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2016 was awful and then horrid and then finally just plain vile. BUT I'm glad you had an amazing year. That is AWESOME! Congrats! Some friends of the family won something like $280 million dollars in the lottery and my best friend sold his startup and can now retire in his early 30's so it was clearly a good year for some.…

I've heard of all of these except: Cordial - Koolaid Sprite - lemonade Fizzy lemon squash - Lemonade. This is a tricky one That's just crazy talk. Baking Soda - Bicarbonate of Soda All Purpose Flour - Flour Self-Rising Flour - Raising Flour, or sometimes Self-Raising Flour Kosher Salt - Salt Flakes

No offense to OP though. I'm as curious to know as anyone else if someone has actually legitimately attempted this for more than 5 days. I eat plain sweet potatoes though! Those are the jam as nature made them...well, baked...as nature should have made them.

PLAIN POTATOES YUM! This sounds like something they would have done to prisoners to get a confession out of them back in the 1600's. I suspect it's a gateway diet to full blown anorexia.

TO THE CHOPPA'! I'm a former research scientist gone auditor

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I have two good friends who are brothers and both have Type II diabetes even though they are active and very thin. Their parents didn't develop diabetes until they were 60+ yrs (also active and thin) but they both developed health issues around 30 yrs of age. I know it's becoming increasingly common even in non-obese…

wait, how did we go from "basket weaver" to "chips ahoy", lol

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This^^^ with that said, I find it useful to learn to eat treats in moderation as well. There's no way I could maintain a religious diet for longer than 3 months, that would be insanely boring. A twinkie is only 135-150 calories per cake, that's well within the confines of a balanced 2,000 calorie diet. I'd rather have a…

I don't think the issue is the scale, it's you assigning so much value to your weight likely in part driven by an unhealthy fear that you'll regain. If you're healthy and feeling good you are the correct weight. If not, lose a few pounds. Why did you arbitrarily decide that 8lbs less was the "correct" number? The correct…

plug the numbers into a BMR calculator and you quickly see where it's possible. I burned over 1,000 today with 2 hours of cardio but I'm much much larger than you. It is also true that your body adapts and burns calories more efficiently. Right now I'm huffing, puffing, heart racing and sweating like a slob the whole…

verdict is out. some recent studies show that the three leading artificial sweeteners on the market can promote the culture of certain types of gut bacteria that in turn raise fasting glucose levels oddly enough. when given a potent round of antibiotics these mice lost the effect with the death of these bacteria and when…

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thanks for the hilarious post!!! :D My local community college offers cooking classes for next to nothing (~$90 + cost of food) that meets on Thursdays at 8pm or 9pm at local high schools (with kitchens). I'm signing up for an Indian Food class. I've been cooking since I could reach the stove as a latch-key kid but I want…

this struck me as hilarious! I have been eating way too many vegetables and chicken breasts this past month.

This is the plan: I'm allowing myself a budget of 3,500 extra calories for Christmas. I'm logging everything and doing twice the cardio which works out well and gets me out of the house and away from the in-laws for a few hours :smiley: 1,000 extra this Friday and 2,500 extra on actual Christmas Day. For the 5 days before…

Day 16, 90 minutes brisk walking.

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9 lbs x 3,500 cal/lb = 31,500 calorie deficit over 25 days (31,500/25)=1,260 calorie deficit a day. THAT IS AWESOME!!! you may be losing too fast and starving assuming you aren't working out like a beast to earn that deficit.

With some honey that would be out of sight The smell of eucalyptus

to get rid of all of the stuff I don't need and didn't ask for

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I set a 100 day goal for myself 15 days ago. At a minimum I wanted 45 min of cardio everyday for 100 days. Going strong on day 15, 90 minutes of brisk walking today.

Yep, this is another way of stating it, excellent advice!

in other words if you go to low, you'll screw up your metabolism. The loss should taper off, as you get to within 20 lbs or so take it off slowly and do so with exercise rather than going below say 1,800 cals a day because eventually you will eat normally again and you'll need to have adopted a lifestyle where you can…

First of all EXCELLENT WORK and CONGRATULATIONS! Secondly, I find that I can lose on average one pound for every 3,500 calorie deficit that I make. Look over your food and exercise entries does this coincide with your deficits? If not, I would adjust (maybe add/subtract 200 cals or so). Otherwise you can lose at the rate…

I set the simple goal of walking for 45+min every day for 100 days, I am on day 13 and I walked 2 hours today (just shy of 8 miles). I pushed myself because it was raining and 31 degrees (fahrenheit) outside and I wanted nothing more than to quit at my goal of 45 min. I had to prove to myself that it couldn't stop me, that…

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