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  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
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    bump
  • 42hockeymom
    42hockeymom Posts: 521 Member
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    You're just too damn cool!
  • MoJoPoe
    MoJoPoe Posts: 139 Member
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    Anyone on this site can search the internet. Folks are asking for personal experiences. When we can provide links- great. When we can provide caring, even better. Many are looking for hope and encouragement, not science.
  • ecdce
    ecdce Posts: 129 Member
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    New people can always use the Search feature before posting the same topics over and over as well.. ya know.. like the opposite.

    This.
    I've only been around a very short time I can definitely see why people start responding with "eat more," "get a food scale," and "track your calories". The questions are so repetitive. Not just to very old threads, but the same questions being asked multiple times a day. Maybe you could just start pointing people to the stickied threads, but they need to be cleaned up. I doubt they're getting read because you have to wade through 50 posts of "bump" to get to the actual topic.
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
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    Anyone on this site can search the internet. Folks are asking for personal experiences. When we can provide links- great. When we can provide caring, even better. Many are looking for hope and encouragement, not science.
    Hope and encouragement, cool. But when it comes to things like BMR/TDEE and proper exercise technique or nutrition I think I prefer to go with science as opposed to an encouraging ill-informed vague answer. Think you may have missed the point of my post.
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
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    hahaha :laugh:
  • Candi_land
    Candi_land Posts: 1,311 Member
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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,488 Member
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    Okay okay - after being told I'm a meanie I gave your links! :flowerforyou:
  • thelassiemickyjames
    thelassiemickyjames Posts: 197
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    LOL
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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    :flowerforyou:
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
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    Sometimes when I see people that are small and petite like I am, and they are younger than me, and they have been told that short people can only eat 1100 calories (or some very low number), I will share my stats and what I eat, as part of explaining that it is not a universal rule that petite women have to eat a very small amount. These tend to be the only threads I can help with. Those and threads by people that have 10 pounds or less to lose (the last 5 "vanity" pounds people).
  • singlefemalelawyer
    singlefemalelawyer Posts: 382 Member
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  • lina1131
    lina1131 Posts: 2,246 Member
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    I started on these boards when there were just a few of us! A long time ago. The boards have changed so much since. I try to just stay as positive as possible and ignore the smart *kitten* that are out there being rude (and lately, there are a lot of them).

    It's a message board, with lots of people. Behind computers. It's gonna happen.
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
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    I agree that people generally have good intentions, but simply regurgitating blanket misinformed statements doesn't help anyone.

    agreed!!! :drinker: :drinker: :drinker:
  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
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    Great post, OP! Agreed.

    Sometimes I get tired of seeing the same topics posted, so I don't read them. Discussion forums need people asking repeat questions or bringing up repeat topics or the forum would just die.
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
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    bump one last time...thanks for the reply's. :flowerforyou:
  • lilcassers
    lilcassers Posts: 163
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    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Madea.
  • lilcassers
    lilcassers Posts: 163
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    1100 calories??? WHAAAAT! I do 1600-2000 depending on the month. 1600 to cut for summer and 2000 when I am building muscle. A woman should NOT go under 1200. Thats crazy.
  • Whipppets
    Whipppets Posts: 267
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    yeah
  • singlefemalelawyer
    singlefemalelawyer Posts: 382 Member
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    Did I step into an alternate reality?

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