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Tell him to stop whining....sounds like he needs some tough love on your part. If he isn't following your healthy lead it may be time for you to say "hey, i dont want to leave you but I do love you and want you to make changes for both of our good that will help us enjoy life and eachother more". Tell him that you are…

But Deeeeee!!! With those legs of yours, hows a boy supposed to NOT gawk? ;-)

Regardless of peoples previous comments, new opinions and points of view should be welcomed not ridiculed just because they have already been debated. Just because somebody said such and such awhile back and presented their (biased) documentation for their viewpoint does not thereby make the question settled nullifying…

Yeah cuz the MFP forums are so awash in meaningful, educated and insightful comments that I should scour every 20 to 30 pages of comments before I plan on giving my own opinion on an ONGOING debate topic. ***eyeroll***

I hear ya! At the end of the day, everyone has to decide for themselves whats best for their individual circumstances and bodies and I get that....one person (myself) may have incredible results with low carb or even Keto, while another may not. Genetic differences between individuals are going to have the last say in what…

From a paper put out by the National Institute of Health... "Insulin resistance is a requisite precursor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and is associated with hypertension and dyslipidemia [1]. Epidemiological data link T2DM with obesity, and a causal relationship between insulin resistance and…

Fair enough....but would you not be better off if you kept insulin levels at a minimum or even keeled through a low carb diet? As with Type 2 diabetes, an excess of insulin leads to insulin resistance which leads to higher levels of fat?

Yes! I have read that before and found it to be quite interesting....especially the role of hormones in maintaining weight loss once it has been achieved. (talked about in the Copehangen study).

You are twisting my words...I didnt say you would store fat/gain weight in a deficit....I stated that insulin tells the body to store fat.....this is not a hypothesis, its been proven....look at the vast majority of Type 2 diabetes that go on Insulin and eat the same diet....they almost all gain weight. Is that a…

EXACTLY!!!

LMAO....sorry I am but a stupid male and unable to read through 28 WHOLE pages without giving my two cents....forgive me? ;-)

Thanks for the links....I always appreciate reading actual science, etc even and especially if it goes against my line of reasoning...always good to keep an open mind!! ;-) I could actually give you why each one of those articles was "wrong" (thats a relative term and subject to my own biases of course) or did not actually…

OK OK....so yes all Calories defined as a unit of measure having nothing to do with the human body are all equal...my point being that looking at it through that narrow lens is not terribly helpful when trying to understand the macro/micro nutrional value of the calories and the effects they have on the human body and more…

Calories are NOT all equal....first of all a calorie is defined as "the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius at a pressure of one atmosphere"....this has absolutely nothing to do with the human body and does not take into consideration the way our body processes…

I have only been doing it for a little less than two weeks but I will say I sure as hell wished I had not dismissed it as just another Atkins remake. My MIL has Type 2 Diabetes which is helped tremendously with the Keto diet so even though I thought it was a joke and BS, I told her I would do it with her. HOLY MOLY!! I was…

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Great article....always nice to read something scientifically backed and not a bunch of fad diet mumbo jumbo....right on the money. Thanks for the post.

Smile and eyes fosho!

Day 8 of no alcohol (started Dec 1 after having drank almost every night for the past 6 months)....going for 30 days sans alcohol...figure if I can do it in December I can do it anytime...we shall see. :-) Good luck all.

I use cardio as a way to trim the fat as necessary....so I tend the focus on weights for awhile so I am not pulling my body in two different directions....once I have gained a few pounds of fat and muscle, I will do nothing but cardio and maintenance lifting until the fat is trimmed off....for me it works out better than…