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Emotional eating isn't necessarily a problem for losing or maintaining weight, as long as it's done in moderation. There's more to food than simply meeting our energy and nutritional needs. If there weren't, we'd be satisfied eating essentially the same meal every day, as long as it was balanced. Maybe we'd all be eating…

Vampire. :smiley:

I think the bigger question is can YOU sustain it, and not be bored with it? Some people can keep it up forever. Others can't. Only you can answer if this is right for you. Low carb certainly wasn't right for me, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be right for you. The great news is that, even if you can't sustain low carb…

Biologically, there's nothing wrong with banking. Psychologically, as long as it's not setting you up for harmful binge-and-restrict cycles it's fine, if it's what you choose to do.

I think the secret is eating and living as healthy as you can and still enjoy your life. I'd rather be a little overweight and happy versus thin and miserable. At the same time, happiness doesn't require eating so much I go back up to my morbidly obese self, either. It's about finding the balance that's right for you. I've…

The studies which show that are pretty poorly designed, though, at least the ones I saw. They had very low n-values (only 5-12 participants) and very high p-values (p = 0.05 causes a ton of false positive results). I'd take those results with a grain of salt.

Sodium is 40% of salt (by weight). Salt is sodium chloride, so one sodium ion + one chloride ion. And sodium can encompass things that aren't table salt, like MSG. Everything has some sodium in it, sodium is one of the fundamental ions of all living things.

Just got a lot of new clothing for hiking and skiing. Most of it in a medium (I did get the jackets in a large so I could layer clothing underneath), which is bizarrely strange when I used to have to see how many Xs I could find on the clothing label!

I discovered I'm not as immune to the cold as I always thought I was. I guess carrying around 140 pounds of subdermal insulation really kept me a lot warmer! I'm hoping the converse is also true and that I no longer wither and die in the face of heat... particularly as I'm traveling to tropical Africa soon... :smiley:

Well, I am not a runner, but I did lose 140 pounds so far (I will probably stay on maintenance through spring, and maybe try for the last 15ish pounds then). Hiking is my thing. I'm preparing now to do one of my long-awaited dreams - I am going to take time off in February and hike Kilimanjaro. It was a slow process to go…

Well, as someone else who was obese (morbidly so) since before I was a teen, and who has now lost 140lb and am close to an ideal weight, I think it's a combination of factors. Some of it is biology and genetics. We evolved during many millennia of food insecurity, so our bodies want to overeat when we can in preparation…

I think a lot of obesity is due to genetic factors caused by millions of years of evolution during times of feast and famine, combined with modern society where the famine never arrives. An adaptive behavior to keep us alive when food supply was insecure is now maladaptive. Does that mean you can't lose weight? Of course…

Red meat is an excellent source of heme iron, which can help with the anemia. It's also a great source of vitamin b12 but if you eat a lot of fish you're probably not deficient. There are some good seafood sources of heme iron too - clams and oysters in particular. Most fish, however, are going to have less heme iron than…

The good news is, you really don't have to change the things you eat, you need to change how much you eat. I am about 140ish pounds down these days, and I eat exactly the same kinds of things I ate before. There may be health reasons you will want to incorporate veggies, but there's nothing special about either veggies or…

It's your birthday. It's one day per year. If I get through a birthday and aren't 1000+ calories over my normal daily goals I'd probably be a little disappointed :grin: Just keep at it tomorrow and it'll all be okay. Everything in moderation, including moderation :)

That would also be highly individual, too, as most people don't have any reason to try to cut down on sodium.

Yup, I do this all the time, too. Just this week I had to return a jacket because I couldn't originally wrap my head around the fact I needed a medium (I bought a large, which is still much smaller than the XXL I used to wear).

Bought a new coat, and had to return it because it was too big. I just couldn't get my mind around the fact I actually, really do wear a size medium now, and my new jacket fits perfectly. Two years ago my XXL was snug.

Down by almost 140 here. Quite a bit of loose skin on my abdomen, arms, butt, and thighs. Dunno if I'll do anything about it.

Tried Atkins back in the day, counting only carbs and not calories. I found it easy to still overeat (I'm in Wisconsin, I can pack away sausage and cheese like nobody's business) and I found myself greatly missing the variety of my previous diet. Not surprisingly it was very unsuccessful. Calorie counting has let me lose…

There are some carbs in the form of glycogen - or rater lactate which glycogen decomposes to - but it's small. By weight your muscles are less than 1% glycogen. Even raw, it would mean that a quarter pound of meat would contain less than 5 calories from carbs.

Well, taste is not totally unrelated to health. The natural aversion to bitter tastes does seem to be an evolutionary adaptation to avoiding toxic plant alkaloids. Both sensitivity and specificity are pretty poor, however - many toxic substances are not bitter and many bitter substances are not toxic. However, if the…

Daily. I like more data points for trending and analysis.

You don't have to. For that matter, you don't even have to count calories, but it's a good technique for sustainable weight loss and weighing food enables you to be more accurate in tracking consumption. What I like about accurate calorie counts are the fact I can trend my calories and my weight and come up with a good…

Take him up on his offer and make it just for yourself. As someone who struggles with picky eating to the point new foods can make me vomit (although I'm slowly getting better), the last thing I want is for my phobias around food to negatively impact the people I care about. Your dad will probably be a lot happier if you…

If you read the actual WHO report, the reasons they are recommending reduction in free sugars is: 1. To reduce tooth decay, 2. To reduce the overall calories consumed and thus reduce body weight. If you are controlling your calories directly, #2 is of no benefit to you since you're eating the same amount anyway. As to #1,…

I think trying too hard to eat "healthy" is a terrible idea, particularly if weight is your primary health concern: 1. "Healthy" is a very nebulous term, not a clear and easily defined goal, particularly when looking at foods in isolation. It's impossible to measure quantitatively. 2. The more dramatic the change, the less…

I think it's highly misleading, and reinforces wrong ideas about foods. You could make a balanced and nutritious diet with mainly "red" foods, and you could make a diet that gives you severe and possibly life-threatening malnutrition with only "green" foods. And it draws attention to things which are not relevant for…

The colors would basically be arbitrary. Your "green" might be my "red" because of what else we are eating and what our lifestyles are. It's very possible for a double bacon cheeseburger to be a healthier choice than a salad - such as in people whose diets lack in protein, B12, or iron.

It is decidedly so.