What is the difference between soy, regular and skim milk?

all taste different. Regular is what we know as store bought milk. skim milk is a lot less flavor and not all that tasty for drinking water does just as good unless putting it on cereal and personally water taste better than blue water.

soy milk has its own rich flavor and distinctive from real cow milk. do not have all the fat content of the cow milk. I love cow milk best but use soy and almond milk to keep the allergies down. I use some but a lot starts the allergies in a torrent. Seems like hay fever but if in the winter even cold air triggers a coughing fit. Try to not use it at all unless out and unavoidable.

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"taste" varies among individuals, but ggenerally speaking; yes! skim-milk taste less sweetning, but just as filling as reg-milk. while coc9nut/almond/soy/rice/acorn/oat [milks] tatse both less filling{faattening} & less sweetning. they have fewer calories and 60%+ less sugar p/serving than low-fat milk & skim milk.
the taste of some alternative milks can be compared to thaat of grainy/earthy water. imagine the texture of water, with a hint of almond/rice/oat to it.

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Yes, there is a very different taste between dairy and non-dairy milk. As I will not drink dairy milk because of the way the industry treats cows, my faviourite non-dairy milk is now almond.

What is the best meat to treat when it comes to not being a vegetarian and has been vegetarian?

I would say fish or chicken because it has less fat. Also, start out will small amounts, maybe 2 ounces once a day and then after a couple of weeks, twice a day. Eventually you can try lean beef maybe once a week.

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You'll need to start out slow, your stomach won't be use to digesting the proteins that come in meats. Maybe fish or chicken. You might wanna consult a doctor.

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Anything that isn't highly seasoned or smoked, in small amounts. Try to get a lean cut of whatever you decide on.

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might as well start killing animals now that you're taking a job killing people. Start with cheap hotdogs. The ones made from chicken beef and pork.

What is a healthy breakfast for maintaining energy throughout the day?

Creamy Oatmeal recipe

1/3 cups water
1/3 cups milk
1/3 cups quick oats
Mix together in a microwave safe bowl and place in microwave on high for 2 minutes

Add any sugar, honey or natural sweeteners you want (chop some fruits up , or throw in some blueberries and brown sugar , or strawberries and flax seeds for an extra boost of omega-3

About 129 calories with only 4 grams of sugar(with out any toppings) and 6 grams of protien.

Protien helps keep you stay fuller longer :)

You can also make an omelette with cut up vegetable and a dash of paprika and pepper spice .

Or a peice of toast with a spoonful of peanut butter , a fruit, half a cup of plain yogurt with some sugar or sweetener , and about 10 almonds(takin too much nutscan really add up in calories (causin you to gain wait)! , 1 almond is 6.6 calories )


In other words try to get something with fibre and protien they breakdown slowly , so it'll make you fuller longer.

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Breakfast should be nutritious and high-calorie. As they say,for breakfast you should eat like a king, for lunch you eat like a normal person and for dinner you eat like you're starving.

Steel cut oats are awesome. Or rolled oats... oatmeal in general is great (NOT instant). Fruits are good, yogurts are good (unless you're one of those new-age "Dairy is poison" people), eggs (if you aren't vegan), etc. I like to have steel cut oats with blueberries and almond slices, or with avocado and mission fig.

You just don't want to start the day as either low-calorie OR anything that's pure sugar. However, if you have nothing to eat other than, say, coffee cake... it's actually better to eat that in the morning than it is at night. When that happens it's just a matter of having a crappy day versus an all out shitty day. Best to make stuff ahead of time, such as with steel cut oats.

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7 hours is a pretty long time..... 

You would probably need to eat a 500- 800 calorie meal to stay full that long. 

If you eat that big of a meal, you will feel bloated. 

It would be much better to eat a 500 calorie meal and be full for 4-5 hours... with a mid-day snack to keep you going for the next few hours. 

As others have said, oatmeal is good. Peanut butter is good. Fruit is good. 

Protein does keep you full longer compared to other macronutrients (carbs & fat). 

Personally, my favorite breakfast is peanut butter on a rice cake (100 calories for peanut butter, 50 calories for a rice cake) along with a piece of dark chocolate (50 calories for chocolate) or small apple (50 calories)... which runs about 200 calories and keeps me full for 3 hours.

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I usually eat a bowl of oatmeal with soymilk, ground flaxseeds, and cinnamon. I love it and it keeps me full till lunch =). I also recently saw a breakfast burrito recipe that looked quite good involving tofu breaded with cornmeal and sauteed. Put that in a whole wheat wrap with spinach, salsa, and whatever else you want and it would probably be a delicious breakfast. I'm looking forward to trying it out myself

What is the difference in the tone of my body if you ate the same amount of calories but with only healthy food?

so, I always eat around 1300 calories, but my body is UGLY ! very not toned, and just very bad!

Take it your way

The only way to tone your muscles is to do strength training exercises, such as crunches, donkey kicks, toelifts, lifting weights. Of course you have to adjust you diet in order to feed the muscles and get the best results, but that's not the part where you tone.

"Is a calorie a calorie" yes and no. 300 calories of french fries is the same number of steel cut oats and figs. But which one is better for you?

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If your body isn't toned, that's because you are getting inadequate EXERCISE. You could eat 800 calories a day of nothing but spinach and berries (super foods) and still not be toned. You must work out the specific muscle groups you want to have show in addition to consuming adequate protein and healthy fats to build those muscles (which likely means increasing caloric intake to compensate for the extra calories burned during exercise).

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No dear. Toning happens when you USE the muscles. You cannot tone up by eating less. Healthy food without exercising particular muscles, will get you a slightly less blobby load of flesh inside your bog bag of skin, but it still won't tone you up and you will still have cellulite, stretchmarks and so on. Some foods really plump up the flesh you have, but again, calories are calories.

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You need to exercise to get muscle tone. Though there have been studies showing that you burn calories faster while chewing non-processed food vs. packaged frozen food. So the packaged food has the correct calories but if you eat the equivalent calories in vegetables, half of it will burn off chewing and digesting.