MFP has shown me what I have been doing to myself all of the

but...but...dont you know a calorie is just a calorie??? and as long as you have a deficit you lose weight? i mean you can eat 1200 calories of candy every day and still lose as long as you are on a deficit. at least thats what the all mighty dr oz says!!! (SARCASM INTENDED)

Actually you can lose weight that way. If you are giving your body less fuel than it's burning, you will lose weight. Nutrition is a different thing than weight loss.

Um! its not healthy. Believe me, your body eventually goes into starvation and while you might initially take weight off...it can damage your systems. Balance in all things is my new motto.


didnt work for me. at all.

There is still pe in school. My little girl loves it! I agree with teaching more about nutrition too:)) I say bring back playing OUTSIDE!!!!

PE and recess have dropped significantly inmost US schools, particularly in lower to moderate income schools throughout the US as cited in the following:

Childhood Obesity: Most U.S. Schools Don’t Require P.E. Class or Recess
By Bonnie Rochman | @brochman | December 7, 2011

Too many kids weigh too much, but too few states and schools require recess or follow recommended guidelines for physical education.

One in three U.S. kids is overweight or obese, but only six states — Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Illinois and Iowa — adhere to standards from the National Association of Sports and Physical Education that schoolchildren participate in 150 minutes a week of physical education. And just three states — Delaware, Virginia and Nebraska — have 20 minutes of mandatory elementary-school recess a day.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago analyzed results of a survey sent to every state except Hawaii, Alaska and Wyoming, in which administrators in 1,761 schools and 690 school districts were asked questions about physical education (P.E.) policies and practices and nutrition at their schools. Their responses were compared with information collected about state laws and school district policies related to P.E. and recess.

Those states and school districts that followed the guidelines were categorized as “strong”; those that recommended but didn’t enforce the suggestions were classified as “weak.” Most schools fell into neither category because they have no regulations whatsoever, according the research, which was published Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

This only says that some states have mandates for gym and recess. It doesn't give any numbers about how many schools have no gym at all.

If you look up the research as cited it gives all of that info. (it was to long to post here). Also you can go to Ed.gov (Dept. of Education) and it also will help to shed some light on the subject (again to much info to post here).

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying you could have snipped a more useful part for your argument. You didn't have to copy and paste the whole article, just cite the source at the end.

it is cited at the end.

Great topic and so true. Only change I would make based on my experience is instead of telling people to stop starving yourself I would say to START NOURISHING YOURSELF! I really believe my choices were nutrient poor and therefore I had cravings that have reduced substantially now that I am getting lots of fresh fruits and vegetables daily. ADDING healthy food instead of trying to limit bad choices has worked well for me, and now many times it doesn't even occur to me to look for unhealthy snackes. ADDING exercise is what I am focusing on now because strength is where it's at and I think as a culture we are not prioritizing that.