Guide to making claims based on research

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  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    I think I actually agree with you on probably 95% of stuff. I just have to focus on the negatives. LOL

    I don't think there was a shrimp truck in Haleiwa when I was there in the 80s. We used to go to the sub shop on the corner, next to she surf shop. Ron Jon, maybe? We'd pick up Maui onion potato chips from the grocer and subs and go to Sunset Beach, usually. And play Yahtzee. B)
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    I will say, though I'm not a huge fried chicken fan, I've never seen the wet-fried texture of the KFC batter replicated in any home cooked fried chicken I've ever had.

    But the real KFC winner is the awesome grilled chicken. My damn I'm surprised I rarely have it because the stuff is like crack.

    Seriously. Two weeks ago I actually asked on my newsfeed if anyone knew how to season chicken breast so it would taste like Kentucky grilled chicken. Someone did recommend I google kfc copy cat recipe. There's like a dozen spices, and at least one guy was selling his special copy cat blend. I don't think I could replicate the taste at all and while I make a decent fried chicken, it ain't no KFC

    Thankfully I'm not a very patient person and the kfc drive through here is extremely slow.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I will say, though I'm not a huge fried chicken fan, I've never seen the wet-fried texture of the KFC batter replicated in any home cooked fried chicken I've ever had.

    But the real KFC winner is the awesome grilled chicken. My damn I'm surprised I rarely have it because the stuff is like crack.

    Try adding baking soda. I hear it's the magic ingredient.
  • FunkyTobias
    FunkyTobias Posts: 1,776 Member
    edited November 2014
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    I guess I'm the only person who doesn't like KFC's original recipe.
    Too soggy. :p
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I'd much rather have my mom's fried chicken if I was doing fried chicken.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2014
    So if someone comes into these forums and asks "I binge on certain foods. Do you think it could be the food?" I will 100% say "Yes, it could be the food. I used to binge, and when I cut out my trigger foods, I stopped binging and lost 75 pounds."

    For a binger, that information is much more helpful than "it's not the food, it's you. you lack will power."

    ***
    eta: and I totally get what the "insane" bit is getting at -- that trying to hang onto a magical talisman instead of understanding science is what is insane. But telling someone to "just eat the food in moderation" is also insane when they are telling you they can't eat the food in moderation.

    Because I was dismissive before (in part because I was on an iPad) and because I have time before my run and am cooking only a side dish and dessert today (which I plan to make as palatable as possible!), I'll be a bit more specific in my response and how you misunderstood my post (although seriously, reread it).

    (1) I said nothing about eating in moderation (including KFC). (I don't eat KFC, so why would I tell someone else to? I just think the idea that it's "addictive" and some other fried chicken isn't is bizarre.) I always do say that if you can't do it, or can't do it now, try cutting it out, especially if someone is interested in trying that. I think it's psychological, not physical, but of course many people have trigger foods, even people who don't actually binge. (I don't think the baking soda woman was talking about binging, she was talking about regular overeating or overconsumption of calories, which doesn't require a binging disorder, obviously.)

    (2) The only thing I said about "addiction" was that it's insane to claim that you can't stop eating "processed food" (which was what the underlying discussion was about) because it's extra special delicious due to secret ingredients put in it. That sounds like an ad for the food, of course, but the reason people overeat KFC (or McD or whatever) is not because "unnatural" ingredients make it more delicious than food has ever been, which was the claim in the thread we are talking about. Indeed, if you believe in an actual addiction model here, you should disagree with that too, as rather obviously addiction isn't about something being extra delicious compared to everything else. Often people who go on about "processed foods" like baking soda woman did seem to think that they are all super tasty and home cooked foods aren't tempting in that way, which just makes me think they've never had properly prepared home cooked foods or been to a really good restaurant.

    (3) I suspect for most people who overeat for reasons unrelated to actual physical hunger that simply avoid specific foods isn't the best longterm solution, but dealing with the underlying issues should be part of it. I don't binge, but I was a big emotional eater for a time, and not using food for that was more important for me than avoiding certain foods. However, I think strategies are probably going to differ from person to person, so I'm not wedded to this being the case for everyone and am glad your strategies have worked for you (as I said when we talked about this before in a different thread).

    Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to all in the US!
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    (2) The only thing I said about "addiction" was that it's insane to claim that you can't stop eating "processed food" (which was what the underlying discussion was about) because it's extra special delicious due to secret ingredients put in it. That sounds like an ad for the food, of course, but the reason people overeat KFC (or McD or whatever) is not because "unnatural" ingredients make it more delicious than food has ever been, which was the claim in the thread we are talking about. Indeed, if you believe in an actual addiction model here, you should disagree with that too, as rather obviously addiction isn't about something being extra delicious compared to everything else. Often people who go on about "processed foods" like baking soda woman did seem to think that they are all super tasty and home cooked foods aren't tempting in that way, which just makes me think they've never had properly prepared home cooked foods or been to a really good restaurant.

    Ding, ding, ding!! I'm not trying to get into a ~1000 post thread but I will say that my cooking personally typically doesn't taste as good or super tempting as what I could get at a restaurant or when some of my family cooks. That's why it's so depressing when I eat at a restaurant and could actually make the item better. That's just, it ain't right yall! I do have the same tendency to overeat whether I'm at a restaurant or visiting family who have made all my favorite things

    Also when I'm cooking I go easy on the oil, etc. When restaurants or other people cook they're going for flavor, damn the calories (actually they don't give it a first or second thought). If the end result is delicious, I'm inhaling it.

    Note that my comments are restricted to reasons why one might choose to eat inappropriate quantities of the described foods. I do not really have an opinion on addiction / unnatural / processed or not
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  • tracie_minus100
    tracie_minus100 Posts: 465 Member
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    I just always assumed it was fairly standard for most adults to do whatever the hell they want.

    heh heh good one.
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    To suggest that somehow the commercialized versions of food are more overwhelmingly palatable and impossible to turn down--addictive--as that baking soda woman and many others at MFP do seems to me insane. KFC is the most delicious chicken ever and therefore food companies force us to eat it, really? I mean, I might expect that claim from Colonel Sanders, but no one else.

    AAAAAANnnnnnnddddddd, now I'm sucked back in.

    It's me! It's me!

    ======>>>>>>>

    I am suggesting that some foods for some people are impossible to turn down (with the caveat that it's not just commercialized foods -- home cooked foods can also be a trigger).

    <<<<<<<<<==============

    I am a binge eater. When I eat certain foods, I CANNOT stop eating them. It's got nothing to do with hunger or with satiety or with eating until I'm stuffed -- I never get stuffed during a binge. I never say "I can't eat another bite" during a binge. I can eat pounds of food during a binge. I will eat until the food is all gone, and if my body isn't over the binge, then I will get in my car, go to the grocery store (or two or three) and buy more and eat it until I am totally anesthetized. If I don't give in to the binge, then I'm moody, depressed, and vicious until I do give in.

    I know hundreds of people just like me. I can go to any city and find meetings full of people just like me. I've had people on this very website PM me and thank me for talking about this because they are too afraid to bring it up in the forums because they don't want to be made fun of.

    Do I have cites to prove the existence of food addiction? No. I don't know of any studies that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that food addiction exists.

    However, I do have a couple of cites to people who are attempting to understand the nature of binging and the possibility of food addiction.

    There's Kay SHeppard, who has written several books about food addiction and how to overcome it.

    There's the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, which had a Food Addiction conference to discuss the issue of food addiction and also has a checklist for people who might suffer from binge eating.

    There's a bunch of meetings for people who think they might have food addiction.

    Here's a paper summarizing the findings from a food addiction symposium.

    And etc.

    You are certainly welcome to refute every one of these sources, (let me help! Here's a whole bunch of links to studies that suggest food addiction is in fact not real).

    In my experience, my binging was caused by certain foods. I stopped eating those foods 10 years ago, and I no longer binge. I also no longer have food cravings. I get hungry, I eat. I don't sit around thinking "I really want to eat X" or "I'm really craving Y." Other people have also experience binging and have cut out their trigger food, to find that they don't binge or crave any more.

    Of course personal anecdote does not equal double-blind peer reviewed research studies and of course correlation does not always equal causation.

    But double-blind peer reviewed research studies exist because of personal anecdote and observed correlations.

    People conduct research because they observe something and want to understand the science and causation behind it. Someone's personal experience is the foundation upon which most of our scientific knowledge is based. I am communicating with you right now because Ben Franklin tied a key to a kite.

    And in the final instance, science or no, food addiction or no, I no longer binge. What I did worked for me and is sustainable for me.

    So if someone comes into these forums and asks "I binge on certain foods. Do you think it could be the food?" I will 100% say "Yes, it could be the food. I used to binge, and when I cut out my trigger foods, I stopped binging and lost 75 pounds."

    For a binger, that information is much more helpful than "it's not the food, it's you. you lack will power."

    Well, no *kitten*. That's what a binge is -- the total lack of willpower. Where do they go from there? My solution -- "This is what worked for me" -- seems to be a tad more helpful than merely telling the binger he or she is insane to believe the food might be the problem.

    eta: and I totally get what the "insane" bit is getting at -- that trying to hang onto a magical talisman instead of understanding science is what is insane. But telling someone to "just eat the food in moderation" is also insane when they are telling you they can't eat the food in moderation.

    This resonates with me. Thank you.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2014
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    (2) The only thing I said about "addiction" was that it's insane to claim that you can't stop eating "processed food" (which was what the underlying discussion was about) because it's extra special delicious due to secret ingredients put in it. That sounds like an ad for the food, of course, but the reason people overeat KFC (or McD or whatever) is not because "unnatural" ingredients make it more delicious than food has ever been, which was the claim in the thread we are talking about. Indeed, if you believe in an actual addiction model here, you should disagree with that too, as rather obviously addiction isn't about something being extra delicious compared to everything else. Often people who go on about "processed foods" like baking soda woman did seem to think that they are all super tasty and home cooked foods aren't tempting in that way, which just makes me think they've never had properly prepared home cooked foods or been to a really good restaurant.

    Ding, ding, ding!! I'm not trying to get into a ~1000 post thread but I will say that my cooking personally typically doesn't taste as good or super tempting as what I could get at a restaurant or when some of my family cooks. That's why it's so depressing when I eat at a restaurant and could actually make the item better. That's just, it ain't right yall! I do have the same tendency to overeat whether I'm at a restaurant or visiting family who have made all my favorite things

    Also when I'm cooking I go easy on the oil, etc. When restaurants or other people cook they're going for flavor, damn the calories (actually they don't give it a first or second thought). If the end result is delicious, I'm inhaling it.

    Note that my comments are restricted to reasons why one might choose to eat inappropriate quantities of the described foods. I do not really have an opinion on addiction / unnatural / processed or not

    Oh, I do understand this. I eat out reasonably often and it's one of my challenges, since I know they use far more butter than I do, for example, in making similar dishes. And I love trying dishes that I might not think of at home or something I'm not experienced or as talented at making. But ultimately when I used to rack up calorie surpluses due to eating out its because I thought "special occasion, might as well enjoy it with abandon" when I was doing it 2-3 times a week. Not because I truly had less control or because the food was made with different ingredients, although they certainly could be more indulgent ones on average. Indeed, although I don't eat much fast food for my own reasons (and didn't when I was gaining weight either), I know I'd probably end up eating calories similar to one of my regular meals--and thus stay in a deficit--if I went there for my dinners out, just based on the calorie counts and what I'd order. That's more challenging at many restaurants that don't come in for the suspicion by the "clean eating" types, and I know even without going nuts it's easy to go way over what my normal meals would be, and not because of some scary ingredient that's intended to addict me or whatever the usual conspiracy theory is.

    As indicated above, my post was intended to relate to discussions here where some claim that people are fat today because we are unable to resist the super palatability of "processed" and fast foods, because something in them (these dastardly ingredients) make them extra tasty. I think the issue is more convenience and price, plus an absence of some traditional restraints on how much people eat, not that we are tempted by uniquely tempting foods or "addictive" ingredients. I don't buy that fast food or packaged food is so much more tasty (or tastier at all) than food traditionally has been or than well prepared home cooked food is.

    None of this is intended to suggest that they, like any other foods, might not be trigger foods for some. I'm sure they could be and don't consider that a crazy statement at all.

    On the other matter, I just think it's individual. Some do well identifying triggers and cutting them out, whereas others who struggle with binging who have found that cutting out foods makes it harder for them. My big objection here is just to assuming that because something worked for one person that everyone else must follow a similar strategy. (I know you weren't saying anything like that, but am just lazily tagging it onto this post.)
  • DeWoSa
    DeWoSa Posts: 496 Member
    edited November 2014
    lemurcat12 wrote: »

    This has nothing whatsoever to do with my post.
    . . .
    None of that relates to my point here which was that KFC is not magically (or technologically) more tasty than home cooked food or therefore more impossible to resist.

    That's just goofy.

    Yes, I agree -- most of what I posted has nothing whatsoever to do with most of what you posted.

    I understand that the conversation was about secret ingredients and whether or not food companies are using them in a nefarious plot to addict us all.

    I wanted to stand up and say that I'm someone who will suggest that some foods are impossible to turn down.

    I realize I'm steering the conversation away from the KFC and towards something else -- the issue of citing scientific evidence vs personal experience, which I think was the original intent of this thread? I can't even remember if we are on the "here's how to cite" thread or the "personal experience" thread. LOL

    What I didn't realize was that my post could look like a dressing down of you personally. I didn't mean that at all -- and I apologize that it came off that way.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »

    This has nothing whatsoever to do with my post.
    . . .
    None of that relates to my point here which was that KFC is not magically (or technologically) more tasty than home cooked food or therefore more impossible to resist.

    That's just goofy.

    Yes, I agree -- most of what I posted has nothing whatsoever to do with most of what you posted.

    I understand that the conversation was about secret ingredients and whether or not food companies are using them in a nefarious plot to addict us all.

    I wanted to stand up and say that I'm someone who will suggest that some foods are impossible to turn down.

    I realize I'm steering the conversation away from the KFC and towards something else -- the issue of citing scientific evidence vs personal experience, which I think was the original intent of this thread? I can't even remember if we are on the "here's how to cite" thread or the "personal experience" thread. LOL

    What I didn't realize was that my post could look like a dressing down of you personally. I didn't mean that at all -- and I apologize that it came off that way.
    It's true. The custard base I made for my bread pudding for dinner was so good, I gave my neighbor a taste of it and now he's trying to get an invite for dinner.

    Even offered to pay for a seat.

    The curse of cooking well.
  • MrM27 wrote: »
    Mmmmm. I love KFC. Still alive.

    So do I.

    I used to work for them a long time ago. When I did the closing shifts, my flatmates would wait on the bench outside for me to finish. I always had at least 10 pieces of leftover, and fries that we accidentally on purpose cooked too many of.

    The coleslaw woman used to work at the store I worked at. She made the massive bins of coleslaw that would be tubbed up and distributed locally. There is nothing quite like fresh KFC coleslaw.

    Anyway, despite eating massive amounts of KFC over the years, I too am still alive....

  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    I realize I'm steering the conversation away from the KFC and towards something else -- the issue of citing scientific evidence vs personal experience, which I think was the original intent of this thread? I can't even remember if we are on the "here's how to cite" thread or the "personal experience" thread. LOL

    What I didn't realize was that my post could look like a dressing down of you personally. I didn't mean that at all -- and I apologize that it came off that way.

    I thought you provided an excellent example of the actual topic subject on hand, and that example happened to be a side thread that had started in this topic.

    I didn't even think you were responding to whatever you quoted.

    I think you were in context and started post to get that point across. The example happened to have excellent details. And great visual separator too.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2014
    Yes, I agree -- most of what I posted has nothing whatsoever to do with most of what you posted.

    I'd say none, since you weren't arguing that food is "addictive" since "too delicious," which was the claim in the other thread I was talking about in response to Walking Along's post about the discussion over there. But really, it's not a big thing, I just found it puzzling.
    What I didn't realize was that my post could look like a dressing down of you personally. I didn't mean that at all -- and I apologize that it came off that way.

    I appreciate that, and I didn't think it came off as a dressing down. What bugged me--although not seriously, but why I probably seemed irritated in my first response, is that I tend to take responses as, well, responsive to posts that are quoted. So if I quote someone and say something like "I don't think it's a moral failing to be fat" I will typically try to clarify by saying "I don't think you are saying this, but on another topic..." or some such, since otherwise I think it gets taken often as if the original poster was arguing the opposite, or as if the responder thought he/she was. So when you gave a long screed in response to my post, I thought it operated as/appeared to be a claim that I was saying all the things (like everyone should eat everything in moderation, no matter what) which I wasn't. And which you even should have realized I wasn't, since you had already discussed it with me in another very recent thread.

    But this may just be my own perception/weird idea of forum etiquette, and I'm sure I don't always follow it perfectly. I just wanted to explain my issue wasn't that I thought you were "dressing me down."

    Cheers.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member

    My personal preference though I enjoyed your reference:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmLGYSc0XQ
  • DeWoSa
    DeWoSa Posts: 496 Member
    Here's my personal favorite: ninja eating.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    (2) The only thing I said about "addiction" was that it's insane to claim that you can't stop eating "processed food" (which was what the underlying discussion was about) because it's extra special delicious due to secret ingredients put in it. That sounds like an ad for the food, of course, but the reason people overeat KFC (or McD or whatever) is not because "unnatural" ingredients make it more delicious than food has ever been, which was the claim in the thread we are talking about. Indeed, if you believe in an actual addiction model here, you should disagree with that too, as rather obviously addiction isn't about something being extra delicious compared to everything else. Often people who go on about "processed foods" like baking soda woman did seem to think that they are all super tasty and home cooked foods aren't tempting in that way, which just makes me think they've never had properly prepared home cooked foods or been to a really good restaurant.

    Ding, ding, ding!! I'm not trying to get into a ~1000 post thread but I will say that my cooking personally typically doesn't taste as good or super tempting as what I could get at a restaurant or when some of my family cooks. That's why it's so depressing when I eat at a restaurant and could actually make the item better. That's just, it ain't right yall! I do have the same tendency to overeat whether I'm at a restaurant or visiting family who have made all my favorite things

    Also when I'm cooking I go easy on the oil, etc. When restaurants or other people cook they're going for flavor, damn the calories (actually they don't give it a first or second thought). If the end result is delicious, I'm inhaling it.

    Note that my comments are restricted to reasons why one might choose to eat inappropriate quantities of the described foods. I do not really have an opinion on addiction / unnatural / processed or not

    Oh, I do understand this. I eat out reasonably often and it's one of my challenges, since I know they use far more butter than I do, for example, in making similar dishes. And I love trying dishes that I might not think of at home or something I'm not experienced or as talented at making. But ultimately when I used to rack up calorie surpluses due to eating out its because I thought "special occasion, might as well enjoy it with abandon" when I was doing it 2-3 times a week. Not because I truly had less control or because the food was made with different ingredients, although they certainly could be more indulgent ones on average. Indeed, although I don't eat much fast food for my own reasons (and didn't when I was gaining weight either), I know I'd probably end up eating calories similar to one of my regular meals--and thus stay in a deficit--if I went there for my dinners out, just based on the calorie counts and what I'd order. That's more challenging at many restaurants that don't come in for the suspicion by the "clean eating" types, and I know even without going nuts it's easy to go way over what my normal meals would be, and not because of some scary ingredient that's intended to addict me or whatever the usual conspiracy theory is.

    As indicated above, my post was intended to relate to discussions here where some claim that people are fat today because we are unable to resist the super palatability of "processed" and fast foods, because something in them (these dastardly ingredients) make them extra tasty. I think the issue is more convenience and price, plus an absence of some traditional restraints on how much people eat, not that we are tempted by uniquely tempting foods or "addictive" ingredients. I don't buy that fast food or packaged food is so much more tasty (or tastier at all) than food traditionally has been or than well prepared home cooked food is.

    None of this is intended to suggest that they, like any other foods, might not be trigger foods for some. I'm sure they could be and don't consider that a crazy statement at all.

    On the other matter, I just think it's individual. Some do well identifying triggers and cutting them out, whereas others who struggle with binging who have found that cutting out foods makes it harder for them. My big objection here is just to assuming that because something worked for one person that everyone else must follow a similar strategy. (I know you weren't saying anything like that, but am just lazily tagging it onto this post.)

    Seems to me like you could be arriving at similar conclusions to the "addictive special ingredient" folks, just minus the tin foil hat

    So why is your big thing that just because it worked for a number of people, it wouldn't necessarily work for one person? I think a) that's a given, but b), when I present a problem, chances are I think I'm on my own. Something's wrong with me; I'm experiencing some difficulty that "normal" people don't. Now to hear that lots of people have experienced this similar problem and here's a possible solution I could try, and details on why it is successful, how to execute it and reasons why it could work for me, especially in a community such as this, that's worth it's weight in gold.
  • ereck44
    ereck44 Posts: 1,170 Member
    Are abstracts okay? or do you need the whole article?
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited November 2014
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Seems to me like you could be arriving at similar conclusions to the "addictive special ingredient" folks, just minus the tin foil hat

    That's interesting--how so?

    I'm wondering if the background to my original comment which really was a specific reference to the claims of the baking soda woman and some other similar posters (that corporate America is responsible for obesity because food today is unfairly palatable or some such) has been lost. I never said--and don't think--that everyone must eat everything in moderation or that individuals might not have trigger foods. I just think that's about their psychological reaction to those foods (or perhaps their personal taste, although I am skeptical that true binging results from palatability, although much overeating of course does). It's not because the food has properties that are addictive.

    In a more practical situation--how do I stop overeating X--I think the advice is more significant than the theory and that how I stopped or other people stopped would be useful to know, as it might provide ideas about what to try, as you say below. The theory discussions are IMO a whole separate kind of discussion.
    So why is your big thing that just because it worked for a number of people, it wouldn't necessarily work for one person?

    That's not what I said. I said (as you quoted): "My big objection here is just to assuming that because something worked for one person that everyone else must follow a similar strategy.

    Specifically, I see this a lot with low carb (or lowered carb) fans--that everyone must be hungrier on a higher carb diet, that everyone who struggles with hunger must lower carbs, even though some say that they find carbs satiating and need them. Same with people who insist that eating sugar will derail you or that we all go nuts about the "addictive" processed food or whatever, or that cutting sugar is always better because they assume that's how everyone gained weight in the first place. It's generalizations that ignore the fact that people are different about such things. (I'd include in this the insistence that everyone eat everything, that people eat breakfast or not eat breakfast, that people eat more calories for breakfast than other meals or not after 6 pm, that people not eat back exercise calories, that people eat 10x their goal weight, etc.--these are all things I've seen presented dogmatically as one size fits all prescriptions that ignore differences. Again, that's not the same thing as "for me I found it helpful to eat breakfast because I tended to be less hungry when I did."
    I think a) that's a given, but b), when I present a problem, chances are I think I'm on my own. Something's wrong with me; I'm experiencing some difficulty that "normal" people don't. Now to hear that lots of people have experienced this similar problem and here's a possible solution I could try, and details on why it is successful, how to execute it and reasons why it could work for me, especially in a community such as this, that's worth it's weight in gold.

    Yes, I agree with all this. Saying "I had that issue and this is what worked for me" (which I do all the time) isn't at all what I was talking about. But quite often I see people losing sight of the fact that different strategies work for different people. Some advice is generally applicable (like calories in, calories out, in the sense that absent a medical problem you will lose weight if you eat less than you burn). But much--like macro ratios, percentage of carbs that work best for you, meal timing, whether IF seems like a plausible strategy or a nightmare, etc., whether focusing on food choice or eating less of the same things, even whether you want a 1000 calorie deficit or a 250 one (assuming that leaves you at a reasonable number of calories, anyway) are all going to be more individual things, depending on personality and other such attributes. Often pronouncements made about what works don't allow for that.

    To go back to the "trigger foods make me binge" thing, I totally agree that saying "I had that issue and stopped eating X and that helped" is fair advice and could be helpful. I don't think saying "the right way to deal if you have a binging issue is to cut out the trigger foods because you are an addict" is good advice, and I think phrased that way it can be harmful. I've seen people here who struggle with binging be derailed by cutting things out too. So I think it's important to say that "I tried X, but know yourself." I did temporarily cut things out and there are foods I don't eat now (although not because they are triggers) but part of why that worked for me is that my particular issue has never been binging OR guilt about food, so that makes a difference to what I evaluate might work or not, for me.
  • lorib642
    lorib642 Posts: 1,942 Member
    ereck44 wrote: »
    Are abstracts okay? or do you need the whole article?

    I want to know this, too. I can usually get the abstract and perhaps an article describing the research, but I don't have access the whole thing.
  • AJ_G wrote: »
    snikkins wrote: »
    Remember that correlation does not imply causation! (It's probably my favorite research saying.)

    This is very very important and not enough people realize this.

    Every single person who has drank water has died, therefore water is deadly. No...

    Well shoot. TIL
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    edited November 2014
    ereck44 wrote: »
    Are abstracts okay? or do you need the whole article?

    A second post with a "Works Cited" should suffice if you formatted your first post properly.

    That doesn't mean your post will get an A, but you can't even turn it in without that.
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    ereck44 wrote: »
    Are abstracts okay? or do you need the whole article?

    A second post with a "Works Cited" should suffice if you formatted your first post properly.

    That doesn't mean your post will get an A, but you can't even turn it in without that.
    Ha!

  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    ereck44 wrote: »
    Are abstracts okay? or do you need the whole article?

    A second post with a "Works Cited" should suffice if you formatted your first post properly.

    That doesn't mean your post will get an A, but you can't even turn it in without that.
    :D

  • QueenBishOTUniverse
    QueenBishOTUniverse Posts: 14,121 Member
    I have found the super secret food crack, it's called Ande's chocolate mints. I expect to be publishing soon.
  • snikkins
    snikkins Posts: 1,282 Member
    I have found the super secret food crack, it's called Ande's chocolate mints. I expect to be publishing soon.

    Did you see they have a cherries jubilee variant out for the holidays?
  • QueenBishOTUniverse
    QueenBishOTUniverse Posts: 14,121 Member
    snikkins wrote: »
    I have found the super secret food crack, it's called Ande's chocolate mints. I expect to be publishing soon.

    Did you see they have a cherries jubilee variant out for the holidays?

    No, further study may now be required.....
  • DeWoSa
    DeWoSa Posts: 496 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    A second post with a "Works Cited" should suffice if you formatted your first post properly.

    That doesn't mean your post will get an A, but you can't even turn it in without that.

    heh heh
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