i'm eating more but still losing weight

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  • Unknown
    edited January 2015
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  • deviboy1592
    deviboy1592 Posts: 989 Member
    Wow whatever you say to make it ok to eat those foods is up to you, chemicals and preservatives over home grown cooked meals, I guess,
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Wow whatever you say to make it ok to eat those foods is up to you, chemicals and preservatives over home grown cooked meals, I guess,

    You realize that everything you eat is made up of chemicals don't you?

  • JeffseekingV
    JeffseekingV Posts: 3,165 Member
    edited January 2015
    Wow whatever you say to make it ok to eat those foods is up to you, chemicals and preservatives over home grown cooked meals, I guess,

    Water = bad for you because chemicals
  • deviboy1592
    deviboy1592 Posts: 989 Member
    I would much rather consume pesticides, or pay more for organics(hopefully their telling the truth) then eat junk all the time. I have a cheat day cause I can never stop eating pizza, that's my kryptonite, but I cook it at home with ingredients bought at the market from locals. Best I can do.
  • smittybuilt19
    smittybuilt19 Posts: 955 Member
    lulz...
  • JeffseekingV
    JeffseekingV Posts: 3,165 Member
    I would much rather consume pesticides, or pay more for organics(hopefully their telling the truth) then eat junk all the time. I have a cheat day cause I can never stop eating pizza, that's my kryptonite, but I cook it at home with ingredients bought at the market from locals. Best I can do.

    Try it
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    And a great cap to my day- throws out huffington post as a place of credible information about what causes cancer.

    thank you deviboy- thank you- that was... just. awesome.

    I would like to know where it says all that food is healthy for you?
    I know it sounds crazy, but a lot of the members here don't believe in food being "healthy" or "unhealthy".
    Why are you still in this bulking forum? I don't get it.
    I was helping devilboy1592 understand the general thought process of how things go in here in regards to the way food is viewed.

    You can't help someone when you don't understand the concepts yourself. That's not hard to understand but with the way the back and forth conversations between you and members here go I'm not surprised you can't understand that.
    Maybe I should have worded it better. In isolation, the general thought process on here is that unhealthy and healthy food does not exist.

    Enough already. You are always criticizing or debating what is said in here. Then you try to defend it but backtrack. The problem is you do understand a lot if the details that go into this game. That becomes a problem when you try and give advice or debate points. One smart thing to do is to ask questions, lurk, study, learn. Then gradually immerse yourself in the debates.

    My biggest issue with you is you wander this Weight gain forum with ideas and concepts but you can't bulk, you don't bulk and you can't remove the tunnel vision when it comes to absorbing the information but yet you continuously make threads longer with the same stuff. The other thread from this morning that made it 5 pages and as soon as I went in it and saw it was just a short time frame I knew you would be all up in it.
    Ok. I think what happens in some cases (like this morning and again now) is that when the general consensus is challenged, and things are viewed the way I see it, I can't resist jumping in. That being said, it kind of seems like from the responses and other posts I've seen from you and ndj, you guys make it seem like the two of you "own" this part of the forum in terms of what should get posted. I mean, it just seems to me like if you both had the power to do so, I'd be banned from this section, while most everyone else would be ok with the things I've posted.

  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    And a great cap to my day- throws out huffington post as a place of credible information about what causes cancer.

    thank you deviboy- thank you- that was... just. awesome.

    I would like to know where it says all that food is healthy for you?
    I know it sounds crazy, but a lot of the members here don't believe in food being "healthy" or "unhealthy".
    Why are you still in this bulking forum? I don't get it.
    I was helping devilboy1592 understand the general thought process of how things go in here in regards to the way food is viewed.

    You can't help someone when you don't understand the concepts yourself. That's not hard to understand but with the way the back and forth conversations between you and members here go I'm not surprised you can't understand that.
    Maybe I should have worded it better. In isolation, the general thought process on here is that unhealthy and healthy food does not exist.

    Enough already. You are always criticizing or debating what is said in here. Then you try to defend it but backtrack. The problem is you do understand a lot if the details that go into this game. That becomes a problem when you try and give advice or debate points. One smart thing to do is to ask questions, lurk, study, learn. Then gradually immerse yourself in the debates.

    My biggest issue with you is you wander this Weight gain forum with ideas and concepts but you can't bulk, you don't bulk and you can't remove the tunnel vision when it comes to absorbing the information but yet you continuously make threads longer with the same stuff. The other thread from this morning that made it 5 pages and as soon as I went in it and saw it was just a short time frame I knew you would be all up in it.
    Ok. I think what happens in some cases (like this morning and again now) is that when the general consensus is challenged, and things are viewed the way I see it, I can't resist jumping in. That being said, it kind of seems like from the responses and other posts I've seen from you and ndj, you guys make it seem like the two of you "own" this part of the forum in terms of what should get posted. I mean, it just seems to me like if you both had the power to do so, I'd be banned from this section, while most everyone else would be ok with the things I've posted.

    What you post amuses me for what it's worth.

  • JeffseekingV
    JeffseekingV Posts: 3,165 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    And a great cap to my day- throws out huffington post as a place of credible information about what causes cancer.

    thank you deviboy- thank you- that was... just. awesome.

    I would like to know where it says all that food is healthy for you?
    I know it sounds crazy, but a lot of the members here don't believe in food being "healthy" or "unhealthy".
    Why are you still in this bulking forum? I don't get it.
    I was helping devilboy1592 understand the general thought process of how things go in here in regards to the way food is viewed.

    You can't help someone when you don't understand the concepts yourself. That's not hard to understand but with the way the back and forth conversations between you and members here go I'm not surprised you can't understand that.
    Maybe I should have worded it better. In isolation, the general thought process on here is that unhealthy and healthy food does not exist.

    Enough already. You are always criticizing or debating what is said in here. Then you try to defend it but backtrack. The problem is you do understand a lot if the details that go into this game. That becomes a problem when you try and give advice or debate points. One smart thing to do is to ask questions, lurk, study, learn. Then gradually immerse yourself in the debates.

    My biggest issue with you is you wander this Weight gain forum with ideas and concepts but you can't bulk, you don't bulk and you can't remove the tunnel vision when it comes to absorbing the information but yet you continuously make threads longer with the same stuff. The other thread from this morning that made it 5 pages and as soon as I went in it and saw it was just a short time frame I knew you would be all up in it.
    Ok. I think what happens in some cases (like this morning and again now) is that when the general consensus is challenged, and things are viewed the way I see it, I can't resist jumping in. That being said, it kind of seems like from the responses and other posts I've seen from you and ndj, you guys make it seem like the two of you "own" this part of the forum in terms of what should get posted. I mean, it just seems to me like if you both had the power to do so, I'd be banned from this section, while most everyone else would be ok with the things I've posted.

    If what you understand about food is true, why can't you gain weight?
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Wow whatever you say to make it ok to eat those foods is up to you, chemicals and preservatives over home grown cooked meals, I guess,

    Wow...someone who cannot apply context and dosage, nor support his assertions...
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Sarauk2sf wrote: »
    Wow whatever you say to make it ok to eat those foods is up to you, chemicals and preservatives over home grown cooked meals, I guess,

    Wow...someone who cannot apply context and dosage, nor support his assertions...


    He supported his assertions, remember? Huffington Post....

    Next stop Dr. Oz and YouTube videos....
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    edited January 2015
    It's funny to see how people get defensive, I'm just merely saying eat food that's good for you, broccoli is better than a damn brownie, energy vs trams fat, macro, micro who cares, I look at sodium, sugar, gluten and gmos, that's all I ate for 35 years, never seen any gains, so why bother, why eat toxic food just to gain a pound of fat then try to burn it off, it sounds like every diet fad out there.

    I think you are mistaking being defensive with correctly your incorrect statements, assertions and assumptions. There is a difference.

    How is a broccoli better all the time?

    Did you even bother to apply any context to the OP or read her post?

    Please explain what toxic food is.

    Maybe you should have tried eating some protein for your gainz.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    It's funny to see how people get defensive, I'm just merely saying eat food that's good for you, broccoli is better than a damn brownie, energy vs trams fat, macro, micro who cares, I look at sodium, sugar, gluten and gmos, that's all I ate for 35 years, never seen any gains, so why bother, why eat toxic food just to gain a pound of fat then try to burn it off, it sounds like every diet fad out there.
    I agree. But check out this thread, you probably won't believe some of the responses made when I said broccoli was healthier than a brownie. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10037714/sweets-when-bulking/p3

    Context.....it's important.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Still waiting for the answer as to how food has zero nutritional value.
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  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    I would much rather consume pesticides, or pay more for organics(hopefully their telling the truth) then eat junk all the time. I have a cheat day cause I can never stop eating pizza, that's my kryptonite, but I cook it at home with ingredients bought at the market from locals. Best I can do.

    Again, who on earth said to eat pizza all the time? Please spend more time reading and absorbing.
  • Fitting your macros with whatever food you can doesn't affect your body composition, obviously. Calories in vs. calories out. But here's what annoys me: Eating *kitten* foods regardless of whether or not they fit your macros is bad for your health. Yeah you lost 20 lbs but guarantee half these people running this type of diet 100% of the time are gonna eventually run into problems. Too high of sodium, cholesterol, trans fat and refined sugars ARE bad for you. Obviously the science behind IIFYM is fact, but trying to be a generally healthy human being isn't gonna benefit from eating food high in all the stuff you don't want, regardless of macros.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    The thing is, you aren't going to hit your macros if you eat "*kitten*" foods 100% of the time. Strawman argument is weak.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Fitting your macros with whatever food you can doesn't affect your body composition, obviously. Calories in vs. calories out. But here's what annoys me: Eating *kitten* foods regardless of whether or not they fit your macros is bad for your health. Yeah you lost 20 lbs but guarantee half these people running this type of diet 100% of the time are gonna eventually run into problems. Too high of sodium, cholesterol, trans fat and refined sugars ARE bad for you. Obviously the science behind IIFYM is fact, but trying to be a generally healthy human being isn't gonna benefit from eating food high in all the stuff you don't want, regardless of macros.

    Too high of most things are not good - but no-one is suggesting to eat anything in excess.

    IIFYM is not about eating anything as long as it fits into your macros.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Sarauk2sf wrote: »
    Still waiting for the answer as to how food has zero nutritional value.

    As well as seeing support for the statement "Soda is linked to prostate, processed meats to heart disease, diet soda to obesity and a whole slew of problems"

    And that bb'ers all eat clean

    And that "fast food' is going to leave you riddled with cancer and disease

    And that broccoli is more beneficial than a "damn brownie" in every situation

    And what is toxic 'food' - and how is it toxic

    Also would love to know why its better to consume pesticides than eat junk all the time.

    As well as the repeated question as who is suggesting to eat 'junk food' all the time.


  • Hornsby wrote: »
    The thing is, you aren't going to hit your macros if you eat "*kitten*" foods 100% of the time. Strawman argument is weak.

    The only thing I can really agree with you on here is protein. Fat and carbohydrates can be filled with just about anything.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    edited January 2015
    Hornsby wrote: »
    The thing is, you aren't going to hit your macros if you eat "*kitten*" foods 100% of the time. Strawman argument is weak.

    The only thing I can really agree with you on here is protein. Fat and carbohydrates can be filled with just about anything.

    Which mean, you are not hitting your macros and not applying IIFYM (especially as the one you are missing is arguably the most important one for MPS)
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    I'd like you to show me a diet with 100% "*kitten*" foods that hit a a good macro/micro split.
  • JeffseekingV
    JeffseekingV Posts: 3,165 Member
    edited January 2015
    I'd bet if you were able to hit all your micros and macros while maintaining a low BF%, I'd guess you'd be healthy for a long time. Regardless of how you met them. Junk food or healthy foods
  • You can eat a couple pieces of chicken and a protein shake and hit your protein macros. Fat and carbohydrates macros can be filled with various processed foods. You guys act like you're scientists with all the facts. I'm not saying IIFYM is 100% wrong, but in the long term, it can pay off to not eat garbage. And there's no need to put garbage and *kitten* foods in quotes, we all know there's no such thing as a clean or dirty food. But you get my point.
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    And a great cap to my day- throws out huffington post as a place of credible information about what causes cancer.

    thank you deviboy- thank you- that was... just. awesome.

    I would like to know where it says all that food is healthy for you?
    I know it sounds crazy, but a lot of the members here don't believe in food being "healthy" or "unhealthy".
    Why are you still in this bulking forum? I don't get it.
    I was helping devilboy1592 understand the general thought process of how things go in here in regards to the way food is viewed.

    You can't help someone when you don't understand the concepts yourself. That's not hard to understand but with the way the back and forth conversations between you and members here go I'm not surprised you can't understand that.
    Maybe I should have worded it better. In isolation, the general thought process on here is that unhealthy and healthy food does not exist.

    Enough already. You are always criticizing or debating what is said in here. Then you try to defend it but backtrack. The problem is you do understand a lot if the details that go into this game. That becomes a problem when you try and give advice or debate points. One smart thing to do is to ask questions, lurk, study, learn. Then gradually immerse yourself in the debates.

    My biggest issue with you is you wander this Weight gain forum with ideas and concepts but you can't bulk, you don't bulk and you can't remove the tunnel vision when it comes to absorbing the information but yet you continuously make threads longer with the same stuff. The other thread from this morning that made it 5 pages and as soon as I went in it and saw it was just a short time frame I knew you would be all up in it.
    Ok. I think what happens in some cases (like this morning and again now) is that when the general consensus is challenged, and things are viewed the way I see it, I can't resist jumping in. That being said, it kind of seems like from the responses and other posts I've seen from you and ndj, you guys make it seem like the two of you "own" this part of the forum in terms of what should get posted. I mean, it just seems to me like if you both had the power to do so, I'd be banned from this section, while most everyone else would be ok with the things I've posted.

    Yes you're right. You would be banned. And it's not because you challenge the general consensus. It's that you challenge the general consensus with nonsense. You really think everyone is ok with what you post? Really? That's just delusional man.
    Several others may not agree with some of the things I've stated. But like I said I don't think too many others (except for a couple in the "sweets while bulking" thread) take what I post as being that bad as you and ndj make it out to be.
  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    And a great cap to my day- throws out huffington post as a place of credible information about what causes cancer.

    thank you deviboy- thank you- that was... just. awesome.

    I would like to know where it says all that food is healthy for you?
    I know it sounds crazy, but a lot of the members here don't believe in food being "healthy" or "unhealthy".
    Why are you still in this bulking forum? I don't get it.
    I was helping devilboy1592 understand the general thought process of how things go in here in regards to the way food is viewed.

    You can't help someone when you don't understand the concepts yourself. That's not hard to understand but with the way the back and forth conversations between you and members here go I'm not surprised you can't understand that.
    Maybe I should have worded it better. In isolation, the general thought process on here is that unhealthy and healthy food does not exist.

    Enough already. You are always criticizing or debating what is said in here. Then you try to defend it but backtrack. The problem is you do understand a lot if the details that go into this game. That becomes a problem when you try and give advice or debate points. One smart thing to do is to ask questions, lurk, study, learn. Then gradually immerse yourself in the debates.

    My biggest issue with you is you wander this Weight gain forum with ideas and concepts but you can't bulk, you don't bulk and you can't remove the tunnel vision when it comes to absorbing the information but yet you continuously make threads longer with the same stuff. The other thread from this morning that made it 5 pages and as soon as I went in it and saw it was just a short time frame I knew you would be all up in it.
    Ok. I think what happens in some cases (like this morning and again now) is that when the general consensus is challenged, and things are viewed the way I see it, I can't resist jumping in. That being said, it kind of seems like from the responses and other posts I've seen from you and ndj, you guys make it seem like the two of you "own" this part of the forum in terms of what should get posted. I mean, it just seems to me like if you both had the power to do so, I'd be banned from this section, while most everyone else would be ok with the things I've posted.

    If what you understand about food is true, why can't you gain weight?
    Well when it comes to calorie intake, it's about those reasons I gave in the sparta thread. My unusual training setup is another issue, which is what Sarah is helping me with.

  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Fitting your macros with whatever food you can doesn't affect your body composition, obviously. Calories in vs. calories out. But here's what annoys me: Eating *kitten* foods regardless of whether or not they fit your macros is bad for your health. Yeah you lost 20 lbs but guarantee half these people running this type of diet 100% of the time are gonna eventually run into problems. Too high of sodium, cholesterol, trans fat and refined sugars ARE bad for you. Obviously the science behind IIFYM is fact, but trying to be a generally healthy human being isn't gonna benefit from eating food high in all the stuff you don't want, regardless of macros.

    The problem with this commonly held argument against flexible dieting is that this neglects context.

    People who are correctly applying IIFYM are sticking to a diet composed "mostly" of nutrient dense and minimally refined foods. Then they're allowing 10 to 20% of total calories to come from "whatever they want".

    If you're going to claim that the presence of some discretionary foods (perhaps excluding artificial trans fats since IIRC they are destructive in very very small doses) among a nutrient dense diet is inferior or problematic, you'd need to establish doses at which those problems occur.

    If you want to claim that hitting macros with a diet composed of 100% junk food can be problematic for health I'd at least entertain that argument, but the issue is that this isn't IIFYM/flexible dieting. This is the strawman version that people argue against.
  • JeffseekingV
    JeffseekingV Posts: 3,165 Member
    You can eat a couple pieces of chicken and a protein shake and hit your protein macros. Fat and carbohydrates macros can be filled with various processed foods. You guys act like you're scientists with all the facts. I'm not saying IIFYM is 100% wrong, but in the long term, it can pay off to not eat garbage. And there's no need to put garbage and *kitten* foods in quotes, we all know there's no such thing as a clean or dirty food. But you get my point.

    IMHO, long term, it's looking like not being overweight with high BF% is what is ultimately the better choice vs the food you eat. the foods you eat might MAKE you overweight and have a high BF% but it goes to the amount you eat.

    I'd guess if you meet your macro/micros, it wouldn't matter much what you ate
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