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calories are calories, whether its a few spoons of table sugar or an apple. The difference is that the apple will keep you fuller longer, since a lot of fiber comes along for the ride, whereas table sugar (in a spoon, or a gummi bear) will do little for satiety and will often, in fact, make you hungrier.

Talk to your doctor. Get blood work and find out if your TSH / T4 / T3 levels are appropriate. You want to be in the high end of the range for T4 and the low end for TSH. If you're properly medicated, weight loss shouldn't be affected. Please forgive me if I'm off base, but are you sure it's not just diet fatigue setting…

I bring caffeine capsules with me anywhere I go, especially camping/hiking, for just this reason. Couple grams of capsules equals a case of soda. Sometimes I can go cold turkey just fine. Sometimes I'm on my back in a dark room with a headache. Better to be prepared.

Unless diet drinks make you want to eat chips and other snack foods, as they do for me, there's zero reason to cut them out entirely, no matter what the "detox" people claim. Aspartame, Ace-K, Sucralose and all other artificial sweeteners are harmless in the dosage you can get from drinking diet drinks. People claim…

Getting healthy is hard now. Being fat is hard later.

Toned is very easily a noun. When a silver coin is tarnished naturally, it is "toned". :)

A routine should always be changing if your intention is to improve. You'll eventually stop getting sore from squatting 100lbs, but you'll also stop getting anything out of it. A good workout doesn't require soreness, but DOMS does indicate that you used (or overloaded, a requirement of hypertrophy). You don't need…

Also water, vitamin A, salt. All toxic.. You'll also get sick or die without them.

My wife gives me crap when I call people "older". She's like "what do you mean older?" and I say "like my mom's age" and then I have to hear "YOUR MOM'S NOT THAT OLD SQUAWKSQUAWK" No, but she's older than ME!

Pepsi, even Diet, makes my days a struggle to stay under maintenance, let alone a loss. I can drink Diet Mountain Dew or energy drinks no problem. If I had a diet pepsi, I'm a wreck looking for chips and cheesies and cookies and cake and junk. Conditioning. I grew up on pepsi and chips.

Agree with this. If you just want to be lighter, it can easily 100% diet. As long as you take in less than your body uses, you can lose weight while being completely immobile. However if you want to lose weight and increase your overall effectiveness as a human, you could start walking or jogging or biking etc for…

I agree, but to play devil's advocate, it would put her on the extreme low end of a healthy BMI. Each person is different, but 5'6 is well within the largest part of a bell curve of height, so extreme low end of healthy BMI isn't really the time to panic, but probably the time you'd go to see a specialist about your low…

I can't remember the last time I didn't get snow tires for a winter. If you didn't have them around here, you might as well move into the ditch your car will be in all winter. Ice, snow, ice, snow, CHRISTMAS RAIN, ice, snow, GRAY SLUSH FORVER.. November to March..

Calories In, Calories out. That's all that matters (FOR FAT LOSS). The more you exercise, the fitter you'll become, but in the fat loss arena, a calorie deficit is all that matters. If you eat 1500 calories in a day, but burn 1800, you'll lose weight. That doesn't mean you have to burn it with exercise. Your body uses food…

happening to me, as well.

Mix up your sets. Do however much you can do for 5 reps, then do 5 sets of it. Doing higher weight for lower numbers can help you break through a plateau.

Down the road from my place.

The blame doesn't lie entirely on the mentality of drivers, as in we're so tough to drive in snow. I live in eastern Canada and we have a ton of snow and ice, and we all drive on it. People here make fun of the news when you hear somewhere like Atlanta got 2 inches of snow and it shut down the city. Well, the people there…

I only lift rocks and wild fauna.

But Tom Cruise told me vitamins and exercise were all I needed.

A week, cripes. Sorry for that. I've occasionally thought of getting a bottle of citromag (the stuff you take before a colonoscopy. a "purgative") to clean out the pipes to see the before and after on the scale. That stuff is a one evening affair. I can't imagine doing a week long cleaning out. But to OP, no. You don't…

Squat, Deadlift, Overhead Press, Bench Press, Bent over Row. These are the big 5 that are part of the Stronglifts 5x5 program, and are all compound movements that will let you get stronger overall. Personally, if I were going to go into lifting, I would do the squats and whatnot, and then do my riding afterwards, if that…

There's nothing wrong with fat, it's just a dense form of food energy. You're probably scared of fat because of the anti-fat propaganda left over from the 80s. I've done Keto. It works for some people. It's no more or less effective than any type of eating, you still have to eat at a caloric deficit to lose, same as…

goji berry enemas.

Have you gotten your thyroid replacement medication stabilized? I have a nonfunctional thyroid, and I felt like that myself, but once I got synthroid at the right dosage (250ug in the end, I'm a big guy) I felt what I assume normal people feel like. If your bloodwork shows you at normal hormone (TSH/T4) levels but you…

I'm sure you mean muscle weighs more than an equal volume of fat, because someone's bound to jump on you for that statement with an intentional misunderstanding of the wording. Also, with intense strength training exercises and perfect diet you can gain about 10lbs of muscle in a year. With healthy dieting, an overweight…

I don't mean to confuse the issue any further, but I have an honest question. Can we assume that all people can extract the same amount of calories from food? If I eat an apple, and a scientist with a bomb calorimeter has deduced that the apple contains 90 calories, can we assume that my GI tract will extract 90 calories,…

My first goal is to hit 250 (30lbs to go) but according to maths I've got somewhere around 55lbs to go until I hit my final goal of 12% body fat. Feel free to add me.

Nice. I hope I can post similar results (though I'm more manly, in that I'm a man) in 8 1/2 months.

Everyone has different tastes, but the fact that mcdonalds is as popular as it is shows that you are not in the norm in your opinion of their food. You look down upon it as unappetizing because it somehow upsets your notions of how food should smell, and that's your perogative, but also your subjective opinion, and not the…