Feta works pretty well too.
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Coincidentally, my most recent night cramps came after having picked every removable bit of feta from my salad to give to my dinner companion.
Iāll start with bananas.
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Which means the superior choice is a loaded baked potato with bacon.
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Exactly!
Interesting! I donāt think I can be low on potassium. I eat potatoes regularly, and have broccoli and/or tomatoes more days than not.
Iāve got a pile of LMNT to get through, so Iāll just suck it up and do that for now.
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What flavors do you have? Iāve heard of people mixing them in with yogurts, and some even just sprinkle it on crushed ice like an Italian ice.
I donāt know - the variety pack. I got them for my husband, who tends not to drink enough water for the things he does out in the heat for hours and hours, e.g. felling trees and splitting wood. He gets mad cramps, so they were for him.
I may just pick up the least odious gatorade at the store today.
I tried lightly salting my regular water, but found that I didnāt drink it. Itās only a problem in the summer, probably because the morning walks are sweaty business.
Iād lean toward magnesium & zinc then.
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A little sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) makes water wetter, and is easy to cover with a squirt of lemon juice. The sodium content is a little lighter (27.5% vs. 40%) than table salt.
We gotta collaborate on a not diet diet that people can actually eat, be happy, and have energy to expend lifting.
Something tells me it would flesh out as a gaining/building oriented tome.
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Hahaha, I canāt think why that would be!
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. Just a hunch.
Interesting, thanks! By the time Iād read this Iād been to the grocery store and picked up a couple bottles of āGatorlyte Rapid Rehydration,ā which - the cherry lime flavor, anyway - is more tolerable, taste-wise. Hereās what they offer:
So I guess I can go either way.
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How many calories?
60 for the whole bottle. They make a zero version as well, but they donāt have it at my grocery store.
We gotta collaborate on a not diet diet that people can actually eat, be happy, and have energy to expend lifting.
Something tells me it would flesh out as a gaining/building oriented tome.
Itās honestly the truth. Too many people want to burn the candle at both ends and blow torch the middle, per Dan John. They want the extreme diet AND extreme training, and then they wonder why theyāre extremely miserable. We effectively have a finite amount of stress we can tolerate, irrespective of the sources, and once itās reached, weāre done.
So if youāre hard charging in the training, eat the loaded baked potatoes, because you NEED the fuel. If youāre on the lettuce and water diet, stick with walking and some resistance bands.
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Iāve been drinking this for last yearāish. I like the strawberry and grape flavors, and probably have 4-5 scoops a day. I mix it with 40oz of water. Better than gatorade, but not as great as LMNT and roughly .50 a serving.
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What is the drink?