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This is explicitly described in the results section of the paper.

Not BMR, TDEE. BMR = basal metabolic rate. It's the energy required to keep you alive. TDEE = total daily energy expenditure. It's the BMR + activities-energy. There are simple formulas you can use to estimate one from the other. For example if you're sedentary and don't exercise, but you're also not comatose, you might…

The 4th study is a review article, not a study. The fact that you don't even recognize this is evidence of your academic illiteracy, which I presupposed earlier. What is the point of having a discussion of evidence with someone who can't read scientific research?

And yet here you sit, with zero evidence rebutting those small studies, pretending you're an evidence-guided individual.

Agreed. However, you are missing the point. A request was raised for evidence of evidence ("citation needed"). Evidence of evidence was provided. If you disagree, then I would suggest you find your own studies showing that fasting does not impact lipid metabolism. That position is not the default. Just because the evidence…

Look, someone has to tell it to you like it is. First, liposuction isn't used to remove lipomas. You paid for a body sculpting procedure but if your goal was to remove lipomas, you bought the wrong thing. Lipomas are removed with open surgery, just like taking out a breast lump. You can certainly have lipomas removed if…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3292504 "During exercise, glucose flux, whole-body carbohydrate oxidation, and the rate of muscle glycogen utilization were significantly lower during the fast." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8238506 "These results demonstrate that the mobilization of adipose tissue triglycerides…

WTF? My we have a short memory!

You feel like you gained weight, but did you? If you're not weighing yourself, can we assume you're not weighing your food? And if you're not weighing your food, then we know that your estimated 1100 calorie diet was likely not accurate. Weigh yourself. Measure your food. Maintain a consistent deficit, and you will lose.

This is a lifestyle and not a diet. Life comes with special occasion binges. My diary is closed (I was tired of being accused of ED behavior because my intermittent fasting looks like anorexia plus binging, since it's logged as one large meal per day) but for today, to celebrate mother's day with my wife and both sets of…

I'm Canadian so I'm not even sure if they sell them in the USA. The same products are also sold under the names Mio and Crystal Lite too, so maybe you'll find at least one of those.

Obvious, but great advice. Two cans of cola per day is about 320 calories. Cut those out and even if you do NOTHING else, that should help you lose over half a pound per week (26+ per year).

I like the sugar free Kool Aid squirt bottles. 0 calories, no dental damage, and some flavor other than plain water. Not homemade to be fair, but it's an option.

Just use "grams" as a search term, I find this useful. For example search the database for "chicken grams" instead of just "chicken".

One food that I found that surprised me: bacon. From the package, you'd think it's terrible for you. From the package today, my Fletcher's Masterpiece Farmer's Cut bacon is 360 calories per 2 slices (66 grams). I split the 500 gram package with my wife, which should equal 1363 calories of bacon... for each of us! BUT! If…

Rather than consider illegal and dangerous drug regimens, why don't you put some effort into diet and exercise?

Hogwash.

Except that is not true. For starters, you have Crohns and the OP had her gallbladder out; these are two very different conditions. With a cholecystectomy you still have bile salts in the GI tract, so there is no malabsorbtion issue. Some people have bile salt malabsorbtion (which may be what the OP is describing), but…

How would a failure to absorb food cause a weight gain? That would obviously cause a weight loss. OP, many people choose to do exactly what you're forced to do; it's called intermittent fasting. It does not change the basic equation of calories in versus calories out. You are eating too much if you are not losing weight.…

And to that end, you don't even have to be super accurate with your servings. If you make 4 servings of rice totaling 1000 calories, if doesn't really matter if you eat portions of 250 x 4, or 300, 200, 150, 350. It comes out the same in a weekly span, so you don't need to stress too much about each portion size.

You DO realize that the entire purpose of MFP is to answer this question, yes? Plug in your data, the website spits out a calorie goal.

There actually IS purple urine, or at least, purple-blue. You get that if you've had some urologic procedures with dye or if you've been treated with intravenous methylene blue dye for some reason. We see it in the hospital from time to time and it's always sort of shocking.

If you're gaining weight it's for only 1 reason: you're overeating. If you have maintained a consistent diet and consistent exercise regimen and suddenly you are gaining weight where once you maintained, then it's a sign that you should see your physician for a checkup. In your above post you state that your logging has…

Percentages don't work that way. Is it 33% at 100 lbs, or 33% at 400 lbs? It makes a difference.

Where are you getting this glucose-during-CPR business from? That is not a standard practise. The ACLS guidelines list many drugs but glucose is not one of them unless somebody has a measured low capillary blood glucose level. If this is done where you work, then it is not an international standard.

You're wrong in this conversation. I don't care about your other ones.

You are inferring things not written. You are describing fat loss. TimothyFish is writing "weight loss." Are you that adamant that it's not possible for a 100 lb person to lose a pound of undifferentiated mass per week? I assure you, it's possible. Now, the obvious conversation should be able the healthfulness of an…

This isn't true. If you've burned all you can from fat and then need to burn more, you'd be burning protein. This is less dense (in calories) than fat and thus you'd burn proportionally more of it. Just to make up numbers as an example, if someone had a maximum daily burn of 1000 calories (32 lbs of fat) and in fact burned…

I agree and I base my own goals off of this. It's interesting that you point this out though. Your own previous challenge against TimothyFish asked if his advice should apply to a 200 lb person at 8% BF. That's 16 lbs of fat, or 3472 calories of fat energy per week. They certainly COULD lose 1 lb/week to start, which…

Bottom line right here.