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Sarauk2sf
Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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Yet another excellent article by Armi Legge.

http://impruvism.com/slow-fat-loss/
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  • susieoj
    susieoj Posts: 181
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    Love it. So true.
  • jlapey
    jlapey Posts: 1,850 Member
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    Bumping so my other MFP friends can read this too.

    Thanks, Sara.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,229 Member
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    Subconciously, I think we all want to stay fat. LOL!

    I'm guilty of more than 50% of this at some point or another, but I'll get there.

    Question, going to start weighing food soon. I haven't yet. Should I weigh before or after cooking?

    Right now, when I cook meat I just take the weight of the raw meat and divide it by its portions.
  • ReinasWrath
    ReinasWrath Posts: 1,173 Member
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    Good read :flowerforyou:
  • dare2love81
    dare2love81 Posts: 928 Member
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    Subconciously, I think we all want to stay fat. LOL!

    I'm guilty of more than 50% of this at some point or another, but I'll get there.

    Question, going to start weighing food soon. I haven't yet. Should I weigh before or after cooking?

    Right now, when I cook meat I just take the weight of the raw meat and divide it by its portions.

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    Aww...how do I shrink it so you can read it all?
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,229 Member
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    Subconciously, I think we all want to stay fat. LOL!

    I'm guilty of more than 50% of this at some point or another, but I'll get there.

    Question, going to start weighing food soon. I haven't yet. Should I weigh before or after cooking?

    Right now, when I cook meat I just take the weight of the raw meat and divide it by its portions.

    1375775_10201007897982776_534360207_n.jpg

    Aww...how do I shrink it so you can read it all?

    I've seen it before. It's one of my favorites! LOL!
  • Will_Thrust_For_Candy
    Will_Thrust_For_Candy Posts: 6,109 Member
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    Tagging for all the WIN in this article! Thanks Sara!
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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    Subconciously, I think we all want to stay fat. LOL!

    I'm guilty of more than 50% of this at some point or another, but I'll get there.

    Question, going to start weighing food soon. I haven't yet. Should I weigh before or after cooking?

    Right now, when I cook meat I just take the weight of the raw meat and divide it by its portions.

    It depends on what the database entries you are using are. Use the one consistent with whether cooked or raw. I would use the raw one though.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
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    Subconciously, I think we all want to stay fat. LOL!

    I don't. I most definitely do not want to be fat.
  • sluggz
    sluggz Posts: 134
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    GREAT READ! I am quickly becoming a fan of that website.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
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    Awesome. WITH citations even.
  • ghsfitnesspal
    ghsfitnesspal Posts: 260 Member
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    I'm stuck here:

    "2.Many people don’t account for how the weight or volume of food changes after it’s been cooked. For instance, baked sweet potatoes can lose half of their weight in water after cooking. If you calculate your calorie intake based on the weight of raw sweet potatoes, you’ll be eating 100% more calories than you thought."

    But if I weigh a potato and it was 300g before baking it, and I eat that same potato, how am I now eating more? The only way I can think he means is that if I log 300g of sweet potato AFTER I cooked it, but logged it using the raw sweet potato entry in the database. Is that what he mean?

    Otherwise, I can see all o' it! thanks for the article :)
  • RachelX04
    RachelX04 Posts: 1,123 Member
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    great article. thanks for posting
  • Rachaelluvszipped
    Rachaelluvszipped Posts: 768 Member
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    This is why I :love: OP!!! Sarah :flowerforyou:
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
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    in to read later
  • walterm852
    walterm852 Posts: 409 Member
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    Sarah, thanks for the post, and the reference to Armi. Someone here at MFP posted a link from him before (may have been you), I added my to my twitter feed, he is an awesome resource.
  • mandeenicoleb
    mandeenicoleb Posts: 479 Member
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    Amazing read! Thanks for that.
  • TygerTwoTails
    TygerTwoTails Posts: 108 Member
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    This is great, thanks!
  • opalescence
    opalescence Posts: 413 Member
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    I really love that website.

    :love: :flowerforyou:
  • mazmataz
    mazmataz Posts: 331 Member
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    Number 3: You burn less calories through daily movements.

    This is a revalation for me, so true! Over the past few weeks I've upped my workouts and I'm training 5+ days a week. However I have found that when it comes to every day tasks i.e. taking the stairs instead of the elivator, popping across to the shop, getting up to go to a colleague's desk at work vs. dropping them an email...I've become sooo lazy! I'm just zapped of energy...but I always manage to pull it together for my big workouts as I actually enjoy them.

    Interesting!

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