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Wait. They still have milkmen somewhere? What country are you in?

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Made a savory oatmeal. Cooked steel-cut oats in chicken broth, added chopped sun-dried tomatoes and a bay leaf while they simmered. Sauteed some bulk Italian sausage meat, then set it aside and used the grease to cook some chopped onions and minced garlic as the base for a quick sauce with canned diced fire-roasted…

It can happen with newbie gains, or maybe if you're a teenager. Not so easy for grownups who have been exercising awhile.

I hated the way my middle jiggled, and I kinda wanted abs. Well, 35 lbs down and with hydrostatic weighing telling me I'm <11% body fat, my middle still jiggles, so abs are probably not forthcoming ever. Consequence of waiting until I was 50+, I suppose.

This thread blew up while I was offline for a day and I haven't yet seen if anyone has pointed this out, but that was an n=12 study. It's hardly conclusive in any event.

Coconut oil, fresh from the coconut!

I think it gets contentious when the different inexact method claims some other mechanism of action. I mean, fine. If calorie counting doesn't work for you, then reduce your calorie intake by whatever means works. Just don't try to tell me that the reason your way works is something other than CICO. When you get into…

I got back into running last year after more than 5 years off, and it was extremely frustrating at first to not have my former endurance. It came back surprisingly quickly. So don't let the frustration hold you back!

To be fair, he said "useful to the body", not "essential", and it's not out of the question that some non-essential amino acids might, in some sense, be "useful". But this is one of those can-of-worms claims that gets into the question of whether its ever terribly useful to supplement any nutrient our bodies can make…

It could be what others have mentioned. A further possibility is "runner's knee". https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20854077/whats-the-best-solution-for-runners-knee/ for some suggestions on how to help it.

Some plants do make proteins peculiar to them. My son is allergic to peanuts, and according to his allergist it's a protein in the peanuts that causes the reaction. Peanut oil is safe in theory since it's just the fat, but usually a small amount of the protein in question makes it into the final product, so that's why he…

Pure ethanol has 7 cal/gram, not as much as fat but more than carbs or protein. That, more than anything else, is why some people can't lose weight if they drink.

All plants contain protein. While you may well be allergic to some plant proteins, you can't be allergic to all of them and live unless you literally avoid all plants and eat nothing but meat and animal byproducts. Beer and wine are made from entirely dissimilar plants. (Malted barley for one and grapes for the other.)…

The inability to cook is highly unmanly.

If you're backpacking, I very much doubt you'll have problems losing weight. You won't just be walking, you'll be walking while carrying a load, and doing that all day burns a LOT of calories. https://www.outdoors.org/articles/amc-outdoors/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-backpacking

As they say, you can't outrun your fork. Weight loss is at least 80% controlling your calories. Exercise can indeed help, and can do a lot to improve your health, but I think the point they're trying to make, that for weight loss you can't count on exercise alone, is correct. Unlike their dietary recommendations, which are…

Exercising with machines tends to isolate muscle groups; exercising with free weights tend toward compound motions or will at least engage stabilizer muscles. But use whatever you're comfortable with and whatever gets you results. It's more important that you exercise at all than that you conform to someone else's…

For weight loss, yes, you focus on calories. The macronutrients (protein, carbs, fat) are important for specific fitness or health goals, but for the time being don't worry too much about them. Where they're important early on is when people find different mixes of them result in feelings of satiety on fewer calories. You…

It's called an analogy. And reliance on a pill can solve quite a lot of things. Ask anyone with a treatable chronic illness.

It's easy to think, by paying too much attention to the weight loss industry, that any of these things has a lot to do with the process. It's much, much simpler than that. You eat fewer calories than you burn. Calories in, calories out. CICO. Do that, and you will lose weight. This site is all about helping you with that.…

Thank goodness! I'm so glad she's safe. This might seem like a minor consideration given the worries you've just had, but make sure she gets her name off the lease or rental agreement on that house, or she may be liable for all the damage. She might be anyway, but the last thing she needs is legal trouble over some…

Get in touch with the DA's office, and the prosecutor who's handling this case. They will want to know about this and have the clout to prod the cops into action.

I used to have this problem when I was an observant Eastern Orthodox Christian and would obediently go on a vegan diet for Lent. It took nearly the entire 40 days of eating like that consistently for my system to adjust. Probably your gut flora are simply better adapted to one diet than the other. Give some probiotics like…

I'm willing to bet that about 95% of us on this site are dissatisfied with our bodies' genetically-determined fat distribution. And none of us can do a thing about it.

Yes, digital scales will automatically zero themselves to the weight of anything on them when they're turned on. You must turn it on when there's nothing on it, and then place the item to be weighed. FWIW, I've had a horrible time with scales from Target. Every one of them has been defective somehow. The one I finally…

It's absolutely correct that you should not obsess over the bathroom scale when losing weight. Weighing yourself more frequently than once a day or once a week is a path to despair. But the kitchen scale is another matter. It's the only way to ensure you're eating the amounts you think you are. "Speed up my metabolism" is…

So have something sweet every day. Just make sure you have room in your calories for it. Why should it be a problem?

Variable depending on the type and intensity of the exercise, yes. It depends on how much you weigh, how much you're lifting, how intensely you work, how long a break you take between sets, what kind of strength training you're actually doing, etc. FWIW, the cardio section has entries for strength training that you can…

Eating healthy is well and good, but weight loss is all about the amounts. You will simply have to cut back on your portion sizes. Don't be too confident in your calorie estimates unless you're weighing your portions, mind you. Even prepackaged food can contain more than it says on the label. If you're measuring by volume,…