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It definitely bothered me that one of tier claims was increased weight loss and higher metabolism, which I think have both been pretty thoroughly debunked. The longevity claim is hard to be sure about. Lots of anecdata seems to indicate that it applies to humans to a lesser degree, but most of the examples are of people…

I read this article: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fasting-benefits that makes all sorts of claims that seem suspect but they link to references. I followed a few and they are actual peer reviewed studies. Some are small and many are on animals with the assumption that it may also happen with humans. A skeptic could…

For most people, neither does 100 days. Actually getting into true ketosis is very difficult. Besides needing to stay incredibly low carb, you pretty much need to adjust protein every single day based explicitly on that day's activities. https://www.popsci.com/not-in-ketosis

Bodybuilding show? You are at a whole different level. Fit and trim is all I am after. I built up my chest and shoulders a bit since that picture, but not to any kind of competitive level. That's not what I am after. On topic, I think that weight maintenance, when you eat what you burn, is just one aspect for most of us.

This may not apply to your situation, but for me, finally making the commitment has made it easier, not harder, this time. I am done. I don't have to worry about it, let it bother me when others are doing it or whatever. It's just something I don't do anymore. I am protecting my sobriety as if my life depended on it…

Of course it's true; if it wasn't then they wouldn't be allowed to put it on the internet, right? :laugh:

But I really wish I had started sooner. Late 50s I didn't look so good...

46? I wish I had started getting serious about my health that young. Lots of healthy geezers where I go. I am 60 with visible abs and don't stand out.

My wife is a mix. She doesn't drink much and rarely at home but she doesn't react at all wen I tell her how I am doing. We have other issues outside of this. Really not sure why we are still together; she made up her mind that it was too late, will no longer trust me or be physically or emotionally intimate. But then goes…

It sounds like the opposite, but another way to look at that is in next sentence - "always". At the time you decide to maintain your health at an optimum level, you take steps to get to it if you aren't there or stay there if you are. Philosophically, I like that answer better than mine. Psychologically, I needed a goal to…

I am not annoyed much by people who are controlled drinkers; my issues aren't their fault.

I am not sure I can ever stop logging.

You should. That requires serious exertion.

I often have a protein bar for breakfast on the way to the gym.

The biggest impact that drinking had on my diet was two fold - choices I made immediately after and what I ate for breakfast to try to quiet my stomach the next morning. Sometimes I think we should learn to use salt licks like animals. Not that I think that's healthy, but a lot of times that is really what I was after when…

Yeah, a really young one came to the door with parents who had to remind her what to say and hand her boxes (they had early stock of thin mints). Other people at my house eat mint chocolate chip, so we can get that actual flavor and I don't have to worry about having a whole carton that no one else eats. I really shouldn't…

The first time I saw a weight that put my BMI under 25. That was and is my goal - don't have a BMI of 25+ ever again. I reached that goal over 10 months ago and I am now 10 pounds less than that and have established a 10 pound range with the top 4 pounds below the weight that put me at 24.9 because I don't want to go over,…

I think the plans also help a lot of people track consumption more carefully. I failed when I did plans that were too different from how I commonly ate as I would "go off" them instead of just adjusting intake up a little when I got to goal.

Yep. After a crazy high calorie day with calorie dense foods, the next morning you will have about as much in your gut and system as the day before on average. It's on succeeding days when you start having surplus adding up that it starts getting stored away.

I generally make a little room for them and did while losing also. If you really like them and deny yourself, it's not unusual to go overboard with them at some point. Doesn't happen to everyone. But if you really like something, I think yo are better off fitting it in so you can keep the weight off eating pretty much the…

I enjoyed rowing quite a bit also. Tips were way better when you didn't have to yell at the customers, sat on a cooler and doubled as beertender for the oar boat passengers. Once while kayaking, I swam the long rapid in Westwater Canyon (I never really had a bulletproof roll; got pretty good, but not super dependable) in a…

@mtaratoot - Even in NE FL, where i visited, the water was around 60 and I wore a 3mm farmer john. I used to wear a dry suit back when I lived out west and did a lot of whitewater in the 1980s. I kayaked the Grand Canyon, was a professional raft guide on on the Arkansas in CO and did a bunch of other whitewater. Now I am…

That is solicited advice. I completely agree with you; when you go to the PT seeking advice and paying for it on top of that, he should push if that's what you asked for. The issue is when trainers or other folks make unsolicited comments that are not entirely positive. If you feel the need to tell someone who didn't ask…

I love cool number sequences. Today is day 567.

Wow - I hope this never happens to me. I like cake. I don't eat it every day or even every week, but I want to enjoy it when I do. The sugar, grain, dairy and eggs don't really affect me differently than they do when I get them in other foods. Sure, the sugar is more concentrated but I am not diabetic. I eat reasonably…

I have been to a few other gyms over the years, and feeling judged is pretty common. Most of it is implicit; people probably think it's nice to encourage people they don't know to do more and get "better". Some get a little pushier about it than others telling you that you need to go with more weight to get any benefit out…

I have been in maintenance over 10 months and I am still not sure what my maintenance calories are. It's mostly because of fairly intense exercise at frequent but irregular intervals and duration and partly from getting a little sloppy logging sometimes. I have trended up and down, mostly down. I am 11 pounds below what…

There is no conversation that can't be improved with a story and there is no story that can't be improved with another story. And relevance is irrelevant... :laugh:

They're here... Though one of my unpopular opinions is that Keebler Grasshoppers are as good or better. The Girl Scout cookies are sold in a relatively short period of time each year but made ahead of time in very large batches under stress to produce as many as they can as quickly as they can. Grasshoppers are also mass…