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  • Weigh myself once every few weeks or so. I like seeing a bigger shift in the numbers, and day to day fluctuations are meaningless anyway. I tend to measure shorter term progress by how loose my belt feels. The belt don't lie!
    in Daily weigh-ins? Yes! What are your thoughts? Comment by jonewe05 January 2019
  • Also @mph323 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877506/ "In fact, in men BMI correlated significantly better with lean mass than with body fat. In contrast, in women BMI appears to perform better than men..." and "Decreasing the BMI cut-off for obesity to ≥ 25 kg/m2 for instance, will still result in…
    in BMI CONTROVERSY‼️🤬 Comment by jonewe05 January 2019
  • Well BMI tends to overstate how fat tall and muscular people are, and understates how fat short and non-muscular people are. If you're a female, your BMI is almost certainly understating how fat you actually are.
    in BMI CONTROVERSY‼️🤬 Comment by jonewe05 January 2019
  • Like bananas, many apple varieties, potatoes, oats, leeks, peanuts, strawberries, ginger, watermelons etc? Plants *have* to have more proteins than animals because they require all the cellular machinery to carry out photosynthesis. I don't get why you think more proteins = bad?
    in USA vs. Europe, NY Times Comment by jonewe05 January 2019
  • I'm in. I reckon 50% of my excess weight is directly attributable to alcohol and the other 50% to poor food choices and sloth as an indirect result.
    in Dry January! No Alcohol! Comment by jonewe05 January 2019
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