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Yes, as an asthma treatment, not as a dietary supplement.

As has been reiterated numerous times on this forum, weight loss isn't linear. You may well go for a month without seeing significant results, and then have them suddenly catch up to you. It's a very common experience, even without a scam supplement. Yes, we can assume your pills have no ephedrine. If they did, they'd be…

Thank you very much! I enjoy some kinds of training, but not others. Distance running is good, if for no other reason than that it gets me outside, but I've never enjoyed lifting. I do it because it's necessary, not because it's fun. This makes it more than a little frustrating when I'm not seeing the results I really…

In June of last year I got myself dunked, and found I had 10.54% body fat. This surprised me, because I had expected if I were that low that I wouldn't still be jiggling around the middle and would have at least one ab showing. Or something. I'm 54, 6'1", and began to lose weight in June, 2016 starting at about 205-210…

I would only suggest that you not put too much stock in an online bf% estimator based (I assume) on BMI and wrist measurements and so on. Even the best attempts to directly measure body fat are approximate and have significant error windows, and an online estimator will be the worst. If you're really worried about it, find…

Core exercises like planking help ensure that you actually have abs to show once the fat goes away, and can help with a flatter profile since better muscle tone means you won't have a tummy bulge from slack muscles, but it won't help get rid of the fat.

You can't target specific areas of your body for fat loss, and where the fat comes off first is a genetic thing. The only thing to do is to keep losing fat. It will come off your belly sooner or later. So continue eating at a calorie deficit and keep up with the cardio. Add some strength training. The exercise ensures more…

If they work, without a prescription, they're likely illegal. If they're legal, they likely don't work. I looked it up on Amazon. It seems to be the usual combo, to include a healthy dose of caffeine for the energy boost. I'd say it's mostly useful in reducing the weight of your wallet.

You look fine, more fit than I'd expect for 30% even though that's within a healthy range for women. If you feel you need to cut to achieve the look you want, that's up to you. I wouldn't say there's any very compelling reason to do so even if that number is accurate. And it's certainly worth a re-check even though InBody…

Yes, it's important to know this. If it was by impedance or calipers, those are notoriously inaccurate. DEXA, hydrostatic, or Bod Pod will give you better numbers. Even these can be off. For instance, if you don't exhale sufficiently, hydrostatic will also give you too high a number.

There is no gaining weight without gaining fat, even if you're also gaining muscle. This is why bodybuilders go through cycles of bulking and cutting rather than trying to add muscle without fat. It's not really possible under most circumstances. (It's occasionally possible for beginners to weight training, or with Vitamin…

"Oh. Must be Monday."

A craving is not the same thing as feeling starved. Which do you mean to ask about?

We have made fewer advances than you think. Mostly, we've become very good at rationalizing things we believe for irrational reasons. That's why the thermodynamics-immune special snowflakes, quite aside from the responsibility issue. There are any number of good resources on the subject, but have a look at "On Being…

Most folks here aren't on keto. There just happen to be a lot of threads about it.

You'd think that maybe she'd see how thin you are and instead figure that just maybe it meant you knew what you were talking about. I have the same problem with my sister in law. She's always doing these fad diet things, usually low carb, making up all kinds of restrictions for herself that prevent her from eating most of…

A 41 inch waist is never a good thing, but some fat is worse than others. If it's mostly "jiggly" fat under your skin, that's the less worrisome kind. It's subcutaneous, laying on top the muscles, and while problematic doesn't pose any special risks. If it's "solid" fat underlying the muscle, then it's visceral, meaning…

True. I'll remove "very". This is still fairly speedy for a shorter person already of healthy weight.

As you say, you are not overweight, so you are actually losing weight at a reasonably fast pace. We would normally expect that rate of weight loss in someone with a lot to lose. Others have already answered your question, but I would encourage you to adjust your expectations. Slow and steady does the trick.

Yeah, pretty much tells us everything we need to know right there.

I don't know that I'd call one our near-universal cognitive biases perverse. We evolved for life on the African savanna, where cause and effect are usually connected in fairly immediate ways, and where we couldn't go too wrong by assuming they are even when they were not. It's therefore not so easy to grasp on the most…

That's true, and it was wrong. The claim was that trans fat will make you put on weight even if you're in a caloric deficit. This is false. It should be avoided for other reasons.

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"Marginal benefits" means it works, but the effect size is relatively small and uncertain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29059531 The most recent meta-analysis I could find on Pubmed showed smallish effect sizes, and it looked at 60 studies on a total of 646 individuals. These were all extremely small studies, and…

Now there's someone who has completely missed the point of the messaging about trans fats.

There's not much that feels better in all this than getting rid of the fat pants.

You only get marginal benefits from creatine anyway.

Eat fewer calories than you burn. That's really the only way to lose weight. Any diet that works is implementing CICO, possibly in disguise. You can eat a diet entirely of Twinkies and still lose weight, as long as you adhere to this rule. You'll feel like crap because you'll be getting crap nutrition, but you'll lose…

If you can't outrun your fork, you're surely not going to outpace it by walking.

"Eat less and exercise" is something many folks just don't want to believe. It's amazing how much resistance there is over the idea, but such is the weight loss industry that they've brainwashed a lot of people.