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Laughs literally out loud, but writes it all out because LOL has lost all its meaning. Then wonders if they meant to misspell, or if it's an ironic oxymoron.I have week fillings.
Also feels the need to quote the long multi-quote quote....hhhmmmmm0 -
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Didn't read anything beyond the first page. Makes a joke and/or argument that got old six pages ago.
Notes that someone already made that joke, and fails to see the irony that there's no way that you would know that since you didn't read beyond the first page.
Comes back to the post days later and finds nothing else to comment about except how you used the wrong spelling of "no" while correcting the original post and making witty statement about how spelling matters, even on the interwebz!
ETA: Someone's profile pic looks like a penis, but I can't be bothered to scroll back through the pages to find it. *comes back sporadically to see if someone else does the search*0 -
^^^^^Jumps in because she noticed the thread on a friend's page... gives meaningless support without having read a single page!!!0
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Returns, pleased to find that others have resurrected the thread so she cannot be accused of killing it with the irrelevant gif.0
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There is no mystery to weight loss, everyone thinks something is wrong, their metabolism is broken, they have low thyroid, they have menopause or whatever issue, they are as unique as a snowflake, whatever. I thought a lot of these things once too but once the doctor helped resolve the health issues for me I learned there is still no magic pill. Most people eat more than they need to and are not at good at estimating calories as they think they are. Most people have a lower BMR than they think they do. The only way to know for sure is to go to a lab and have it tested. It doesn't seem fair to have to eat less and feel a little hunger. It's hard to face the truth of it, very hard. It's not fun. It's drudgery at times. But if you learn to enjoy your smaller amounts of food (necessary to lose weight, since the reason we got fat in the first place was eating too much whether we knew it or not), and rejoice in your victories it can be done.
Your body loses weight in chunks, not linear. I have found that you can do everything right and your weight loss seems to plateau but if you are patient and keep exercising and eating at a deficit (however slight) you will lose it, it will suddenly "whoosh". There are so many variables for the scale; water retention, digestion, hormones, allergies, sodium, carbs, water intake, DOMS, inflammation, the list goes on. People mistakenly think they lose or gain weight when they eat more or less because of these fluctuations.
Losing weight requires tremendous patience. You will not lose it when you want it or where you want it. The body does its thing. Some apparent plateaus can last a month or so. You cannot make it happen faster. You must focus on two things; calories and exercise. Nothing else matters. Scales and metrics don't matter. The day in and day out grind of exercise and calories are all that matters. It is not very exciting until things fall into place. You get your victories and you ride one victory to the next.
The scale is a trend tool. The scale is good but put it away and only check once a week and only use it as a trend tool. It will fluctuate, it does not matter. Take front side and back progress pictures at least once a month. You will see differences that the metrics won't tell you and it's that little bit of NSV that will keep you going until the next victory.
As far as calories…
To say eat more is wrong.
To say eat less is wrong.
If you plug in all your info (typically age, gender, height and weight) into one of those calculators what you get is the average metabolic rate of a group of people who share your age, sex, height and weight. What you DON’T get is YOUR EXACT calorie needs. It's a place to start.
To find the exact calories needed for YOU to be in a healthy sustainable calorie deficit is the right answer. Wait, if you need to adjust by 100 do it, wait, adjust, wait, adjust, wait. The tortoise wins this race.
You want to eat as healthy as you can because it makes you feel better and perform better, and makes you healthier. There are a bunch of tricks and clean eating; reducing sugar (especially HFCS), fiber, white flour vs whole grain, low carb, low fat, on and on. All that matters is calories for weight loss. If you need to eat a certain way for health reasons or to feel better do it, but extensive good food and bad food lists will drive you insane at some point, it’s a constantly moving target. Just eat what you like, mostly healthy, mostly balanced, within a calorie budget. We all know what healthy is by now, just do it.
Also people play mental accounting games with calories just like with finances. Make steps to make sure you are making accurate measurements. Packaged foods can have MORE than they say but not less (they get in trouble if less so they would rather error with MORE).
If you typically intake sodium at a certain rate your body adjusts, but if you make a sudden change then you will see a spike.
Exercise is for making your lean body mass pretty (especially lifting weights) for when the fat is gone. Losing fat with no muscle is ugly and cardio alone will not make you pretty. You cannot out exercise too many calories.
Everyone needs resistance training to improve their health and bone density and this will especially improve your quality of life when you get older. But you will not gain all that much lean body mass as fast as everyone thinks. Guys of course will gain more. A DXA scan will prove the point. There are lots of stories about changing size but no one REALLY knows unless they do a DXA scan. Here's more about that --> http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/intermittent-fasting-and-bulking/ this is true whether you IF or not. My DXA scans proved that I really didn't gain that much lean body mass yet I look very muscular for a female. I have very high bone density from over 30 years of lifting yet my lean body mass is still only 104 lbs and my RMR is still only 1380.
I recently had my DXA scan done and at 51.5 years of age I have the bone density of a super athletic 30 year old. That is a direct result of lifting for over 30 years. Now if that is not scientific proof that lifting weights keeps you younger I don't know what is! Also I believe it is why most people think I look much younger than I really am. Because of this I don't have to worry about osteoporosis. If you wait until you are older and your bones start to deteriorate it's a bit too late, you can't get back what you lost, and you can only start a resistance routine that will prevent further damage.
Cardio is good for you but it is optional. I love cardio, but you can't out exercise too many calories. Of course you burn calories, but not near what all the HRM's say. I learned the hard way, running marathon after marathon (yes even multiple runs during the day), as well as hitting the gym hard, martial arts, staying active all the time, not eating while watching TV, not binging, not mindlessly eating, not pigging out, not having emotional eating issues, yet I gained weight year after year, each decade putting on the pounds. I worked harder and harder, not able to figure out what was wrong. It didn't seem like I ate too much, but for my small size I did and didn't realize it until just a few years ago when I finally started losing weight by eating less.
Everyone is different, but it's very easy to do a lot of cardio and think you can eat more than you really need, especially when you need to lose weight. It is also easy to think that you are burning more fat than you really are. Just do cardio if you enjoy it and because it's good for you.
Too many changes at once can be hard on some people. I've always eaten healthy so it easy for me to simply eat less. Eating at a calorie deficit is hard on people; even a small deficit puts your body in a state of flux with hormones and such. Everyone is different. Some people can handle a deeper calorie deficit than others, this is not right or wrong, it just is. Stress in your life affects your hunger hormones; lack of sleep, fatigue, job stress, family stress, financial stress, etc. Add in emotional eating issues and it gets even more complicated. Most people can only handle so much change/stress at once, they try to do too much and fail. Sometimes it might be a better strategy to eat at maintenance and make some small changes first, it really depends on how much stress you are taking in at the moment.
mocks the science behind this and wonders if poster read the rest of the thread.
I'm also offended. You know why and if you dont' your stupid.
did you really need to quote that whole thing??
Ironically makes ironical reference to irony, but phrases it in a way that others have a position to say that it isn't actually irony. Inevitably, at least a couple of people will completely miss the irony/sarcasm and will respond as if I was being absolutely serious.
Bonus: by quoting the WOT!! in this message responding to a complaint about quoting the entire WOT!!, it will lead to at least a half dozen fully quoted responses. People will abandon the arrow key to read through the forthcoming pages and will instead need to rely on their page down keys.
posts "^^^ THIS" to the last response, but includes all previous "wall of text" responses in my response, thus unneccesarily murdering billions of innocent electrons in the process.
re-posts and re-quotes everything just to correct the spelling error... "unnecessarily", instead of editing previous post.
Helpfully explains how the "edit" function works so you hopefully won't requote a pile of text like that again just to correct your spelling...(but you still will, and you'll be offended that I tried to help). Still quotes the entire mess in my response because 1) irony is still my favorite form of humor, or 2) I'm an idiot.
posts "THANKS" while re-quoting all previous "wall of text" responses, without any understanding of irony.
Posts "You're welcome!" while re-quoting all previous "wall of text" responses but with complete understanding of the irony.
lol
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DANG IT. I fail at posting "gifs" first try sorry....slowly backing away.
Tries to quote wall if text, says something inappropriate while pointing out that I refuse to read a wall if text and says something offensive about the wordiness while making extensive toys.
Quotes wall of text to rekindle the argument but actually as a thinly veiled attempt to see how much further the joke can go.
Rather than edit last post to correct mistake of including own response within the quote, will post entire wall of text again with correction and LOLs and :drinker: :drinker:
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There is no mystery to weight loss, everyone thinks something is wrong, their metabolism is broken, they have low thyroid, they have menopause or whatever issue, they are as unique as a snowflake, whatever. I thought a lot of these things once too but once the doctor helped resolve the health issues for me I learned there is still no magic pill. Most people eat more than they need to and are not at good at estimating calories as they think they are. Most people have a lower BMR than they think they do. The only way to know for sure is to go to a lab and have it tested. It doesn't seem fair to have to eat less and feel a little hunger. It's hard to face the truth of it, very hard. It's not fun. It's drudgery at times. But if you learn to enjoy your smaller amounts of food (necessary to lose weight, since the reason we got fat in the first place was eating too much whether we knew it or not), and rejoice in your victories it can be done.
Your body loses weight in chunks, not linear. I have found that you can do everything right and your weight loss seems to plateau but if you are patient and keep exercising and eating at a deficit (however slight) you will lose it, it will suddenly "whoosh". There are so many variables for the scale; water retention, digestion, hormones, allergies, sodium, carbs, water intake, DOMS, inflammation, the list goes on. People mistakenly think they lose or gain weight when they eat more or less because of these fluctuations.
Losing weight requires tremendous patience. You will not lose it when you want it or where you want it. The body does its thing. Some apparent plateaus can last a month or so. You cannot make it happen faster. You must focus on two things; calories and exercise. Nothing else matters. Scales and metrics don't matter. The day in and day out grind of exercise and calories are all that matters. It is not very exciting until things fall into place. You get your victories and you ride one victory to the next.
The scale is a trend tool. The scale is good but put it away and only check once a week and only use it as a trend tool. It will fluctuate, it does not matter. Take front side and back progress pictures at least once a month. You will see differences that the metrics won't tell you and it's that little bit of NSV that will keep you going until the next victory.
As far as calories…
To say eat more is wrong.
To say eat less is wrong.
If you plug in all your info (typically age, gender, height and weight) into one of those calculators what you get is the average metabolic rate of a group of people who share your age, sex, height and weight. What you DON’T get is YOUR EXACT calorie needs. It's a place to start.
To find the exact calories needed for YOU to be in a healthy sustainable calorie deficit is the right answer. Wait, if you need to adjust by 100 do it, wait, adjust, wait, adjust, wait. The tortoise wins this race.
You want to eat as healthy as you can because it makes you feel better and perform better, and makes you healthier. There are a bunch of tricks and clean eating; reducing sugar (especially HFCS), fiber, white flour vs whole grain, low carb, low fat, on and on. All that matters is calories for weight loss. If you need to eat a certain way for health reasons or to feel better do it, but extensive. good food and bad food lists will drive you insane at some point, it’s a constantly moving target. Just eat what you like, mostly healthy, mostly balanced, within a calorie budget. We all know what healthy is by now, just do it.
Also people play mental accounting games with calories just like with finances. Make steps to make sure you are making accurate measurements. Packaged foods can have MORE than they say but not less (they get in trouble if less so they would rather error with MORE).
If you typically intake sodium at a certain rate your body adjusts, but if you make a sudden change then you will see a spike.
Exercise is for making your lean body mass pretty (especially lifting weights) for when the fat is gone. Losing fat with no muscle is ugly and cardio alone will not make you pretty. You cannot out exercise too many calories.
Everyone needs resistance training to improve their health and bone density and this will especially improve your quality of life when you get older. But you will not gain all that much lean body mass as fast as everyone thinks. Guys of course will gain more. A DXA scan will prove the point. There are lots of stories about changing size but no one REALLY knows unless they do a DXA scan. Here's more about that --> http://bradpilon.com/weight-loss/intermittent-fasting-and-bulking/ this is true whether you IF or not. My DXA scans proved that I really didn't gain that much lean body mass yet I look very muscular for a female. I have very high bone density from over 30 years of lifting yet my lean body mass is still only 104 lbs and my RMR is still only 1380.
I recently had my DXA scan done and at 51.5 years of age I have the bone density of a super athletic 30 year old. That is a direct result of lifting for over 30 years. Now if that is not scientific proof that lifting weights keeps you younger I don't know what is! Also I believe it is why most people think I look much younger than I really am. Because of this I don't have to worry about osteoporosis. If you wait until you are older and your bones start to deteriorate it's a bit too late, you can't get back what you lost, and you can only start a resistance routine that will prevent further damage.
Cardio is good for you but it is optional. I love cardio, but you can't out exercise too many calories. Of course you burn calories, but not near what all the HRM's say. I learned the hard way, running marathon after marathon (yes even multiple runs during the day), as well as hitting the gym hard, martial arts, staying active all the time, not eating while watching TV, not binging, not mindlessly eating, not pigging out, not having emotional eating issues, yet I gained weight year after year, each decade putting on the pounds. I worked harder and harder, not able to figure out what was wrong. It didn't seem like I ate too much, but for my small size I did and didn't realize it until just a few years ago when I finally started losing weight by eating less.
Everyone is different, but it's very easy to do a lot of cardio and think you can eat more than you really need, especially when you need to lose weight. It is also easy to think that you are burning more fat than you really are. Just do cardio if you enjoy it and because it's good for you.
Too many changes at once can be hard on some people. I've always eaten healthy so it easy for me to simply eat less. Eating at a calorie deficit is hard on people; even a small deficit puts your body in a state of flux with hormones and such. Everyone is different. Some people can handle a deeper calorie deficit than others, this is not right or wrong, it just is. Stress in your life affects your hunger hormones; lack of sleep, fatigue, job stress, family stress, financial stress, etc. Add in emotional eating issues and it gets even more complicated. Most people can only handle so much change/stress at once, they try to do too much and fail. Sometimes it might be a better strategy to eat at maintenance and make some small changes first, it really depends on how much stress you are taking in at the moment.
mocks the science behind this and wonders if poster read the rest of the thread.
I'm also offended. You know why and if you dont' your stupid.
did you really need to quote that whole thing??
Ironically makes ironical reference to irony, but phrases it in a way that others have a position to say that it isn't actually irony. Inevitably, at least a couple of people will completely miss the irony/sarcasm and will respond as if I was being absolutely serious.
Bonus: by quoting the WOT!! in this message responding to a complaint about quoting the entire WOT!!, it will lead to at least a half dozen fully quoted responses. People will abandon the arrow key to read through the forthcoming pages and will instead need to rely on their page down keys.
posts "^^^ THIS" to the last response, but includes all previous "wall of text" responses in my response, thus unneccesarily murdering billions of innocent electrons in the process.
re-posts and re-quotes everything just to correct the spelling error... "unnecessarily", instead of editing previous post.
Helpfully explains how the "edit" function works so you hopefully won't requote a pile of text like that again just to correct your spelling...(but you still will, and you'll be offended that I tried to help). Still quotes the entire mess in my response because 1) irony is still my favorite form of humor, or 2) I'm an idiot.
posts "THANKS" while re-quoting all previous "wall of text" responses, without any understanding of irony.
Posts "You're welcome!" while re-quoting all previous "wall of text" responses but with complete understanding of the irony.
lol
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DANG IT. I fail at posting "gifs" first try sorry....slowly backing away.
Tries to quote wall if text, says something inappropriate while pointing out that I refuse to read a wall if text and says something offensive about the wordiness while making extensive toys.
Quotes wall of text to rekindle the argument but actually as a thinly veiled attempt to see how much further the joke can go.
Rather than edit last post to correct mistake of including own response within the quote, will post entire wall of text again with correction and LOLs and :drinker: :drinker:
Really big blue box.
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*Complains about people bumping this. Totally misses irony that he just bumped it himself.*0
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Hauls out the old "If you don't like a thread, don't read it" soon to be followed by the tried and true "learn how to use the ignore function, noob."0
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Notices thread for first time and reads all 14 pages then posts rant on how she just wasted 25 minutes of her valuable time. Rants about she missed the thread earlier while she was out having a real life with real people.
Is shocked when she goes to her profile and notices 9 people from this post deleted her because she didn't post enough and say WTG on their wall daily while she was on vacation.
Hates MFP...gets depressed and stops eating...loses 16 lbs...LOVES MFP! Comes back and posts Success Story pics.0 -
*Complains about people bumping this. Totally misses irony that he just bumped it himself.*
*Laughs at Jof for his missed irony*
ETA: Fix spelling (but actually to fix better phrasing that will hopefully make people find post more meaningful and humorous...)0 -
Returns, pleased to find that others have resurrected the thread so she cannot be accused of killing it with the irrelevant gif.
*makes stupid, unfunny comment about irrelevant gifs. Then whips out google medical degree to make self sound smart.0 -
This made me laugh. A lot.Morans.
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Now that we are into a New Year I think that everyone who has posted here should go back and really read the entire thread as perhaps, just maybe, there is something relevant you missed because of the whole 2012 mindset and the inevitability of the whole economy going down the drain, and the relief of the world not coming to an end and... I know I had something else impotent to say here. I'll come back and edit it later in case no one else has bumped the thread yet.
How many entries does a thread have to have before it generates a to be continued?0 -
Now that we are into a New Year I think that everyone who has posted here should go back and really read the entire thread as perhaps, just maybe, there is something relevant you missed because of the whole 2012 mindset and the inevitability of the whole economy going down the drain, and the relief of the world not coming to an end and... I know I had something else impotent to say here. I'll come back and edit it later in case no one else has bumped the thread yet.
How many entries does a thread have to have before it generates a to be continued?
I believe it is 500.
*unnecessarily quoting you to clear up any confusion anyone may have had as to why I said that and to make the thread longer and prettier...0 -
Now that we are into a New Year I think that everyone who has posted here should go back and really read the entire thread as perhaps, just maybe, there is something relevant you missed because of the whole 2012 mindset and the inevitability of the whole economy going down the drain, and the relief of the world not coming to an end and... I know I had something else impotent to say here. I'll come back and edit it later in case no one else has bumped the thread yet.
How many entries does a thread have to have before it generates a to be continued?
I think it's 400, but I don't think we'll get there. I fear that this deconstruction has run its course.0 -
Runs search for feelings, because I have them all and will explode if I don't share with complete strangers on the internet. Inadvertently necromances old thread.0
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Runs search for feelings, because I have them all and will explode if I don't share with complete strangers on the internet. Inadvertently necromances old thread.
Complains about necromancy. (Substantially increases likelihood of resurrected thread regaining traction.)0 -
Runs search for feelings, because I have them all and will explode if I don't share with complete strangers on the internet. Inadvertently necromances old thread.
Complains about necromancy. (Substantially increases likelihood of resurrected thread regaining traction.)
Complains about your complaints of necromancy and points out, disdainfully, that the topic is still relevant.0 -
Runs search for feelings, because I have them all and will explode if I don't share with complete strangers on the internet. Inadvertently necromances old thread.
Complains about necromancy. (Substantially increases likelihood of resurrected thread regaining traction.)
Complains about your complaints of necromancy and points out, disdainfully, that the topic is still relevant.
Draws your attention to the fact that OP deactivated months ago, and that it was likely this thread that led him to do it.0 -
Runs search for feelings, because I have them all and will explode if I don't share with complete strangers on the internet. Inadvertently necromances old thread.
Complains about necromancy. (Substantially increases likelihood of resurrected thread regaining traction.)
Complains about your complaints of necromancy and points out, disdainfully, that the topic is still relevant.
Draws your attention to the fact that OP deactivated months ago, and that it was likely this thread that led him to do it.
Quotes the last post, states he hasn't read it or most of the thread.
Reminds everyone we are all different.0 -
LIES!!0
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LIES!!
Please reference a peer reviewed article if you are going to say that.0 -
But, but how can I have deactivated? I'M RIGHT HERE! YOU PEOPLE ARE MAD!!!!0
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Runs search for feelings, because I have them all and will explode if I don't share with complete strangers on the internet. Inadvertently necromances old thread.
Original poster picks up *exactly* where left off with precisely the same amount of emotion as if the issue hadn't been shelved for months. Points out that he has continued to be successful in his journey following his unsafe protocols.
Argues with something EvgeniZyntx didn't actually say, and accidentally agrees while writing with VERY HOSTILE TONE!!!0 -
But, but how can I have deactivated? I'M RIGHT HERE! YOU PEOPLE ARE MAD!!!!
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But, but how can I have deactivated? I'M RIGHT HERE! YOU PEOPLE ARE MAD!!!!
Ugh. Welcome back.0 -
Ugh. Welcome back.
That's not supportive at ALL. But thank you.0
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