can I lose fat safely?

    Simply go from how much you are eating now and very slowly adjust it and carefully watch what happens to your body and how you feel. Takes a while to learn how much your body uses on an average day, when you workout, when you get sick, so on. Yes we can do a small Calorie deficit but only when...
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    How can I lose fat safely?

    Abs are mainly made in the kitchen. You can hit your abs all day long with crunches and other creative nonsense but most likely all you'll be doing is hurting your back and creating hipinbalance and other stuff you don't want. Because contrary to tellsell television..they have quite limited...
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    Protein powder and carb loading supplements

    Welcome to the forum! Yes but something like Creon is composed of several components. Lipase the most well known one and it's for fat. But also Protease to break down protein and Amylase which does something with starch. So fat alone is not the only grade of how much enzymes to take. KCal's...
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