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I have an avocado with hot sauce almost every night before bed. Hasn't hurt me any.

BMI is a bunch of woo. Your doctor may not have good reasons, or didn't articulate them, but basing your healthy weight only on BMI range is a bad idea.

Only with the assumption that weight and body fat are directly and inextricably linked. Plenty of "normal" weight people walking around with high body fat. Better to be in a normal range, but it's no guarantee of health.

The entire argument is irrelevant, as the focus should be on health, not weight, for the majority of the population. Categorizing strictly by weight isn't useful in any practical way. On the margins (very over/under weight) you can make generalizations about levels of health, but for the vast majority there's too much…

I'm in agreement overall. It's the intersection that matters, rather than the isolated factors.

On calories, I agree. However, using your own examples, carbohydrates make up a larger percentage of total diet, and the fat intake doesn't appear remarkable at all unless you cherry-pick data. Remarkably high compared to Ethiopia? Sure. High compared to most of Europe? Not at all...

The BMI guidelines that the U.S. adopted in the late 1990s were derived from WHO standards, which instantly reclassified tens of millions of Americans as overweight/obese.

Eat more food. If that doesn't work, get checked for tapeworms.

YAYOG.

And not to minimize the issue, but the "epidemic" was created overnight by adopting WHO standards against the advice of the medical community...

Nothing you can do to influence height, but I went from 5'10" at the end of high school to 6'3" 18 months later... Not everyone has the same growth curve.

Sans health conditions, no. Neither is required to maintain a healthy diet, however.

Precise measurements are like training wheels. You need them up until you learn how to manage intake properly.

Losing weight and 'cutting' are different goals. 'Cut' is said for brevity. Not sure why you'd be bothered by succinctness.

I prefer mine lightly sautéed, for what it's worth.

In all seriousness, I'd really like to see supporting research on that. Most sources indicate athletes actually need less, and while losing weight less is preferable (particularly for non competitors). .8 grams per pound is more than sufficient for the majority of the population, and probably overkill, based on everything…

On day 21. It's not really as restrictive as I thought, given that added sugar is really the only thing that I have to watch for outside my typical diet.

I'd swap the fat and protein percentages myself. That's a ton of protein.

Propaganda.

I guess he gets credit for being honest, but any guy who would say this is a p rick. If that's how someone feels, they need to end the relationship.

It's not going to change no matter what you look like. Some guys are like that; you have to decide your comfort level.

While several prior are correct (sugar is not toxic, and the body cannot be "detoxed" outside of it's own existing functions), I am 21 days into a Whole30 right now, which obviously means no added sugars. Only what's existing in whole foods, which is plenty. I'm using it as a personal challenge more than anything else.…

It just illustrates that there are processes in play past simple CICO, at a very basic level. Nothing worth changing habits for, though. I'm not reading with a clothespin on my nose any time soon.

Define low calorie. My version is probably different.

CICO /ducks

Had breakfast next to (and talked with, briefly) Josh Hamilton (baseball player). We're pretty much the same size, but he seemed at least twice as big as me. That's what being paid to be in shape is like, I suppose.

I'd lose weight on 2500 calories...

Didn't say I don't enjoy pepper or that it has no taste, it's just not something that registers as spicy for me.

Are you referring to black pepper or peppers? I don't find black pepper to spice my food up at all; peppers, on the other hand...

Feel free to ask, but don't be shocked when you get stood up...