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I'm in. You start from out west and I'll start frrom the east coast and we'll meet in Ontario.

Your body stores excess food energy as fat and makes up a deficit in food energy from that fat. That's really all there is to it. The point of body fat in an animal like a deer, for example, is to let them store up food energy during the spring, summer and fall, when food is abundant. Then when the winter comes and you're…

Eradicate wasps and say good bye to figs!

I'm no scientician, but I suspect your description is exactly what happens. Your fat isn't just a mass of a substance, like a thick layer of butter. It's made up of cells, just like every other part of your body. These cells are little sacs packed with lipids (fats). As you eat at a deficit, your body says "hey guys,…

Is teflon even still a thing? I know it's a brand, but I'm pretty sure there was a govt decree that said PFOA (the chemical "teflon") was to no longer be used by 2014 or 2015.

Cardio is good for heart health, and you will burn more calories than sitting around. However, you will burn just as many calories, if not more, during a heavy lifting session, and many people enjoy a good lifting session more than pounding out a 5k run every few days. Also, lifting heavy will minimize the muscle loss one…

Usually you can do that, as long as you weigh in first thing in the morning after a bathroom trip and before eating and drinking anything. Also, occasionally you can toss a reading out, like the day after a spat of drinking, or a salt heavy day.

It's never a good time. It's always a good time.

A modern take on the corset. If the point of one is to look sexy to attract a mate, that mate could sue for false advertising once they get the device off you ;)

Yes, your liver and kidneys do that. If there's some toxin in your body that your liver or kidneys cannot clean up, then nothing added to your diet or rubbed on your skin or waved over your body will do it, either. It's hype. You are correct and quite smart to question this new fad (which I haven't seen yet, but I'm sure I…

At my local Wendy's it wouldn't matter what you ordered, because that's not what you'd get.

Glad I wasn't the only one :)

Unless you're posting about detoxes, cleanses, purging, or other nonsensical or dangerous weight loss topics, I can't imaging your posts are deleted. And I've never seen a topic without at least one response.

It really depends on the state of your joints, particularly your feet, knees and hips. Anyone can run SOME distance. I would recommend trying a Couch to 5K program. There's lots of apps for smartphones for it. Essentially it takes you from not running at all and slowly builds up over the weeks to being able to complete a…

To add to the echo chamber, everyone's different. If you have to ask the question, you're probably already having issues with not recognizing or feeling thirst. Some folks can just know when they're thirsty. I can go all day having nothing but a single can of diet coke and not feel thirsty, though I know I need more to…

This isn't meant to be rude. Unless you are under 80lbs, it's unlikely that eating 1000 calories net will let you GAIN weight. Thyroid medications will not affect weight loss in an of themselves, nor will thyroid conditions directly affect your weight. Even with a wrecked thyroid, your weight loss or gain is a direct…

Visceral fat (intra abdominal) is often the first to go, before subcutaneous fat (jiggly). Women tend to store a higher ratio of sub-q to visceral than men, but if you're losing inches and pounds and not losing jiggle, that's a culprit. Visceral fat is much more linked to diabetes, heart disease, etc, but its also more…

A person who is eating perfectly and working out intensely can build 5-10lbs of muscle in a year. A person can lose 2lbs of fat a week safely. You'll never build muscle fast enough to outpace your fat loss. Especially since you can't build muscle at anywhere near that 5-10lbs a year rate if you're in a deficit enough to…

Depending on where caught, different varieties of salmon have different levels of oil, which would be a contributing factor in their caloric content. However, it's very hard to nail down precisely what an agricultural, or more so, a wild animal product is going to have for calories. The best they can do is randomly select…

I grew some last year because the seeds were in a 99c bin at the country store then I was all "What the heck do I do with it now?". I think my chickens ended up getting most of them. It tastes kind of like a broccoli stem. You can julienne it and cook quickly in a stir fry, or you could probably make a slaw out of it…

Noooo.. The calories are in the JUICE. Pulp is mostly fiber. When you juice you're throwing most of the healthy part of the fruit away. Orange juice, as an example, contains the same amount of or more calories and sugar (sugar is sugar, in most respects, fruit sugar or otherwise) as Coke or Pepsi. You can easily consume…

If you think you bloat badly from digesting carbs, you don't even want to see what will happen when the carbs make it to the tail end of your digestive tract intact and the gut flora have their way with them. The reason beans and broccoli and the like cause some people to have the winds is because they have super long…

I had a food long Subway chicken bacon melt, a bag of baked lays, and a bottle of Dr Pepper for lunch yesterday. ~1500 calories. It's not hard to blow 1600 calories by lunch if you're not careful.

On your diary page in the app, scroll to the bottom. The last thing on the page is "Finished logging for today?" then a button that says "Complete this entry".

Certified to teach belaying or just to do it? I imagine if your gym offers belay certification, it's only a certification they made up. Belaying isn't hard, I learned on my first trip on an outdoor climbing expedition. First, second and third rule of belaying is to pay attention to your climber. One glance aside to look at…

I'm at 1900 calories a day with a 1000 (2lb/wk) defecit. I'm a 280lbs, 6'6", late 30s male. A 1200 calorie per day with 1000 calorie defecit would not be unreasonable for a woman who's tall and/or has a lot to lose.

Unless you're working out intensely, you can probably skip eating back your calories, in all honesty. If you're working out intensely with the intention of being able to eat more, then you should get a Heart Rate Monitor and have a more accurate assessment.

Some people have a misconception about what a calorie is. A calorie is a unit of measurement like a liter or a foot. A foot of string is the same length as a foot of cucumber. They cover the same distance, but are made of different things. This is the same as food energy. 1200 calories of chocolate is the same, in terms of…

I think we need a picture of one of these 4lb pears. It must be the size of a small pumpkin.

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