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Well, if you can't even pronounce them, how confused do you think they make your liver and kidneys??? :trollface:
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Depends on which ones fit your feet best and offer the best support for your foot. Everybody is different in that regard.
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How do you think they got that fit? Many of the fit people in gyms were also once that fat person walking in for the first time and being intimidated by all the fit people around them (who were also once the fat person walking in for the first time, and so on). People with that kind of body put in a lot of work to get…
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No. Simply No. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21804427
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Make no mistake, I agree with you 100%. I'm simply pointing out how ridiculous the "clean eating" argument is. Shunning certain foods for arbitrary reasons, yet including others (and touting them as "clean") when they're as much or more engineered/processed than the dreaded "unclean" foods. FWIW, I don't look at any food…
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At 6' and 170 lbs (especially if you're also working out), 2300 calories probably still has you in a deficit, or barely at maintenance. How long has it been since your weight has changed (other than the usual daily fluctuations)? Bump your calories up 100/day, week by week, until you start seeing a slight gain. Don't…
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Good heads-up for those who might be considering a wi-fi scale. I have the WS-50 also and while I don't pay much attention to the BF% measurement, I appreciate the ease of stepping on it and having my stats automatically uploaded to the sites of my choice - Trendweight, Weight Diary (iOS app), Apple Health, Garmin Connect…
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Much of the fish found in grocery stores is farmed - bred and raised by humans in a fish farm. Wild-caught fish were caught, processed, flash frozen and packaged by humans. By some definitions that would make it "processed" and thus "unclean". Which further shows how ridiculous the phrase is. If I were to go catch a salmon…
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In high school chemistry, we threw a chunk of sodium into a sink filled with water. The chemistry teacher was not at all pleased and they had to replace the ceiling tiles above the sink. :)
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I'd be interested to hear the supposed reasoning for this too. Makes no sense whatsoever to me.
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Exercises may target the muscles, but they do absolutely nothing to reduce the fat. Fat is inert and cannot be exercised. Side crunches may work the obliques, but they're not going to get rid of love handles, which are entirely composed of fat.
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The most effective time to run is whenever you will do it consistently. Adherence is the most important factor.
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Alan Aragon (with scientific studies quoted/included): http://atlargenutrition.com/is-there-a-limit-to-how-much-protein-the-body-can-use-in-a-single-meal/ To the OP: Protein shakes are a useful supplement to get more protein into your diet. Some protein shakes are better quality than others, but they're not a "waste of…
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http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/you-are-not-different.html/
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Prisons are an interesting point of discussion for this topic. The food served in prisons is "institutional food" (i.e. low-priced products bought in large quantities and prepared in bulk). Lots of highly processed foods, hardly what one would call "clean eating" by whatever standard. They're usually also allowed to…
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I'm more than willing to wager that any "evidence" provided will come from a LCHF/keto blog or propaganda website. I have yet to see any respectable health organization advocate for a low-fiber diet, or say that fiber is "overrated".
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1.) Forks Over Knives isn't a "documentary". It's vegan propaganda, done by a crackpot pseudoscientist whose primary work (The China Study) has been debunked over and over again. 2.) There are "chemicals" in every food. We are made of "chemicals". And there is no such thing as "food addiction". Somebody who eats at…
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When I feel too tired to go to the gym (unless it's flat out exhaustion from lack of sleep or whatever), I tell myself to just go and make it an easy day - doing anything is better than doing nothing. That mindset makes it easier to handle. Once I get to the gym, the motivation kicks in and I end up having a good (and…
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If you were running and pushing hard for 45 minutes, it seems to me that it should have given you credit for more than ten minutes. I'd try these two things, in this order: 1) Unpair your watch from your phone, do a force restart, then re-pair it with the phone. 2) If that doesn't work, take it to the Apple Store. They'll…
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Since you don't believe CICO works, sounds like it would be a great time to test out some of your own theories about how weight loss actually happens. In the name of science.
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1.) I see people doing dangerous things all the time. I don't flag people down on the roads and tell them to put their seat belts on. If I see somebody smoking a cigarette, I don't walk up and tell them that it's dangerous for them to do that. I don't approach morbidly obese people and explain the many health hazards…
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We went on a mini-vacation last week for 5 days. I didn't even bother logging a couple of the days because I ate so much - fast food, sweets, desserts, alcohol, pizza, all you can eat sushi bar, the whole nine yards. When we got back on Sunday, I was up 8 pounds from before I left. I did nothing more than go back to my…
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Seconded. My favorite Dave's Killer Bread is the Powerseed, but all of them are good.
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Another vote for Halo Top being much better than Arctic Zero (which tastes like frozen tears of human sadness to me). I've tried the Chocolate, Vanilla, Mint Chip, Birthday Cake and Lemon Cake, with the Chocolate and Mint Chip being my favorites. I find it almost as satisfying as "real" ice cream, for a lot less calories.…
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I've been wearing an Apple Watch for just over a year. It records my walks as exercise without using the Workout app, IF I'm walking fast enough. If I go for a walk with my wife and stay at her pace, it gives me the steps but no exercise minutes because her pace is too slow to register as exercise. IIRC, the threshold…
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I'd say something if/when they were doing something stupid enough that they could potentially hurt me. Otherwise - not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Yes. They'll work to make your wallet lighter. But you won't lose any weight/fat because of them. They're a scam/ripoff.
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Not to mention the fact that any thread about MLM scams usually draws several responses from new users with 1 or 2 posts who "just happened to stumble across this thread" and proceed to tout how totally AWESOME the product in question is. In other words, distributors/"coaches" looking to make sales.
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Agree 100%, and that's one of my biggest beefs with Beachbody/Snakeoilogy. All it takes to become a "coach" is to send them your $39.99 membership fee and voila, you're a "coach". No knowledge, experience or training needed (it even explicitly says that in their "coach FAQ"). Calling them "coaches" adds a false air of…
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They sure do. Here's a pharmacist's take on Snakeoilogy: http://pharmadaddy.blogspot.ca/2013/07/shakeology-shaking-up-its-foundations.html?m=1 It also claims to be full of "superfoods", which is a bogus marketing term to convince people it's worth wasting their money on: http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/superfoods
