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Blaming or crediting changes in metabolism due to fasting, food type restrictions, etc., for weight gain or loss is just fantasy. Tooth fairy type fantasy.

No one likes to change the things they already like. But, you will eventually like whatever you get used to. Switch to 1% milk and pretend you are back in the Army and that is all you can get. You'll eventually love it.

I start with berries and if still hungry go to popcorn.

Leg cramps can also be caused by edema. So people who are told to hydrate often exacerbate the problem.

Wouldn't the sauce be eaten with the dish? That would make it simple since you can just weigh the raw ingredients as they go in. The 9 calorie/gram fat is rendered into the sauce and you eat the sauce anyway so it doesn't matter. As always, with meat its all about the fat.

You use the recipe function. But, if you are saying that you do not consume the "sauce" in which the meat has been cooked, you have an unsolvable problem. Because, the fat is rendered out of the meat in cooking at 9 calories per gram. And you will never know how much is rendered and how much retained. If you consume the…

I really don't see skipping a night time snack as "fasting." I stopped eating after dinner 9 years ago due to night time acid reflux. But, its only a couple hour break from snacking.

For the record, Diverticulitis is the infection, Diverticulosis is the condition. Whether seeds are a problem or not, fiber is always the recommendation to avoid the infection.

The fiber is good for you. Its the seeds in fruit and vegetables that trigger the infection in the intestines. You now have a reason to scrape out those nasty cucumber seeds and tomato pulp. Julia said to do it 40 years ago.

Boy, are you confused. :)

You're joking, right? If one jumps up and down and claims that they are not following the science of gravity, that is exactly the same as a person who fasts and binges and says they lost weight but are not following the science of CICO. If it doesn't come down to the calorie count for you, are you one of those metabolism…

My point exactly. If you aren't counting calories you aren't following the science of CICO.

I love the analogies. They are so wrong it is hilarious. Here is one. You accept the science that the Earth rotates and the Sun illuminates the Earth in a 24 hour cycle. The human response to this is called the circadian rhythm. You have a brand new Apple Watch that reflects that. However, you do not look at the watch but…

I hate to repeat myself but these threads have a way of getting things turned around. I simply believe that if you adopt the CICO science as the fundamental to weight loss, you have to count calories. Not every calorie, not with a razor sharp accuracy. But, you have to count them. Or, you are doing something else to lose…

Maldon flakes are my favorite. But, remember that there is an enormous industry built on the low sodium myth that emanated from poor research. It won't be reversed soon, if ever, because there is too much egg on the face and too much money behind the low sodium products and nothing much to reward a return to higher salt…

Not to despair. This is science, not mumbo jumbo. If you count the calories correctly you will lose the weight. Be patient. At 300 ponds you can have 25 pounds of stuff in your digestive track. Eventually, it will all sort out.

It the words of the esteemed weight loss sage, Jesse Ventura, "you just have to push back from the table."

As usual, the arguments against calorie counting emphasize the extremes to prove the point that counting is not a necessary part of a diet plan based on a numerical value of caloric deficit. Its like saying I'm not going to record my expenditures in the checkbook or evaluate my credit card bills because I refuse to count…

There are a lot of diet plans and a lot of advocates for every one of them. CICO is just one of many. People say they have lost weight on the grapefruit diet or Mediterranean, or Keto or fasting. Not caring a whit about the number of calories. I'm happy for them. But, if a person embraces the science that the number of…

OK, so in your World, calories count but you don't have to count calories. You just guess at them because you have skipped a meal or whatnot. Got it.

What would that be?

It might help to have a little introspection here. A person who wants to lose weight and chooses CICO as the science to believe in, has one choice - count calories. Having said that, avoiding the calorie counting process is just another form of denial or aversion. My favorite psychologist often said: "if you want to know…

That makes you a female 100 pounds more or less.

Just for the record, it seems to me that engaging in exercise to facilitate eating more calories than those desired or required in order to achieve the maintenance or loss of weight is an unhealthy mindset whether you know it or deny it.

So, if your mental state is defined by someone else as a "panic" mode, your act of exercising to eat is unhealthy, but if you do it deliberately it is healthy? Wow.

Could you post some peer reviewed studies that prove a causal link between diet and mental health, other than those related to malnutrition and allergy?

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As a non-jogger, I am fine to not have the injuries that send the average jogger to the doctor or missed work 2 times per year, and I get no Schadenfreude from my contemporaries who are almost universally getting knee and hip replacements. But those who think that the issue is settled are just deluded. As a libertarian, I…

The only time i use cups as a measurement is with soup and stews. I use the recipe builder as noted above then measure the finished product and set the servings as the number of cups in the finished product. then when I serve it, I use 1 cup as 1 serving. That is about as accurate as it is going to get.

Uh, do you really see a difference in those two scenarios? How about if you lose the two gratuitous modifiers: (i) panicking, which has nothing to do with the issue, and (ii) "trying" as opposed to just doing it. Neither modifier is anywhere near what I posted or what the discussion mandated. That leaves you with seeing a…