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This is why I love cargo pants, and will buy men's if the women's skimp on the pockets. But I haven't figured out if the looks I get signify that I'm too cute for words, or that people think I'm leading an invasion force!

I don't care how you lost weight, if you misuse food as a comfort in hard times, you're going to gain the weight back unless you're some freak with a mutant metabolism or the capacity to work out 20 hours a day with the energy levels of a cyborg.

This list is awesome. Thanks for summing up all my troubles in one post, OP!

Insulin is a hormone. We are and have been exposed to many modern day hormone disrupters. It's not that big of a stretch.

Odd, what about glycogen stored in muscles? Surely that regular as clockwork 10 pound drop in the first two weeks can be attributed to something to do with using glycogen stores?

I thought glycogen stores with water, though, meaning every pound is 3x that in water. I tend to lose 10 pounds of water weight during the first two weeks of ketosis anyway, so that's why I figured it was the problem. I did eat a lot of salt, though, and the roast beef was salted. I guess that could do it.

About where I was last year and the year before, give or take 5 pounds. Which would be fantastic! Except I'm not trying to maintain, I keep trying to get rid of this last 20+ pounds!

I'll eat bison all day any day. I'm sure I could grow to love it if the price came down. It's a luxury item for now, at least around here. I was raised on science fiction from the pre-and very early-exploration days, but we don't seem anywhere near escaping this planet and establishing a self-sufficient colony, so I'm not…

Damn, not in that area at all. Would love a brain scan. I'm fairly sure there are some little cake gremlins in there or something!

Edit: Wrong thread. Just say no to seasonal allergy brain fog!

Then check out the intermittent fasting forums here. There are several forms of it. Including one big meal a day.

Going back even further than Banting: Brillat-Savarin The physiology of Taste First published in France in 1825 " 'Oh Heavens!' all you readers of both sexes will cry out, 'oh Heavens above! But what a wretch the Professor is! Here in a single word he forbids us everything we must love, those little white rolls from Limet,…

What risk are you talking about? If it's eating just one meal a day, there are no inherent risks unless you're Type 1 or Type 2 diabetic. You just have to get enough calories to make sure your deficit is sensible and get those calories from nutritious foods. It's just a form of intermittent fasting. Unless you're doing it…

Alcohol munchies more than the drink itself is my issue. I managed okay the other day, but I was very busy with fun stuff all day, no time to sit around and think about how much I'd love chips or chocolate. Plus no one was shoving any of that into my face. If they had been, the outcome might have been sadly different.

Going low carb for a few days or even a couple of weeks isn't even particularly useful except to try it out. You have to get past low carb flu (for some anyway), which means up to two weeks of not even feeling your full, normal energy levels. It can be weeks to keto adapt, bringing, for many, much higher energy levels than…

Yes they are! Can't have a dog of my own, but I pet sit a little corgi mix. Now I know why people love them so much. And those short legs never seem to get tired. A corgi mix is the best dog to adopt for someone who wants to walk or run with a dog and doesn't want a large breed. Not only can I not outrun or tire out this…

That actually sounds tastier, too.

Even if a child falls prey to illnesses caused by overconsumption of processed food later due to poor personal choices, that child probably won't develop Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, and obesity from a bad diet starting in childhood. Which will probably translate to a longer, healthier life regardless. Also a child raised…

It isn't that he doesn't believe in Newton's Laws, it's that he points out it's not the be all end all of eating for health. And it's not. So what? I can burn what I eat. As someone pointed out in this thread or another, by that yardstick, trans fats are fine, too. Someone else said why not get all her calories from…

This. I'm not a big spender on clothes, cars, makeup, I'm not a social status type, I don't think I ever would be even if I was filthy rich, but I do have some body image issues. I'd jump at a chance to correct whatever exercise and diet won't. However, if someone dropped enough money in my lap for all that and said do…

I don't argue any of that. I think it all factors in. My argument is that when we only focus on these factors we ignore not only a large chunk of the problem, but what we really are as human beings, and how much the chemical reactions going on with us every day affect us, including the part of ourselves we call 'I' and…

Good morning and congrats! I have a protein issue, too. Because by preference I eat a lot of red meat. If dairy doesn't bother you, cheese, butter, and heavy cream can up your calories and fat without bumping your protein up as much as meat. Coconut oil and avocados are often consumed by low carbers who don't eat dairy and…

This. So much this. If you can't tolerate your own flaws and slip-ups, you aren't perfect, you're delusional. Spoken by someone who has been there!

Last quick post of the night which goes back to a point I made much earlier about how we aren't going to get enough good research until private money is out of the equation: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/6/1586.full No differences in satiety or energy intake after high-fructose corn syrup, sucrose, or milk preloads…

I didn't mean he was an expert in evolution. I meant endocrinology, specifically how it all relates to what we consume and its impact on our health. He fully acknowledges Newton's Laws while saying it doesn't apply as simply to our intake the way people who 'calorie is a calorie' everyone thinks it does because you absorb…

Depends on when you're referring to as far as your ancestors' access to fruits. When and where. Here is the Lustig talk I referred to, because I don't remember where the primates he referred to specifically live. And well, he has way more degrees than I do, and in a relevant field!…

Sorry about double posting to the same thing, the quotes got all messed up somehow, very hard to read!

No, sorry, I must have explained poorly, he was saying because sugar was not always available and it was valuable calories for leaner times, perhaps we are prone to overeat it. Are food and cocaine the same? No. Food and opiates? No. But it is interesting that a drug used to treat opiate abuse reduces overeating.…

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Now I want to pet a puppy! Moving on: If we assume every person who is obese and unhealthy is obese and unhealthy due to purely psychological and especially consciously psychological reasons (assuming this is possible with any issue), then no matter how many people we have who sicken, die young, and cost healthcare system…