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Giving Up Coffee?
How do you drink your coffee in the AM without blowing all your calories? This is super tough! I love it with cream & sugar. I'm looking for options where I can come in under 100 calories. This is my one splurge.
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School Food Policies
I am in a mom group on facebook, and yesterday there was a post created that had me wondering what other parents here think. A child refused to eat the healthy snack that was offered to her. The deal was, if you eat your healthy snack, you can have a cookie. She was not given a cookie, and according to the mom posting, she…
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Should women lift heavy?
Thoughts?
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So is the lack of sleep a key cause of heart disease, stroke, dementia, diabetes and cancer?
independent.co.uk/news/sleep-deprivation-epidemic-health-effects-tired-heart-disease-stroke-dementia-cancer-a7964156.html
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Meal planning is essential?
Today in my MFP feed a blog post from MFP starts out: "When it comes to losing weight, meal planning is essential." Personally I think that is just WOO. Essential for some folks? I'm sure. But personally I would probably fall off a 'meal plan' on day 2 of my diet. It is one of the reasons that Jenny Craig and its ilk are…
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Snacks
Hypothesis: Eating snacks just makes calorie compliance harder for most people. Discuss. ETA: After the very good question about most, I'm going to say a majority of the population. I don't really have a tighter definition in mind but am open to input.
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Justice is what the judge had for breakfast.
I heard about this on a Radiolab podcast about free will, and thought it might be of interest here. AROUND the world, courthouses are adorned with a statue of a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales and a sword: Justice personified. Her sword stands for the power of the court, her scales for the competing claims of the…
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Sugar addiction
This discussion was created from replies split from: sugar my problem.
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You dont need to calorie count
I've heard this said in the forums a few times, along with "just eat intuitively" and "eat LCHF" When I asked how much I need to eat with LCHF I was tols "eat untill you are full. It's very calorie dense so you get full more quickly" Here is the problem with eating intuitively ... for some people it is not intuitive. I am…
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Eating "healthy" and daily exercise doesnt' DEFINE being healthy
While I'm a big proponent of exercise and eating a well balanced diet, so many people think that's pretty much all one needs to just "get healthy". I will contest that there's much more to it than that. Here are other factors that affects one's health: Weight (especially if one is obese or very overweight)- there are lots…
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Naturally thin
I have an honest question that I am not able to find an answer I trust online and I am really curious. Could part of the reason some people seem to be "naturally thin" be because their bodies process calories differently? I know for a fact that overeating put me where I am, I am not questioning that but I have always…
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Do you think there is any nutritional advantage to eating organic foods to justify the higher cost?
Or is it mainly just marketing and advertising?
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Hunger on college campuses: it's a real thing
hahahaha - what a bunch of hogwash. If this article is true, explain to me how the "Freshman 15" happens? I know - Lets just give 3 "free" meals a day to college kids to save them from starving to death on college campuses. GET A JOB! here is a link to the article…
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Quit smoking or not when starting to lose weight.
I'm needing to lose a few kilos... lots of kilos ha ha & the myth of quitting smoking add extra weight, so my thinking is; do I quit smoking because I'm doing extra work to make my body healthy ( feeding it correct fuel & working it out to maintain strong body ) do I still continue to smoke so I avoid adding those extra…
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Eating back your gym calories, yes or no?
Personally I don't ever eat them back unless I don't feel to great, I know alot of people say you should but alot say you shouldn't so how about you guys? What's your opinion?
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Weigh in day - yes/no....
How important is weigh in for you? I know everyone is different some people are daily some people are weekly etc. I weigh myself weekly (it doesn't really bother me what the scales say though) it's what my clothes look/feel like that keep me motivated. What about you?
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International Food Unit
I just wanted to throw this out, as it took my attention and I would be interested in the discussion it might spark here. (Although I still have to read it completely myself as I am at work.) https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-017-0583-y
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If the stats on long term weight loss are so bad, why bother?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/magazine/weight-watchers-oprah-losing-it-in-the-anti-dieting-age.html I thought this was a really nice article, thoughtfully written. Love the comments, too.
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Now carbs are bad and fat is good
Cue the inevitable wailing and gnashing of teeth. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/large-study-suggests-carbs-not-fats-bad-for-you/
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Is counting calories/macros destroying our enjoyment of food?
Interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
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Fitbits, are they worth it?
Hello, I'm toying with the idea of getting a Fitbit. I'm not into exercise and I use my phone to count steps - however wondered whether a Fitbit might make me more motivated to go to the gym/exercise more. I also like the calorie function. My colleague has one and at any given time she can see the calories she's used up…
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Lots of meals, or lots of snacking?
Hi guys! I find that I'm now eating snacks throughout my days just to bulk out my daily calories and reach my minimum 1,000 calories a day and it got me thinking - which is better, having more meals in a day, or snacking throughout the day with your 3 square meals?
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NYT article about obesity stating it's genetic, not lack of willpower
I just saw this article in the New York Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/health/americans-obesity-willpower-genetics-study.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=Health®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article&_r=0 I don't generally tend…
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Calorie counting/ exercise and social/everyday life
Does counting calories or exercising ever interfere with your everyday / social life? For example : wanting to go to a restaurant but not knowing how much calories are in their meals or wanting to go to a staff party at work but not knowing how much calories are in the food/drinks. Do you experience similar situations? And…
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Too fat to adopt a child
I just now heard this on the radio. It is incredibly difficult to adopt a child in Australia, and now on top of all that they now want to reject prospective parents for having a too high BMI. A woman actually had weight loss surgery to qualify for adopting. What do you all think of this? ETA: It seems some people cant…
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Is eating right messing with your mood?
I've been eating pretty healthily in the 1200-1500 range for a couple of weeks. Working out 20 minutes 5 days a week. Until this week I had stayed clear of chocolate, alcohol and ice cream. I recently bought some of the Kroger knock off version of Halo Top... super dissapointing btw! Halo Top is so much better! But what…
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Newly Published Study Debunking the Idea of HAES
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehx448/4081012/Separate-and-combined-associations-of-obesity-and It's becoming more and more clear all of the time, that there's no such thing as "health at every size", but of course, this will not deter the most hardcore zealots. That said, I'm not…
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Government control of portion sizes and calories
This article was on the BBC this morning about the UK government setting targets to reduce the calories in fast food and ready meals. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40967300 Responses on Facebook were very negative with people feeling that this was too 'nanny-state' but I can see the benefits. It is difficult to make…
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Which animal is the most fit?
I read this on Wikipedia (so it must be true): Values have been measured in some other animal species: thoroughbred horses have a VO2 max of around 180 mL/(kg·min). Siberian dogs running in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have VO2 max values as high as 240 mL/(kg·min). My first thought was "how does a cheetah compare?"…
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FDA reports at least 5 deaths from gastric balloons. A link to a CNN article.
Just saw this today and decided to share. Not so much because I want to scare anyone, but because it can be hard to find out side effects and issues when the companies PR people are so good at flooding Google with positive reviews and articles. 5 deaths reported while using weight loss balloon treatment, FDA says…